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apollo_fi wrote:

Bernadictus wrote:

The VOC, 17th century, for colonizing south-africa thus leading to the "Rooivalk".

I would like to counterargue:

Had the Dutch not colonized South Africa and bled the colony dry, the cutting edge tech South African combat helicopter would have been developed earlier.

Or would you care to elaborate why the Dutch influence was necessary to develop the Rooivalk? I hope you're not saying that a combat helicopter called 'Mubanga' is an impossibility...

I think we've butted heads on this subject before

What, if the dutch hadn't colonized SA. you would still be living in wooden huts on the plains, we brought technology your way, (and gave your people free rides across the ocean!)

Rooivalk. (Red Falcon) sound way cooler in dutch.

It has a dramatic touch to it.

OMFG! Osama! A Rooivalk!
A Rooivalk?
Yes, A Rooiv.....*BOOM*?

^*AlphA*^ wrote:

Bernadictus wrote:

apollo_fi wrote:

I would like to counterargue:

Had the Dutch not colonized South Africa and bled the colony dry, the cutting edge tech South African combat helicopter would have been developed earlier.

Or would you care to elaborate why the Dutch influence was necessary to develop the Rooivalk? I hope you're not saying that a combat helicopter called 'Mubanga' is an impossibility...

I think we've butted heads on this subject before

What, if the dutch hadn't colonized SA. you would still be living in wooden huts on the plains, we brought technology your way, (and gave your people free rides across the ocean!)

word

VOC! VOC! VOC!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company

We pwnzrd the Portugeese, the Spanjards, The brits. VOC Navy [PWND] The rest.

Gillenator wrote:

Heineken FTW!!

Hehehe thats not an invention, just take the best thing on planet earth, and improve it, market it, and get extremely rich selling it. Thats trading and yes thats The Netherlands for ya, Trading.

Another rediculous invention in holland is BPM, an added tax for importing cars in the Netherlands making cars 30% more expensive here than in any other country where we got them. It was originally intended to support the Dutch car industry if i'm not mistaken, however now its just a scam.

Insurrance is also a dutch invention, if its not we are still the most insured country in the world.

Bertster7 wrote:

Mongoose wrote:

Bertster7 wrote:

Just one year after the British invented it.

actually it was a scotsman

Since when was Scotland not in Britain?

When it use to be part of Ireland, and we will be coming back for it one day just wait and see.. MWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAhahahaahaaha......hahahaha........haha... ha....h..

Water Management.

The glorious nation of denmark:

Na+/K+-ATPase  by Jens Christian Skou  (Nobel Prize in Chemistry)

hmmmm it is of course not an invention but more a thing that he discovered...oh well then i will say LEGO

CameronPoe wrote:

Modern X-ray crystallography

uh uh uh finally someone who knows what x-ray crystallography is.....or did you just google og wiki it?

Im working with x-ray crystallography...its cool.

CameronPoe wrote:

1. The water-proof towel
2. Solar powered flashlight
3. A book on how to read
4. Powdered water
5. Pedal-powered wheel chair
6. Waterproof tea bag
7. Underwater hairdryer
8. Chocolate teapot
9. The lead balloon
10. Rockstars who think they can save the world

lmao very nice.  The solar powered flashlight is great.

I didnt read through all of this, but the world would be quite different without these inventions -

USA

1. light bulb
2. Telephone
3. Computer

Argentina:

1967: Bypass Surgery

1916: A flight of the first fully controllable helicopter was demonstrated by Raúl Pateras de Pescara in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1917: World's first two animated feature films as well as the first animated feature film with sound.

1892: First criminal fingerprint identification.

1938: Ballpoint Pen

And a lot of forms of government corruption.

^*AlphA*^ wrote:

Bernadictus wrote:

apollo_fi wrote:

I would like to counterargue:

Had the Dutch not colonized South Africa and bled the colony dry, the cutting edge tech South African combat helicopter would have been developed earlier.

Or would you care to elaborate why the Dutch influence was necessary to develop the Rooivalk? I hope you're not saying that a combat helicopter called 'Mubanga' is an impossibility...

I think we've butted heads on this subject before

What, if the dutch hadn't colonized SA. you would still be living in wooden huts on the plains, we brought technology your way, (and gave your people free rides across the ocean!)

word

Man, I do hope this is humour, Borat style. 'In the colonies, we had Problem'.
...it is humour, isn't it?

EDIT:

It seems I've been pwned.

Gotta go and unclog the sarcasm filter, doesn't seem to be working right.

Last edited by apollo_fi (2006-11-17 05:44:39)

The finnish national motto: "You can have fun without booze but it's stupid to take the risk."
I haven't heard of anything else invented here...

<[onex]>Headstone wrote:

Miner wrote:

MDFSpacePhantom wrote:

YaY USA, We come out with the first planes, cars, and computers.

Really, I thought cars were invented in Germany... Computers in ~europe general and I think the first take off of manned and powered aircraft happened in France...

And also the russians were first to enter the space, also a first spacewalk was made by russian..

*sorry

Ok Then he means the first Personal home computer. That should clear that up.

Were also Responsable for the first and still used artificial heart?

Hamburgers WITH buns.  The germans brought it over but the bun was Introduced in the states.

the earl of Sandwich might have something to say about that..

Our pioneering in using hot source water to heat houses.