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USA!
Partially related: They are filming the American Top Gear right now.
has an american made a cool 360 hat?
prove me wrong
also jeremy clark isnt that great
Also Wilbo and the mysterious man behind him win.
There, I just proved you wrong.
David Bowie was a has been with no vocal talent. Alan Moore... well, you know.
Evidence please.
@WILBO
I never said Americans aren't fail- just that British definitely are.
How about Tim Berners-Lee?
If you don't know who he is, wiki him, but in short he invented the internet as we know it.
Or John Logie Baird who invented the tv.
The above two things have possibly had the biggest artificial impacts upon your life to date.
He made V for Vendetta, he wrote The Killing Joke, He wrote for every major DC character, he's the best goddamn comic writer out there.
I will give you Bowie though, but if you do not appreciate Moore's greatness then you are not worth my time.
Alaxander Graham Bell didn't actually invent the phone. He stole it. Either Cuba or America figured it out first.
The internet was created by a group of engineers in California. He was merely on a team comprised of different nations. He was probably there to be laughed at for bad teeth.
Without radio waves (Discovered by a Scot), the television never would of been invented.
@ABORTO THEFETUS
V for Vendetta was a mediocre movie. Comics are boring.
Seriously, can't we all just get along? What happens when our evil alien overlords come? Will you still hate all of those Europeans with their fancy PAL video games? Will you brits keep taking the piss out of Americans and their gun fueled fear culture?
I for one, welcome our evil alien overlords. So that we may rise up together! All rmed with a board with a nail in it. United together. For freedom of the human species!
Except Anarticans, forget them. Lousy Antarctica with all its cold weather and penguins!
I'll grant you a concession on the internet one, but only on the point that it went through many stages of development before Lee and his other collegues (californain engineer sincluded) got their hands on it. The USSR and the US military had their hands on it much earlier.
As for the telephone, if we're being pedantic it started with an Italian, not an American, Cuban or British person.
You stated "British". This term denotes people from Britain, meaning Scotland and Wales included. If you're going to be picky about specific nationality, i.e. English, Welsh and Scottish make it clear.
As such a Scottish inventor is still "British". If you don't believe me look up the definition of "British".
As for "English" inventors, the list is probably shorter.
Winston Churchill. If you say Churchill is fail, I refuse to ever even acknowledge you existence.
Sir Alexander Fleming. Discovered penicillin. You owe a lot to this man
Freddie Mercury. Queen = win.
This is what I have so far. I think I win
He discovered penicillin on accident. Anyone could do that.
Simon Pegg does kick ass, but he's one of the exceptions.
Winston Churchill was back when Britainland didn't suck.
The evidence is in your own sidebar. You write garbage.
Also, regardless of whether it was an accident, the man developed the idea and thus, antibiotics were born. We might not have as advanced medicine as we do now without this heppening when it did.
Just get the fuck out, bitch.
and with regards to Sir Alexander Fleming, if you look at most scientific breakthroughs they nearly always happen by accident or when they were researching/looking for something else. The difference is in recognizing that fluke and interpreting it into something useful and hence making a breakthrough discovery. If Sir Fleming hadn't noticed the results from that accident we may not have antibiotics today. Any real scientist acknowledges this fact.
Here's a few more name for you for shits and giggles:
Francis Crick - the co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule
The Houser Brothers (creators of GTA)
The founders of Codemasters (can't remember their names off the top of my head)
All members of:
The Beatles
Muse
Radiohead
The Clash
Scientists don't plan for accidents and likewise they don't do experiments without prior knowledge leading to a test of a hypothesis. No one would have put research into something they didn't know was there and hence no one would bother even researching penicillin or antibiotics without the first accidental discovery of it.
That's all.