BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 27 Jan 2020, 21:07

[youtube]https://youtu.be/wWFFzL65dEQ[/youtube]

Username Protected · **Posted:** 27 Jan 2020, 21:16

Coulda, shoulda, woulda . . . .

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Jan 2020, 01:29

Crap. Just a modified V2. No real new engineering. The video claims Brits invented the Internet and the computer. They invented the Turing machine, and it was a simple mechanical contraption, but first electronic computer was invented in the US. Video claims they invented the Internet too. Bunk. It was originally a DARPA invention funded by US defense budget.

Toss this one away with a pound of salt.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Jan 2020, 01:40

What. No Al Gore??

Robert T

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Jan 2020, 07:30

Username Protected wrote:

The video claims Brits invented the Internet and the computer. They invented the Turing machine, and it was a simple mechanical contraption, but first electronic computer was invented in the US. Video claims they invented the Internet too. Bunk. It was originally a DARPA invention funded by US defense budget.

Toss this one away with a pound of salt.

The video talks about the World Wide Web. You do know the difference, right? Look up who invented it.

There was no mechanical Turing machine. The Turing machine is a theoretical machine, not a real one. The idea was used to advance computing theory.

The first electronic digital computer was Colossus, developed by the British in 1943 and kept secret for many years.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Jan 2020, 08:52

Username Protected wrote:

The first electronic digital computer was Colossus, developed by the British in 1943 and kept secret for many years.

Well, then again maybe not

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vincent_Atanasoff

Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College.

In the 1973 decision of Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, a federal judge named Atanasoff the inventor of the electronic digital computer.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Jan 2020, 09:02

Username Protected wrote:

The first electronic digital computer was Colossus, developed by the British in 1943 and kept secret for many years.

Well, then again maybe not

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vincent_Atanasoff

Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College.

In the 1973 decision of Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, a federal judge named Atanasoff the inventor of the electronic digital computer.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Jan 2020, 10:12

Atanasoff-Berry:

- Not programmable
- Not Turing-complete

It was certainly pioneering work, but not what I consider a classic computer.

The USA invented packet-switching which led to the “internet” we know. The Brits invented the web/http which made the internet publicly useful/accessible.

The Brits (Ellis) also invented public-key encryption, not Whitfield & Diffie (USA).

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Jan 2020, 11:04

In any event, that's a German rocket and, as Werner von Braun is portrayed to have said in "The Right Stuff," "Our Germans are better than their Germans."

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Jan 2020, 11:20

Username Protected wrote:

The video claims Brits invented the Internet and the computer. They invented the Turing machine, and it was a simple mechanical contraption, but first electronic computer was invented in the US. Video claims they invented the Internet too. Bunk. It was originally a DARPA invention funded by US defense budget.

Toss this one away with a pound of salt.

The video talks about the World Wide Web. You do know the difference, right? Look up who invented it.

There was no mechanical Turing machine. The Turing machine is a theoretical machine, not a real one. The idea was used to advance computing theory.

The first electronic digital computer was Colossus, developed by the British in 1943 and kept secret for many years.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Jan 2020, 12:36

Username Protected wrote:

overreach or spin impressing British technology was so dominate in the 20th century. The British had important contributions, pioneering the space program isn't one of them in my view.

The video has some patriotism and pride, that's one way of putting it, but nothing wrong with that.

Brits have come up with some really ingenious, functional engineering solutions- so it doesn't surprise me in the least that they would have tried putting a space capsule on top of a modified V-2 and shooting it straight up. I bet it would have worked, it really just needed the £s.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Jan 2020, 12:48

Username Protected wrote:

In any event, that's a German rocket and, as Werner von Braun is portrayed to have said in "The Right Stuff," "Our Germans are better than their Germans."

Considering what Von Braun had done, hopefully he never included himself amongst the better ones.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Jan 2020, 13:36

Well, history records that it was the Nazis who were the first to achieved manned rocket flight:

World War II’s Worst Airplane (Air & Space)

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Jan 2020, 13:55

Username Protected wrote:

Brits have come up with some really ingenious, functional engineering solutions- so it doesn't surprise me in the least that they would have tried putting a space capsule on top of a modified V-2 and shooting it straight up. I bet it would have worked, it really just needed the £s.

they also have a knack for creating bizarre, rube goldberg solutions to simple problems.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Jan 2020, 14:12

Anyone willing to ride a rocket built by Lucas?

The Brits Should’ve Won The Space Race