In fact like I said, telecommunications was started up by hobby clubs long before Bill Gates, IBM and modern science got involved in it... Science really did not get involved until computer were used for much more complex tasks than that.
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Its a good thing that saucer crashed at Roswell or the phone company would still be tensioning the strings after rain. oh, wait ... er, no, sorry.
Christianity did not invent:
Hell, what did you invent besides some fairy tales?
@Dr.Shrinker
Very true, it's investigating those links that made me realize agnostics not good enough, when it comes to all todays established religions; I'm an Atheist.
I always perplexed by this movement amoungst fundies to push the concept that Technology is maybe twenty years old, Science is only the study of celestrial origion and knowledge isn't a culmitive product of time and discovery.
I've used tallships quite a bit in rebuttles to garbage posts like JohnR7's because they are engieering marvels from 500 years ago and they are a direct product of scientific experiment and refinmement. As were earlier Viking longships, Roman floatilas and chinese Junks to name a few.
It's a real fundie drive to dismiss everything we have today from engineering, electronics, agriculture, education, medical and society as not products of the scientific process. In the end they of course suggest Christianity is responsible for all these as these advancements have proved themselves beneficial. Unlike religions.
"In fact like I said, telecommunications was started up by hobby clubs long before Bill Gates, IBM and modern science got involved in it... Science really did not get involved until computer were used for much more complex tasks than that."
Ah, so the people behind Telstar, the first telecommunications satellite, were just a 'hobby club', eh? I see...
And Arthur C. Clarke was just a 'hobbyist' when those behind the Telstar project appointed him the chief technical advisor to such.
When it was Arthur C. Clarke who - in a letter - posited the concept of devices placed in geosynchronous orbit to relay radio signals to other parts of the planet. Said letter was published in an electronic hobbyists magazine in late 1945, when digital computers (Colossus & Z1) were in their infancy, and were completely unconnected with the communications industry, least of all IBM at that time.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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