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Post by Alexander on Apr 14, 2006 13:24:57 GMT -5
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Post by Kale6641 on Apr 14, 2006 13:39:04 GMT -5
Holy shit
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Post by Kinger on Apr 14, 2006 13:53:43 GMT -5
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Post by Kale6641 on Apr 14, 2006 14:24:51 GMT -5
That is so cool
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Post by Alexander on Apr 14, 2006 20:48:20 GMT -5
Yeah, Israeli technology is where its at right now in terms of warfare. I think there are some prominent Israelis behind the USA's Future Warrior program (can you say "shadow armor"?)
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Post by Kale6641 on Apr 14, 2006 22:52:05 GMT -5
Israelis created the cell phone :x
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Post by papajewski on Apr 15, 2006 10:24:58 GMT -5
um, no they didnt
Dr Martin Cooper, a former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, is considered the inventor of the first modern portable handset. Cooper made the first call on a portable cell phone in April 1973. He made the call to his rival, Joel Engel, Bell Labs head of research. Bell Laboratories introduced the idea of cellular communications in 1947 with the police car technology. However, Motorola was the first to incorporate the technology into portable device that was designed for outside of a automobile use. Cooper and his co-inventors are listed above.
By 1977, AT&T and Bell Labs had constructed a prototype cellular system. A year later, public trials of the new system were started in Chicago with over 2000 trial customers. In 1979, in a separate venture, the first commercial cellular telephone system began operation in Tokyo. In 1981, Motorola and American Radio telephone started a second U.S. cellular radio-telephone system test in the Washington/Baltimore area. By 1982, the slow-moving FCC finally authorized commercial cellular service for the USA. A year later, the first American commercial analog cellular service or AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service) was made available in Chicago by Ameritech.
Despite the incredible demand, it took cellular phone service 37 years to become commercially available in the United States. Consumer demand quickly outstripped the 1982 system standards. By 1987, cellular telephone subscribers exceeded one million and the airways were crowded.
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Post by Kale6641 on Apr 15, 2006 10:58:21 GMT -5
Yeah they did.
Here's a list of everythign else they have created.
The Middle East has been growing date palms for centuries. The average date
tree is about 18-20 feet tall and yields about 38 pounds of dates a
year.
Israeli trees are now yielding 400 pounds/year and are short enough to be
harvested from the ground or a short ladder
Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world's
population, can lay claim to the following:
a.. The cell phone was developed in Israel by Israelis working in the
Israeli branch of Motorola, which has its largest development center in
Israel.
a.. Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by
Microsoft-Israel.
a.. The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel. Both
the Pentium-4 microprocessor and the Centrino processor were
entirely designed, developed and produced in Israel.
a.. The Pentium microprocessor in your computer was most likely made in
Israel.
a.. Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
a.. Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US
in Israel.
a.. The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was developed in 1996
by four young Israelis.
a.. Israel has the fourth largest air force in the world (after the U. S,
Russia and China). In addition to a large variety of other aircraft,
Israel's air force has an aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16's. This is the
largest fleet of F-16 aircraft outside of the U. S.
a.. According to industry officials, Israel designed the airline industry's
most impenetrable flight security. U. S. officials now look
to Israel for advice on how to handle airborne security threats.
a.. Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate
neighbors combined. Israel has the highest percentage in the world of
home computers per capita.
a.. Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in
the world.
a.. Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation
by a large margin - 109 per 10,000 people --as well as one of the
highest per capita rates of patents filed.
a.. In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of
startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the
largest number of startup companies than any other country in the world,
except the U.S. (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).
a.. With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and startups, Israel has the
highest concentration of hi-techcompanies in the world -- apart from
the Silicon Valley, U. S.
a.. Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind
the U. S.
a.. Outside the United States and Canada, Israel has the largest number of
NASDAQ listed companies.
a.. Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East. The
per capita income in 2000 was over $17,500, exceeding that of the
UK.
a.. On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech
startups.
a.. Twenty-four per cent of Israel's workforce holds university degrees --
ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United
States and Holland - and 12 per cent hold advanced degrees.
a.. Israel is the only liberal multi-party democracy in the Middle East.
a.. In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews at
risk in Ethiopia, to safety in Israel.
a.. When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became
the world's second elected female leader in modern times.
a.. When the U. S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya was bombed in 1998, Israeli
rescue teams were on the scene within a day -- and saved three victims from
the rubble.
a.. Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship -- and the highest
rate among women and among people over 55 - in the world.
a.. Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing
nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious freedom,
and economic opportunity.
a.. Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process,
an international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free."
a.. Israel has the world's second highest per capita of new books.
a.. Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century
with a net gain in its number of trees, made more remarkable because
this was achieved in an area considered mainly desert.
a.. Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
a.. Medicine... Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized,
no-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.
a.. An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper
administration of medications, thus removing human error from
medical treatment. Every year in U. S. hospitals 7,000 patients die from
treatment mistakes.
a.. Israel's Givun Imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so
small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the
inside, the camera helps doctors diagnose cancer and digestive disorders.
a.. Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the
heart pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among
those with heart failure. The new device is synchronized with the heart's
mechanical operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.
a.. Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in
the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U. S.,
over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work
force employed in technical professions. Israel places first in this
category
as well.
a.. A new acne treatment developed in Israel, the ClearLight device,
produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue
light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct -- all without damaging
surrounding skin or tissue.
a.. An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale
solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating
plant, in southern California's Mojave desert.
All the above while engaged in regular wars with an implacable enemy that
seeks its destruction, and an economy continuously under strain by
having to spend more per capita on its own protection than any other country
on earth.
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Post by papajewski on Apr 15, 2006 11:41:25 GMT -5
it was invented by martin cooper who lived in chicago
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Post by Alexander on Apr 15, 2006 13:31:45 GMT -5
I knew Kale would break out that old list. Unfortunately, Eric is right. I watched that stupid "How William Shatner Changed the World" TV special and they talked to inventors and important people who were inspired by Star Trek (!). One of these was Martin Cooper, inventor of the cellular phone who as a child was awed by similar technology on Star Trek episodes.  |
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Post by Kinger on Apr 15, 2006 16:10:47 GMT -5
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