What could they accomplish today?

[bill718]

Consider what the great minds of old i.e. Eienstein, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Da Vinci accomplished with nothing more than pen and paper and a few crude mathematical instruments. What could they accomplish with access to today's computer technology. Would it have made a difference? Thoughts?

 

[Anathema]

To answer that question one must first determine whether we could have reached this point without their amazing work in their original time periods. Their work in the past brought us to where we are now. They have already given us an unbelievable gift.

Now, if you’re asking what a new fenerstion of those minds could bring us, we’ll just have to wait and see. They’re out there even as I type this. We’ll just have to wait and see what they produce.

 

[Unkotare]

A better question might be what accomplishments will we not achieve because potentially great minds are wiped out through abortion.

 

[Moonglow]

Consider what the great minds of old i.e. Eienstein, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Da Vinci accomplished with nothing more than pen and paper and a few crude mathematical instruments. What could they accomplish with access to today's computer technology. Would it have made a difference? Thoughts?

Probably not as much since porn is so easily accessible.

 

[Moonglow]

A better question might be what accomplishments will we not achieve because potentially great minds are wiped out through abortion.

We need more Adolfs.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Consider what the great minds of old i.e. Eienstein, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Da Vinci accomplished with nothing more than pen and paper and a few crude mathematical instruments. What could they accomplish with access to today's computer technology. Would it have made a difference? Thoughts?

Impossible to answer with todays distractions. Maybe they'd be an advanced, but overall unimpressive youtube presenter who earns $10k a month and is content. Or maybe they would have spent their youth playing online strategy games or watching too much Netflix.

It's like a great guitarist from the 60s or 70s who picked up a guitar because that was their entertainment of the time. Also, the challenges aren't the same with the cerebral, maybe Newton gets a job at Space X and works in his silo, earning a great living but isn't remembered in history.

One comment that Musk made that resonated with me is how many brilliant minds who rubbed shoulders with over the years who, in his words, "got out once they earned alof of money". They had great ideas, built a business, some corporation offered to buy their idea and they retired.

The difference between greatness isn't money at the end of the day, no one ever asks what any of the aforementioned names net worths were; it is ones passion and vision. This can't die once the money is there, but it does because the stress is high and their commitment to it couldn't surpass their love of money and freedom.

So, it's impossible to know. The world and the period of time is very unique and specific as to what type of men and ideas are produced.

 

[Dekster]

Consider what the great minds of old i.e. Eienstein, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Da Vinci accomplished with nothing more than pen and paper and a few crude mathematical instruments. What could they accomplish with access to today's computer technology. Would it have made a difference? Thoughts?

They would have been too wrapped up in pornhub I imagine, though Da Vinci probably would have made some cash with his Onlyfans.

 

[whitehall]

Eggheads including Eienstein made it possible for humans to obliterate themselves with nuclear weapons. Let them RIP.

 

[Dekster]

To answer that question one must first determine whether we could have reached this point without their amazing work in their original time periods. Their work in the past brought us to where we are now. They have already given us an unbelievable gift.

Now, if you’re asking what a new fenerstion of those minds could bring us, we’ll just have to wait and see. They’re out there even as I type this. We’ll just have to wait and see what they produce.

Was their work really that amazing though? I mean that assumes that they all came up with everything on their own from scratch. They very well may have been distilling and refining ideas of their contemporaries or predecessors whose work has been lost over time. History itself tends to focus on specific individuals and filter out everybody else, thereby elevating those individuals by separating them from anything around them that doesn't serve its narrative.

 

[Anathema]

Was their work really that amazing though? I mean that assumes that they all came up with everything on their own from scratch. They very well may have been distilling and refining ideas of their contemporaries or predecessors whose work has been lost over time. History itself tends to focus on specific individuals and filter out everybody else, thereby elevating those individuals by separating them from anything around them that doesn't serve its narrative

They are generally the ones who made the final breakthrough, or who made it understandable/useable by the average person.

We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. Nobody makes a major breakthrough entirely on their own.

 

[Dekster]

They are generally the ones who made the final breakthrough, or who made it understandable/useable by the average person.

We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. Nobody makes a major breakthrough entirely on their own.

So history tries to tell us. I don't especially buy it. Look at how the Wright Brothers get so much glory for inventing aviation when they simply launched a glider off rails into the high wind with a dippy token propeller attached. More than likely it was Alberto Santos-Dumont, but history created the pix or it didn't happen standard to make sure our fine red-blooded Americans get the credit and not some lowly Brazilian coffee farmer.

 

[Anathema]

So history tries to tell us. I don't especially buy it. Look at how the Wright Brothers get so much glory for inventing aviation when they simply launched a glider off rails into the high wind with a dippy token propeller attached. More than likely it was Alberto Santos-Dumont, but history created the pix or it didn't happen standard to make sure our fine red-blooded Americans get the credit and not some lowly Brazilian coffee farmer

History is written by the winners, as it should be. Perception IS reality. Always has been and always will be. Life isn’t fair. There’s a sucker born every minute. Tough luck.

 

[Dekster]

History is written by the winners, as it should be. Perception IS reality. Always has been and always will be. Life isn’t fair. There’s a sucker born every minute. Tough luck.

Like I said, history isn't always truth. You could could have acknowledged that in the beginning instead of taking several posts to admit it and saved us some time. Have a blessed life and all that.

 

[Anathema]

Like I said, history isn't always truth

History IS Truth. It may not be all of the Truth, but it IS the Truth. I neither need nor desire your blessings. Good Day and welcome to my Ignore List.

 

[whitehall]

Eienstein and his gang of eggheads willingly participated in an effort to create a weapon that could obliterate society. Indications are that they were "dying" pun intended to use it on humans and they got their chance in the closing days of WW2. Thanks to the media, the scientists were exempt from criticism for creating a doomsday weapon. Today Eienstein is a cartoon character represented by the likes of actor Paul Giamatti with a fuzzy wig selling insurance. The question is whether civilization would be better off if the creators of doomsday machines were never born.

 

[hjmick]

Nothing. Too many governmental restrictions, too many ready to sue at the drop of a hat, too many risk adverse entities no willing to take a risk.