The Russian accomplishment thread.
New Stalinberg
28-12-2006, 22:00
Although it may be a sort of poor country that sits on enormous ammounts of wealth where men live to the age of 50 something, the nation has actually achieved many important things.
Here's a list of stuff they've done which I find to be important in terms of shaping the world:
- Periodic table of the elements
- The Russian space program. They had the first of everything in space before the Americans
- The World's largest Nuke. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2046393742348211186&q=zar+bomba&hl=en)
- Various cheap, crude, and effective yet innovative designs on various things.
Bunnyducks
28-12-2006, 22:20
Ok (http://www.visatorussiaonline.com/img/passport.jpg)
Lacadaemon
28-12-2006, 22:43
I was going to say timoshenko, the father of modern engineering mechanics, but then I remembered he was ukranian and had to flee to the US because of the communists.
I guess I'll go with Boris Grigoryevich Galerkin weighted residual methods.
Drunk commies deleted
28-12-2006, 22:47
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko managed to find a way to kill millions by vernalizing wheat.
http://www.tecsoc.org/pubs/history/2001/nov20.htm
Wilgrove
28-12-2006, 22:49
The Tupolev TU-144
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/TU-144LL/Small/EC97-44203-3.jpg
Lacadaemon
28-12-2006, 22:52
The Tupolev TU-144
Ripoffski, using industrial espionagski.
Lacadaemon
28-12-2006, 22:53
How could I forget. Soviet Russia jokes.
Ripoffski, using industrial espionagski.
Espionage skillz.
Wilgrove
28-12-2006, 23:04
How could I forget. Soviet Russia jokes.
In Soviet Russia, accomplishments achieve you!
Mikelvania
28-12-2006, 23:04
They're also responsible for Yakov Smirnoff. Does that invalidate all of their inventions? Possibly.
Russian Reversals.
In Soviet Russia,reversal Russians you!
I know,it was terrible.
Wilgrove
28-12-2006, 23:10
Russian Roulette!
Psychotic Mongooses
28-12-2006, 23:11
Without them, we'd never have had the immortal line:
"Shend the shignal"
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/adc/10102118A~Sean-Connery-The-Hunt-for-Red-October-Posters.jpg
Drunk commies deleted
28-12-2006, 23:14
Without them, we'd never have had the immortal line:
"Shend the shignal"
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/adc/10102118A~Sean-Connery-The-Hunt-for-Red-October-Posters.jpg
I wonder if anyone ever gets offended when he asks them to "Shit in that chair"?
I wonder if anyone ever gets offended when he asks them to "Shit in that chair"?
If they do, he raises his eybrow and they die.
Sel Appa
28-12-2006, 23:53
It's the American's fault Russia is screwed up. Lenin says Communism and suddenly they're enemies.