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I love the simulated cracking, nice touch!
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We are a great nation of innovation and engineering....the fucking greatest the world has ever known.
Innovation?
To the best of my knowledge, China has two major technical achievements to its name; noodles and firecrackers. Everything else is copied from the West.
Today they're known as the land of knock offs, but in ancient times China had amazing engineering technology, from making hand held cross bows triggers that can hold 400lbs to over 1000lb of stored kinetic energy, natural gas mining, invented the gun, paper, compass, printing press, paper currency, chemical weapons like mustard gas, tear gas, mercury vapor gas, etc, biggest known underground tomb in ancient times, and have hot weapons too like bombs, rocket, flame throwers, and building boats(not sure the exact term) with multi-chamber compartments on the side and bottom of the hull in case of a leakage and using rudders while the Roman still never thought of it. The invention of the stirrup in China that revolutionize knights and cavalry warfare in Europe. But too bad all those culture is now gone and but been well preserved in Japan and Korea.
I remember seeing something on netflix about the terracotta army and how over 2000 years ago Chinese were using crossbows with bronze triggers., It was impressive.
During the Ming dynasty, China lost it's innovative zeal..
The West picked up the slack.