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TPenglake

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Deepseek: Sputnik moment. Hypersonic DF-17: Sputnik moment. Two advanced next-generation Chinese stealth fighter prototypes: Sputnik moment. Huawei smartphone with a 7nm CPU: Sputnik moment. HQ-19: Sputnik moment. So far, we've seen a hypersonic missile much less advanced than the Chinese ones (probably derived by some sixties' studies) and numerous attempts to block Chinese development, largely ineffective and counterproductive. It seems that America is now like its last two presidents: arrogant and not very capable of thinking. I propose to do a "sputnik moment" collection for the forum
Humor aside, the Soviet Union was a superpower but it is interesting to think Sputnik was the only time it seriously challenged the West's tech supremacy before the long decline of the 70s and 80s. Sputnik would be fitting if China broke through in one core technology, but China already did that with telecomms and since the year began we've been getting almost one tech breakthrough a month. In which case the Sputnik comparison gets rendered moot.

Rather, this is a moment that defies historical comparison, at least as far as the Cold War is concerned, and is better categorized as the beginning of a new chapter, nay, a new volume in history.
 

luminary

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The welfare recipients in gov jobs are going to have to start pulling their weight, or join the techbros in unemployment.

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number is at least a dozen and includes Federal watchdogs at the departments of State, Agriculture, Interior, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Education, Labor and Defense, as well as the Small Business Administration, the U.S. Energy Corp., and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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