...laslty may GOD keep you safe you but i have saved many people lifes in emergency so no need to ridicule me in my profession
Hello Doc (nice to see someone who shares profession with me). Unfortunately, few members have imposed sort of a hegemony on certain threads/topics here, and consider their opinion(s) the last and final word. They also expect from others to accept it without asking questions. Many of these members are non-professionals (minus Oscar, Gambit and few others) and have acquired information through a long period of time while browsing this and other fora. Their older posts are a testament of this gradual acquisition. For some bizarre reason, they are not really inclined towards discussion or hearing (let alone accepting) others opinion because there is a chance of learning, whereas they already know everything! Instead, they want others to take their words as gospel. 'Fan boy' is a word they use frequently for those who have some inclination towards non-western technology, wheres conveniently ignoring the fact that they themselves are a harcore 'fan boy' of western technology.
They blame China for
stealing technology but fail to answer why Russia did not sue the Chinese, and why she continues to deal with China. Keeping US at bay is not good enough a reason for Russians to keep selling sophisticated hardware to Chinese. They also fail to acknowledge that at the end of the WWII, practically thousands of German scientists, engineers, and technicians were transferred to US under a clandestine operation called Operation Paperclip. These scientists played a seminal role in the development of aerospace industry in the USA, which learned Americans by themselves duly acknowledge. They find copying of Su-27 '
sharam nak', but not the abduction of an entire generation of German scientist, their knowledge, and works of art. Russia, and UK also took part in plundering but USA had the lion's share.
Chinese advancement in Science is remarkable giving the fact that they are very late-comers to the game (last 30 years since the cultural revolution). Unlike USA, they did not have thousands of top German brains to help them with their aerospace industry. There were no institutions such as MIT, Caltech, Yale, or a huge sophisticated industrial base. Russian input was minimal and cant be equated with that of German input. Yet Chinese manged to copy (and improve) a very complex design
i.e. Su-27 (Russians sold Su-27 to many other countries but how many of them succeeded in making a copy?), design their own J-10, FC-1, J-20, J-31. Not to mention their space program. Currently, the Chinese technology is behind (not
faaaaaaaar behind as some wish to believe) that of western technology but they are developing fast.
Growing Chinese economy will undoubtedly accelerate this process, whereas research and development budget of the US universities/institutions is shrinking every year (I myself have worked in R&D sector in US so I need no correction here by anyone). We are also witnessing a reverse-brain-drain and a significant number of Chinese scientists are going back home, and taking with them the cutting-edge technology that they have been working on in the US/Europe. BTW, according to the Institute of International Education on international student mobility in 2012, there are a lot more foreign students in China (3,28,000) than in Australia or Germany combined.
South Korea sends the maximum number of students to China (21.3%), followed by the US (only 8%). This is all the testament of how rapidly China is emerging as a higher-education and technology hub. Keeping all these factors in mind, we should have no doubt that Chinese will match-up with US in technology in coming years.
These members have also learned that they can conveniently make their opponents leave the threads by calling them names and ridiculing them, thus having the thread all for themselves. Looks like you are the latest victim. But never mind, as we say "
Kabrana nahi, tay tilli nahi chadni, hor ghar jaa kar kisi noon dasna nahi".
, let's see. These scientists weren't slaves or gave up their skill set for nothing. They earned TOP dollars and helped start larger industries that employed hundred of thousands of people across the globe. So I think the process has a LOT of greatness in it for everyone including a small company making small parts in Pakistan for Boeing, providing jobs and feeding families across the globe.
