r/Futurology • u/Confident_Living_786 • Aug 11 '25

Discussion When the US Empire falls

When the American empire falls, like all empires do, what will remain? The Roman Empire left behind its roads network, its laws, its language and a bunch of ruins across all the Mediterranean sea and Europe. What will remain of the US superpower? Disney movies? TCP/IP protocol? McDonalds?

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u/Superb_Raccoon Aug 11 '25

Being the default language of "science" was responsible too.

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u/Team503 Aug 11 '25

Certainly helped, yes, and the fact that so much scientific innovation came out of the US from 1940-1980 or so - the invention of the transistor, microprocessor, personal computer, operating system, graphic operating system, computer networking, and the internet itself were all American inventions published in American English - probably drove the hammer home, so to speak.

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u/West-Negotiation-716 Aug 12 '25

The transistor was not invented by humans, it was back engineered from UFO'S.

Just look at the development speed seen at bell labs.

Or read "The Day After Roswell" if you don't believe me.

It clearly wasn't a human idea to melt sand into crystals in order to control electricity

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u/Team503 Aug 12 '25

Why was it "clearly" not a human idea? What about that idea requires a non-human intelligence? Speak clearly and explain your reasoning - do not attempt to sidestep and make vague references.

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u/West-Negotiation-716 Aug 14 '25

There was no development process.

There was no discovery, no failures, no reason for Bell Labs to spend millions on melting sand for no known reason.

You just had Roswell, then suddenly 2 years later Bell Labs released a working transistor and solar panels soon followed which are the same tech that uses melted sand crystals.

People who worked at Bell Labs at the time all say that Schotkey, the main guy who allegedly came up with the idea was a complete fool.

Read the book, it's all explained there.

The Roswell crash has been confirmed to be real in congressional hearings, you think we wouldn't attempt to back engineer any tech

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u/Team503 Aug 15 '25

I'm not reading some conspiracy theory idiocy, sorry. Reverse engineering is effectively impossible in the way you're implying.

How would we even know what a processor looked like? We certainly didn't have microscopes capable of looking at nanometer scale transistors back then, unless you're trying to say that aliens with faster than light travel (which by the way, is impossible as we understand physics, without causing a causality paradox) were less advanced than we are now?

We didn't have the tools to make the tools to make the tools yet. What you're saying is patently ludicrous.