Re: Typo? No, they use Farhenheit
>>This would have cost the US trillions
>Wrong way round, it would generate trillions in new business.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
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I'm with you on the appreciation for Russian science and engineering, but the idea that pre-Soviet Russia was at a "middle-ages-level" of development isn't correct.
Just to take one example, this guy was doing work on rocketry in the late 19th Century:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky