From: utzoo!miles Newsgroups: net.space Title: Re: science in the USSR, Article-I.D.: utzoo.2253 Posted: Tue Jul 6 07:13:02 1982 Received: Tue Jul 6 07:13:02 1982 Re: Fri. Jul 2 19:26:29 1982,decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!kolstad ... Ah ya, if techniological advancement is having a bunch of kiddies that use a supposedly sophisticated computer system, then I dont know what. Besides they probably play useless computer games most of the time. Maybe not, maybe they are different than most kids. And is this important? No. What you and a lot of others seem to fail to realize is that the soviet union has had a lot of hardship in the past, and probably has not been able to achieve the standard of western tech. But what does it matter, to compare Soviet tech with Western tech , is unfair and wrong. The soviets think differently than we do, Canadiens think differently that Americans , Americans think differently than British , British think diff.... . >From a technological stand point anyhow. Point..Try to forget different analgomies between countries, what we have hear is a "melting pot" of ideas that should be brought together. From this we may exploit the knowledge of man , and come up with something half decent. So what if they are soviets. Remember , there is no proper comparison. From. Raymond S