1001 Islamic Inventions

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Posted by Roblimo on Monday March 13, 2006 @10:20AM from the innovations-come-from-everywhere dept.

pev writes "There's a new traveling exhibition in the UK entitled 1001 inventions. It contains some of the most interesting inventions from the past few thousand years. The common theme, however, is that they all came from the Islamic world and not the west. In some cases [the list is] quite surprising. For the lazy, the Independent newspaper in the UK printed their top 20 from the exhibition."

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Okay, I'll bite (Score:5, Funny)

by voice_of_all_reason ( 926702 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @10:24AM (#14907046)

"Party happy long time boom boom belt" is in the top 20, right?

Flying machine, eh? hilarious. (Score:4, Funny)

by MyDixieWrecked ( 548719 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @10:27AM (#14907071) Homepage Journal

That's hilarious that they had this to say:

Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him.

about the muslim who attempted to build a flying machine.

Re:Makes me laugh. (Score:3, Funny)

by tsa ( 15680 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @10:27AM (#14907072) Homepage

I made it to number 8, then I moved on to newer, more interesting news.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quote (Score:2, Funny)

by eldavojohn ( 898314 ) * writes: <eldavojohn@gma[ ]com ['il.' in gap]> on Monday March 13, 2006 @10:30AM (#14907091) Journal

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
~Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
So, if we use that number system and there are an infinite number of numbers (both densely and ascending), aren't we using an infinite number of their inventions?

#'s 1002 and #1003 (Score:5, Funny)

by jcostantino ( 585892 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @10:31AM (#14907102) Homepage

Flying carpet
Magic Lamp
(rimshot)

Their best invention. (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @10:32AM (#14907103)

Did muslims invent suicide bombings? I'm all for the suicide part.

Re:Makes me laugh. (Score:1, Funny)

by JWtW ( 875602 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @10:35AM (#14907143)

"For the lazy, the Independent newspaper in the UK printed their top 20 from the exhibition."

What are you talking about? I didn't even read the top 20, because there was no pictures!

The most promising invetion (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @10:36AM (#14907150)

The suicide bomber - what in the world would we do with out them.

Re:But... (Score:5, Funny)

by caliph_salahuddin ( 695795 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @10:41AM (#14907193)

Actually Islam didn't start with Mohammed. This is a fairly common misconception. It actually started with Adam & Eve. Mohammed didn't 'found' Islam, he is merely the last Prophet and perfected it.

Re:Nothing after 1300 (Score:4, Funny)

by Daniel Dvorkin ( 106857 ) * writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @10:42AM (#14907205) Homepage Journal

The Mongols.

42 Virgins? (Score:1, Funny)

by AnonymousPrick ( 956548 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @10:42AM (#14907206)

"Party happy long time boom boom belt" is in the top 20, right?
Also, they state that when they die they'll go to heaven and have 42 virgins.
I say, "Fuck That!" I want heaven to be filled with power tools, non-stop lumber, concrete, cars, computers, and all the tools I can use for eternity! And a really slutty chick who'll do ANYTHING!
Where the fuck am I going to have time to do 42 virgins, who don't know what the fuck they're doing and who probably want to "talk" after words?!? No Fucking Way!
Tools and sluts for me!!
Oh yeah! A really big fucking screened TV with every fucking channel - including non-stop pron!

Re:Flying machine, eh? hilarious. (Score:2, Funny)

by robbkidd ( 154298 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @10:44AM (#14907230)

That's hilarious that they had this to say: Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him. about the muslim who attempted to build a flying machine.

Though, to be fair, Abbas ibn Firnas did build a flying machine. It just wasn't good at being a landing machine as well.

Re:But... (Score:5, Funny)

by arvindn ( 542080 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @10:45AM (#14907246) Homepage Journal

Islam can never be more than 1.5 thousand years old!
Come on! A thousand years from now, Islam will clearly be more than 1.5 thousand years old ;^)
[I'm actually surprised no one beat me to it.]

Re:But... (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @10:47AM (#14907269)

>> perfected

Yeah. Perfect.

Re:Obl: Star Trek Russia quote (Score:5, Funny)

by Eccles ( 932 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @10:55AM (#14907339) Journal

You have not experienced these inventions until you have seen them in the original Klingon.

Re:ARABIC not ISLAMIC (Score:2, Funny)

by mqduck ( 232646 ) writes: <mqduck@@@mqduck...net> on Monday March 13, 2006 @11:10AM (#14907486)

All Arabs are not muslims

I'm pretty sure that at least a few are.

Re:Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quote (Score:3, Funny)

by Quiet_Desperation ( 858215 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @11:11AM (#14907496)

Well I do know XII / 2 is VII.

Won't that cause a compiler error with the mismatched variable types? And you should really use integer division (\) there.

"Error MMCMLXVIII: An un-oracled error as been handed down unto you by the gods. All hail Ceasar!"

Oh, and the answer is wrong. It's VI. Now write it 100, er, C times or I'll cut your balls off.

Re:As well... (Score:2, Funny)

by beantherio ( 922523 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @11:12AM (#14907510)

"And don't forget the ever popular "Method and device for destroying infidel skyscrapers"." As was mentioned earlier: Tom Clancy holds the patent to this invention.

Re:It's sad . . . (Score:2, Funny)

by slashname3 ( 739398 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @11:31AM (#14907666)

And the latest invention on the list is the suicide vest bomb?

Actually I am sure they have made some significant contributions. But like most things it gets over shadowed by the negative, which is what is normally reported by the media.

Re:Seventy-two, rather. (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @11:36AM (#14907710)

It's pretty interesting when you think about it.
Virgin will not stay a virgin for very long if you fuck around.
But afterlife is forever right ?
And a lot of women with only one man gives really bad cat fights.
So, these suicide bombers will be stuck with 72 angry bitches for eternity...I suppose they deserve it.

Re:Computer Science 101 (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @11:44AM (#14907791)

From the man that brought you the internet!
Comes his latest mathematical invention: the Al-Gore-ism.
AhgGHgHGhGHghGhGhGhGhgHgHg!

Re:"qamara" obscura (Score:3, Funny)

by pavera ( 320634 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @12:13PM (#14908080) Homepage Journal

ROFL
You do know this is slashdot right?
If everybody did read the articles, and then only qualified scholars commented there'd be like 3 posts per article.

Re:Uh, no... (Score:4, Funny)

by tverbeek ( 457094 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @12:23PM (#14908170) Homepage

Jews did not and do not believe a "son of God" is coming back. Some do believe in a messiah, but that's completely different.
Mod parent up: Informative. This is correct info.

Re:Nothing after 1300 (Score:4, Funny)

by mnmn ( 145599 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @12:39PM (#14908331) Homepage

How offensive.

--
A Mongol.

Re:Uh, no... (Score:2, Funny)

by yurnotsoeviltwin ( 891389 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @12:44PM (#14908383) Homepage

d00d, u need to let go of ur h8 and let jeezus into ur 3

Re:But... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @12:59PM (#14908519)

I'm no bible nerd, but I thought the roots of Islam go back to Ishmael.

Which explains why the Qur'an has so many harsh things to say about whales.

Re:It's sad . . . (Score:5, Funny)

by Gryle ( 933382 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @01:14PM (#14908679)

Cheney's not so bad. He'll always shoot straight with you. Or straight at you, as the case may be.

Re:It's sad . . . (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @01:15PM (#14908692)

Yeah, but if Hillary wins in 2008, she'll be serving her 3rd term. (bada boom).

Re:But... (Score:4, Funny)

by jdray ( 645332 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @01:34PM (#14908846) Homepage Journal

Right. And what have the Romans ever done for us?

Re:But... (Score:2, Funny)

by dual_boot_brain ( 854259 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @01:36PM (#14908867)

Jesus was Jewish!?!?!?! I thought all them Mexicans were Catholic?

Obligatory (abridged) Monty Phyton quote (Score:3, Funny)

by xPsi ( 851544 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @03:04PM (#14909698)

What have the Muslim's ever done for us?
Reg: They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.
Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.
Reg: Yeah.
Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.
Reg: Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return? (he pauses smugly)
Xerxes: Coffee.
Reg: What?
Xerxes: Coffee.
Reg: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
Masked commando #1: And the camera.
Stan: Oh, yeah, the camera, Reg. Remember what photography used to be like?
Reg: Yeah. All right. I'll grant you coffee and the camera are two things that the Muslims have done.
Matthias: And algebra.
Reg: Well, yes, obviously algebra. I mean, algebra goes without saying, doesn't it? But apart from coffee, the camera, and algebra...
Masked commando #2: Chess.
Xerxes: Surgical instruments.
Masked commando #3: Windmill.
General audience: Ohh...
Reg: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
Masked commando #1: And the fountain pen!
General audience: Oh, yes! True!
Francis: Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss if the Muslims left, Reg.
Masked commando #4: The three course meal!
...
Reg: All right, but apart from coffee, the camera, chess, surgical instruments, the windmill, the fountain pen, and the three course meal, what have the Muslims ever done for us?
...

Re:But... (Score:4, Funny)

by really? ( 199452 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @03:44PM (#14910074)

...aqueducts...

Re:But... (Score:3, Funny)

by ultranova ( 717540 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @05:10PM (#14910761)

Before the war of Independence America was under British rule and everyone here were British subjects.

And now Britain is under American rule and everyone there are American subjects through governor Blair. Nice symmetry there ;).

Re:Uh, no... (Score:2, Funny)

by fatphil ( 181876 ) writes: on Monday March 13, 2006 @06:19PM (#14911328) Homepage

Let Jesus into my bum?

Someone didn't preview :-)

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Okay, I'll bite (Score:5, Funny)

Flying machine, eh? hilarious. (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Makes me laugh. (Score:3, Funny)

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quote (Score:2, Funny)

#'s 1002 and #1003 (Score:5, Funny)

Their best invention. (Score:0, Funny)

Re:Makes me laugh. (Score:1, Funny)

The most promising invetion (Score:0, Funny)

Re:But... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Nothing after 1300 (Score:4, Funny)

42 Virgins? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Flying machine, eh? hilarious. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:But... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:But... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Obl: Star Trek Russia quote (Score:5, Funny)

Re:ARABIC not ISLAMIC (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quote (Score:3, Funny)

Re:As well... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:It's sad . . . (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Seventy-two, rather. (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Computer Science 101 (Score:1, Funny)

Re:"qamara" obscura (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Uh, no... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Nothing after 1300 (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Uh, no... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:But... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:It's sad . . . (Score:5, Funny)

Re:It's sad . . . (Score:1, Funny)

Re:But... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:But... (Score:2, Funny)

Obligatory (abridged) Monty Phyton quote (Score:3, Funny)

Re:But... (Score:4, Funny)

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