1001 Islamic Inventions 1034
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."
Okay, I'll bite (Score:5, Funny)
Flying machine, eh? hilarious. (Score:4, Funny)
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)
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quote (Score:2, Funny)
#'s 1002 and #1003 (Score:5, Funny)
Magic Lamp
(rimshot)
Their best invention. (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Makes me laugh. (Score:1, Funny)
"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)
Re:But... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nothing after 1300 (Score:4, Funny)
42 Virgins? (Score:1, Funny)
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)
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)
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)
Yeah. Perfect.
Re:Obl: Star Trek Russia quote (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ARABIC not ISLAMIC (Score:2, Funny)
I'm pretty sure that at least a few are.
Re:Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quote (Score:3, Funny)
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)
Re:It's sad . . . (Score:2, Funny)
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)
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)
Comes his latest mathematical invention: the Al-Gore-ism.
AhgGHgHGhGHghGhGhGhGhgHgHg!
Re:"qamara" obscura (Score:3, Funny)
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)
Mod parent up: Informative. This is correct info.
Re:Nothing after 1300 (Score:4, Funny)
--
A Mongol.
Re:Uh, no... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:But... (Score:1, Funny)
Which explains why the Qur'an has so many harsh things to say about whales.
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)
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)
Re:But... (Score:3, Funny)
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)
Someone didn't preview