NASA: Al Gore did not invent the algorithm. The Muslims did.

Big Bureaucracy ^ | July 10th, 2010 | Ellie Velinska

[Big Bureaucracy]

If you thought that Al Gore invented the algorithm you are wrong. The method was named after Al-Khwarizmi (780-850)one of the fathers of the algebra, which is named after his book, Kitab al-Jabr. Al-Khwarizmi is featured here on a USSR postal stamp.

President Obama apparently believes we don’t respect enough the achievements of the Muslim world which is weird because we still call the thing algorithm, don’t we? We still call our numeral system Arabic despite the fact that the Arabs do not use it anymore.

Here are more everyday tributes to the Muslim science and achievements: admiral, albatross, chemistry, alcohol (this one brings a lot of revenue for President Obama), amber, apricot, assassin, borax, carat, coffee, caliber…

These are just some of the ABCs of the Arabic loanwords preserved in the modern English language.

Americans have a tough time to understand President Obama’s directives to NASA to serve as an ambassador to the Muslim world.

During the Cold War the achievements in Science and Technology were the measure of the positions of the two camps according to the Soviets. The kids behind the Iron Curtain were thought that Russians invented about everything; the spies snatched from the USSR about every technology that surfaced in the West. The capitalists did propaganda and did not tell their kids that Russian created the radio. The imperialists just do not appreciate the achievements of the third world. It is very possible that President Obama was told all that while growing around Marxists.

It is a communist stereotype that President Obama shares that the capitalist USA does not show enough respect to the Muslim world achievements. Not true. Every morning when I say: ‘coffee’ I totally respect them...

[Joe 6-pack]

I use this every time I paint with watercolors...

...Of course I mostly paint Christian knights slaughtering saracens, so it probably doesn't count.

[libertyhoundusnr]

Whooop de doo doo. We all need to send some moon rocks to the Muslim world for their next barbaric stoning of some poor woman....

[edpc]

The method was named after Al-Khwarizmi (780-850)one of the fathers of the algebra, which is named after his book

Wrong. While the name is derived from al-jabr, that's the extent of the contribution. The methods existed in Babylonia, ancient Greece, and India long before muslims "invented" it.

[JPG]

Al Gore invented the poodle.

[FreeAtlanta]

I thought the Muzzi’s stole this knowledge from the Persians?

[org.whodat]

I know for sure they invented adult diapers.

[Louis Foxwell]

The development of Mohammad’s teachings destroyed the intellectual foundations of the culture it over ran. Far from a source of intellectual and scientific activity, the Muslim faith is resonsible for its demise.

[mikrofon]

Ironically, most of the common names of the visible stars are Arabic in origin ... What else do they went, rename them after Mohammed’s kin?

[TigersEye]

I want to thank 0bama for his Humiliate Islam Through NASA Initiative. Every time NASA tries to highlight a Muslim achievement there will be a dozen articles written that contradict the myth. What better way to educate the world that Islam is just a cult of thieves and murderers?

[GladesGuru]

I know for sure they invented adult diapers.

Wrong! Have you ever smelled one of those things? A muslim, not a diaper, that is.

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[Big Bureaucracy]

Thanks for the clarification on the al-jabr.

[REDWOOD99]

Tell that to the massage therapist.

[Big Bureaucracy]

Obama cut the NASA budget and gave the money to the “Race to the top”. What top we are racing to now?

[org.whodat]

LOL, both!!! I was stationed in Pakistan for fifteen months, for uncle sugar.

[El Gato]

Nuts, I invented the algorithm. Actually quite a few of them. one flies jets at very low alitude, taking into account climb capability, dive limits, and acceleration "desires" (While an F-16 can pull 9Gs, you don't want to be doing that repeatedly for an hour or three, negative g's tend to hit your helmet against the canopy). Another determines inter-visibility between objects, perhaps thousands of them, at distances where the curve of the earth matters, and the earth has hills, mountains and valleys. which could interrupt visibility. (First "real", meaning not for a class, recursive algorithm I developed). Dev elopement of both of those algorithms involved algebra, not to mention trigonometry.

The Arabs were into algebra, which involves algorithms, sometimes.

[Flag_This]

"Obama cut the NASA budget and gave the money to the “Race to the top”. What top we are racing to now?"

We are racing to the top of Crap Mountain.

[Telepathic Intruder]

How long until we start seeing the NASA logo on these?

[FreeAtlanta]

Muslim "civilization" make me think of the locust aliens from "Independence Day".

Gen. Gray: Are you all right?

President Thomas Whitmore: I saw... its thoughts. I saw what they're planning to do. They're like locusts. They're moving from planet to planet... their whole civilization. After they've consumed every natural resource they move on... and we're next. Nuke 'em. Let's nuke the bastards.