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In reply to the discussion: My wife and I saw Apollo 11 yesterday. [View all]llmart
(15,506 posts)36. Quite possibly all of these advances and scientific breakthroughs were not done by Americans.
I say that as someone who was involved in the hiring of professors and researchers at a university. Many, many of the researchers working in areas of medicine/health sciences/environmental engineering, etc. were here on H1-B visas doing extremely important and difficult research to solve problems. I was always gobsmacked at some of the resumes I read and what some of these people had accomplished by the time they were thirty years old. I had some interesting conversations with many of them.
Just another side of the immigration issues most people forget about.
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Of course there's been a lot of great scientific endeavour the last 50 years.
Dave Starsky
Mar 2019
#44
Because Aldrin had a notorious reputation for being what some would consider a jerk
Docreed2003
Mar 2019
#33