What was your last scientific breakthrough?

by **Central and West Minzo** » Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:44 pm

What was your nation's last scientific beakthrough?
The confederacy's last breakthrough was the hyperdrive engine.

by **Austmark** » Sun Sep 02, 2012 8:03 pm

A cheap, delicious way to make foreigners spend money on our beer.

It's called Pißwasser Beer.

by **Nidifice** » Sun Sep 02, 2012 8:45 pm

Engineered beings that became sapient (unintentional on our part).

by **Orichalcum** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:38 am

The mass-producible Rail Rifle system AS-MAW-605 "Cerberus Tooth".

by **Auzkhia** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:39 am

discovery of the Higgs Boson or the God Particle

by **Meridiani Planum** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:59 am

Central and West Minzo wrote:What was your nation's last scientific beakthrough?
The confederacy's last breakthrough was the hyperdrive engine.

We don't have hyperdrive and wish we did, but we have made significant improvements in cryonic suspension technologies. We do far less damage to tissues, and nanotechnology is capable of repairing most damage.

by **Sedikal** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:12 am

We got Álik Sÿin a paraplegic to walk again with the help of stem cell resurch.

Picture of Álik Sÿin after stem cell theripy

by **Cyaka** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:20 am

We have established a mining base on the Moon.

by **Chinese Regions** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:22 am

Civilian space colonies.

by **Cruciland** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:28 am

The latest would probably be the commercialization and perfection of stimulant-based alcoholic beverages, which can stimulate the senses rather than dull them. As we speak, alcohol is becoming legal here by mixing coke into its formula. (since depressants are extremely dangerous for Crucilandians to use)

by **Arkiasis** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:41 am

Self driving vehicles, self driving tractor-trailers are now hitting the road. We hope to see the first full self-driving vehicles released into the consumer market by 2025.

by **Uirokeilendh** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:53 am

Well recently the genomes of several plant species were sequenced:
- Ilex aquifolium (English Holly)
- Hedera helix (English Ivy)
- Tilia cordata (Small-leaved Lime)
- Hippomane mancinella (Manchineel tree)
- Viscum album (European Mistletoe)
- Maclura pomifera (Osage-orange)
- Ligustrum vulgare (Privet)
- Symphoricarpos albus (Common Snowberry)
- Sapindus mukorossi (Indian Soapberry)

Although I doubt that it was Uirokeilendh's last scientific breakthrough, it is scientifically significant & recent.

by **Gijinkia** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 11:03 am

Our latest scientific breakthrough was a new method of getting those two really flat lego pieces.
It's essentially just a thin lever specifically for separating lego pieces...yeah...

Austmark wrote:A cheap, delicious way to make foreigners spend money on our beer.

It's called Pißwasser Beer.

Remind us never to import alcohol from your country.

by **TurtleShroom** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 6:55 pm

WE SPLIT THE ATOM IN 2008. "NOOKULAR" POWER AND "NOOKULAR" BOMBS HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECCCCKKKKKKKKK YES.

by **The Grand World Order** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:21 pm

The development of prosthetic limbs that interface with the neurological system is considered the last huge breakthrough for the Federation.

It's also spawned a massive controversy, as many are worried about the potential for people to intentionally dismember themselves to replace their perfectly good limbs with these devices. Additionally, many are worried that the impulse router for these prosthetic limbs will permit the government to shut off people's body parts, thus expanding their control.

As it stands, prosthetics are still sub-par compared to actual body parts here in the Federation, with one exception: the Grand Commander's eye. Most of the controversy is about the future of artificial body parts.

by **Vacktivia** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:22 pm

invisible cloaking abilities.

by **Page** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:23 pm

Astral projection

by **The Orson Empire** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:24 pm

A superlaser powerful enough to destroy an entire solar system, and its star.

by **Nationalist Tantalus** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:36 pm

Several years ago, our suborbital laboratory (Installation Alpha-Null) successfully demonstrated the feasibility of converting neutrinos & photons into baryons via Higgs-Field Generators in a bid to see whether or not we could avert a so-called "matter shortage" by converting "waste" solar leptons into heavier baryonic nucleons. Though the energy requirements were immense, it is fortunate to state that the particle-energy ratios were well-within acceptable limits so as to minimize the costs of producing photon-derived matter, and thus we are wholly convinced that our star cluster will bear witness to the first photon-to-nucleon generator station in the next several years.

by **Magical Equestria** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:38 pm

The steam-powered locomotive. We're not sure whether it'll catch on, though--Pegasi have no use for them, Unicorns think they produce too much pollution, and Earth Ponies complain that they put teamsters out of their jobs.

by **Tyslus** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:42 pm

That's a pretty big question, Tyslus has dozens of research facilities in its frigid wastelands and they are working on many different things at once. I single facility could be making a better bread box and making an experimental death laser at the same time. Trying to catalogue every scientific breakthrough Tyslus has made, even recently, would be a real challenge for even the most dedicated bureaucrat.

Here's the ones off the top of our heads:

- A voice activated breadbox
- Recent improvements on cybernetic implants, specifically artificial tongues that can taste
- The 'Peacekeeper' Mk. 11 just entered the prototype stages of its development
- We've just made several anti-ballistic missile laser satellites and will be mass producing them in a decade or two
- We've developed a new neurotoxin capable of passing through most filtration systems for the Tyslus mercenary corps. And for militaries willing to buy it

by **Sardine World** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:46 pm

Austmark wrote:A cheap, delicious way to make foreigners spend money on our beer.

It's called Pißwasser Beer.

pisswasser beer!!

(gta reference)

by **Inutoland** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:46 pm

The Confederation's last breakthrough was pseudowormhole-based teleportation.

by **70 Ophiuchi** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:49 pm

Figured out how to make a bomb to destroy evil earth (check our motto).

Auzkhia wrote:discovery of the Higgs Boson or the God Particle

That's old hat (lots of tech based on direct manipulation of the Higgs field, including our earth destroying bomb), though it isn't actually called the god particle by physicists (it's actually more disproof of the idea of a god).

by **The Grand World Order** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:51 pm

70 Ophiuchi wrote:(it's actually more disproof of the idea of a god).

um, no. There's no association between the Higgs boson and the existence or nonexistence of God.

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