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How did you forget John Larson the inventor of the Polygraph (lie detector)? He literally referred to his invention as a "Frankenstein's Monster" when he saw how police departments were using it; let's just say there's good reason that polygraph test results are NOT admissible as evidence in a court of law these days.
They're not admissible because they are nowhere near accurate enough. A certain percentage of people can outright lie and that's not even going into the variability of results regarding the questions. If anything he should have felt bad for making a shitty invention.
Of course they are a shitty invention. Their functionality is based on emotion, something extremly arbitrary for every person. Someone can totally lie and get away with it, and an inocent person who is socially awkward and generally has problems speaking can be acused for nothing.
Kalashnikov's intentions were good. He had seen first hand what German troops armed with automatic weapons had done to his homeland and wanted to give his country a cheap, easy to use automatic weapon to defend against further attacks. The problem was that the Soviet Union exported and licensed the gun to pretty much every shithole country and their mother. I think most new AKs today are actually Chinese and not Russian. But that doesn't really matter, since even an old one will work fine, ensuring that used guns would always be available on black markets everywhere. In Africa they go for as little as 50 dollars.
Corristo89 There is even a Kalashnikov index to measure how much is stable and rich a country based on the cost and the quantity of kalashikovs in that country.
Think he means countries run by Governments that use imported weapons to invade neighbors and suppress their populations. A good example can be found in some African and Middle Eastern countries that have become highly unstable to to armed conflict such as civil wars or genocidal campaigns against ethnic groups. AK-47's are a cheap and reliable weapon and widely produced, so arming forces with them in those countries is easy.
I think even the Soviets preferred te Czech made ones over their own. However, seriously, if you compare the inner parts of an AK47 and an STG44 you see that the AK is not an invention, but a close copy. 4.bp.blogspot.com/-31zR0EjXWJY/VNioFjskCAI/AAAAAAAAYQ0/HCU_Hr-GqDA/s1600/stg44-1944g--sprava-ak-47-1946g.jpg
Kalashnikov didn't hate the AK-47. Even the quote you provided was him questioning his invention, not outright denouncing it. This quote sums it up nicely: "I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists."
There was an instance where he did say he wished that he created something useful that couldn't be used for violence like the lawn mower. It is known that he wanted to be an agricultural engi.
Accidents don't count as inventions; they're discoveries. I'm sure if they do a list of "10 people who regretted their discoveries", your parents would be on the list.
J. Robert Oppenhower The inventor of the Atom Bomb he even said with a grim expression on his face quoting (forgot his name), "I have become the destroyer of worlds."
SuperNova he also said "I have no remorse about the making of the bomb… As for how we used it, I understand why it happened and appreciate with what nobility those men with whom I'd worked made their decision. But I do not have the feeling that it was done right." But Einstien did regret helping with the reasearch after the war.
I believe he is on about the huge update problem McAfee had in 2010 ""I want to apologize on behalf of McAfee and say that we're extremely sorry for any impact the faulty signature update file may have caused you and your organizations," said Barry McPherson, the security vendor's executive vice president of support and customer service, in a post to the company's blog near midnight yesterday."
All seriousness. John Oppenheimer & the Atomic bomb. While he did feel the bombings of Japan may have been necessary to end the war, though did say he wished they would have tried other means first. He felt that the blood of future victims were on his hands. He also felt the no country, even America, should have these weapons, or should at least work at keeping their numbers very low. This sentiment, among others, was used against him during McCarthyism.
Lmao withouth e=mc^2 the world you live in wouldn't exist. What next you think the creator of the wheel is somehow responsible for modern day tanks LUL?
deari900 No, perhaps you should get a book on modern physics, that way the ratio of modern physics books I have read, wait no own we'll make it simple on you, will be 54:1. Perhaps it should be the man who split the atom, not the man who discovered the Energy given off by an amount of mass times light speed squared.
Worth mentioning that, without the atomic bomb, the Allies planned to hit Japanese shores after they had been thoroughly doused with heavier than air nerve gas that would have seeped into their tunnel networks.
The inventor of the Thompson machine gun. He died taking the blame for people who died during prohibition when organized crime got many people killed. He never lived to see his creation do good in WWII
LBJHJP50 oh yeah and the world is just drowning in peace now that nukes exist. Yeah a few big countries with nukes aren’t fighting each other but fighting has not stopped by any means and now nukes are a constant goal of anyone looking to fuck shit up
This story is getting so old. The woman invented a spinning toy that is somewhat similar to fidget spinner, but is not really THAT similar. Even if she did patent it, this would not qualify. She also wasn't even trying to take credit for it, someone just started giving it to her.
Iamishin yeah, but it was the reasearch on nuclear physics that he told them about and he only got upset after realising that the germans would never even make an atomic bomb which is why he told the Americans even saying years later, "Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would have never lifted a finger."
It's not so bad, especially when covered in mud and run over by a truck and it still stays pretty stable. I'm rather fond of the AR myself as well, but an enemy isn't going to give you time to clean out your barrel if you happen to run into a problem with it...
Mr Paine he said "I have no remorse about the making of the bomb… As for how we used it, I understand why it happened and appreciate with what nobility those men with whom I'd worked made their decision. But I do not have the feeling that it was done right." But Einstien did regret helping.
I stopped at the AK one because if you look into the mans life he was a gunner on a soviet tank in the Second World War who wanted a better weapon for that role than the used at the time DPM-28 machine gun and soon saw the cheaply make and increasingly effective Ak become the weapon of terrorists and corrupt governments. A good contrast is the AR-15 rifle that most of NATO uses being seen as a "good guy gun" while the not copyrighted AK becoming the "bad guy gun." Mikail created his gun for his patriotic duty to His country and his country gave the guns to the most evil regimes known to history
@Bernoit yeah but it's the commentators statement about how he didn't feel sorry for the man that upset most of us, the man started working on the firearm because he saw he's friends and comrades killed in WW2 due to reliability issues with their current weapons and in some cases on the eastern front lack of weapons at all. When you see young men being rushed into a nazi machine gun without weapons with a pistol at their back so they don't run away, simply cause your government can't afford to arm them, your gonna want to make a cheap and reliable weapon to save them too.
Eli Whitney hated the cotton gin, its invention made slavery more profitable and thereby more popular. Also feel like you were a bit oversimplifying Kalashnikov, he made a weapon for his country's military, its not his fault that less scrupulous people got their hands on it
MyName Jeff The funny thing is that so far that invention saved millions. I say so far because it's likely that eventually a nuke will be used for purposes other than MAD strategies. Without such a surefire way of mutual lost, then the cold war would've never been cold. Not to mention that someone else would've eventually invented it anyway, who's to say that country wouldn't just steamroll the whole world with it. TBH I'm always a little surprised that the allies didn't capitalize on their monopoly on the terrifying weapon.
The video is about creators hating their creations. It doesn't matter how it was taken by the audience. That is literally everything on this list. People loved Creep, they loved Smooth cars etc. And the thing about someone else would've eventually invented it could be said to almost anything invention so far. Computers, Radio, TV, cars, space travel. Someone doesn't have to do it but they will eventually.
An Athenian in Ancient Greece called Perilaus invented and built something called "The Brazen Bull" or "Bull of Phalaris". The bull was in the form and size of an actual bull and had an acoustic apparatus that converted screams into the sound of a bull. The condemned were locked inside the device, and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until the person inside was roasted to death. After building it and presenting it to the ruler, Phalaris, the ruler became disgusted by the apparent joy Perilaus (who was expecting a reward for his work) was showing for the sort of noises those inside being burnt and tortured would make. Phalaris made Perilaus the 1st person for it to be used on. You can bet at that moment Perilaus utterly hated his invention. Funnily enough, when Phalaris was overthrown by the next tyrant, he shared the same fate; so he too would have hated the invention he commisioned! >XD
He started working on his design before WW2 ended but finished it in 1947 He designed his rifle for the Russian army and the Russian army only. But becauze he lived in the Soviet Union his rifle was not actually his rifle but property of the state. It was basically Stalin's rifle so he gave it Mao Zhedong who gave to the Vietcong and North-Korea who both sold them on the blackmarket where they where picked up by African warmongers and Arabicgoatfuckers. He had nothing to say about how is rifle was used becauze it wasn't his at that piont. He didn't design it to be sold on the blackmarket or to get rich becauze he only started getting money for his creation after 1991 and only the ones that where legally sold to lawfull gunowners becauze they where the only ones that actually buyed from him.
unfortunately, they underestimated the craven destructive instincts of man, along with its stubborn resilience to procreate and its boundless capacity to be suckered into dying on the frontlines for cash money.
A list of 10 inventors which contains only 4 people who actually invented something. 10-Inventor 9-Writer 8-Musician 7-Composer 6-Everyone who's involved in making a movie 5-Dog breeder 4-Computer programmer 3-Weapon designer 2-Another writer 1-Inventor
Archangel 717 I said that the list only contained four inventors but decided to only list two as straight up inventors. Who the two others might be is up for you to decide.
:) Its a fake, made by some idiot. U dont even need to read the text , just take a look at "scans" of this "penitential letter". Will you decorate your letters in such manner with ur photoes and fancy frame?
hall of the mountain king and ride of the valkyries, are two songs that you hear 15 seconds you hear the whole thing, catchy pop songs of the old school
AHK EDITS Einstien, yes but Robert said, "I have no remorse about the making of the bomb… As for how we used it, I understand why it happened and appreciate with what nobility those men with whom I'd worked made their decision. But I do not have the feeling that it was done right."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle hated writing about Sherlock Holmes because he didn't want to be known for being that guy who wrote Sherlock Holmes. When he killed him off people actually mourned the character and wore black armbands.
fun fact about Grieg's song - he also intended it to be listened to as 'part of a set', and for several decades refused to play it as a separate piece. Eventually he just caved in to popular demand.
So Robert Oppenheimer, David Bohm, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Emilio Segre, James Franck, Enrico Fermi, Klaus Fuchs and Edward Teller are proud of the nuclear bomb?
Robert said "I have no remorse about the making of the bomb… As for how we used it, I understand why it happened and appreciate with what nobility those men with whom I'd worked made their decision. But I do not have the feeling that it was done right." And Einstien regretted helping with the reasearch.
Well Kalashnikov lived in the communist Soviet Union where money was considered some sort of ultimate evil so its not surprising he never got paid for it.
This needed to be made into two different lists: artists who hated their art and inventors who hated their inventions. There’s a fundamental ideological difference between the two: one is created to serve a functional purpose that makes something easier or more efficient, while the other is created to be a complete entity in and of itself for the purpose of entertainment and/or expression.
Mr Pyotr Llyich Tchailkovsky or known as Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский hated his song called "1812 Overture" and yes. The one orchestrated piece of classical music to feature Cannons was highly hated in his personal terms for being "Too loud!".
treepig man Robert Oppenheimer is credited for, because he was lead scientist on the Manhattan Project, with being the inventor of the atomic bomb. Einstein however was, reportedly, on the team.
treepig man the atomic bomb would have actually killed less people compared to an invasion. Every man, woman and child in Japan was preparing to fight America to the death. and the firebombing of Tokyo only killed 26,000 less people and no one talks about that.
Kalashnikov didnt initially want to be a weapons designer, he wanted to build tractors. He saw his rifle and its creation as a necessary piece of equipment to give his countrymen the edge they needed to win the war. His design wasnt finished by the time the war ended, though so it saw later adoption. Kalashnikov came up with the design after hearing from frontline soldiers the problems and inadequacies of their rifles had. He set out to give his comrades something better so they were not outclassed by the Germans in every engagement.
Kalashnikov called the AK a defensive weapon because it was originally meant to be issued to tankers only (MK was a tanker during WW2). Tankers rarely use their small arms, most cases of them using it involve either defending their tank from infantry or bailing out of a disabled tank and retreating AKA defensive uses.
If I was a weapon designer, and I developed a gun that was even half as commonly used and famous as the AK family, I would be proud to have made such a successful product. I can see why he would've seen it as a defensive weapon, but he made it to replace SMGs, weapons meant purely for rushing enemy positions, where close range fighting is most common. SMGs are meant for an offensive role, so when you make a weapon to replace them, inevitably it's going to be used as an offensive weapon.
That is one way of dying I must admit I have never imagined: being strangled by your own bed. Thanks for letting me know Whatculture, I'll be sure to watch out for that one.
Fun fact: the reason people actually love "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" is because, for all the self-deprecation the composer poured into his creation, it is, in fact, a very well composed piece with a good, solid theme and motif. This is not unlike what has happened to countless other artists, who don't like what they produced, but what they produced is just too good not to be liked by most of the audience/viewers. Notably, Tchaikovsky hated "The Nutcracker" with a passion.
Why is WhatCulture so butthurt about the Ak-47? Is inventing tools for personal self defense something bad now? Maybe, like most other inventors, maybe like Alfred Nobel, he thought the people would use it for the good, not for the bad.
whener von Braun said of his invention the missile "the rocket flew perfectly only it landed on the wrong planet" as he really was interested in space travel
What about Santos Dumont? The inventor of airplanes... He hanged himself after seeing Airplanes being used for warfare in the Sao Paulo uprising, a short lived Brazilian civil war...
Mikhail Kalashnikov didn't invent the AK-47 he invented the Kalashnikov, the AK-47 is the American counterpart, it's basically a carbon copy with a wood grip rather than plastic.
Max Blanc the ar 15/ m16/m4 etc looks nothing like and has a complete different operating system AK has a gas piston operated and the standard Ar is direct impingement