I can make you believe in thirty minutes.

[Asmodean]

They also make some decent earth moving machines and aircraft engines. Can build proper roads too.

[Angler28]

I'm just basing what I said off of some shows I have seen on the Science channel. Seems to me that quite a bit of great software and engineering advances have been coming from there. I've never been there myself, so I can't say for sure. 

[Sweetdeath]

Swedes are the smartest people on the planet.  Sorry, but true.   

The best scientists i think come from Germany.

Japan has best technology IMO.

[Angler28]

Swedes are the smartest people on the planet.  Sorry, but true.  

The best scientists i think come from Germany.

Japan has best technology IMO.

Germany has superb engineering, but I think that the a lot of other countries are catching up to Japan in the tech field. I blame the fact that they tend to stick with what has worked well, even though it's not workin that well anymore. I think video games are a good example of this. Twenty years ago, about 95% of all video games came from Japan. Now I would say it's about 50/50. They are sticking with what worked for them when they were on top, and because they are refusing to adapt, they are losing a big chunck of American business. This is just all my humble opinion, of course.  

[Tank]

Swedes are the smartest people on the planet.  Sorry, but true.   

The best scientists i think come from Germany.

Japan has best technology IMO.

3 countries have achieved more than 100 Nobel Prizes the UK, Germany and the USA. The UK has the highest number per capita with Germany 2nd and USA 3rd. The UK has 118, Germany 103 and the USA 313. Japan has 18.

[Asmodean]

Japanese locomotion technology is quite alright though.

Eh... From what I know in my profession, no-one here really wants Japanese engineers... Or American for that matter, and screw the nobel prizes.

Germans... Are all of them pretty much hired already, as are Austrians, French and Swiss. A lot of Indians too. They tend to be a bit narrow-profile, but also very good at what they do.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Swedes are the smartest people on the planet.  Sorry, but true.   

The best scientists i think come from Germany.

Japan has best technology IMO.

3 countries have achieved more than 100 Nobel Prizes the UK, Germany and the USA. The UK has the highest number per capita with Germany 2nd and USA 3rd. The UK has 118, Germany 103 and the USA 313. Japan has 18.

Where do Jews from any country come in?  As a group, they seem to be the brightest to me.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

They are organizational geniuses.  That's all I need to know about them.

Scandinavia in general is pretty impressive. Denmark is usually toward the top in "happiness."  Norway is close to the top in overall quality of life.  Finland (kinda sorta "Scandinavian") is at the top in education in math and science.  If you live in that area, chances are you are pretty smart.  Cold seems to breed smart. 

[Sandra Craft]

Cold seems to breed smart. 

I wonder if its because the cold makes it so darn hard to stay alive? 

[Amicale]

Cold seems to breed smart. 

I wonder if its because the cold makes it so darn hard to stay alive? 

I think it's because it's too darned cold to go outside, so they spend their time indoors, learning and inventing things. 

[Sandra Craft]

Cold seems to breed smart. 

I wonder if its because the cold makes it so darn hard to stay alive? 

I think it's because it's too darned cold to go outside, so they spend their time indoors, learning and inventing things. 

Like how to avoid being cold.   

[The Magic Pudding]

Cold seems to breed smart.  

I wonder if its because the cold makes it so darn hard to stay alive?  

I thought smarts were a cultural thing.
There's all the problems in measurement and racial differences are supposedly more an idea than fact.

The Indians are coming on pretty strong now.
There's definitely a history of Europeans dismissing those from warm places as less bright than them.

[Sweetdeath]

Cold seems to breed smart. 

I wonder if its because the cold makes it so darn hard to stay alive? 

I think it's because it's too darned cold to go outside, so they spend their time indoors, learning and inventing things. 

Like how to avoid being cold.   

XD Haha.

Germans are definitely top notch.

[Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism]

Cold seems to breed smart. 

I wonder if its because the cold makes it so darn hard to stay alive? 

I think it's because it's too darned cold to go outside, so they spend their time indoors, learning and inventing things. 

Like how to avoid being cold.   

XD Haha.

Germans are definitely top notch.

Well damn thanks for all the compliments.  Being Almost full blooded German has never felt so gratifying 

[joeactor]

Ikea future: FlïeTüDëMüünen?
(some assembly required)

... as for East Indians, I was impressed with the stories of Ramanujan as a kid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

Seems like the middle east used to be cutting edge with the whole "alphabet/zero/ships" motif.
Now they're teraforming (at least Dubai is)