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# reply comments from a very hot digg (see below !!!)

People are worried that the United States isn't "keeping up" anymore. We no longer have the tallest building in the world, or the largest shopping mall.

Those are twentieth century status symbols and are no longer relevant.

Some of today's status symbols include super computers and space programs, both of which we have the best of.

"To put the performance of the machine in perspective, Thomas P. D’Agostino, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day."

http://digg.com/tech_news/Call_Sarah_Connor_Military_Supercomputer_Sets_Record