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Posted on 7/19/15 at 9:20 pm to Kcprogguitar
1. Wheel
2. Cement
3. Electricity
4. Combustion engine
5. Internet
-Fire wasn't an invention (or it would have made the list). It's been there way before humans, we just figured out how to "make it happen".
2. Cement
3. Electricity
4. Combustion engine
5. Internet
-Fire wasn't an invention (or it would have made the list). It's been there way before humans, we just figured out how to "make it happen".
Posted on 7/19/15 at 9:28 pm to TideJoe
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-Fire wasn't an invention (or it would have made the list). It's been there way before humans
Playing devil's advocate, you could easily say circles existed before humans too. I mean, making other materials into a circle, while extremely important, didn't really take much thought.
Posted on 7/19/15 at 9:29 pm to WG_Dawg
Physics is a difficult area to study but it's equally interesting. Same with chemistry.
WiFi blows my mind just thinking about it.
WiFi blows my mind just thinking about it.
This post was edited on 7/19/15 at 9:34 pm
Posted on 7/19/15 at 10:44 pm to goodbuds
1. Magnetic screwdrivers
Posted on 7/19/15 at 11:27 pm to goodbuds
Am I really the first one to say a flushable toilet paired with a septic/sewer system?
Great reduction in disease and quality of life.
Great reduction in disease and quality of life.
Posted on 7/19/15 at 11:36 pm to goodbuds
The discovery of how to make metal alloys
Figuring out how to harness and transmit electricity
The radio (in all it's forms ie: telegraph, telephone and wireless)
The airplane
The microchip processor
Figuring out how to harness and transmit electricity
The radio (in all it's forms ie: telegraph, telephone and wireless)
The airplane
The microchip processor
Posted on 7/19/15 at 11:37 pm to goodbuds
What has happened with TVs the past 15 years or so is awesome.
Flat screens
DVR
HDMI cables
No more having to deal with a 9,000 lb TV, make sure all the cables are hooked up, and program your damn VCR to do shite. Hell, you don't even need a DVD player anymore.
I mean.... Hooking up a TV and recording shite is ridiculously easier than it was in the fricking 80s and 90s.
Flat screens
DVR
HDMI cables
No more having to deal with a 9,000 lb TV, make sure all the cables are hooked up, and program your damn VCR to do shite. Hell, you don't even need a DVD player anymore.
I mean.... Hooking up a TV and recording shite is ridiculously easier than it was in the fricking 80s and 90s.
Posted on 7/19/15 at 11:38 pm to goodbuds
1. written communication
2. fire
3. law
4. electricity
5. flight
2. fire
3. law
4. electricity
5. flight
Posted on 7/20/15 at 8:10 am to goodbuds
Antibiotic
Hand sanitizer stations.
Massively reduced the spread of disease in hospitals via spread from nurses and doctors. Especially in delivery situations.
Fermentation
Electricity
Water filtration.
Hand sanitizer stations.
Massively reduced the spread of disease in hospitals via spread from nurses and doctors. Especially in delivery situations.
Fermentation
Electricity
Water filtration.
Posted on 7/20/15 at 8:37 am to goodbuds
1. Wheel
2. Printing press
3. Penicillin
4. Automobile
5. Airplane
2. Printing press
3. Penicillin
4. Automobile
5. Airplane
Posted on 7/20/15 at 8:40 am to goodbuds
Posted on 7/20/15 at 8:52 am to SavageOrangeJug
When I think of "great inventions" I think of the overall impact on humanity:
1) the repeating rifle
2) condoms/the pill
3) the atom bomb
4) cable/interwebz
5) antibiotics
1) the repeating rifle
2) condoms/the pill
3) the atom bomb
4) cable/interwebz
5) antibiotics
Posted on 7/20/15 at 9:18 am to Henry Jones Jr
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Electricity wasn't really invented though. Just harnessed. Same thing with fire.
Agreed, but doesn't this same logic apply to mathematics? The math was always there, but it just took some particularly bright people to be able to discern it.
Posted on 7/20/15 at 10:46 am to TideJoe
1. pussy (invented by god)
2. wheel
3. printing press
4. modern plastics
4. internet
2. wheel
3. printing press
4. modern plastics
4. internet
Posted on 7/20/15 at 11:44 am to WG_Dawg
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shite like...the wheel would end up being invented at some point anyway.
The inevitability of being invented isn't the point, however. It's the effect of the invention on human progress.
Also, there have been human civilizations that thrived without the wheel. For example, none of the great societies of the pre-Spanish Americas knew of it.
Posted on 7/20/15 at 12:07 pm to boogiewoogie1978
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pussy (invented by god)
How has "god" not made a list yet?
Posted on 7/20/15 at 12:50 pm to Big_Sur
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How has "god" not made a list yet?
Posted on 7/20/15 at 12:53 pm to ChexMix
quote:Excellent answers
Penicillin
Condoms/birth control
Posted on 7/20/15 at 12:57 pm to goodbuds
Isaac Newton invented gravity. All other inventions are completely irrelevant if we all floated into outer space.
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