What, in your opinion, is the greatest invention in human history?
Anything from the hand-axe to the quantum computer.
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phxbillcee
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Apr 20, 2018
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That & toilet paper/indoor plumbing!
Were those invented or discovered?
@indirect76 Maybe a fine line, there. He worked them out until they fit, tough call!
Language is helpful. But I also really enjoy a cold beer every now and then.
BangkokBette
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Apr 20, 2018
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Kaleidescope
btroje
Level 9
Apr 20, 2018
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Synchronicity! I was just researching information about refracting light and kaleidoscopes! I am curious about sun stones and how they were used. I have been working up some theories.
Lol The question! there are so many miraculous inventions it’s hard to choose. I think the best was Tesla’s free energy. Sadly the powers that be were greedy and wanted to make money off of energy and screwed up the world.
How life started would be cool to know for sure but maybe we wouldn’t want to know.
@CandyWorner I wish we had an understanding of a lot of things Tesla thought about
Think the pencil is a brilliant design that is pretty much unchanged since it was created. Simple, functional... the other greatest invention is paper. Then there are books...
I love technologies but most will not function with out electricity. And that can be limiting. When you have a pencil, paper, and imagination the possibilities are endless.
Adhizen
Level 4
Apr 21, 2018
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That is an interesting question that I had not thought of until now. I would have to say that the greatest invention ever is the camera and how that morphed into video recordings. Not only do these things further our understanding of history but as a person that has researched the ancestry of over 50+ families - pictures bring it home. It's one thing to visit a cemetery for names and dates - it's quite another to have pictures of these people and how they lived and labored for us over 160+ years ago.
SLBushway
Level 7
Apr 21, 2018
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Good question. I wish I had an answer, but I don't. I will say that the one that has had the most profound and all encompassing effect on the development of civilization is written language. I'd say it was foundational.
evidentialist
Level 8
Apr 21, 2018
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Clearly it is the goat bag you posted before.
Or maybe language. It's kind of a toss-up.
Drewesque
Level 6
Apr 20, 2018
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hands down the goat bag...Im kinda a goat expert and inventor, It would actually work quite well!
The Microwave. Nothing says "I don't feel like cooking, but don't wanna go out." Like nuking some kind of food
MasterSolace
Level 3
Apr 20, 2018
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I have to say the best thing ever created by man (human race), is just one thing, Coffee! 2nd would be bacon.
cobra3282000
Level 6
Apr 20, 2018
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I have true answers. But because this is the site it is and no ones said it I’m going too lol
Religion. Allowed a few to control the masses with little effort.
Ryan86
Level 4
Apr 20, 2018
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I'd challenge that answer. If religion is used to control the masses, it doesn't do it very well as the controlling mechanism puts such a strain on the overall intelligence of the population that it eliminates any perceived gains by creating losses in other dynamics of society where higher intelligence is necessary.
@redbai, @Renickulous and you know what they say. Respect your enemy haha
@Ryan86 I don't agree that it has anything to do with what time period we are living in. Galileo's experience with the Catholic Church is one of the more glaring demonstrations of how they try to suppress knowledge for simply going against their religious doctrines. Then it was whether the earth was the center of the universe and today it's whether or not dinosaurs existed or the age of the earth.
There is nothing positive about religion unless you are predisposed to believe that the concept of worshiping and blindly following anything because you don't understand something is a positive. I am not so predisposed.
I'd also like to say that neither the Egyptians or Romans could have controlled their empires if they only used religion. Both of those empires also had a very strong military force to "instill fear and control over the majority" and used it more readily than they did the wrath of gods or their priests.
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