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Old May 14th, 2008, 11:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Most important invention ever ?
There's nothing like a good debate

There have been lots of inventions since mans creation , but which one has been the most significant ?

Some couldn't exist without others , and some have kept their function regardless of improvements .

Which has been the most important ?

I'm gonna say the pen
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Old May 14th, 2008, 11:36 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Toilet paper.
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Old May 14th, 2008, 11:36 PM   #3 (permalink)
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The wheel might be a reasonable choice.

But then again, while strictly not an invention as such, discovering the various uses for fire might also qualify.
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Old May 14th, 2008, 11:38 PM   #4 (permalink)
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The transistor.
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Old May 14th, 2008, 11:38 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Toilet paper would be useless without the toilet pan to get rid of it! Which means that the cistern is required; which needs running water.........
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Old May 14th, 2008, 11:39 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I'll go with electricity. Not so much an invention as a discovery, but many inventions would not be possible without it.
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Old May 14th, 2008, 11:41 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I don't know if its the most important invention ever, but Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments: http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/jackstclair.shtml
inventing and creating the IC-chip, or Integrated Circuit. Our lives would be so much different today if that was never invented.
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Old May 14th, 2008, 11:49 PM   #8 (permalink)
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the most important invention is the concept behind inventing which then led to everything we've ever invented
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Old May 14th, 2008, 11:52 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Quite seriously it was the printing press.

Shared knowledge has led to everything (Good and bad) that we have.
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Old May 14th, 2008, 11:54 PM   #10 (permalink)
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The number zero. The complete and total absence of anything is simply an idea, an abstraction, and has never actually been encountered in nature.

Without zero, we would have no mathematics, no trigonometry, no chemistry, no physics, no computers... I'd go as far to say that without zero, we'd have almost nothing...
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Old May 14th, 2008, 11:58 PM   #11 (permalink)
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rhinocaster, what about language itself?
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Old May 14th, 2008, 11:59 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Old May 15th, 2008, 12:02 AM   #13 (permalink)
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I'm going to have to say beer.

The contenders for 2nd place are the printing press, transitor and airplane.
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Old May 15th, 2008, 12:04 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Mathematics, writing, art, philosophy, modern medicine.........all important, but nobody mentioned the "ONE". Pie
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Old May 15th, 2008, 12:06 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Why did I choose the pen ?

Even in it's earliest form , which may have been simply drawing on walls with another rock , or a stick in the sand , being able to write something down , for me , has to be the most important invention ever .

Communication ? Preservation of thought ? Thousands of other reasons .

One of the few things in the world that everybody uses , or has used , will use , or has had benefit from others using it .

Without the pen ( including pencils , crayons , quils , etc etc ) I would hazard a guess that at least 99% of other inventions could not possibly have taken place .

We would have no , or little , knowledge of anything regarding history , and certainly no documentation of it .

For me , the pen is the utmost invention
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The Thermos. I mean, really, you put hot stuff in and it stays hot. You put cold stuff in and it stays cold.

How does it KNOW???



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oral sex. Whoever was thinking that stuff up was having a PRETTY GOOD DAY.
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Old May 15th, 2008, 12:14 AM   #19 (permalink)
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ok getbent wins this thread
have some cake
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Tim!
This is not true!
I put soup and an ice cream sandwich in mine and it did NOT work.
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Old May 15th, 2008, 12:21 AM   #21 (permalink)
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oral sex. Whoever was thinking that stuff up was having a PRETTY GOOD DAY.


I wonder if it was invented to give , or receive ?
Receiving is much more fun , and best of all , it doesn't require a pen lmao
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Old May 15th, 2008, 12:28 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Beer and oral sex get my vote. I mean ... please ... after that, I'd vote for the printing press. Combining all 3 is like the perfect weekend.
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Old May 15th, 2008, 12:31 AM   #24 (permalink)
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hey without the printing press... no, uh, self entertainment. Hey, we were all 14 once!
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Tim!
This is not true!
I put soup and an ice cream sandwich in mine and it did NOT work.
Thanks, saved from screwing up my luch tommorow.
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Old May 15th, 2008, 12:51 AM   #26 (permalink)
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oral sex. Whoever was thinking that stuff up was having a PRETTY GOOD DAY.

Wow...

I'm. Just. Sayin'.

So many quote opportunities in this thread - .

My hat is off to ya, Randy...

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