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Man's greatest modern innovation

MartMax · 2006-02-07 20:14:37

Name 5. As for me : 1. Light bulb 2. Television 3. Aeroplane 4. Telephone 5. Computer I think I can live a while without 2 - 5. But no light bulb? None, just candles? p/s : Hope this thread does not turn into my first sin in AH.

07-02-2006 8:14pm

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Name 5. As for me :

1. Light bulb
2. Television
3. Aeroplane
4. Telephone
5. Computer

I think I can live a while without 2 - 5.
But no light bulb? None, just candles?

p/s : Hope this thread does not turn into my first sin in AH.

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#2 07-02-2006 8:19pm

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1. Light bulb
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#3 07-02-2006 8:27pm

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#4 07-02-2006 8:47pm

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mart_max wrote:

Name 5. As for me :

1. Light bulb
2. Television
3. Aeroplane
4. Telephone
5. Computer

I think I can live a while without 2 - 5.
But no light bulb? None, just candles?

p/s : Hope this thread does not turn into my first sin in AH.

Pretty sure you would need electricity for those first.

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#5 07-02-2006 9:02pm

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1) The battery.
2) The battery operated vagina.

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#6 07-02-2006 9:07pm

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Einst&#252 wrote: »

1) The battery.
2) The battery operated vagina.

Winnar.

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#8 07-02-2006 9:18pm

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Electricity is not an invention, it's a phenomenon. I vote for the transistor-pretty much all your modern electronic devices depend on it in one form or twenty million others!

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#13 07-02-2006 10:42pm

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Man's greatest modern innovations? (Depends on how you define the words: "Man's," "greatest," "modern," and "innovations"?) Lacking this, what just pops to mind:
1. algorithms
2. emancipation of women (just started; far from complete)
3. jazz
4. The pill
5. Internet
6. nanotechnology (just started, too)

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#14 08-02-2006 9:26pm

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electricity can't be an innovation ?

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Electricity wasn't invented, it was harnessed :rolleyes:

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does nuclear weapon deserve to be listed?

btw, what pill?

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oh and dolies.. (women/gay men have to get some credit.)

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#27 10-02-2006 1:57pm

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Shock_treatment wrote:

I want one of those

what, a SEAT? :rolleyes:

I'd define the innovations by their fields of application (which didn't themselves exist pre-'modern') - with "modern" being understood as post-1800:

1. modern medicine/therapies
2. electric/digital signal processing
3. self-powered transportation
4. controlled flight (part of 3 above, but deserving of its own-)
5. food preservation (cans/tins/lyophilisation)

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#28 10-02-2006 2:08pm

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ambro25 wrote:

what, a SEAT? :rolleyes: :)

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I have an Ibiza atm..

I can tell you are a man with no taste :v:

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#30 10-02-2006 2:27pm

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DubGuy wrote:

Electricity wasn't invented, it was harnessed :rolleyes:

Actually it was discovered after which new means of harnessing it were invented.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Shock_treatment wrote:

Thou shalt not mock the Leon :eek:
I have an Ibiza atm..

I can tell you are a man with no taste :v:

I can tell you are a man with no eyes, money or style.

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Gaillimhtaibhse wrote:

Man's greatest modern innovations? (Depends on how you define the words: "Man's," "greatest," "modern," and "innovations"?) Lacking this, what just pops to mind:
1. algorithms
2. emancipation of women (just started; far from complete)
3. jazz
4. The pill
5. Internet
6. nanotechnology (just started, too)

:rolleyes: one of them eh? ...ah well.

Harnessing the atom, and, "Spin".

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1. The Pill

Well thats mine too.

2. Anti-biotics
3. Advanced Commuication Systems e.g. internet
4. Dishwasher/Washing Machine
5. DVDs, Ipods and things of that nature.

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Dermington wrote:

I can tell you are a man with no eyes, money or style.

I can tell you are a man with poor observational skills
So, I won't take the above jibe to heart..

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=50849345&postcount=1031

:rolleyes:

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I wouldn't consider any form of weaponry as an innovatio, as for something to be innovative, that implies that its progressive!

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You lie. That be some sort of witch pen.

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mart_max wrote:

where do i get one?

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