Which single person has contributed most to the human race?

IvaBigWun

Alexander Flemming?

Newton?

Florence Nightingale?

Einstein?

Marie Curie?

Watson & Crick?




Im going to go with Jimmy Saville.

He fixed it for everyone.



Replies with "yore ma" "yore da" "your sister" and variations thereof = Fail

cobweb

the guy who invented the wheel

Morlar

cobweb wrote: »

the guy who invented the wheel

He found out how to use fire too - v handy he was.

Ruu_Old

Bob the Builder or Wally (from Where's Wally? books)

biko

Socrates

Creature

Rob Schneider.

HalloweenJack

God (if he exists)

Mena

Charles Darwin, for allowing reason and enlightenment to come to the fore and slowly begin the banishment of the dark ages (some still cling to).

Marcus.Aurelius

Aside from a particular demigod (No, not Asok!),

1 Albert Einstein for his contributions to Science
2 Adolf Hitler for teaching the world how cruel humanity can be to each other
3 Watson and Crick for their double helix model

AARRRGH

Al Gore. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be able to post this.

Ass

AARRRGH wrote: »

Al Gore. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be able to post this.

Is he your father?

m83

Michael O'Leary.

The_Minister

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Florence Nightingale?

Seriously?
I'm sure she was nice, but contributed most? Come on.

m83

Ass Face wrote: »

Is he your father?

Al Gore invented the interwebs.

slipss

Give it around 50 years and I reckon Ernest McCulloch and James Till will be right at the top in alot of peoples estimations.

Winters

Charles Darwin would be well up there on my list.

m83

Bill Gates?

Jimbo

Jesus

HalloweenJack

Hitler.

shenanigans1982

jimbo78 wrote: »

Jesus

The Brazillian footballer?

Katie French....such a shame she was cut down in her prime.

Morlar

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Quayle.jpg

BroomBurner

Can I cheat a little and say the Pope? Not just the current one, but every Pope there was (bar the nice ones that mysteriously died before being able to change anything). Any good work they may have been able to do is completely abolished by all the crap contributions they have made to the world.

ancientdog

tomas eddison( he invented the light bulb) good man.

Standard Toaster

Homor J Simpson

admiralofthefleet

eh..yore ma?

d0gb0y

Archimedes gets my vote as he was a true genius & his findings have been around for a very long time therefore they have had a much greater effect than any of the modern suggestions already mentioned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes

I have to say its kinda sad that he wasn't mentioned so far as without him or possibly someone with the same genius/inclination we would not have advanced to the level that we are currently at. If there was one person we could resurrect you can be sure that most modern scientists would go for him or maybe DaVinci, I personally would go for Bill Hicks so he could take the piss out of Bush Jnr(the resurrection idea could be a good thread in iteslf pity about the religious crap it implies)

smellslikeshoes

ancientdog wrote: »

tomas eddison( he invented the light bulb) good man.

I'd agree with this, Edison invented a crazy amount of important things. I don't think Hitler contributed much to the Human race but did have an enormous effect on it.

Mr. CooL ICE

AARRRGH wrote: »

Al Gore. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be able to post this.

Me too. I'd be dead if he hadn't raised manbearpig awareness

Silenceisbliss

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

eh..yore ma?

this is true...thanks for the nice compliment

tony 2 tone

ancientdog wrote: »

tomas eddison( he invented the light bulb) good man.

No he didn't

Tigger

dr john snow (its a donnie darko answer)

Cunny-Funt

Tesla?

Marcus.Aurelius

Wait wait I've got it.

DeVore!

slipss

smellslikeshoes wrote: »

I'd agree with this, Edison invented a crazy amount of important things.

Didn't he rip off half of the stuff he got credit for?

Mr. CooL ICE

I change my answer to Gene Simmons. He invented everything

smellslikeshoes

slipss wrote: »

Didn't he rip off half of the stuff he got credit for?

No not really, some questions about some of them but he invented a lot of important things.

gsxr1

David Hasselhoff or

Pamela Anderson.


end off

gcgirl

Jimmy Choo

No but seriously in Ireland Ben Dunne(for his night of drugs and a hooker would open all these payments to politicians can of worms)

Wazdakka

Nikola Tesla

Engineering Win...

KnifeWRENCH

We've had Newton, Tesla and Einstein....but no Galileo?
Shame on you science nerds

Oh and I'm sure I will contribute something pretty damn amazing - I just have to think of something first.

WindSock

Gengis Khan had 1000 wives so he was bound to be a large contributor.

stevecrow74

Alexander Graham Bell... telephone, without him there would be no internet or any other long range communication

Jaunte

John Logie Baird.

Long-term results are pending.

javaboy

WindSock wrote: »

Gengis Khan had 1000 wives so he was bound to be a large contributor.

If spreading yore seed is the main criteria, there's probably some greasy kid in American paying his way through college by regularly donating sperm to the local jizz bank. He is probably a much bigger contributor than Genghis Khan.

dlofnep

Tesla was a genius. I don't think one single person gets the cut. Alot of people. Those who cured diseases that were killing millions of people. People like Tesla for harnassing the wonders of electricity.. Stuff like that. Architects who designed modern buildings with insulation.. Er.. I dunno.

Dinosaurs were pretty cool too.

ejmaztec

Adam, because he was the first one to find out that the other snake (the one-eyed one) in the Garden of Eden served a dual purpose, though God knows how he found out.

Wibbs

Fire inventing guy(s). Huge change. Without it we would not have gotten even close to this far. It opened up a whole new world of diet and protection for us.

The first farmers. On the back of them civilisation and all it means came on the back of that.

The captain who steered the ship containing plague to Europe, probably had more of an effect on the course of science religion, social dynamics and politics than any of the guys of the renaissance. DaVincis biggest direct effect would have been his invention of canal lock gates. 90% of his other stuff never made it off the drawing board. Impressive yes? effectual not so much.

Newcomen and his steam engine. It started a huge shift in technology and social change.

Gutenberg would be another one. His invention of movable type printing(in europe) changed the face of history with the freer dissemination of ideas.

Darwins up there too

But of all the fire guy was the charm so he gets my top vote.

Flamed Diving

Issac Newton.

elmolesto

Stalin

WindSock

Wibbs wrote: »

But of all the fire guy was the charm so he gets my top vote.

Pff. everyone knows that fire was founded by Women so men would quit bitchin about the cold food

slipss

stevecrow74 wrote: »

Alexander Graham Bell... telephone, without him there would be no internet or any other long range communication

Ooooh strike two for the inventor guys. Antonio Meucci invented the telephone, Bell just pulled an Edison on him and ripped off the idea.

Didn't Einstein say something along the lines of "the key to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources". Smart bloke. Btw didn't he just copy and paste a big bunch of other peoples papers together to come up with that electromagnetism stuff he tried to pass off as his own? Bet that caveman that "discovered" fire really just smashed the guy that originally invented it over the head with a wheel he stole off some other bloke earlier in the day.

*sigh* everyone is a thief and a liar except me.