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The Greatest Inventions of All Time

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  • 12-11-2014 4:06pm
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    Zombienosh
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    What in your opinion would be the greatest invention(s) of all time?

    For me I'd say:

    Peanut Butter
    Toast
    WD-40
    Duct Tape
    Cable Ties


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    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Sliced bread, get away with your toast.

    Oh and velcro, gotta love that sweet sounding velcro.


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    Zombienosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    Sliced bread, get away with your toast.

    Oh and velcro, gotta love that sweet sounding velcro.

    Bread was nothing until we set fire to it!


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    #4
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Mobile Phones
    The Internet
    Air Planes
    Bubble Wrap


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    #5
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Zombienosh wrote: »
    Bread was nothing until we set fire to it!

    How dare you insult the humble deity of the sandwich. Speaking of wich... burn this witch! Burn it with fire!


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    Don Kedick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 778 ✭✭✭Don Kedick


    Women.


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    #7
    handlemaster
    Registered Users Posts: 6,003 ✭✭✭handlemaster


    Printing press
    Wheel
    Contraception
    Insuline


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    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    the machine that takes the seeds out of jam.

    Seedless jam is the best.


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    #9
    iDave
    Registered Users Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Mini skirts


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    BizzyC
    Registered Users Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭BizzyC


    Penicilin
    Semiconducors
    Printing Press
    Electricity
    Paper


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    #11
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Sandwiches.


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    #12
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Plastic


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    allibastor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭allibastor


    Leggings!!!!


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    #14
    Barely There
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    Agriculture.

    Probably the single biggest factor in our evolutionary history.

    Second biggest was probably that Talking Tom Cat thingy that says the thing you say to it, back to you in a funny voice.
    Man, that **** is hilarious.


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    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,457 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    The wheel


    Without it we wouldn't be where we are today








    We'd be walking still:D


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    #16
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Electricity and computers have probably had the biggest impact on human civilization.


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    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,457 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Zombienosh wrote: »
    What in your opinion would be the greatest invention(s) of all time?

    For me I'd say:

    Peanut Butter
    Toast
    WD-40
    Duct Tape
    Cable Ties

    That sounds like a rape kit.


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    #18
    longshanks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Global warming.









    0o


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    #19
    Barely There
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Electricity and computers have probably had the biggest impact on human civilization.


    Not even close.

    Agriculture, Writing, the Wheel, The Printing Press, Penicillin - off the top of my head were far more important.


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    megadodge
    Registered Users Posts: 5,317 ✭✭✭megadodge


    ScumLord wrote: »
    The harnessing of Electricity and computers have probably had the biggest impact on human civilization.

    Fixed that for you.


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    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    longshanks wrote: »
    Global warming.









    0o
    Global warming could have a silver lining (for humans) in that it's keeping temperatures high in populated areas, I'm sure I've read somewhere that we probably should be in the beginnings of another ice age if it wasn't for humans pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.


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    #22
    Tokyo
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    Beer. Most definitely beer.


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    #23
    Barely There
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    ScumLord wrote: »
    I'm sure I've read somewhere


    That's good enough for me.


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    #24
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,682 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    The on/off switch.


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    #25
    DuMorph
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭DuMorph


    Anonymous browsing.


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    #26
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Roundhouse kicks


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    #27
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,161 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    sarcasm


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    #28
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Barely There wrote: »
    Not even close.

    Agriculture, Writing, the Wheel, The Printing Press, Penicillin - off the top of my head were far more important.
    Agriculture was haphazard and prone to catastrophic failure in the past, electricity and computers have allowed us to take farming to another level entirely. Before the mechanising of farming agriculture was having problems keeping up with demand.

    Writing and the printing press was also highly labour intensive which restricted books and the written word to a fairly small percentage of the population, while the printing press was an improvement it couldn't put books in that many peoples hands. The computer has given more information to more people than the printing press ever could. It has really leveled the playing field.

    You try living without electricity and see how civilised you feel, it's a completely different lifestyle. Computers have probably done more for people than anybody can realise, everything about the modern world is dependant on them, they've changed humanity (as a whole) in ways no other invention ever could.


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    #29
    MonkeyTennis
    Registered Users Posts: 3,098 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    Wham bars


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    #30
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    The alphabet.

    Writing was invented independently in only 4 places on the planet - yet it shaped our future far more than anything else we have come up with so far.


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    #31
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    Raw toast


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