Which single person has contributed most to the human race?

Cunny-Funt · 20-08-2008 05:41PM

Tesla?

Marcus.Aurelius · 20-08-2008 05:41PM

Wait wait I've got it.

DeVore!

slipss · 20-08-2008 05:42PM

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 · 20-08-2008 05:46PM

I change my answer to Gene Simmons. He invented everything

smellslikeshoes · 20-08-2008 05:48PM

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 · 20-08-2008 05:49PM

David Hasselhoff or

Pamela Anderson.

end off

gcgirl · 20-08-2008 05:51PM

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 · 20-08-2008 05:52PM

Nikola Tesla

Engineering Win...

KnifeWRENCH · 20-08-2008 05:55PM

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 · 20-08-2008 05:59PM

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

stevecrow74 · 20-08-2008 06:08PM

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

Jaunte · 20-08-2008 06:09PM

John Logie Baird.

Long-term results are pending.

javaboy · 20-08-2008 06:13PM

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 · 20-08-2008 06:24PM

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 · 20-08-2008 06:54PM

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 · 20-08-2008 06:58PM

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 · 20-08-2008 06:59PM

Issac Newton.

elmolesto · 20-08-2008 07:01PM

Stalin

WindSock · 20-08-2008 07:05PM

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 · 20-08-2008 08:01PM

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.

Gordon · 20-08-2008 08:10PM

Genghis Khan +1

He is thought to be responsible for (at present) 16 million descendants covering 0.5% of the worlds male population.

Havermeyer · 20-08-2008 08:21PM

Batman.

Mr WibbleWobble · 20-08-2008 08:26PM

Antony Luptas

gamblitis · 20-08-2008 08:28PM

Me.

Pompey Magnus · 20-08-2008 08:30PM

If was the person who most greatly influenced the world we have today then I would probably go for Abraham. He is the father of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. If he didn't invent his little tales about an invisible man who talked to him, a result of which was the concept of monotheism, then we wouldn't have had the troubles associated with these three great faiths.

People would have continued worshipping their own local dieties and being relatively tolerant of neighbouring religions instead of the situation we have today of billions of people being absolutely certain that their faith, and their faith alone, is the correct faith and everyone else is the enemy of their God.

raah! · 20-08-2008 08:33PM

Yeah, mainstream religions are the cause of all evil in the world.

I can't wait for the next thread so I can bring this up again and again and again and again and again...

Pompey Magnus · 20-08-2008 08:40PM

raah! wrote: »

Yeah, mainstream religions are the cause of all evil in the world.

To be fair mainstream religions aren't the cause of ALL evil the world, some of the less mainstream ones are pretty bad as well.

ROCKMAN · 20-08-2008 08:46PM

ADAM and EVE and their Clan
without all their be-gotting
where would we be.

moe_sizlak · 20-08-2008 08:46PM

perhaps the guy who invented penicilin , whats his face

Phototoxin · 20-08-2008 08:49PM

no one invented penicilin - it was discovered.

I say the oxford english dictionary , they have the word 'most' in their dictionary so I guess that's contributing most to the human race !

Which single person has contributed most to the human race?

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