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The greatest ever achievement of mankind?

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  • #62
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,172 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Breakfast roll!


  • #63
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    The Right Click button


  • #64
    Infernal Racket
    Registered Users Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    Berties_Horse wrote: »
    I've run out of tinfoil, have you got a fresh roll?

    The "Apollo 11" documentary is mesmerising.

    Hahahaha, I have absolutely nothing to base my theory on except the ramblings of many nutjobs over the years.


  • #65
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Toilet Roll.


  • #66
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Toilet Roll.

    The toilet roll holder


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  • #67
    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Talking


  • #68
    Sheridan81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Sheridan81


    jaykay74 wrote: »
    Fire or the wheel. Or the wheel of fire.

    Or Wheel Of Fortune with Carol Smillie.
    steamsey wrote: »
    Anesthetic and/or soap

    Coronation Street.


  • #69
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Father Hernandez wrote: »
    And going through the cell a few minutes later, incredible

    giphy.gif

    How do they not get injured ?


  • #70
    InTheShadows
    Closed Accounts Posts: 727 ✭✭✭InTheShadows


    Brexit


  • #71
    InTheShadows
    Closed Accounts Posts: 727 ✭✭✭InTheShadows


    Gerry G wrote: »
    Never happened

    Stop that.


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  • #72
    Franz Von Peppercorn II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    Simi wrote: »
    Agreed, landing on the moon a mere 65 years after the invention of powered flight, with the comparatively primitive technology of the time, is and will likely forever be our great achievement.

    It's simply not comparable to anything else, vaccines, farming etc. were all gradual natural progressions in development. The Apollo program set out a seemingly impossible goal and achieved it by pushing human ingunity to it's limits!

    It would have the greatest thing if space travel had become a thing. It didn’t.


    The best things that humans ever invented are boring but obvious enough.

    Controlling fire.
    Agriculture.
    Writing.
    The printing press.
    Electricity.


  • #73
    RMAOK
    Registered Users Posts: 11,198 ✭✭✭✭RMAOK


    flazio wrote: »
    Talking

    That can be overrated tbh.....


  • #74
    Littlehorny
    Registered Users Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    Writing must be one but for me it's mathematics it gave smart people the tools to understand and work out so much of our planet and the universe around it. I haven't the brain to understand a bit of it but physics and maths blows me away.


  • #75
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,359 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    TheIrishGrover wrote: »
    Vaccines

    The Late Doctor Noel Browne, we have to thank for this in Irish history anyway. :)

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #76
    markjbloggs
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭markjbloggs


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    The Late Doctor Noel Browne, we have to thank for this in Irish history anyway. :)

    What vaccine did he develop? And how successful was it?


  • #77
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    markjbloggs wrote: »
    What vaccine did he develop? And how successful was it?
    He didn't invent anything, but he was the first to kick Bishop Brennan up the arse.

    The administration was flawless, and although there was some initial adverse reaction, public immunity to the Bishops has since proven very successful.


  • #78
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Mars bars & pot.
    Space travel, interplanetary exploration & levitation all possible whilst chewing, chillin...


  • #79
    Littlehorny
    Registered Users Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    The Late Doctor Noel Browne, we have to thank for this in Irish history anyway. :)

    Nah, Doc Browne's greatest achievement was building a time machine from a Delorean :)


  • #80
    Teepinaw
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭Teepinaw


    Curry coleslaw chips


  • #81
    Infernal Racket
    Registered Users Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    Teepinaw wrote: »
    Curry coleslaw chips

    Followed by battered Mars bar


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  • #82
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,359 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    markjbloggs wrote: »
    What vaccine did he develop? And how successful was it?

    He helped eradicate the TB crisis in Ireland when he came into power briefly by starting a mass hospital building programme, so pretty important for the brief time he was a Taoiseach.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #83
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,073 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    AS GAWD IS MA WITNUS HE IS BROKEN IN HALF


  • #84
    nuyil simp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭nuyil simp


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    The Right Click button

    the left handed mouse


  • #85
    Greyfox
    Registered Users Posts: 3,720 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Curry, chocolate and tea


  • #86
    blackbox
    Registered Users Posts: 4,093 ✭✭✭blackbox


    The electric guitar.


  • #87
    CrabRevolution
    Registered Users Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭CrabRevolution


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    He helped eradicate the TB crisis in Ireland when he came into power briefly by starting a mass hospital building programme, so pretty important for the brief time he was a Taoiseach.

    Noël Browne was never Taoiseach.


  • #88
    AMKC
    Registered Users Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    I will say the one no one has said yet. Landing on a Comet there a year or two ago. I was going to the moon which is really the greatest but it has been said so I guess Mars is next only one problem there. We have not landed anyone on Mars yet only robots and Rovers. So that's where all the Rover cars went lol.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #89
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Beaming Love Island to 20,000,000 homes simultaneously.


  • #90
    nuyil simp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭nuyil simp


    we have a planet in our solar system entirely inhabited by machines, how cool is that?


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  • #91
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    Former Observer wrote: »
    Literature, music, art. Everything else is a distraction.

    You've got that the wrong way around.


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