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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:08:04 PM EDT
What do you think it is?
My vote goes for the internet. It will, and already has changed the way people receive information, and will most definately aid to enhance the education to many future generations. That and it really boosted my porno collection. Either way I'd like to thank Al Gore!  But seriously. What do you think? Lightbulb? Cars for the masses? Please explain. |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:09:17 PM EDT
[#1]
Antibiotics.
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:09:45 PM EDT
[#2]
The Internet
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:16:05 PM EDT
[#3]
Internet porn.
 Seriously, semiconductors. CW |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:16:43 PM EDT
[#4]
M1 Garand?
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:16:59 PM EDT
[#5]
+1 |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:18:04 PM EDT
[#6]
Mass production of Automobiles.
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:18:08 PM EDT
[#7]
a firearm within four posts... i was waiting for that 
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:18:47 PM EDT
[#8]
More specifically, the transistor. eta: or penicillin. |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:19:40 PM EDT
[#9]
Not exactly invented, but brought to mass production and it's modern use: The personal automobile.
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:21:21 PM EDT
[#10]
toilet paper
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:26:02 PM EDT
[#11]
Most important technical/scientific/theoretical physics achievement (along with monumental effort to put it into practice)--the Atomic Bomb/Atomic Energy
Most pervasive and most profound impact for ecomonic development--the mass produced automobile Communications--Television Powered Flight is in there somewhere--incredible effects on travel, economics, and perhaps the most effect on warfare Machine Gun--radically changed warfare and the contemplation of warfare regarding mass casualties I wonder if the 21st century will see so much technical discovery and achievement as the last. |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:27:31 PM EDT
[#12]
+1 for Antibiotics - I am just coming off an infection in my blood that happened to settle in a very bad place...I am on Cipro and I can now snort Anthrax w/o fear. |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:28:22 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:28:23 PM EDT
[#14]
Air Conditioning
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:29:44 PM EDT
[#15]
Pole Dancers
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:31:12 PM EDT
[#16]
Shaven Pussy!!
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:31:48 PM EDT
[#17]
Waste water treatment -- without that, there are no modern cities.
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:33:25 PM EDT
[#18]
well this thread is heading south, so for some intellectual stimulation I'd like to share what in my opinion is THE most important invention ever:
Writing. Followed closely by the Printing press. Keep it going though, good responses so far.. |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:33:52 PM EDT
[#19]
 Another great mind. |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:35:46 PM EDT
[#20]
the assembly line
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:37:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:37:49 PM EDT
[#22]
20th? Tough question. My guess is refrigeration.
As far as the most "important" invention by man. I vote for the plow. Followed by the wheel. Then the bikini
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:44:36 PM EDT
[#23]
20th century - Not an item but... modern farming methods.
Ever - Fire |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:45:02 PM EDT
[#24]
+1 transisters.
maybe more specifically computers. |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:48:17 PM EDT
[#25]
I think fire was more of a discovery, wouldn't you say? but yes if it was an invention, it'd definately take the cake! |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:51:16 PM EDT
[#26]
Exactly... |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 3:53:58 PM EDT
[#27]
1911
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Posted: 10/8/2004 4:02:59 PM EDT
[#28]
There I fixed it for you. |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 4:17:31 PM EDT
[#29]
greatest invention ever?
beer greatest invention of the 20th century? twentieth century beer, and the refrigeration to keep it nice and cold |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 4:23:02 PM EDT
[#30]
Either penacillin or the pill. Both changed population growth dramatically. The second one had an extreme sociological impact.
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Posted: 10/8/2004 4:29:25 PM EDT
[#31]
The mass produced flush toilet.
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Posted: 10/8/2004 4:29:53 PM EDT
[#32]
Air Conditioning.
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Posted: 10/8/2004 4:35:53 PM EDT
[#33]
PLASTIC
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Posted: 10/8/2004 4:37:44 PM EDT
[#34]
Duct tape!!!
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Posted: 10/8/2004 4:39:08 PM EDT
[#35]
electricity
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Posted: 10/8/2004 4:39:16 PM EDT
[#36]
Boxer briefs...and Astroglide.
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Posted: 10/8/2004 4:40:03 PM EDT
[#37]
The pill has had little effect outside the Western World. |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 4:40:46 PM EDT
[#38]
lesbian porn
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Posted: 10/8/2004 4:40:58 PM EDT
[#39]
The pill must be THE most important drug humanity has ever cranked out....after all, it's known as THE pill! 
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Posted: 10/8/2004 4:42:17 PM EDT
[#40]
Discovery, not an invention. Its discovery also dates to prior the 20th century. |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 4:45:17 PM EDT
[#41]
Breast implants. Just think of the added beauty to the whole world.
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Posted: 10/8/2004 4:57:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/8/2004 5:40:56 PM EDT
[#43]
M1911.
j/k... I'd say transistor |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 5:42:12 PM EDT
[#44]
The transistor
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Posted: 10/8/2004 5:43:03 PM EDT
[#45]
Oh, and we did not 'invent' antibodics - we found them.
Saying the invention of antibiotics is just as apt as saying the invention of gravity or the invention of blood. Now, if you broaden the category to ‘discovery’, then fine – but to claim we invented them is BS. |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 5:45:25 PM EDT
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MICROWAVE OVEN!!
I would starve.... |
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Posted: 10/8/2004 5:46:21 PM EDT
[#47]
Semi-conductors, from which the transistors, integrated circuits, internet can not exist.
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Posted: 10/8/2004 5:46:22 PM EDT
[#48]
TV dinners. After THEM...........................?
It's a whole new world skippy.
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Posted: 10/8/2004 5:48:25 PM EDT
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I wrote an essay on this for the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) Test in 10th grade. I couldnt decide on an item to write about and wasted all my time. With 15 minutes remaining for the essay portion, I made up some bullshit about the EXIT sign above the door.
I said stuff like how the soft green glow had a calming affect during emergencies... blah blah blah. I got damn near a perfect score.
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Posted: 10/8/2004 5:51:16 PM EDT
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Nuclear Weapons
I'm using "greatest" in a different context here. Not in a cure for cancer sort of way but more like the biggest jaw dropper sort of way. |
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