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Posted: 12/3/2007 8:54:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/3/2007 8:54:46 PM EDT
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Windows operating system
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Posted: 12/3/2007 8:56:35 PM EDT
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I CAN FINALLY ATONE!!!!!!!!!!!   ETA Ikea. Because Windows may not be around forever but people will alway buy cheap furniture. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 8:58:43 PM EDT
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Microsoft Windows operating systems.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:00:40 PM EDT
[#5]
Blackpowder.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:00:55 PM EDT
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The integrated circuit.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:02:51 PM EDT
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Something mundane that has millions and millions made, like the paperclip or something.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:02:59 PM EDT
[#8]
the AR-15. I would then be god among mere mortals
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:03:05 PM EDT
[#9]
All patents involving the MP-5.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:04:04 PM EDT
[#10]
coca cola.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:04:45 PM EDT
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I'm not sure the concept of "patent" had been invented, yet. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:04:53 PM EDT
[#12]
toilet paper.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:06:49 PM EDT
[#13]
The wheel
The inclined plane Levers Electricty Magnetism Light Time Nuclear energy Gravity Quantum physics Black holes Personal computers Buggy whips A better mouse trap |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:07:52 PM EDT
[#14]
AMEN Or any of the fighter jets....or commercial airliners. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:08:51 PM EDT
[#15]
the internet
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:10:00 PM EDT
[#16]
Oil...
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:20:48 PM EDT
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sybian..
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:21:41 PM EDT
[#18]
DOS
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:26:55 PM EDT
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Where would you get the working prototypes to submit? IIRC, you do have to have a working prototype. Windows would be great, but I think getting the technical drawings of aircraft and the aircraft themselves would be a daunting task, if not impossible. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:28:41 PM EDT
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That's a good one. Somebody say cellphone so Al Gore doesn't get that one either it. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:28:42 PM EDT
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The rick roll, think of the money i would have.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:29:51 PM EDT
[#22]
Penicillin (even though I'm allergic to it)
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:30:17 PM EDT
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google
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:31:38 PM EDT
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The cotton gin
ETA: Eli Whitney was a stud...he singlehandedly created the machine that turned the South into an economic giant... Then he created the technology that won the war for the North... |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:32:32 PM EDT
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Same here...but I learned while in London that the man who invented it is not buried in Westminster Abbey but the man who made it famous is.  The inventor got hosed. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:33:53 PM EDT
[#26]
The time machine
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:33:58 PM EDT
[#27]
Velcro .
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:37:34 PM EDT
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Just think if we went back in time en masse and ruled the world like we do today with cavemen around.
Oh I'm sorry I mean cavepeople. Cavemen is sexist. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:38:22 PM EDT
[#29]
Playboy
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:40:20 PM EDT
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Women.
I don't know if I'd be loved or hated though.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:41:00 PM EDT
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The Maxum machinegun. Followed by the Thompson sub-machinegun and anything designed by John M Browning.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:43:32 PM EDT
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+1 |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:44:29 PM EDT
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plastic its used in EVERYTHING err almost
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:47:13 PM EDT
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Why don't you invent/patent the condom that doesn't FEEL like you're wearing a condom...then you'll have something! (you'll also cause a rapid decline in world population!) |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:47:31 PM EDT
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Fire
I can't believe nobody has mentioned that yet. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:56:21 PM EDT
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transistor, it is hard to think of any one product that is as important or used as often today
-Mike |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:58:39 PM EDT
[#38]
gasoline
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:59:58 PM EDT
[#39]
Flux Capacitor
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Posted: 12/3/2007 10:00:55 PM EDT
[#40]
Paper
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Posted: 12/3/2007 10:10:07 PM EDT
[#41]
The oil pump/well system
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Posted: 12/3/2007 10:43:24 PM EDT
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Ide rather just go back enough to buy their stock when it came out. and a few others.. |
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Posted: 12/4/2007 5:15:26 AM EDT
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Post-It note pads.
Stuff that simple and making whoever invented it so damn rich really makes me feel stupid. 
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Posted: 12/4/2007 5:16:57 AM EDT
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So the wheel is probably out too then? |
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