Greatest invention of all time.

INDEEDY!!!!!!

 

My husband says sliced bread (he's a lazy fuck ). Me? I think the wheel - not just transport but grain crushers, baby carriages, water wheels, spinning etc etc etc.

 

I totally agree!

 

On that note, falafel

 

I did not know that they ate pizza in Germany in 1869.

Now I know why Brunhild was so fat and needed a 'Gray' to carry over the mountains and into Valhalla.

 

This came up in a thread once before.. It is one of the things that most worries me about the idea of society collapsing. Other people may stockpile canned foods.. I want to own all my favourite music on multiple formats and own solar/wind energy equipment and back up equipment for it.. All to safeguard my ability to listen to music.

 

Writing.

 

Cuneiform?
I have interesting complex theory about it.

 

Eye Glasses

 

Lazer eye surgery

 

Warp speed

 

transit seating.
the chair, mounted on something that moves under its own power,
the latter hopefully, under the control/supervision, of some one/thing,
aware of its surroundings and exercising responsible judgement.

also the tree,

and the anything box.

without walls and roofs and cupboards, we wouldn' t be able to pretend we were a different kind of thing then other creatures.

illustration. graphs and glyphs. on rock or bamboo, or any and every other way we could.

however we furst started conveying more complex ideas to each other then what we could with simple grunts and gestures.

 

I thought this was duct tape. So I'm gonna say duct tape..

 

You could be right and yes, duct tape was a great invention

 

Blue painters tape

 

Greatest invention of all time......and you pick "The Chair"

Sometimes I wonder if you intentional try make your posts as boring as possible


I would make the argument that you can sit on a rock or a rockface like a chair, so no one actually invented the chair

My pick for the best invention ever would be the sandwich, and no some poncy 18th century british git did not "invent" wrapping bread around food

 

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Too bad you dont have a town named Donut

 

electricity, for the electric chair.

 

love, and imagination. of course humans can't take credit for either.

but not having as much love of imagination, is the only reason other creatures aren't, in the sense of all our making fancy artifacts, aren't us.

we didn't "invent" fire, or even electricity. we figured out how things work, by applying logic, and massively peer reviewing each other's doing so.
the electric motor though, and the way to make integrated circuits, that started with the transistor.

probably the drill bit is a good nominee. although early beads may have been spet by bead spitters, but drill bits allow making holes in sticks,
to tie them more securely together to make shelters.

maybe the tying of knots, when our population started getting too large to find enough caves.
there's nothing wrong with caves. a lot of good about them actually.
there just aren't enough of them conveniently located.

earliest invention of course was the stone ax made by direct percussion,
that's a fancy way of saying beating two rocks together until they break in such a way as to form at least one sharp edge to cut with.

well we wouldn't be able to cut anything if we'd never come up with the idea of making something to cut with.
this led to being able to cut sticks, branches and small trees to useful sizes to make shelter and other things with.