What do you think was the best invention?

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CockneyRebel
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27 Aug 2010, 9:25 am

I think that the best invention, was the netbook. I'm on mine right now, and I take it everywhere that I go. Another invention that I think was good, are incontinence products.


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27 Aug 2010, 9:33 am

CockneyRebel wrote:
I think that the best invention, was the netbook. I'm on mine right now, and I take it everywhere that I go. Another invention that I think was good, are incontinence products.


I might have said fire or the wheel or agriculture but what do I know?



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27 Aug 2010, 10:15 am

Electricity, without it, we wouldn't have gotten so far with technology.


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27 Aug 2010, 10:20 am

The French baguette without doubt. :D


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27 Aug 2010, 11:06 am

The mobile phone... makes life much easier.


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27 Aug 2010, 11:15 am

Wombat wrote:
I might have said fire or the wheel or agriculture but what do I know?


Fire was first thing I thought.

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27 Aug 2010, 1:34 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
I think that the best invention, was the netbook. I'm on mine right now, and I take it everywhere that I go. Another invention that I think was good, are incontinence products.


I see your netbook and raise you my iPad :P



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27 Aug 2010, 2:39 pm

Cruise Control.



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27 Aug 2010, 2:44 pm

The internet! So much information ready at our fingertips. :D



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27 Aug 2010, 2:47 pm

Air conditioning.


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27 Aug 2010, 3:20 pm

reading/writing

That is the equivalent to a Time Machine. One can communicate with people who have been dead for thousands of years.



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27 Aug 2010, 3:25 pm

too many to choose from.........but......in the category of worst,all-time, undeniable awful invention: religion.



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27 Aug 2010, 7:28 pm

Hubble Space Telescope, but that's just me!


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27 Aug 2010, 7:45 pm

Erisad wrote:
The internet! So much information ready at our fingertips. :D


I second that. I dont know how I'd live without the internet. :wink:



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27 Aug 2010, 8:01 pm

Firearms.

There will always be people who prey on the weak. Guns enable a 90 pound woman to stop a 250 pound rapist and a ragtag group of starving rebels defeat the most well trained army on earth.

Guns empower the powerless. The French Resistance. The Vietminh. The Lexington Militia. The pregnant mother who can't afford to live in a better neighborhood. The flamboyant homosexual. The immigrant grocer in the ghetto. The taxi driver. The community college student who delivers pizza in Compton.

It doesn't take great strength or a lifetime of training to use a gun effectively. In medieval times the warrior ruled over the peasant. Now we rule ourselves (in theory.)

Guns allow people to change history.



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27 Aug 2010, 8:08 pm

THE - printing press