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15 Oct 2011, 9:19 pm

have to say the rocket should be on the list.

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16 Oct 2011, 12:43 am

the transistor

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16 Oct 2011, 1:33 am

This was the pinnacle of humankind...

I want one soooooooooooo bad

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16 Oct 2011, 11:08 am

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This was the pinnacle of humankind...

Top heavy and unsafe.

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16 Oct 2011, 12:25 pm

MDM wrote:

I have a hard time saying humans invented fire.

I said discoveries and inventions. Discovering how to manage fire was a big deal.

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16 Oct 2011, 1:35 pm

Ah, excuse my misunderstanding.

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17 Oct 2011, 12:40 am

I think who ever discovered psychology should be on the list :wink:

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17 Oct 2011, 3:45 am

The Turing Machine.

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17 Oct 2011, 3:57 am

Joker wrote:

I think who ever discovered psychology should be on the list :wink:

That was me. And you. And you. And you.

Agriculture doesn't sit well with me. Destroying an entire ecosystem to replace it with a single species of plant or animal is not my idea of a good idea. Farmers are so resistant to change it aggravates me.

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17 Oct 2011, 4:57 am

Burzum wrote:

The Turing Machine.

this is a mathematical abstraction created by Alan Turiing, not an invention. It falls in the category of ideas, rather than devices. Real Turing machines barely exist and then only as a teaching tool for the concept. Turing invented his "machine" as a mathematical abstraction to define computability. The mathematician Alonzo Church proposed that all definitions of a finite algorithm is equivalent to a Turing machine.

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18 Oct 2011, 12:34 am

HalibutSandwich wrote:

Agriculture doesn't sit well with me. Destroying an entire ecosystem to replace it with a single species of plant or animal is not my idea of a good idea. Farmers are so resistant to change it aggravates me.

If you don't like agriculture, you don't like civilization.

Agriculture was the invention (or discovery if you like) that allowed civilizations to form at all, and without it, civilization would immediately collapse. There isn't another way to feed everyone.

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"Barely exist" doesn't seem to really mean anything. Not exist would make sense, if you were using a weird definition of "exists". Exists would make sense for a more ordinary definition of "exists".

Turing machines exist in the same sense that the number two exists. If you say that the number two doesn't exist, that may make sense, yet there are plenty of pairs of things that do exist. Every computing device yet constructed is equivalent to a Turing machine.

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18 Oct 2011, 1:06 am

ruveyn wrote:

Dingo7 wrote:

This was the pinnacle of humankind...

Top heavy and unsafe.

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Hence it's attraction...

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18 Oct 2011, 1:12 am

Light bulb
Chocolate
Cutting tools (saw, axe, etc.)
Written language
Toilet
Hot water heater
The ability to squirt stuff inside food, like Twinkies or Combos.
Dry dog and cat food
Porno (Admit, you've seen it. And you know the polar bears are dying because you touch yourself at night too.)
Star Trek

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18 Oct 2011, 3:29 pm

Ancalagon wrote:

If you don't like agriculture, you don't like civilization.

Got it in one!

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There isn't another way to feed everyone.

Here's an idea - reduce the population.

Seriously though, I'd put domestication above agriculture. Where would farming be without it?

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18 Oct 2011, 4:41 pm

HalibutSandwich wrote:

Here's an idea - reduce the population.

Why?

Also, how? Nuke everybody? Cause incredibly destructive non-nuclear worldwide war? Starvation?

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Seriously though, I'd put domestication above agriculture. Where would farming be without it?

I don't see why. Agriculture without domesticated animals would still be agriculture, just slightly less efficient. Domestication without agriculture still can't feed anyone or enable civilizations to arise.

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18 Oct 2011, 5:47 pm

I don't have a whole top ten, but two that would be on my list for sure would be the internet and the airplane. The airplane allows you to be anywhere in the world in within a day. The internet allows for near instant access to nearly all the information in the world, and communication with people anywhere as well. Together they have reduced the apparent size of the world considerably.

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