The Greatest Invention

[JamesM]

Same difference.
The process to turn it from tree fungus into usable medicine is the invention.

indeed.

You ever remember that series sliders with jerry o'connell?

there is an episode where they transported to a world in where they never invented penicillin. Everyone was dying of like something lame until the professor saved the day and showed everyone that mold from food = good.

 

[JamesM]

then it was happy time.

 

[MOD ONE]

I love this thing I don't think it's the greatest invention, but I have cooked a lot with it.

 

[erika]

ok, I will just leave it at beer. that is gotta be the greatest. the wheel was only created to move beer around.

so we could say fermentation and distillation

 

[JamesM]

yep. sounds good to me.

 

[JamesM]

next then is those beer cooler gloves. But I never really use them.

like the ones you put your can in while your on the beach.

 

[workdowntown]

LOL Sliders, haven't seen that in years. I do remember that one though!

 

[Jeffsus]

Maybe unanimously amongst recent engineering grads, but in most circles the invention considered most imporatnt in the last 1000 years I believe it is the printing press.

The wheel if we wanna go way back.

Both valid suggestions. The difference between the transistor and the printing press or wheel is that, sadly, most people don't even know what a transistor does. Or how much their life depends on them, or how they augment the importance of both the wheel and the printing press.

The transistor is considered the most important invention because it has had the most, and will continue to have greater, impact on the human and global condition than any other invention.

60 million transistors were built for every human last year. Consider what you are doing right now.

-jM
A&D

 

[ian]

The 'puter?

 

[kirstenmeows]

Right now I would have to go with ibuprofen (and other pain killers). My stupid back is very grateful.

 

[SJN]

yoga pants

 

[BAd Luck]

The greatest invention of all time is almost unanimously considered the transistor, or sometimes more specifically the solid state transistor.

-jM
A&D

Well done sir. You continue to impress me with your intellegence. despite a russian background.

molds have been pretty awesome

Yes girl! Those who have figured out that mould spours and fungi hold all
of humankinds cures to disease, plague, and flu. All hail the rainforest!

^
though I would like to know who first separated an egg and beat up the whites into a fluff, leading us to all kinds of delectable mousses and souffles

The French. and you know it!

 

[I_bRAD]

^
microwave - pfft - I don't even own one, have no clue why I would bother

It's the most efficient way to take up half your counter space while being marginally useful! duh.

My vote is for the bicycle. Also duh.

 

[KodiaK]

printing press.

EOT

probably was already said, but i havent read the entire thread yet.

 

[defazman]

printing press.

EOT

probably was already said, but i havent read the entire thread yet.

but you could convince a bunch of monks to reprint books, or even pay poor immigrant children to do it, but you couldn't train a drunk monkey to do what a transistor does (whatever it does).

 

[Flashy_McFlash]

but you could convince a bunch of monks to reprint books, or even pay poor immigrant children to do it, but you couldn't train a drunk monkey to do what a transistor does (whatever it does).

You stole this, word for word, from Encarta 98 didn't you?

 

[el presidente Highsteppa]

The slanket is getting mad props from me.

 

[Dirty Girl]

Why do you think it's called "on the rag"?

well yeah obviously dude, thanks for the newsflash!

ever shoved a bunch of bloody rags in your gitch and walked around...no didnt think so ...you are a boy, you have no say in this, be gone!

 

[SneakyPete]

You stole this, word for word, from Encarta 98 didn't you?

lol I remember Encarta used to be huuuuuuuuge

 

[solacevip]

The Fleshlight

 

[Aphrodite]

Yes girl! Those who have figured out that mould spours and fungi hold all
of humankinds cures to disease, plague, and flu. All hail the rainforest!

lol.. but really... MOLDS!

 

[Aphrodite]

The Fleshlight

made with a mold

 

[ndrwrld]

 

[Sporty Dan]

The greatest invention of all time is almost unanimously considered the transistor, or sometimes more specifically the solid state transistor.

-jM
A&D

Sir.......I say Sir!!
*****slap*****
I challenge you to a duel, sir.

The greatest invention of all time is clearly the Carnot Heat Engine..... despite having the the disadvantage of not actually existing.

seriously....how would all those tortoises holding us up listen to their mp3 players if not for thermodynamics. They would also get too distracted by the sight of their coffee cups reassembling themselves.


dan.

 

[Sporty Dan]

Also, Calculus is second, transistors are third.
yayity yay yay!



induck,

dan.