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Title: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: LC EFA on January 07, 2009, 05:52:57 AM
This should be interesting...

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mcctatas  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Tue Jan-06-09 03:35 PM
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What is the best thing invented by mankind?
   
*my first copy cat thread :P *

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8387576

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Deep13  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-06-09 03:45 PM
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3. contraceptives
   
LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Tue Jan-06-09 03:46 PM
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5. Oral.
   
What? You know I'm right.
 
motely36 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Tue Jan-06-09 03:48 PM
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6. was that actually invented?
   
I would say vibrators. Not that I would know anything about that O8)
 
LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Tue Jan-06-09 03:53 PM
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12. invented/discovered/perfected
   
Don't know, don't care. It's the best thing people do, for sure.

Good of them to think of something completely selfish as the "best thing ever invented"

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rcrush  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-06-09 03:52 PM
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10. Weed?

Surprise, Surprise.

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mcctatas  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Tue Jan-06-09 04:42 PM
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23. a cruel and jealous god...
   
:evilgrin:

Pretty much all of them come up with something that is a pleasure, not an essential. Something that has never saved lives, or benefited a large number of people in real way.

It's very indicitave of their world view and how they think.
 
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: formerlurker on January 07, 2009, 05:56:58 AM
Jealous god?


Best thing invented by mankind?   velcro.    :-)
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: Tantal on January 07, 2009, 08:54:02 AM
What? No "free market capitalism" response?
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: Splashdown on January 07, 2009, 08:55:13 AM
Beer.

Next question?
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: Zeus on January 07, 2009, 08:59:50 AM
Duct tape
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: Eupher on January 07, 2009, 09:07:37 AM
In all seriousness -- the printing press.
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: USA4ME on January 07, 2009, 09:15:11 AM
Given how they live their lives, the correct answer should be "victimhood."

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Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on January 07, 2009, 09:33:47 AM
Well, it's close, but I'll have to go with fire.  The wheel, inclined plane, and lever are pretty damned good, but fire just has quality of life enhancement going for it that the others can't beat.

 :fuelfire: 
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: BlueStateSaint on January 07, 2009, 09:36:12 AM
Well, it's close, but I'll have to go with fire.  The wheel, inclined plane, and lever action are pretty damned good, but fire just has quality of life enhancement going for it that the others can't beat.

 :fuelfire: 

Edited slightly.  :-)
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: Eupher on January 07, 2009, 10:26:10 AM
Well, it's close, but I'll have to go with fire.  The wheel, inclined plane, and lever are pretty damned good, but fire just has quality of life enhancement going for it that the others can't beat.

 :fuelfire: 

Hmmm. Not sure that man invented fire - certainly discovered it but since it already existed in nature......
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: Chris_ on January 07, 2009, 10:32:23 AM
Right after agreeing with DAT's fire, I'd have to say that it's a toss up between properly aged, single-malt Scotch whiskey and Guinness.

After that it's a close race between the M1911 pistol and the Bowie knife.
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: Red October on January 07, 2009, 11:18:18 AM
Antibiotics.
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: FlaGator on January 07, 2009, 11:46:23 AM
Agriculture.
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: TheSarge on January 07, 2009, 11:51:17 AM
This guy:

(http://everythingronaldreagan.com/RonaldReagan.jpg)
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: Chris_ on January 07, 2009, 11:52:46 AM
Agriculture.

Which was created to better facilitate mankind's access to Guinness and single-malt scotch whiskey.
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: Chris_ on January 07, 2009, 12:05:21 PM
This guy:

(http://everythingronaldreagan.com/RonaldReagan.jpg)
God invented that one.  We were just the beneficiaries.
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: franksolich on January 07, 2009, 12:08:26 PM
You know, in all the books and magazines of anthropology and sociology that I've read, there seems to be a substantial plurality--not a majority, but a significant minority--who believe the amphora was the most useful thing invented by man.

It had to be invented; it wasn't anything that already existed that man finally figured out how to use, such as fire or penicillin.
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: Wineslob on January 07, 2009, 12:09:22 PM
Which was created to better facilitate mankind's access to Guinness and single-malt scotch whiskey.


Hear, hear!   :cheersmate:
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: Thor on January 07, 2009, 12:34:36 PM
This guy:

(http://everythingronaldreagan.com/RonaldReagan.jpg)

While Reagan was a good President, he certainly wasn't the best. I can name a couple of things he allowed that certainly pissed ME off.
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: claret1995 on January 07, 2009, 02:16:26 PM


 It is too bad that my choice is something that VERY FEW had the opportunity to experience

because

young,old,black,white,conservative,liberal  etc...etc...

One forkful on my GRANDMA's apple pie( I am jealous of GOD because she is bakin for him now)
made the entire universe RIGHT and PROPER


GRANDMAS APPLE PIE is my choice,I so miss her and that pie
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: TheSarge on January 07, 2009, 02:17:43 PM
God invented that one.  We were just the beneficiaries.

Good point.  I was thinking more of his mom and dad "inventing" him...but I see your point. :-)
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: Chris on January 10, 2009, 10:51:26 PM
How did I miss this thread?  My vote is steel.

If anyone paid attention in third-grade science, steel is the result of combining raw iron with carbon using heat.  It's awesome stuff.   :cheersmate:
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: ReardenSteel on January 10, 2009, 11:14:20 PM
- The U.S. Constitution

- The electric battery

- Refrigeration

- Philosophy

- The egg chair with built in speakers?

- Steam engine

- Internal combustion engine

- The airplane

- The Jackalope

- Steak au Poivre (http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,20280.45.html)

- Space travel

- Heart Surgery

- The bacon cheeseburger

- The Karma Sutra

- The telephone

- The zipper

- etc etc etc geeze DUmmies are, err... dumb

On edit:

Just imagine what we came up with if we put 4 minutes of thought into it, LOL.
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: Chris_ on January 11, 2009, 12:35:16 AM
I didn't see this one and it is the one that makes all the rest possible.

Language
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: MrsSmith on January 11, 2009, 12:11:06 PM
I didn't see this one and it is the one that makes all the rest possible.

Language
Man didn't invent that, though.  Language was given to us...and when necessary, amended to multiple languages.
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: Chris_ on January 11, 2009, 12:19:04 PM
Man didn't invent that, though.  Language was given to us...and when necessary, amended to multiple languages.

Huh?  I assure you, Mankind invented language.

You know, that scene in 2001 was just fantasy, right?
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: MrsSmith on January 11, 2009, 10:08:04 PM
Huh?  I assure you, Mankind invented language.

You know, that scene in 2001 was just fantasy, right?

So, when God walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden, they spoke together without language?  You know Genesis is not fantasy, right?
Title: Re: What is the best thing invented by mankind?
Post by: crockspot on January 12, 2009, 01:06:08 PM
um... the wheel?