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BuckyB93 Offline
#1 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 6:31 PM EST
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Ok, off the top of my head...

The wheel, no debate, is #1
The plow (agriculture)
Gun powder
Printing press
Steam engine and internal combustion engine.
Radar
Transistor/semiconductors

I'm missing about a million of them. Many innovations can be added which brings me to the point of this meaningless post...

Cast iron pans. They have to be somewhere on the list. I love a good well seasoned cast iron pan. It's my go to for cooking.

(ball bearings, zippers, and Velcro also fall in there somewhere but you can't cook with ball bearings, zippers, or Velco)
Gene363 Offline
#2 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 7:01 PM EST
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Steel
deadeyedick Offline
#3 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 8:07 PM EST
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Beer
delta1 Offline
#4 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 8:08 PM EST
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69
Jakethesnake86 Offline
#5 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 9:29 PM EST
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Boat was a pretty good idea
BuckyB93 Offline
#6 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 10:14 PM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
Steel


Agreed
BuckyB93 Offline
#7 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 10:19 PM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
Beer


Alcohol doesn't fit for a human invention, mother nature made it. Someone along the way had some spoiled fruit in a jug and yeast fermented it. Boom... we got booze.
BuckyB93 Offline
#8 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 10:19 PM EST
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Jakethesnake86 wrote:
Boat was a pretty good idea


Agreed
BuckyB93 Offline
#9 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 10:20 PM EST
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NINE!
BuckyB93 Offline
#10 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 10:23 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
69


Not a human invention. I'm all for it... but I would say it's not a human invention.

I made the post so I can make the rules.
BuckyB93 Offline
#11 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 10:30 PM EST
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No votes for tie rod guards?

On a serious note: lenses. Used to read the words in a book and pass on knowledge, it allows us to see the outer limits of space, the microscopic world we live in and all else in between

On a less than serious note, Doritos.
KingoftheCove Offline
#12 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 10:57 PM EST
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Almost 30 years ago, I asked my wife’s grand parents a similar question.
“What was the greatest invention for you”.
(Keep in mind they were both born before 1905.)

Grandma took all of 2 seconds to answer…………….washer and dryer!
Grandpa thought about for a couple minutes, then said……………..television!

And grandpa did love his TV. He was one of the first to have one back in the day, and then one of the first to have one of those HUGE satellite dishes in his back yard.
My father-in-law had to pour an 8x8 slab of concrete in their backyard just to mount that monster in the ground!
I miss them both…..
8trackdisco Offline
#13 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 11:01 PM EST
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Toilets.
Patio furniture.
HVAC systems.
Sammiches.
Stogie1020 Offline
#14 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 11:09 PM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Toilets.
Patio furniture.
HVAC systems.
Sammiches.

It's like I am looking in a mirror.
BuckyB93 Offline
#15 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 11:12 PM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Toilets.
Patio furniture.
HVAC systems.
Sammiches.


Acceptable... as long as they are not one in the same
KingoftheCove Offline
#16 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 11:18 PM EST
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The 1911
The revolver
The lever rifle
The M1 Garand
Etc.
BuckyB93 Offline
#17 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 11:29 PM EST
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KingoftheCove wrote:
Almost 30 years ago, I asked my wife’s grand parents a similar question.
“What was the greatest invention for you”.
(Keep in mind they were both born before 1905.)

Grandma took all of 2 seconds to answer…………….washer and dryer!
Grandpa thought about for a couple minutes, then said……………..television!

And grandpa did love his TV. He was one of the first to have one back in the day, and then one of the first to have one of those HUGE satellite dishes in his back yard.
My father-in-law had to pour an 8x8 slab of concrete in their backyard just to mount that monster in the ground!
I miss them both…..


TV, radio, and internet have had HUGE impacts on human evolution.

It was a big deal when we graduated from a 13" B&W to a 19" color TV. Big investment back then. Now days, you can buy flipping 50" high def flat screen (low end but way better resolution that the old CRTs) and mount it on the wall for the price of a dinner and a movie night out with the family.

AND you don't have to get up off the couch to change the channels (98.2% of them suck anyway)
frankj1 Offline
#18 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 11:33 PM EST
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slide in Sketchers
BuckyB93 Offline
#19 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 11:34 PM EST
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KingoftheCove wrote:
The 1911
The revolver
The lever rifle
The M1 Garand
Etc.


Good picks. Firearms have a solid place in human evolution. Some may say bad, some may say good.

(I'd love to own an M1)
BuckyB93 Offline
#20 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 11:41 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
slide in Sketchers


For footwear I'd say steel toe boots, slip on shoes and wrestling shoes. Neither of them make or break society but are in my rotation of daily footwear.

Flip flops, especially those that have that thing between the big toe and the other toes... could go extinct for all I care... along with ticks and mosquitoes
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#21 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 11:41 PM EST
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Thong bikinis. Preferably on wimmens, in spite of FGM's notoriety
KingoftheCove Offline
#22 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 11:45 PM EST
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BuckyB93 wrote:
Good picks. Firearms have a solid place in human evolution. Some may say bad, some may say good.

(I'd love to own an M1)

Me too…………and I kick myself weekly for not buying one in the 70s….
Cant afford one now
d'oh!
BuckyB93 Offline
#23 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 11:50 PM EST
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
Thong bikinis. Preferably on wimmens, in spite of FGM's notoriety


But if there's no wimmens around then FGM in a thong a backup plan?
Sunoverbeach Offline
#24 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 11:53 PM EST
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Gut answer is no, but no wimmens? Tough call
KingoftheCove Offline
#25 Posted: Fri, Mar 10 2023, 11:55 PM EST
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BuckyB93 wrote:
But if there's no wimmens around then FGM in a thong is a good “backup man”….

Gross!





Wheel
BuckyB93 Offline
#26 Posted: Sat, Mar 11 2023, 12:15 AM EST
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Back to the crux of the post. One might say electricity or nuclear energy or antibiotics or fire... But these are not a human inventions, they are a discovery from mother nature that we happened to stumble on.

Another example might be flight... nature has been flying for millions of years. It's not a human invention. A human discovery and how to make it happen... yes but not an invention.

I still say the cast iron pan is a solid entry to the discussion. From stove top to oven and even on an open fire...

Bacon is another example. Not a human invention but it's so good I'll be willing to accept it... along with tacos.

I sure could go for some bacon and tacos right about now and use a cast iron pan to make them.

(trying to mental block out the FGM thong thing)
Plowboy221 Offline
#27 Posted: Sat, Mar 11 2023, 10:12 AM EST
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Jeweled Butt Plugs

JadeRose
BuckyB93 Offline
#28 Posted: Sat, Mar 11 2023, 4:54 PM EST
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Speaking as an outsider, I think the jewels might hurt.
BuckyB93 Offline
#29 Posted: Sat, Mar 11 2023, 4:54 PM EST
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Twenty NINE!
Palama Offline
#30 Posted: Sat, Mar 11 2023, 6:09 PM EST
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One of, if not THE BEST human invention - the smartphone. Applause

OTOH, one of, if not THE WORST, human invention - the smartphone. d'oh!
Huzza3045 Offline
#31 Posted: Sat, Mar 11 2023, 8:02 PM EST
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Bourbon
frankj1 Offline
#32 Posted: Sat, Mar 11 2023, 9:53 PM EST
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music
Brewha Offline
#33 Posted: Sun, Mar 12 2023, 12:06 PM EST
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The transistor.

With MOSFET in the lead.
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