OT: Greatest Invention Ever

That is a tough question. I would have trouble choosing between the Internet and the printing press. I think I lean toward the printing press, but maybe only because enough time hasn't gone by to fully appreciate the impact of the Internet.

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Rick C
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Arabic numerals and/or the number "0" should probably be in the running.

"Ever" is a long time. Are the lever, inclined plane, wheel, and organized agriculture allowed contestants?

If limited to the 20th century, for sheer impact on quality-of-life probably vaccines/vaccination, or antibiotics.

If limited to say the past thousand years I'd say the steam engine.

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bitrex

(the modern, practical implementation of the steam engine, it was technically invented by the Greeks I suppose.)

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bitrex

Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

God's invention of the human eye.

Or the endorphin response center of the brain.

Especialy when gazing on a nice pretty sknatch!

Or gettin' off up in it.

She said... "I'll sock it to ya, Daddy!"

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

Far out, man...

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bitrex

How about the ability to create fire where and when it is required?

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Jeff Layman

bitrex wrote in news:JUFIF.331543$kt1.8284 @fx46.iad:

So, you 'had an organism' there, eh?

(trust me I deliberately mispelled it)

Here... try this one... It is supposed to be a cult classic. Pretty deep though, so be ready to get into your own head.

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

Jeff Layman wrote in news:qsvfes$h2o$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Yeah, that guy who got roasted by the lightning bolt and stayed lit gave that other guy standing nearby an idea!

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

The wheel does it for me.

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Andy Bennet

Anaesthesia.

Cheers

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Clive Arthur

Well, where there's a winner there has to be a loser... :-)

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Jeff Layman

no-one has mentioned mass production. That's pretty big. Oil & gas too. Money's also useful. And tarmac. And...

NT

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tabbypurr

On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Dec 2019 08:54:39 +0000) it happened Andy Bennet wrote in :

making fire was good melting ore to use iron / gold et was goof wheel was good steam engine was good electricity was very good telegraph and later telephone was good and then radio, RF communication, shortly later followed by TV taxes was not so good. nuclear power was super good. moon trip was good

Nothing much after that... ;-) ;-)

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Jan Panteltje

I'll push electricity to the top, without that, so many other great things could not have happened.

Mikek

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amdx

Jan Panteltje wrote in news:qt08fs$smi$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

A jet engine turbine. Fluid dynamics...

Steam turbine... gas turbine. Binary computing. quantum computing.

Particle acelleration.

Hey... I know! Remote viewing. Yeah... that's it.

But you knew I was going to say that, right?

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

Easy...

Spackle (honestly, isn't this one a slam-dunk winner?)

Followed closely by #2 pencils, and bacon.

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mpm

Latex condom

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bitrex

It's not surprising you'd think that, AlwaysWrong - Dumb as a stump and always wrong.

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krw

snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in :

I bought a Raspberry Pi 4 about a month ago. Downloaded Buster software for it for free. Amazing thing is: it has Chromium browser.. web browsing is great, HD HDMI out, use my wireless keyboard and mouse I already had.. Total cost including wallwart and an ebay metal housing with fan < 80 $ I think. Fun as it only uses 10W or so and will run a very long tine on my UPS and / or solar panel if power fails. Power will fail because the flipped out brain washed human made climate change fear believers are trying to do it all with windmills. HD youtube videos play fine full screen on it. Lost of open source software available for it. Yes I have Firefox running on it too. You mentioned Russia, I am still looking for a good usable working RTG for cheap 24/7 power, I did read some landed there.

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Jan Panteltje

The ones that vanished in Russia didn't put much power out. ISTR 70w or so. The heat output would be more useful.

NT

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tabbypurr

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