The Greatest Human Invention?

[trekkiedane]

All communication technologies that followed are basically extensions of the telegraph.

And in particular: SMS is the perfection of the telegraph

The Fing-Longer, or course. What do you mean, no one's invented it yet? Oh well, a man can always dream...

 

[Nowhere Man]

The Guitar.

 

[FordSVT]

Penicillin

Nubians were making a tetracycline laced beer thousands of years earlier.

Again, another point for beer. What can't it do?

Make you drive better.

MY FORZA3 LAP TIMES DISAGREE, GOOD SIR!

Mind altering substances.

Plenty of animals ingest things to get fucked up, and I'm sure our pre-human ancestors did the same thing, so I don't think you can count "getting high" as a human invention.

 

[Robert D. Robot]

If the wheel is the most important invention, then the second most important invention would have to be the brake!

 

[marillion]

Redheads!

 

[scotpens]

Mind altering substances.

Plenty of animals ingest things to get fucked up, and I'm sure our pre-human ancestors did the same thing, so I don't think you can count "getting high" as a human invention.

Cannabis has been known and used for its perception-altering properties for at least 6,000 years. So it deserves some respect if only on the basis of seniority.

If the wheel is the most important invention, then the second most important invention would have to be the brake!

Once the wheel was invented, I'm sure the invention of the brake followed pretty quickly. Stopping a runaway wagon would be rather hard on the feet.

 

[RoJoHen]

If the wheel is the most important invention, then the second most important invention would have to be the brake!

Once the wheel was invented, I'm sure the invention of the brake followed pretty quickly. Stopping a runaway wagon would be rather hard on the feet.

The Flintstones managed just fine.