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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SFRT - Frenchy on June 12, 2003, 02:54:43 PM
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Hey, I was cruising on the highway going to a job, lookign at the white stripes fly one by one by one at a high rate ... then I though:"Boy! am I lucky not to have to walk, only 30 miles, but it would take me for ever. Not even talking about hauling all the equipment in the back".
Then ... because I was really borred ... I kept thinking:" What am I the most used to, and would not live without? "
My car?
Electricity in my house?
Phone?
Turning a valve and have drinkable water not having to walk 3 miles to a whel?
Be able to froze my food?
To have a credit card instead of a bag of cash?
To be able to see the world as it unfolds from home?
It's hard to tell as most inventions interact with each other, maybe a modern comodity more than an invention...
I don't know. I would say my car, I always had the need for "What's over there?" and sure my car feeds my curiosity.
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don't know what I couldn't do without. but 2 of my most favorite fairly recent inventions are-
those grooves on the shoulder of the road that wake you when you start to leave the road.
and the postage stamps you don't have to lick
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Originally posted by capt. apathy
those grooves on the shoulder of the road that wake you when you start to leave the road.
What? You are telling me that hitting a tree at 80 mph doesn't wake you up?
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the Internet, so nerds like us can have a social life :)
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Electricity.
I've been without it for a few days at a time after hurricanes/storms. Makes you appreciate it greatly.
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Cats eyes on the road, great invention :)
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Electricity (followed up by the related light bulb, radio, and TV).
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Dr. Pepper
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The combination of fire and dead cows.
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CONDOMS
37yrs old.. NO kids
you KNOW the condom was invented by a dude:D
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Originally posted by funkedup
The combination of fire and dead cows.
ohhhh thats good :D
i would have to say pr0n though :D
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The noodle Pump...thank you Sweeden.
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The joystick!
Nuff said!
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transistor.
the thought of running this computer on huge nasty vacuum tubes is scary.
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SFRT - Frenchy: ...then I though:"Boy! am I lucky not to have to walk, only 30 miles, but it would take me for ever.
Don't you think the fact that you have to work 30 miles drive from where you live may have resulted from the availability of cars and highways in the first place?
miko
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toilet paper :)
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Originally posted by miko2d
SFRT - Frenchy: ...then I though:"Boy! am I lucky not to have to walk, only 30 miles, but it would take me for ever.
Don't you think the fact that you have to work 30 miles drive from where you live may have resulted from the availability of cars and highways in the first place?
miko
I remember my grand father telling me that he had to leave at 6am to be for lunch at his uncle's house on the other side of the hill. Or my grand mother, explaining her daily task, one being to carry 2 buckets of waters from the town whel being a couple of miles away.
As far as I'm concerned, I love to visit, travel. The car is saving me a lot of time, thus I can "see more". It's like the communications, I'm not looking foward to the good old time of the mail having to ride the mule from El Paso to Boston, then embark on a bucket to England... Now I can click and insult Swoop within a second.
From my car braking down, my electricity cut, my water cut, my cell phone cut, in an order of importance I would say:
Car
Water
Electricity
Cell phone
Then again, in USA it's not like in Europe, you "need" a car.
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1) the airplane
2) television
3) noodle reduction surgery
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The corn dog. You take pork by-products and extrude it into a wiener shape. Coat it with batter and fry it in fat. Then put it on a stick.
Sheer genius.
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Cement.
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Bacon
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Cars could be replaced by bicycles. Added benefit would be less pollution and less fat people.
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The most important inventions:
1. printing press
2. optics for reading print
Les
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washing machine, water heaters
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antibiotics.
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actually..
the most influential invention was the flint cutting tool fashioned by early man.. it allowed not only the cutting of meat but skins could be made into clothing. man was able to withstand harsher temps and the nutrition from the meats boosted man's overall health and productivity. the early flint cutting tool led to all other inventions.
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Number one BEER
Number two ASPIRIN
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The wheel.
Without it, there is no such thing as machinery of any kind, bar electronic.....as far as that goes, I doubt that any electricity gets produced without a wheel being a crucial part of the process.
note that by 'wheel', I mean any circular, rotating object with a central axis...ie cogs and gears, not just tyres and rims on cars.
Well...OK, they probably are two differant things, so I'll just say both of 'em...the wheel, and the gear/ cog.
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Originally posted by Bluedog
The wheel.
Without it, there is no such thing as machinery of any kind, bar electronic.....as far as that goes, I doubt that any electricity gets produced without a wheel being a crucial part of the process.
note that by 'wheel', I mean any circular, rotating object with a central axis...ie cogs and gears, not just tyres and rims on cars.
Well...OK, they probably are two differant things, so I'll just say both of 'em...the wheel, and the gear/ cog.
I remember seeing on TV or reading somewhere, the wheel was first used as decoration...the same way we hang pictures on the walls of our houses, or wear jewelry. Ancient civilizations knew about the wheel, but didn't utilize it until years later. It was mostly a symbol, though I don't know what it meant.
The first practical wheels were probably logs to transport large blocks of quarried stone, possibly used by the Egyptians to transport the building blocks of the pyramids during certain legs of the trip. Some scholars claim the Egyptians knew nothing about the mathematical properties of the circle, though they used a wheel to measure the bases accurately. Another account holds the ancient Cretes or Greeks applied wagon wheel knowledge to moving carts along roads with ruts purposely made for the carts to follow a specific route, like our railroad tracks.
But one thing is for sure. The wheel was recognized for what it was, many years before it was used for modern technological purposes. It was a matter of making tools to make a wheel, that posed the challenge.
:D
Les
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sppeling corecttor
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Women.
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Originally posted by Naso
Women.
Naso Wiins, hands down!
:D :D :D
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drive thru Chick-Fil-A's... mmm, for years we just had chick-fil-a's in the mall. now we've got an out of mall one near my house. yum yum! :)
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showers
without them I wouldn't be dating any atheletes ! :)
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The Still
(http://www.beer.org/~tpark/still.gif)
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You're under arrest RPM371. Come with me to jail.:D
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microwave oven
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Alphabet.
Unlike other crap, the concept of a phonetic alphabet was only invented once in the course of human history - by the semitic ancestors of jews and palestinians.
miko
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The scientific method... Ionians
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Ten digit numeric system which replaced Roman Numerals.
Viola, we can add!
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My Bed!
I'll bike to work, i'll light a candle, i'll bath in cold water, i'll read a book. Just don't take my bed away. I spent good money on a good mattress. Best investment I ever made. Soooooooo comfortable. Can't get a good nights sleep w/o it.
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Originally posted by GrimCO
Ten digit numeric system which replaced Roman Numerals.
Viola, we can add!
Invented by the arabs.
And we taught the ragheads were useless, primitive people. ;)
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Originally posted by Naso
Invented by the arabs.
And we taught the ragheads were useless, primitive people. ;)
They also invented Hammurabi's Code. :)
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Originally posted by Naso
Invented by the arabs.
And we taught the ragheads were useless, primitive people. ;)
The real important concept by the Arabs was the "zero" (not A6M5, tho)
And, by that time, arabs were probably the most tolerant and open-thinking society of that time. That explain a lot about then and now... ;)
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Camera
Porn
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Originally posted by miko2d
Alphabet.
Unlike other crap, the concept of a phonetic alphabet was only invented once in the course of human history - by the semitic ancestors of jews and palestinians.
miko
The Chinese prove you can get by just fine without a phonetic alphabet. :p
Opposable thumbs would get my vote.
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Originally posted by Pepe
The real important concept by the Arabs was the "zero" (not A6M5, tho)
And, by that time, arabs were probably the most tolerant and open-thinking society of that time. That explain a lot about then and now... ;)
Zero was first used in India.
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VELCRO!
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I bet is that Dowding says "Anal-Eze"
:D
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Originally posted by ra
Zero was first used in India.
yep, just read something about it. An Indian invented and the Arabs quickly adopted it.