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What do you think are the most influential inventions or discoveries of say, the last 150 years? Give me 5.

1. Penecillin
2. The ability to manipulate electricity (AC/DC current)
3. Combustion engines
4. Telephone/telegraph, eg: TV/Radio
5. Pasteurization(sp?)
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1. People eventually die, drugs only delay it...that's the only I would rate it as high it probably should be.
2. Without electric manipulation, we wouldn't be talking this way.
3. Doesn't the internal combustion engine require electric manipulation (spark generation) to run?
4. Not possible without electricity.
5. People drank milk before pastuerization(sp?).

Given that, I'd have to say the harnessing of electricity is the most important.
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Originally posted by: starkiller
1. People eventually die, drugs only delay it...that's the only I would rate it as high it probably should be.
2. Without electric manipulation, we wouldn't be talking this way.
3. Doesn't the internal combustion engine require electric manipulation (spark generation) to run?
4. Not possible without electricity.
5. People drank milk before pastuerization(sp?).

Given that, I'd have to say the harnessing of electricity is the most important.


Agreed that electricity was required for most things in the past, but they didn't get done until someone did the leg work.

Yes, people drank milk but it was a crap shoot in regards to whether you'd get sick or not.

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Originally posted by: starkiller
1. People eventually die, drugs only delay it...that's the only I would rate it as high it probably should be.
2. Without electric manipulation, we wouldn't be talking this way.
3. Doesn't the internal combustion engine require electric manipulation (spark generation) to run?
4. Not possible without electricity.
5. People drank milk before pastuerization(sp?).

Given that, I'd have to say the harnessing of electricity is the most important.


1- Agree.
2- Agree.
3- Not necessarily.
4- One could talk to the telephone without eletricity, but it uses the principles of condutivity to work.
5- People did drink milk thousands of years before it, but it created a way for us to keep milk for a long time without going sour.

I had this joke I'm gonna share with you:
You know what must be the most bizarre moment in the 20th century history? When some lonely horny fat chick with some technical knoledge came up with the first electric powered dildo. "World! Behold my invention! The electric penis!"
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Originally posted by: ricarleite

I had this joke I'm gonna share with you:
You know what must be the most bizarre moment in the 20th century history? When some lonely horny fat chick with some technical knoledge came up with the first electric powered dildo. "World! Behold my invention! The electric penis!"


And here it very well may be: http://www.monicammartin.com/naughtyfactfiles.html
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Originally posted by: ricarleite

I had this joke I'm gonna share with you:
You know what must be the most bizarre moment in the 20th century history? When some lonely horny fat chick with some technical knoledge came up with the first electric powered dildo. "World! Behold my invention! The electric penis!"


And here it very well may be: http://www.monicammartin.com/naughtyfactfiles.html


That's just... horrible..
I'll ignore this historical fact so I can still tell my joke.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Originally posted by: greencapt
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Originally posted by: ricarleite

I had this joke I'm gonna share with you:
You know what must be the most bizarre moment in the 20th century history? When some lonely horny fat chick with some technical knoledge came up with the first electric powered dildo. "World! Behold my invention! The electric penis!"


And here it very well may be: http://www.monicammartin.com/naughtyfactfiles.html


Way too much time on your hand there Greencapt.

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