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11-12-2006, 06:41 PM
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What do you think is the greatest invention...
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My choice...Indoor plumbing...very definitely!  |
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11-12-2006, 08:52 PM
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The wheel. What would civilization be without it?
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11-13-2006, 12:58 AM
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Fire (we didn't invent it but we learned how to use it).
Runners up are simple and complex tool making, electricity, the light bulb and the internal combustion engine.
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11-13-2006, 03:21 AM
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Fire (we didn't invent it but we learned how to use it).
Runners up are simple and complex tool making, electricity, the light bulb and the internal combustion engine.
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Electricity and fire, I can understand. Tool making I can understand. The internal combustion engine, I can understand.
But a joke for "I have an idea" in many cartoons I do not understand.
Light is way overrated.
Come to the darkside. I have a cookie.
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11-13-2006, 10:26 PM
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The computer, because I never would have met all of you. I know, I am a sap. 
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11-14-2006, 09:06 AM
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The computer, because I never would have met all of you. I know, I am a sap. |
THAT's just beautiful!!!  We feel the same way about you! |
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11-14-2006, 10:06 AM
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For the hard question: would it be possible to build a computer without the use of any wheel (or anything that is necessarily derived from the wheel)?
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11-14-2006, 12:23 PM
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For the hard question: would it be possible to build a computer without the use of any wheel (or anything that is necessarily derived from the wheel)?
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No, because you need fans for cooling, hard disks for storage, floppies for removable storage and hundreds of circular screw holes. Hell, even the battery is round. |
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11-14-2006, 12:30 PM
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You are now describing the computer as we know it. Could it be possible to build a computer (albeit totally different from current designs), that does not depend on the discovery of the wheel??
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11-14-2006, 12:34 PM
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I think anythings possible but I can't see how we could come up with cooling and fastening without a round shape. I think storage could have been accomplished with removable microchips of some sort but that would be the only thing I can see actually working without a circular shape.
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11-14-2006, 12:40 PM
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Re: What do you think is the greatest invention...
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Originally Posted by Luba
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My choice...Indoor plumbing...very definitely! |
Luba, you did not ever any explanation...
Why is plumbing so great. Just move to climates that are actually meant to be habitable .
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11-14-2006, 01:55 PM
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Re: What do you think is the greatest invention...
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Originally Posted by Luba
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My choice...Indoor plumbing...very definitely! |
Luba, you did not ever any explanation...
Why is plumbing so great. Just move to climates that are actually meant to be habitable . |
She didn't have indoor plumbing when she was little and I don't think anyone knew that lime cut down on the grossness factor back in the day.
I even remember having to use that outhouse at the top of the path that lead down to the river. Pretty funny that this thread would bring back that memory. |
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