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  • #31
    Agriculture, animal husbandry, metalworking, writing, counting/'rithmetic, the scientific method, the printing press, currency, the steam engine, the transistor, the radio, Maxwell's laws, antibiotics, calculus of infinitesimals

    There are probably a couple I'm leaving out, but the ones above would make it onto any reasonable list.
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    • #32
      Hah. of the 8 whose point of origin is fairly clearly fixed, 5 come from the British Isles, 1 comes from Italy, 1 from Germany and 1 from the US...interesting
      12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
      Stadtluft Macht Frei
      Killing it is the new killing it
      Ultima Ratio Regum

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      • #33
        The wheel. Dummies.

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        • #34
          Language. Without it, we would just be rather bright monkeys.

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          • #35
            television.
            nothing changed the society more than television.
            people spend their lives watching television, and if it's not on tv, it's not true. (and even more scary, if it is on tv, it is true)
            Formerly known as "CyberShy"
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            • #36
              Yes, but if we didn't have language, we wouldn't have television or anything else, for that matter.

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              • #37
                GOD
                Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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                • #38
                  GOD
                  Yes, that was a really significant invention.

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                  • #39
                    Warp drive. Otherwise the Vulcans wouldn't have stopped by and the Klingons would now rule Earth.

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by GeneralTacticus


                      Yes, that was a really significant invention.
                      It certainly was
                      Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by jimmytrick
                        The wheel. Dummies.
                        The wheel is very important but in the New World none of the civilizations had the wheel. Not even a potters wheel.

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                        • #42
                          Limited liability companies
                          Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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                          • #43
                            Computer games.
                            "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by Frogger
                              1 comes from Italy,
                              Are you refering to radio?

                              Marconi (who mainly worked in England), and some German guy (Braun?) won the Nobel prize jointly. And we all know which semi-american the US Supreme court accredited as the inventor of the radio.
                              One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                              • #45
                                Yes, but if we didn't have language, we wouldn't have television or anything else, for that matter.


                                why not?
                                I've seen much tv shows without any language.
                                And I doubt that most of the language used on tv is that intelectual
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