The Greatest Accomplishment in Human History

[Memento Mori]

What is the greatest accomplishment in human history? I think the discovery of fire. O.o'

Go Fire.

[Aizmov]

The Turing Machine and Turing Thesis.

[OminousCloud]

The development of language and writing.

[harakiri]

The development of language and writing.

Yea I second that.

[PanzerJager]

what achivements?.. we have been going the wrong way the entire time..

[Meiras]

Our evolution towards the benefit of ourselves due to our own greedy nature and all that pertains too it. Including boasting about our achievements over other beings of life and or understanding

[╬Karami Mew~Meow]

Hmm ... I'd say everything, but if you want me to say something specifically, I'd say ... (man, this is hard) ...backbone/spinal repair (how ever it's called ?)

[Tenchi_fan]

I say the discovery of electricity, because without it we wouldn't have many of the things we have today, like computers, phones, refrigerators, and basically anything that uses electricity.

[Aizmov]

I say the discovery of electricity, because without it we would have many of the things we have today, like computers, phones, refrigerators, and basically anything that uses electricity.

there were hydraulic and mechanical computers before the electronic ones

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

there were hydraulic and mechanical computers before the electronic ones

Charles Babbage designed two working mechanical computers (The Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine) in the 1800s but never actually built them. I dunno what you mean by a "hydraulic" computer though. Example?

Edit: Ok found something.
1936 is the year I got. This thing at least doesn't really predate digital computers. Plus it is silly, even if it does make a certain amount of sense.

[Aizmov]

Charles Babbage designed two working mechanical computers (The Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine) in the 1800s but never actually built them. I dunno what you mean by a "hydraulic" computer though. Example?

Edit: Ok found something.
1936 is the year I got. This thing at least doesn't really predate digital computers. Plus it is silly, even if it does make a certain amount of sense.

I remember I read somewhere about someone who made a computer that used water for computation, it was this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jazari

And there was also this computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moniac

[International 4-8818]

The car. Think about it. It has been pretty important.

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

I remember I read somewhere about someone who made a computer that used water for computation, it was this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jazari

I see a lot about hydraulics, but nothing about computation. He created programmable robots, but that isn't the same thing at all.

The car. Think about it. It has been pretty important.

Not really.

[International 4-8818]

Not really.

why not the car? The car made a tremendous jump in faster transportation of textiles and other stuff that created more faster jumps in technology.

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

why not the car? The car made a tremendous jump in faster transportation of textiles and other stuff that created more faster jumps in technology.

Trains were a much bigger deal then cars in that respect.

[International 4-8818]

Hmmmmm touche. But with a train it is limited to places to go. With the car it could take, sure a minuscule amounts, but it could get to places were a train could not get to.

[Wio]

Thank God no idiot has said something like birth control. There always seems to be some witty 12 year old that says it in these sort of topics.

I'm gonna say the English language.

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

They are devices with only limited usefulness, constitute a great waste of resources, and manage to kill a XBOX HUEG number of people each year. They are a mixed blessing, at best.

Thank God no idiot has said something like birth control. There always seems to be some witty 12 year old that says it in these sort of topics.

I'm gonna say the English language.

What the hell does English have that, say, German doesn’t?

[Vasarian]

I would go with farming.... I don't see myself going hunting every morning

[Gjallarhorn]

Sliced bread.

Seriously though...language. We wouldn't really have gotten very far without the ability to communicate.

[Wio]

They are devices with only limited usefulness, constitute a great waste of resources, and manage to kill a XBOX HUEG number of people each year. They are a mixed blessing, at best.

What the hell does English have that, say, German doesn’t?

Use amongst ATCOs.

[SuXrys]

... LOVE! *giggle*


And fire. I say as Memento Mori: Go fire

[Perpetual Specter]

The development of language and writing.

Sliced bread.

Seriously though...language. We wouldn't really have gotten very far without the ability to communicate.

I'm going to have to agree with these statements.Life would be very difficult without some means of comunication.

[-Kitsune-]

I'd have to say either fire, as Memento Mori said or the invention of moveable type (Johannes Gutenburg's invention of the printing press). The invention of the printing press was the thing that sparked the Scientific Revolution in the Renaissence (sp?) and that was where mankind really started to get a grip on mathematics, sciences (Mostly human sciences, like medicine), and astrology. So since the printing press was really the thing that kicked off the scientific revolution by improving the method of moveable type and the spread of ideas to greater masses of people, yeah I'd say it was the printing press ^.^

[Gaarademon]

cars, the wheel, fire, and Cigarettes