Greatest discovery in human history?

[wintercoat]

Toilet paper.

I know we would all be fucked without it.

He doesn't know how to use the three seashells! *snicker*

OT: I'm gonna go with fire. Learning to harness fire for cooking and heating increased not only life expectancy but survivability as well. Without fire, humans would have had to stay nomadic to escape the harsh winters of the time, making agriculture a pipe-dream without it as well.

 

[Popadoo]

Computers. And that isn't because I spend 10 hours a day on one, but because they're used for so many MORE discoveries.
Or perhaps the Andromeda galaxy. As soon as we realized it was a COMPLETELY different galaxy, the scale of the universe rocketed (pun seriously intended).

 

[purplecactus]

I think I'm going to have to go with language on a personal level, and agree with agriculture as the greatest discovery as a whole.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Fire, I guess.

Oh, maybe the lever, in that the human body uses them anyway.

 

[lRookiel]

Toilet paper.

I know we would all be fucked without it.

He doesn't know how to use the three seashells! *snicker*

OT: I'm gonna go with fire. Learning to harness fire for cooking and heating increased not only life expectancy but survivability as well. Without fire, humans would have had to stay nomadic to escape the harsh winters of the time, making agriculture a pipe-dream without it as well.

*Googles three seashells*

 

[Casual Shinji]

The Toilet.

It equalizes us all!

 

[Ryan Minns]

The hammer, No tool through out human history has served us better

 

[joonsk]

Tea, Think about it, life without tea.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

The outside world. Each and every time a secluded community discovered that there was more to the world than just them, it is a great discovery. Not always positive...but great.

 

[x EvilErmine x]

Soap, without it most of medical science would not be possible

Captcha: Squeaky clean

OH.MY.GOD!

 

[Rastien]

Going to have to go with electricity, i mean the only form we could first see of it at first was lightening, that and fire that must have been someting truly incredibly to first behold and now we have fire in our pockets.

 

[littlerob]

Obvious answers: fire and the wheel. Almost every technology we use today builds on one or both of those.

After that, the silicon chip. Between those three, that's essentially the entire human technology base covered.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

The wheel hasn't been mentioned yet? Really? Here I thought we were professional smart asses.

The wheel is the greatest Invention in human history after fire and daystar clarion

But I would say books and the written word

Honestly, I don't even think fire is important enough to be mentioned in the same sentence as me.

You have shamed yourself.

 

[CommanderL]

The wheel hasn't been mentioned yet? Really? Here I thought we were professional smart asses.

The wheel is the greatest Invention in human history after fire and daystar clarion

But I would say books and the written word

Honestly, I don't even think fire is important enough to be mentioned in the same sentence as me.

You have shamed yourself.

nooooooooooooooo I have dishonoured my family -stabs self in chest-

 

[Evil Smurf]

you fools. Teh internet is the answer.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

The wheel hasn't been mentioned yet? Really? Here I thought we were professional smart asses.

The wheel is the greatest Invention in human history after fire and daystar clarion

But I would say books and the written word

Honestly, I don't even think fire is important enough to be mentioned in the same sentence as me.

You have shamed yourself.

nooooooooooooooo I have dishonoured my family -stabs self in chest-

That's not how you stab yourself in the chest!

[HEADING=1]Shame![/HEADING]

 

[Ragsnstitches]

The greatest Discovery?

Condoms.

EDIT: Seriously though, I'd say when man learned how to start fires we essentially told the rest of nature to fuck off.

 

[thewanderer41]

If we're talking about inventions, advertisement. Nothing has been so pervasive in human life and mentality as the development and perfection of propaganda/logos/and advertisement (merchandising!).

If we're talking about actual discoveries, the (re)discovery of the American Continents. Nothing has directly led to a history of genocide, enslavement, free-thinking, progressive thought, all sorts of hypocrisy, and economic opportunity that this discovery has allowed.