Mankind's Greatest Accomplishment

[Blackhol]

[quote="Pandalisk" post="18.126223.2649465"

and plastic, it is the reason we are, why we are here, plastic[/quote]
ha george Carlin quote, he was a funny guy.

 

[bluedragon117]

survival

 

[Darth Pope]

All your arguments are useless in the face of the greatness of cheese. Cheese in all it's cheesy goodness is the apex of human thought and achievement.

Seriously though, I think spoken language is our greatest achievement. Without it the world we live in would not be possible.

 

[El Poncho]

Speech, we wouldn't be hear if we lacked the communication we have .

 

[6PrinceofDarkness6]

George Carlin.

 

[rickthetrick]

Math..... or twinkies

 

[zoozilla]

Language.

I was going to say movies, but this tops them all.

 

[Yokai]

Electronics. Due to computers, humanity has advanced so far within the last century we're now at places we hardly even dreamed of 150 years ago.
The most terrible achievement? Easy. The atom bomb and Wal*Mart.

 

[rickthetrick]

Ketchup

ohhh I change my choice to Ketchup too.

 

[A random person]

Language.

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If it wasn't for language, we wouldn't be anywhere near as advanced as we are now.

1) Is that really an accomplishment? Or a (bi?)product of evolution?
2) "If it wasn't for _______, we wouldn't be anywhere near as advanced as we are now."
The problem with this is that you can fill in many things here: opposible thumbs, eyes, agriculture, tools, etc
3) Unless you include the language of the universe (mathematics) I dont think I really can agree.

1. Maybe it's a byproduct to an extent, but it was developed to communicate beyond what a supposed primal language could.
2. True, there are many other things you could fill in that blank, but if we didn't have language we wouldn't have developed civilization, culture, or any of the other many things that set us apart from typical animals (yes, we're animals, but we have developed some differences). Language (then again, agriculture is pretty important) is what I'd consider to be our greatest accomplishment to put in that blank.
3. Don't really have a problem with that one, but humanity did develop its own languages and used them, and you couldn't count the language of the universe as humans wouldn't have invented it, only discovered it and assigned names to numbers.

 

[DesTrine]

Woman.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

Electricity and plastic, we would not be the society we are today without those.

 

[dannyboi1236]

me

 

[shadowelancer]

We have accomplished nothing until we succesfully rick-roll Rick Astley himself.

 

[gamer416]

moon landing on account of today

 

[amazinglettera]

Air conditioning my friends, or AC for short. Shway!

 

[Aur0ra145]

Attack aircraft on the modern battlfield.

Just think of all the things that had to be invented, revised and made totally awesome for a F/A-18 to take a load of napalm aloft and drop it on some baddie threating our guys with a sharpened mango peel.

So to name a few...

Flight
Combustion Engine
Recipricating Engine
Jet Engine
Language
Universities
Aerodynamic Engineering
Computers
Software Engineering
Explosives Development
Physics
Communications Network
Satellites
Chemistry
Petroleum Development
Oil Refineries
Rubber
Plastics
CPU
Wing Loading Theories
FAC's
Rifles
ATC
Cinabar Mining
Pitot/Static Systems
Gyros
VOR/DME
ADF
TACAN
ILS
Freaking Aircraft Carriers
etc, etc, etc.

 

[ZonerZ]

fleshlight.

if cavemen had one of those fire never would have gotten discovered.