Our Greatest Achievement
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i'd say agriculture... it led to all other great achievements...
the ability to settle in one place and build as opposed to continual roaming around food sources... it let those cities become cultural and technological (for the time) meccas
the ability to settle in one place and build as opposed to continual roaming around food sources... it let those cities become cultural and technological (for the time) meccas
Both are hot.Timedraven 117 said:
As long as there is sexual desire there will be pornography; simple enough.
Yes! The agricultural revolution, basically, taught humans the ideas of ownership and artificial selection. These two concepts have been very important throughout human history... although I'm not sure if you can call them achievements.darthmocha said:
People have this weird mentality of feeling good about others' efforts. Sports teams, console wars, religion... And now, how to be proud because you were born a human being (as if you could ever be born anything else!)
From the top of my head: Scientific method, cooking, alphabet, meditation, fiction, music, the Internet...
EDIT: I can't see how fire can bee "our" achievement, it's like saying surviving the dinosaur extinction has been "our" achievement: fire was discovered by Homo Erectus... Campfires dating 1.5 million years have been found in Africa.
Me. (OH SNAP!)
In all truthfulness, there's so much we've achieved that narrowing such a thing down to a single greatest one would be tough. However, I will say that the discovery of rhythm lead to a plethora of other findings and ideas that eventually lead to more even achievements. So I'd say that!
In all truthfulness, there's so much we've achieved that narrowing such a thing down to a single greatest one would be tough. However, I will say that the discovery of rhythm lead to a plethora of other findings and ideas that eventually lead to more even achievements. So I'd say that!
Flight. I don't mean flight like birds, but the fact that a species that has been land and sea bound for centuries... millennia even! has been able to find a way to soar through the skies, well, awesome.
It's a tie between antibiotics and sanitation standards, they significantly increase life expectancy and are so engrained in some cultures we don't even think about it.
Eh, practically every single species on Earth has figured out how that works. Without reproduction, asexual or otherwise, they wouldn't be here in the first place.kuyo said:
Personally, I think that advances in science, particularly medicine, is our best achievement. The fact that we're able to break down and understand the world around us never ceases to amaze me.
Surviving our own perpetual stupidity. Hey, we're asking for it! We're the only species on this planet with the power of wiping out all life.
The nuke, by virtue of the fact that we have hundreds of them and could destroy the world multiple times over, but have failed to do so.
