The worst idea Mankind ever had?

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cuddly_tomato

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Captain Blackout said:
All of you do the planet a favor. Go live in a tree house. I'm building mine as we speak.
Treehouse? I am more partial to mountainside cabins personally. Especially when hewn half into the rock.
 

KaZZaP

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Abedeus said:
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Face it, religion has hurt humanity more than it has helped.
If not for religion and our Pope, Poland would still be a post-communistic hell without democracy and with a lot of terrorism coming from our "leaders".
Wow Poland was helped, well that makes up for the millions killed in things like the Holocaust or the 100 year war.

*edit* sorry I meant to copy this into my other post
 

tuldorselven

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worst think man ever made intelligence think about it the animals aren't unhappy because they don't think to much, all human intelligence does is find new ways to destroy everyone else
 

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KaZZaP said:
Abedeus said:
Melancholy_Ocelot said:
Face it, religion has hurt humanity more than it has helped.
If not for religion and our Pope, Poland would still be a post-communistic hell without democracy and with a lot of terrorism coming from our "leaders".
Wow Poland's government was changed, well that makes up for the millions killed in things like the Holocaust or the 100 year war.

*edit* sorry I meant to copy this into my other post
I don't think the Jews were killed because of their religion. Or that Hitler killed because of his religion.

He was just a nut. The worst nut in the history of mankind.


Also, Pope changed more than just our government. He made peace with the Prothestant leader and opened a dialog with Dalai Lama. None of the previous Popes did it.
 

KaZZaP

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Abedeus said:
KaZZaP said:
Abedeus said:
Melancholy_Ocelot said:
Face it, religion has hurt humanity more than it has helped.
If not for religion and our Pope, Poland would still be a post-communistic hell without democracy and with a lot of terrorism coming from our "leaders".
Wow Poland's government was changed, well that makes up for the millions killed in things like the Holocaust or the 100 year war.

*edit* sorry I meant to copy this into my other post
I don't think the Jews were killed because of their religion. Or that Hitler killed because of his religion.

He was just a nut. The worst nut in the history of mankind.


Also, Pope changed more than just our government. He made peace with the Prothestant leader and opened a dialog with Dalai Lama. None of the previous Popes did it.
Ya and I'm sure all those crazy Muslim extremists don't want to kill us becasue of our religion but it sure makes a good excuse.
 

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tuldorselven said:
worst think man ever made intelligence think about it the animals aren't unhappy because they don't think to much, all human intelligence does is find new ways to destroy everyone else
Pretty sure your more comfortable then the majority of animals on the planet who are are constantly trying to find something to eat, being eaten or desperately trying to reproduce before there short life runs out.
 

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Hmm, I think it's a tie between launching nuclear weapons at our own god damned planet, and Clamato juice.
Toughie...
 

seidlet

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another vote for religion. as they say, good people will always do good things, and wicked people will always do wicked things, but it takes religion to make good people do wicked things.
 

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george144 said:
tuldorselven said:
worst think man ever made intelligence think about it the animals aren't unhappy because they don't think to much, all human intelligence does is find new ways to destroy everyone else
Pretty sure your more comfortable then the majority of animals on the planet who are are constantly trying to find something to eat, being eaten or desperately trying to reproduce before there short life runs out.
The reason animals are content with their lives is because they don't have the level of intelligence we do. We are comfortable with our lives ( i know how wrong that sounds) and animals are with theirs because we each live as we are able too. Read the flying spaghetti monster thread for life theories.
Now, the stupidest thing we invented is without a doubt, the t.v remote. I'm a couch potato. I hate getting up in order to change the channel. But around roughly a month ago I lost the remote to my t.v. So i had to pick my lazy ass up and change the channel manualy. ugh, sounds hard right? Well, it's not. Somehow after i got up i didn't want to sit back down and sick into my pit of apathetic indolence that I too frequently inhabit. With out the remote I become less lazy, had to stick to one channel if i am being lazy ( now its on the discovery channel 24/7, I can't quickly switch when a stupid show comes on to another.So i left it on a channel thats supposed to be smart.) So without the remote, I reason we would'nt have the obeisety problem we do here in north america.
 

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TheMatt said:
Hello ppl's,

So I'm watching discovery last night and it's some space program about all the neato shit you can find beyond our solar system. Ok, cool. They start talking about the satellite we sent out like 20 years ago called "Voyageur" 1? maybe 2? not sure. you probably have heard of it even if you do not know the name. We put greeting messages in it in over 50 languages, we put our physiology, and something else...

That something else is what I have a problem with. We put the instructions on how to find earth in there. So now, whenever anyone finds the stupid thing, hopefully they are friendly or we are frickin toast.

Think. In EVERY sci-film, video game, whatever, the location of the homeworld is always the most closely guarded secret, and we have just sent the flipping thing out there for anyone to pick up.

I think it's the most colossally stupid thing we, as a race, have ever done.

Thoughts?
recently scientist have found that radio signals dissipate and become useless space noise after two light years which is nowhere close to our closest neighboring star so any alien that would hear something would have to be pretty close anyways.

I think the worst idea mankind has ever had is yet to be invented, the technology that nuclear bombs are based off of is a good idea for energy and by all rights is pretty sweet. The real problem is the fact that anything that could be used for weaponry will be used which isn't the technologies fault as much as it is mans
 

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RetiarySword said:
Adam Jenson said:
Nuclear Power and The Bomb
nuclear power is a good thing. It probly fuels your house right now, and its a clean energy source. Weaponising it is bad.
Nope, gas powered. Nuclear is clean like a sewerage works, once a reactor is at the end of it's life all you can do is encase it in glass/concrete and leave it for a few hundred millenia. The same applies to the fuel.

In 4000 years time our generation's contribution to history will be Pyramid sized concrete blocks that give people cancer, there'll probably be a religion based around them or something. With entire schools of thought based around why they were placed where they were placed and what horrors lurk within to nescessitate irradiating the entire complex.


Anyway.

The dumbest idea Humans ever had was the self loading gun. Suddenly industrial scale murder was within the grasp of humanity, good one Mr Gatling.
Although serious props go to Comrades Sudaev, Bulkin and Kalashnikov for putting it in the hands of every man on the planet.
 

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scape said:
eating that fucking apple...
did we need to eat the apple?
come one, ladies, do you have to eat EVERYTHING?! we know you were hungry and there was a snake talking to you, stick with that story, we've bought it this long

haha, but no really:
the hair that you spray onto your head. the people who invented that must have been psychotic
 

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everyone seems to be on the assumption it's gonna take alien's a long time to see our satellite, not really so, lets say these aliens know how to bend space and time,

500,000years from now an alien spacecraft intercepts voyager, when they travel to earth they find it obliterated, polluted, or swallowed up by a black-hole created by CERN.

they jump back to say 2012, vist earth and obliterate us with some super-weapon, the universe is a crazy place that our physics models can't work with properly, there's no reason to assume it's gonna be millions of years before we see any aliens.

the worst idea mankind ever had was to think, that we're invincible, were more likely than not about to be obliterated in the next few millennium's
 

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The reason why the homeworld is such a closely guarded secret is because the aliens are always hostile because if they wern't, there would not be any drama.

Granted if life does exist on other planets, one day they make it into space and actually find this thing, then yeah, there is the posibility of them wanting to destroy us for whatever reason.

But think about it. why? Why would an alien species who has done the seemingly impossible and actually found another planet which has life such as ours immidiatly decide to destroy the thing?
 

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Invent the weapon I really think that we should not have hit each other with clubs when we were cavemen...
 

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seidlet said:
another vote for religion. as they say, good people will always do good things, and wicked people will always do wicked things, but it takes religion to make good people do wicked things.
Noone ( except the Dalai Lama maybe ) can not do only good things. So that means everyone is wicked anyways.

Religion hasn't only done bad, wars would've been held anyways. Religion was simply used as an excuse. Also, pretty much noone except the church-folk could write in the middle-ages and before, so they were the ones to record those precious works of literature.
(PS.I'm not religious)

As for the real worst idea mankind's ever had...hmm...maybe Fear Factor with the eating of the bull penises, or other unmentionables of other animals. That's even got nothing to do with fear. It's mostly disgust.
 

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ColdStorage said:
Sane Man said:
So many choices for this topic, but I suppose communism and what it has done embodies the worst things that have happened to humans and the fact it keeps on appealing to people despite its disastrous history.
Elaborate.
Don't bother elaborating. You have no idea what communism is.

True communism has nothing to do with what Stalin did. Read some Carl Marx.

Ever heard of the "Marxist rebels" in any of a hundred civil wars? Yah, that's him.