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  • #16
    Time..as in 24hrs.the humble watch/clock. Without time nothing moves

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    • #17
      Originally posted by dave lukins View Post
      Time..as in 24hrs.the humble watch/clock. Without time nothing moves
      Already existed, the 24 hour thing, it's called a day ;)
      In the realm of spirit, seek clarity; in the material world, seek utility.

      Leibniz

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Parihaka View Post
        Parihaka raises his hand

        Ha! Wing or flipper more like, judging from your avatar. Which do you think came first, language or the abilty to create fire?
        Semper in excretum. Solum profunda variat.

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        • #19
          No. I am not going to leave it there, Harry Parka! Language is not an invention, as it had no designer or inventor. It is something that evolved over time.
          Semper in excretum. Solum profunda variat.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Parihaka View Post
            Nobody tell Bluesman about this thread, he'll try to tell us it's four-engined heavy bombers

            Hence proving your point that language is the 'greatest invention'. With mere words you caused me to fall to the floor in spasms of laughter.

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            • #21
              I'd go with either language, mathematics (though it can be a language, it is important for the "arithmetic" part more), or the alphabet.

              Essentially, there probably has always been some kind of language. Even most dumb animals have a language of some sort. So it is debateable to whether or not man created it. But let's say he did and also did any other of the above which might be interpreted to exist in the animal world, such bee movements for navigation which might be seen both as an alphabet and mathematics.

              The thing about the alphabet is that one doesn't need to know all the different symbols for all the different examples, unlike pictographs or grunts and gestures.

              And mathematics? Those societies that had some form probably advanced better than those societies that didn't.
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              • #22
                The finger!!!! How else could you scratch your balls, pick your ass or scoop your nose?

                Mathematics, it trancends language. It is the universal language. It is everything.
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                • #23
                  Language is not really an invention it is simply the evolution of basic special communication.

                  I am goign to put forward the simple plow in all its various evolutions form simple breaking stick of the neolithic to the modern mechanized versions.

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                  • #24
                    pottasium nitrate 15 parts charcoal 3 parts and sulpher 2 parts and other simliar low explosives.

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                    • #25
                      Mathematics is, in a way, a language.

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                      • #26
                        Part of the question that must be asked is if some great invention would exist if something invented before it didn't exist?

                        Would everything afterwards exist, be "discovered", if man hadn't invented the knowledge to steal the kill out of the tree of the panther (bad news for the cat)?

                        Hence, man's greatest invention? Observation and evaluation.
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                        • #27
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                          Hence, man's greatest invention? Observation and evaluation.

                          No. Observation was not a man-made invention. Animals at every level in the food chain observe, or become prey. Evaluation is employed by all sentient creatures, not just man. The 2 points are the results of evolution.
                          Semper in excretum. Solum profunda variat.

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                          • #28
                            how come nobody mentioned a wheel?
                            isn't it a great invention?
                            "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" B. Franklin

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                            • #29
                              It's a good invention, but not completely necessary for societies to flourish. Just look at the Native Americans.
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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by leibstandarte10 View Post
                                It's a good invention, but not completely necessary for societies to flourish. Just look at the Native Americans.
                                Did they not have the wheel? One of the little tricks that shows up in forensic anthropology (looking at the bones) is that Native Americans tended to have worn enamel from the grinding tools of thier food. Ie, leaving coarse rock in their food. Now, I always took that to mean a grinding wheel, not going to look it up tonight, but I suppose it could have been some other tool. Nevertheless, the trick is there.
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