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Scarecrow17
05/12/21 11:15:27 AM
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Can be anything.

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Doom_Art
05/12/21 11:16:37 AM
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The Voyager spacecraft

Specifically the Golden Record on board

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ApherosyLove
05/12/21 11:18:07 AM
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T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

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PMarth2002
05/12/21 11:20:53 AM
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Leaving aside some of the seedier/shittier parts of it, the internet.

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Robot2600
05/12/21 11:59:15 AM
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The Internet, obviously.

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TyVulpine
05/12/21 12:02:25 PM
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The atomic bomb. For better or for worse, it led to nuclear power and more efficient and stronger power plants (can power more homes than coal could). Even the US navy is mostly powered by nuclear chambers instead of gas.

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ArchNemo
05/12/21 12:03:24 PM
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Language

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Robot2600
05/12/21 12:03:26 PM
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TyVulpine posted...
The atomic bomb. For better or for worse, it led to nuclear power and more efficient and stronger power plants (can power more homes than coal could). Even the US navy is mostly powered by nuclear chambers instead of gas.

Gross. Fuck the atomic bomb, the internet is obviously better.

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Questionmarktarius
05/12/21 12:03:32 PM
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B18Champ
05/12/21 12:03:46 PM
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I think its a tie between atomic bomb and the internet. Nothing in history has changed society more than these two things.
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EmbraceOfDeath
05/12/21 12:04:59 PM
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Robot2600 posted...
The Internet, obviously.
This.

B18Champ posted...
I think its a tie between atomic bomb and the internet. Nothing in history has changed society more than these two things.
Agriculture.

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Robot2600
05/12/21 12:05:35 PM
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B18Champ posted...
I think its a tie between atomic bomb and the internet. Nothing in history has changed society more than these two things.

Vaporizing cities of people is not a "greatest masterpiece."

Seriously wtf is wrong with you people. Might as well go with genocide while we're at it.

And underwater boats?

I'm sorry it's literally just the internet.

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Questionmarktarius
05/12/21 12:05:38 PM
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Of course, the correct answer will always be beer.

Figuring out beer led to figuring out everything else.
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TyVulpine
05/12/21 12:06:31 PM
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Robot2600 posted...
Vaporizing cities of people is not a "greatest masterpiece."

Seriously wtf is wrong with you people. Might as well go with genocide while we're at it.

I said the atomic bomb, I didn't say actually using them. Developing atomic power led to nuclear power.


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ThunderTrain
05/12/21 12:06:33 PM
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Mount Rushmore

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Duncanwii
05/12/21 12:06:57 PM
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Robot2600 posted...
And underwater boats?

Underwater boats were predicted by Jules Verne 100 years before they were invented. The man was a genious.
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s0nicfan
05/12/21 12:08:00 PM
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The international space station. Not only is it an engineering marvel but it's probably the closest humanity has ever been to peaceful cooperation on a global scale.

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Doom_Art
05/12/21 12:08:14 PM
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Robot2600 posted...
Vaporizing cities of people is not a "greatest masterpiece."
Splitting the atom is one of the best things mankind has done since we crawled out of the primordial ooze. Up there with manipulating fire, developing agriculture, and industrialization.

The way we chose to immediately harness it was terrible but the science itself is definitely an incredible achievement in human history

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IloveJesus
05/12/21 12:08:31 PM
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Big Trouble in Little China.

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Questionmarktarius
05/12/21 12:09:18 PM
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Doom_Art posted...
Splitting the atom is one of the best things mankind has done since we crawled out of the primordial ooze.
Combining atoms into bigger atoms is a bit more impressive than splitting them apart, tho.
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Doom_Art
05/12/21 12:09:45 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Combining atoms into bigger atoms is a bit more impressive than splitting them apart, tho.


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Ilishe
05/12/21 12:09:50 PM
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Mathematics

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Sackgurl
05/12/21 12:11:34 PM
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Doom_Art posted...
The way we chose to immediately harness it

to be clear, the reason this was first was because it was not harnessed; it was a completely uncontrolled chain reaction

producing a chain reaction that is stable and continuous for the purpose of generating energy is harder, not easier

Questionmarktarius posted...
Combining atoms into bigger atoms is a bit more impressive than splitting them apart, tho.

the point is more that we developed the ability to generate kinetic energy from a system totally lacking in potential energy, from the perspective of Newtonian physics

that outcome is true for both fission and fusion

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Duncanwii
05/12/21 12:13:01 PM
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Ilishe posted...
Mathematics

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Math wasnt invented it just is, like how fire wasnt invented.
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AldousIsDead
05/12/21 12:13:20 PM
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Plumbing. Everything else is just extra.

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MarthGoomba
05/12/21 12:13:58 PM
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modena
05/12/21 12:14:39 PM
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The Large Hadron Collider

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CRON
05/12/21 12:15:01 PM
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Wikipedia

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Xavier_On_High
05/12/21 12:15:53 PM
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The internet. The sum of all human knowledge and cultural memory, and one day it will be accessible from practically anywhere on Earth. And once we colonize other planets, it will go there with us.

The only greater masterpiece would be finding a way to communicate instantly over cosmic distances.

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TyVulpine
05/12/21 12:17:53 PM
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Duncanwii posted...
Math wasnt invented it just is, like how fire wasnt invented.
Math was indeed invented over centuries. Cavemen didn't know how to do quantum mathematics.

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ArchNemo
05/12/21 1:03:01 PM
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TyVulpine posted...
Math was indeed invented over centuries. Cavemen didn't know how to do quantum mathematics.

I think he's saying that it wasn't invented, it was discovered. Everything in mathematics was always there/true people just didn't know about it.

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jon1012
05/12/21 1:03:41 PM
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discovering mathematics

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ZevLoveDOOM
05/12/21 1:03:43 PM
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toilet paper
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TyVulpine
05/12/21 1:16:00 PM
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ArchNemo posted...
I think he's saying that it wasn't invented, it was discovered. Everything in mathematics was always there/true people just didn't know about it.
Not possible since math is a man-made ideology.

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Sackgurl
05/12/21 1:19:48 PM
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ArchNemo posted...
I think he's saying that it wasn't invented, it was discovered. Everything in mathematics was always there/true people just didn't know about it.

is language invented or discovered

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BobanMarjanovic
05/12/21 1:20:00 PM
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big booty latinas

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ArchNemo
05/12/21 1:23:54 PM
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TyVulpine posted...
Not possible since math is a man-made ideology.

No it's not, 2 + 2 = 4 wasn't invented, it's just a thing that's true.

Sackgurl posted...
is language invented or discovered

Invented, there was no language floating around that we just harnessed like fire, humanity had to come up with it even if it wasn't intentional.

Like, 1 +1 was still 2 before humanity. Fire existed before humanity. There was no language before humanity (yes there was communication, obviously, but not language as we know it)

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Sariana21
05/12/21 1:26:02 PM
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Fire. Cooking our food allowed for massive progress.

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SothaSil
05/12/21 1:26:59 PM
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ArchNemo posted...
No it's not, 2 + 2 = 4 wasn't invented, it's just a thing that's true.

Invented, there was no language floating around that we just harnessed like fire, humanity had to come up with it even if it wasn't intentional.
I dont think you can call that invention. Im still going to go with language because nothing else is possible without it, but its really a nebulous mix of invention and discovery

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EndOfDiscOne
05/12/21 1:29:29 PM
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The US Constitution

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TyVulpine
05/12/21 1:43:12 PM
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ArchNemo posted...
No it's not, 2 + 2 = 4 wasn't invented, it's just a thing that's true.

Invented, there was no language floating around that we just harnessed like fire, humanity had to come up with it even if it wasn't intentional.

Like, 1 +1 was still 2 before humanity. Fire existed before humanity. There was no language before humanity (yes there was communication, obviously, but not language as we know it)
Thats just terminology that humans made to describe it. Again, math is man-made.

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Ermac
05/12/21 1:46:51 PM
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TyVulpine posted...
Thats just terminology that humans made to describe it. Again, math is man-made.

I agree, but couldnt you say the same about time? Or is that considered math

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ArchNemo
05/12/21 1:47:17 PM
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TyVulpine posted...
Thats just terminology that humans made to describe it. Again, math is man-made.

So you're arguing that because the word we used to describe it is man made then the entire concept is man made?

Are cows man made too then? What about trees?

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Ermac
05/12/21 1:48:46 PM
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Cows we know today arent the cows they used to be, so in a way we have made them

same with fruits and veggies and stuff

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Damn_Underscore
05/12/21 1:49:26 PM
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The internet

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Phantom36
05/12/21 1:49:55 PM
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Megadeth's album Rust in Peace

Humanity could have stopped created new music right there.

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EmbraceOfDeath
05/12/21 1:51:07 PM
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TyVulpine posted...
Thats just terminology that humans made to describe it. Again, math is man-made.
The universe isn't going to be happy to hear that when all of reality unravels because it turns out math is just man-made and totally not the governing force of the universe.

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TyVulpine
05/12/21 2:02:56 PM
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EmbraceOfDeath posted...
The universe isn't going to be happy to hear that when all of reality unravels because it turns out math is just man-made and totally not the governing force of the universe.
Why do you think a day isnt exactly 24 hours long or the Earth isnt precisely 24,000 miles circumference, etc?

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