What do you think is the greatest invention ever is?

[cambam]

Mine has to be light bulbs by Thomas Edison.

Simply because they aid us in every day (and night for the pedants) life. It must of been a bitch to use raw fire every time we needed to see artifically. We take them for granted.


Big up Thomas Edison.

[suhl]

fire

[Matt the Funk]

Computers.

[bobbygreenbear]

hydroponics?



:) ;) :)


.........yeeeeah.....

[higher4hockey]

language. without this we would still be banging rocks together.

[stinkyattic]

the wheel, the stirrup, and the scratch-plow.
Edit, oh crap H4H you smartass, that's a good one!

[Acouwaila]

Planet-Earth-and-all-of-its-nature...and-all-its-mankind

Thanks-to-God

[geonagual]

Telephones, airplanes, cars, electricity.

[VaporDaddy]

Vaporizer, followed by peanut butter and Crocks:jointsmile:

[BoilerUp]

The Space Shuttle

[slipknotpsycho]

you want my stoned answer or my real answer? :wtf:

i'll let you guess....

A: cigars
B: computer

[cambam]

Please can we have some reasons aswell? Theres nothing like a good, reasoned debate of oppinions.

[friendowl]

i think it has to be the bombs they make now a days
like the ones that melt away everything in sight

[Dimebag4ever]

The remote control 0.o

[GHoSToKeR]

language. without this we would still be banging rocks together.

That's what I was gonna say.. :D

[Metaphor]

ELL ESS DEEEEEEEE

[cambam]

ELL ESS DEEEEEEEE

No shit, judging by your avatar o.O

[Snake2389]

big props to a guy starting music, now we have something to chill to

[Phil E. Blunt]

Recyclable items.

[AlbinoRhino421]

the microchip, there would be no electronic/computer technology we have today without being the size of a house.

[stinkyattic]

All right, reasons?
My choices, the Wheel, the Stirrup, and the Scratch plow are 3 of the major inventions that allowed us to go as a species from hunter-gatherers to an agrarian civilization.
Of those, the plow is by far the most important.

[birdgirl73]

The computer, whose invention brought us into the Information Age and has hastened nearly every other aspect of modern civilization and industry.

Antibiotics, which have saved millions of lives and, if they're prescribed judiciously and prudently, will save millions more (assuming the over-prescription that has occurred already doesn't make everyone antibiotic-resistant).

[slipknotpsycho]

Please can we have some reasons aswell? Theres nothing like a good, reasoned debate of oppinions.

computers were the dawn of a new modernized life... without computers, virtually nothing you do today could of been done. from spreading information, to solving problems otherwise impossible to be done by humans.. (realisiticly) take crime for example... you know how many today's killers would just walk away, cuz ther ewas no video tape, no expansive data base (from one state to another, to one continent to the other, and i mean shit like finger print registry) without computers you'd never be able to track someone down if they jumped countries... cuz all you'd have is what was on your area's books..

alot of medical procedures are capable for the same reason... when people think computer usually they think to a internet thing... but it's way more then that...

[cannabis campbell]

Telephones
Airplanes
Cars
Tv's
MP3's etc

[OniEhtRedrum781]

The bong

[TX Girl]

Air Conditioning.
I know people did without it for eons and eons, but I thank the good Lord for allowing me to be alive in a time when ac is available.

[Kenn]

Toilet paper....because fked if i would wanna be using newspaper or leaves and shit.....OUCH!.

[GreenLadyOfDankDowns]

I'd have to say antibiotics. The ability to effectively fight infection was a great advance in medical science that has saved countless lives.

[TX Girl]

Kenn makes a good point.

If I had to choose, I wonder which would win out?

I can have a clean ass and be miserably hot, or a dirty ass and have the rest of me be comfortable.

[Kenn]

fuck havin a dirty ass thats nasty! pheww!

[TX Girl]

I'd never get laid again either way, huh?

I still pick a/c, I could go jump in a creek with a pinecone to scrub the booty in the summer

[Kenn]

lol good comback a pinecone......lol:thumbsup:

[Gatekeeper777]

1. condoms
2. rolling papers

[originalblu]

who invented bongs?

[Skink]

the screw...

[higher4hockey]

im gonna back up my claim that language is the greatest invention.

think about it, humans are a very social creature, if we couldnt communicate with each other, we would be lost. none of these other inventions would have ever been realized. and before anyone says it. we did not invent fire, we discovered it. therefore, i think language, even in their earliest primitive forms, have been the most important inventions in the history of man-kind.

[passitplz]

im gonna back up my claim that language is the greatest invention.

think about it, humans are a very social creature, if we couldnt communicate with each other, we would be lost. none of these other inventions would have ever been realized. and before anyone says it. we did not invent fire, we discovered it. therefore, i think language, even in their earliest primitive forms, have been the most important inventions in the history of man-kind.

i would go with u but i see language as bein more of something that came with evolution. it wasnt invented it just kinda came.

[Skink]

IDK if we can consider language an invention,,,seems more like an instinct to me...

[Weedhound]

used to think the computer.....but now i know the truth.....it's the utility tractor ;)

[aardvark]

Gutenburgs printing press was the greatest invention as it was the first form and the continuing form of mass media. Mass media has expanded to the radio, television, and internet, but print has been swaying the populus for over 500 years and counting.

[rebgirl420]

computer....without it Id be stoned by myself :(

[Andrew Nguyen]

Bongs.

[LuckyNiner]

The Internets. Thank you, Al Gore. Our series of tubes has connected the world. And yet it seems to have put all this distance between us, too...


Gotta agree with vaporization of combustible plant material....or even water filtration of smoke.

[NextLineIsMine]

toilet paper, without it we'd all be stuck in a bathroom somewhere with our hands reaching out from under the stall asking for something to wipe with

[affasd]

agree w/ all who said the bong

[Reefer Rogue]

Guitar

[GHoSToKeR]

Guitar

Bass guitar. :D

[dannyboy420]

That's easy: the printing press.

Without it, we wouldn't have had all the computers, telephones, and lightbulbs other people are mentioning.

Also, fire and languange don't count because they weren't invented -- they were discovered.

[stinkyattic]

I disagree that language was discovered; DEVELOPED perhaps... but WRITTEN language...particularly phonic alphabets... the concept of making pictures that equate to sounds of language is a fabulously abstract one and IMO really marks a turning point in humans' ability to communicate. When a society develops a sense of its own history and feels the need to record it, it has really come of age.

[xxxhazexxx]

carbon filters:thumbsup: lol

[Abunai]

internetworks

[cambam]

I still say light bulbs. Without lightbulbs, (or any sort of bulb) you wouldnt have TV's, VDU's, artifical light for surgeons (or anything indoors unless you had single units with windows) etc. We'd still be in the Dark Ages, litterally.


I didnt expect this thread to be quite as popular as it is. :thumbsup:

[GHoSToKeR]

I still say light bulbs. Without lightbulbs, (or any sort of bulb) you wouldnt have TV's, VDU's, artifical light for surgeons (or anything indoors unless you had single units with windows) etc. We'd still be in the Dark Ages, litterally.

Uh, we would have the sun.. lol

[dusto2k3]

HANDS DOWN, its gotta be TOILET PAPER...fuck using your hands.

[GHoSToKeR]

HANDS DOWN, its gotta be TOILET PAPER...fuck using your hands.

We could just use other people's hands... :D

[dusto2k3]

LoL, i need to go acquire someones hand right quick.

/grabs meat cleaver

[cambam]

Uh, we would have the sun.. lol

Do you have the sun in surgery? In the press/printing room? In the music studio? In the basement when hitting your bong? When growing weed in the attic?


Face it, we need light, the only source or light, without the sun, is artificial. Forget about fire, not an invention.


The light bulb!!!

[dusto2k3]

screw light, we survived long without it.

Toliet Paper was one of the major human evolutions. Holy shit, now thay have 3-ply Wooot!!

[GHoSToKeR]

Do you have the sun in surgery? In the press/printing room? In the music studio? In the basement when hitting your bong? When growing weed in the attic?

Nope, but if we didn't have artificial light sources we would either do those things outside, or install a sun-roof... :D

And hey we survived with candles for long enough ;)

[dusto2k3]

OK, fine. The ability to harness electricity was really the biggest of one of them.

[GHoSToKeR]

I gotta prefer the toilet paper one.. I heard a rumour that scientists somewhere are working on a way to make 4-ply toilet paper.. Sounds more like science fiction to me :)

[dusto2k3]

I gotta prefer the toilet paper one.. I heard a rumour that scientists somewhere are working on a way to make 4-ply toilet paper.. Sounds more like science fiction to me :)

Whahaaa, who has the hook-up?????????

[cambam]

Oway lads! I don't want this to turn into a shit thread :D

[GHoSToKeR]

Dude seriously, this 4-ply is going to be so strong, absorbant and soft on the skin that the military are planning to develop suits made out of it for infantry.

Here's a prototype..

[dusto2k3]

dude, howd you get my mug shot?????

Next thing you know, 4-ply antigrav TP Spacesuits. NASA already has patent rights.

Sorry CAmbam, enough...OK

[dannyboy420]

I see your point, but the capacity for language comes built in. Particular kinds of languages developed, but language itself you're born with.

I should stress, I supposed, that this is an opinion. Nobody is certain about this and the linguistics community is very divided on the issue.

But this is a thread about opinions, so ...

Also, I don't really know what I'm talking about.:stoned:


I disagree that language was discovered; DEVELOPED perhaps... but WRITTEN language...particularly phonic alphabets... the concept of making pictures that equate to sounds of language is a fabulously abstract one and IMO really marks a turning point in humans' ability to communicate. When a society develops a sense of its own history and feels the need to record it, it has really come of age.

[stinkyattic]

Exactly...
You're born with the capacity to learn language. And any language skills you aquire are from your surroundings after birth... if no one in your household talks, you simply won't learn to speak yourself. If people around you communicate on a really limited level, that is also going to affect your language development, slowing it down significantly... seriously how many kids who are treated as having learning disabilities are just the victims of parents who never really talked to them much, or used very poor language themselves? Wow this is getting off subject ima shut up now!

I'm thinking, as a SPECIES, when humans first started communicating verbally.

[higher4hockey]

That's easy: the printing press.

Without it, we wouldn't have had all the computers, telephones, and lightbulbs other people are mentioning.

Also, fire and languange don't count because they weren't invented -- they were discovered.

language wasnt discovered, it wasn't like all of the sudden after banging two rocks together out popped the english language. for language to have been discovered that would mean it was already in existance. which it was not. to communicate is an instinct, but to communicate thoughts and ideas requires a language which humans over time, invented. the definition of invent is 'to create by thought, to make or design (something that did not exist before)' language was created by thought. and as far as humans go , it did not exist before, therefore language was invented.

[GHoSToKeR]

The English language occurs naturally, in nature. Fact. :D

[StrwbrryFldsFrvr]

Cannabis.com

[Polymirize]

I'm going to say the number zero. And immediatly own all you bitches who said computers...

[GHoSToKeR]

I'm going to say the number zero. And immediatly own all you bitches who said computers...

Uh, what about the uh, concepts of numbers in general? pwnt

;)

[Polymirize]

Uh, what about the uh, concepts of numbers in general? pwnt

;)


Numbers fall into the same category as language...
"Look, there tree. Look, other tree. More tree? "two" trees."

Any simpleton caveman can get numbers and basic arithmatic.

It was at least the 6th century before some serious mathmaticians in southern asia started working out the concept of a placeholder... One integer to rule them all. To make magic happen during multiplication and division.

amen.

unpwnt

[GHoSToKeR]

Numbers fall into the same category as language...
"Look, there tree. Look, other tree. More tree? "two" trees."

Any simpleton caveman can get numbers and basic arithmatic.

It was at least the 6th century before some serious mathmaticians in southern asia started working out the concept of a placeholder... One integer to rule them all. To make magic happen during multiplication and division.

amen.

unpwnt

Lol, me and a buddy of mine were talking about this the other day. I tried to tell him that mathematics existed before numbers (and used the same kind of example, a caveman saying "rock"... "other rock".. "rocks!"). He didn't get my point. :p

[Beano]

I think we all know what "the greatest invention ever" (http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/8391/bread2yf9.jpg) is.

:cool:

[GHoSToKeR]

I just found this (http://www.tashitagg.com/smoke/00385.asp).. I haven't read it, so somebody do me a favour and read it, then tell me if it is appropriate or not.. :D

[cambam]

I just found this (http://www.tashitagg.com/smoke/00385.asp).. I haven't read it, so somebody do me a favour and read it, then tell me if it is appropriate or not.. :D

I got this fragment from the website that Ghostoker provided.

"But what about electricity? Can you imagine a world in which once it's dark you're screwed? No telly, no movies, no light (a pitch dark world), no communication that doesn't involve the beating of drums or the controlling of smoke - a seriously primitive world, in fact.

Back to the dark ages, for want of a better pun.

What good is electricity without anything to read, however? No point having a lightbulb so that you can sit and stare at the wall until 10pm before going to bed."


Looks live some agree's that it is a damn good invention, up there with the best of them. :smokin:

[kefkataus]

The ability to manufacture books.
Such as the Bible. Where would we be today without it.

[Beano]

The ability to manufacture books.
Such as the Bible. Where would we be today without it.
Where we are today, just with less headaches.
:wtf:

[420MissHighTimes420]

The weel.

[TallulahGreen]

Tampons anyone???

[originalblu]

where would we be without fire?

[FreeVenice]

Hydroponics. . .

[HeallyRi]

Q-Tips.. better then a pen cap

[AsianStoner420]

Telephones,computers and canned goods

[stinkyattic]

The English language occurs naturally, in nature. Fact. :D
Srsly?
Try telling that to all the kids with their silly text message talk who still at age 16 have not mastered the art of SPELLING

[footpaul]

The light bulb's all well and good, but whoever invented the first sound reproduction system was a frickin' genius. Going to concerts whenever you wanted to listen to music must've sucked.

Yes, I know they were classical concerts, but still...

Eh, scrap that.

Music's the best invention ever.

Edison invented the phonograph as well. He was a genius.

[Harry Pot Head]

The ac electric motor by Nicola Tesla :stoned:

For all those pumps and other uses :D

For hydroponics / air / refrigeration / irigation / wells / trains / subways / fans / can carry on but my brain hurts now need to......:jointsmile:

[Ganj]

language. without this we would still be banging rocks together.

Whatever. It's still a bunch of "oo's" and "aa's." Personally, I'd rather sacrifice my hears, but that's just me. Hmm. The greatest invention is the internet. No other place is information so readily available, diverse, and flexible to spread an idea throughout billions of people, in thousands of countries, through one high-speed connection.

[VaporDaddy]

Edison invented the phonograph as well. He was a genius.

Edison invented pornography?! wow that was one smart, freaky dude.:jointsmile:

[Nation_1ne]

Kudos go to god for making the female form lol.

[higher4hockey]

Whatever. It's still a bunch of "oo's" and "aa's." Personally, I'd rather sacrifice my hears, but that's just me. Hmm. The greatest invention is the internet. No other place is information so readily available, diverse, and flexible to spread an idea throughout billions of people, in thousands of countries, through one high-speed connection.

without language there would be no internet, and there would be no information to put on the internet.

[Ganj]

without language there would be no internet, and there would be no information to put on the internet.

Good point. I hate you.

[higher4hockey]

aahhhhahahahahahahahhaahha
hilarious.


:D :D

[DeepFriedBrain]

Abacus for obvious reasons.

[Beano]

Abacus for obvious reasons.
'splain please?

[crystallinesheen]

Hot water, on demand.

[Lethal G]

Chuck Norris.

[Beano]

Chuck Norris.

Yes, i agree.


10agrees

[Dr.Chiefer]

lungs
otherwise we would still be fish living in the ocean.

cant smoke without lungs can you?

[Dr. Dro]

Television.

[SamsonSimpson]

toilet paper. without it id be using alot of leaves and have a rashy butt.

nuff said :)

[Pipe Dreams]

In my opinion, the greatest invention ever is antiseptics.

[hippy lettuce]

toilet paper. without it id be using alot of leaves and have a rashy butt.

nuff said :)

lol well said

[jokeyjokejoke]

This ->:D

[DeepFriedBrain]

'splain please?

The abacus is the forerunner of the computer and modern calculus.

No abacus = no computer = no internet= me not talking to you and that would be sad.:D

Honest, I would really miss the net and all that comes with it if it broke or something bad happened like the plug coming out, and it all stopped working
It would suck.
Why do divvy's put viruses on the net?

[Nocturnal Stoner]

the bong

[chris420]

No doubt hyrdroponics, chemistry and the mayan calendar

[epicsoundz69]

Harnessed electricity.
Why? Because, well its...electricity, but harnessed