Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 05/05/2010 2:39:11 PM PDT by Niuhuru
What do my fellow FReepers think were the top ten scientific discoveries to date?
Faraday, Mendel and Pasteur’s discoveries largely created the modern world. They were the greatest of the 19th century scientists. But who do leftists and our schools dwell on as a great scientist of that era? Darwin of course. Not for his science but because his work, they believe, is handy in undermining faith.
Btw...Faraday was a religious nut, Mendel, of course, a monk and Pasteur a Catholic.
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Watch “Connections” and learn why.
One of the BEST series ever produced for TV
Here’s my list, and I really doubt you can name any of these people. A truly successful invention in my mind is just ‘assumed to be true’, and the inventor is forgotten.
1. The stirrup.
2. Double-entry bookkeeping. Frater Lucas Pacioli
3. Spectroscope. Joseph von Fraunhofer
4. The coin.
5. The clock.
6. Gregorian calendar
7. Anno Domini. Dionysius Exiguus
8. Thermodynamics. Sadi Carnot.
9. Quantum mechanics. Max Planck
10. The Codex.
Bah, Carnot, Fraunhofer and Planck are more important than those nobodies.
Rats, someone already had Planck.
Fine,
Periodic Table - Dmitri Mendeleev.
Fire
Alcohol
How Babies Occur
The other 7 are arguable.
Oh yeah — the first friend: dog!
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
How do it know? How do it know.
It was actually a dog who discovered the wheel.
Damn!
I thought of this and wrote the post then was interrupted by six dogs to be feed before I hit post.
Going by scientific principles, as opposed to their applications (inventions):
Leverage
Combustion
Gravitation
Cellular Nature of Living Organisms
Atomic Structure of Matter
E=MC^2
I don’t really wanna know the science behind discoverin’ my sister is a tranny (post #2), but maybe I already know—#1.
1. I have a wee-wee!!!!!
2. Scratch and sniff
3. Flights of fancy WILL get you (re)elected.
4. Sliced bread
5. Everything you put ketchup on tastes like ketchup.
6. Toilet paper
7. I’d rather be a little off than a little moron.
8. The best dog in the world: WELL DONE
9. The Love Boat
10. Money grows on trees
My first thought was Anton von Leeuwenhoek's microscope, then Gallileo's telescope -- so, to keep the list at 10, I'll say, "optics". (That would also cover lasers and the Hubble -- and one of my favorite tools, the Scanning Electron Microscope.)
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Meant to include you in the #136 pinglist...
Let’s not forget the Oscillation Overthruster!
Robert Hooke has them all beat.
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