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What Do You Think Were The Top Ten Scientific Discoveries?
Mind of Niuhuru | May 5 2010 | Niuhuru

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?


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Thanks Niuhuru.

The scientific method (which is what science is in the first place) is number one with a bullet. Two through ten come and go. :') IMHO of course. A nice discussion topic to which I've pinged all four lists. :')

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61 posted on 05/05/2010 2:58:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Slings and Arrow.

(Not the FReeper. The real thing.)


62 posted on 05/05/2010 2:59:38 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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To: Niuhuru

Gunpowder


63 posted on 05/05/2010 2:59:39 PM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: Ditter
Thank you Jim Robinson!

I think you meant, Thompson.
64 posted on 05/05/2010 2:59:44 PM PDT by ZX12R
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To: OB1kNOb
"Obviously sliced bread is #1, since every new invention is compared to it."

But of course, the elusive gold ring remains the better mousetrap.

65 posted on 05/05/2010 3:00:11 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Responsibility2nd; Lazamataz
One of the best inventions of all times:


66 posted on 05/05/2010 3:00:16 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists".)
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To: Niuhuru

I can’t believe Viagra got stiffed!! I sure figured it would stand alone. Why is everyone so hard on the E.D. subject?


67 posted on 05/05/2010 3:00:47 PM PDT by wyokostur
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To: Responsibility2nd
"Lootie" has to be one of the best disaster-made inventions:


68 posted on 05/05/2010 3:01:30 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists".)
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To: OldDeckHand

“Silicon Transistor”

...as opposed to the

Silicon Transbrother....


69 posted on 05/05/2010 3:01:32 PM PDT by G Larry (DNC is comprised of REGRESSIVES!)
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To: ZX12R

Jim Thompson created Free Republic? Then who is this Jim Robinson I have been sending money to?


70 posted on 05/05/2010 3:01:40 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: wyokostur
Speaking of getting "stiffed", I think Xray machines should be one of the top ever inventions, esp. when it shows such publicly displayed stupidity:


71 posted on 05/05/2010 3:04:43 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists".)
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To: Niuhuru

Object Permanence
Speech
Writing
Metallurgy
Hygiene
The discovery that “Correlation does not imply causation”
Optics
Thomism
Gunpowder
The internet


72 posted on 05/05/2010 3:05:09 PM PDT by Eepsy (www.pioacademy.org)
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To: Defiant
How much power does a flux capacitor use, anyway?
73 posted on 05/05/2010 3:05:36 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Niuhuru

Music, spoken language, stone tools, controlled fire, bone tools, mining, boats, fiber cloth, twisted rope, agriculture, metalworking/metal tools, animal husbandry, wheel/axle, written language, cement, soap, plumbing/sanitary sewer, the arch, aqueducts, currency, glass processing, cartography, wind/water mills, compass, screws, the plow, steam power, printing press, optics, artificial fertilizer, antibiotics, electric generators/motors, the Bessemer Process, radio, powered flight, general/special relativity, DNA, transistor computing (and computing in general), GPS, the Internet, genomics.

Without any of these (and others I missed no doubt) our world would be radically different. So.. I’m not sure “Top 10” is practical.


74 posted on 05/05/2010 3:05:40 PM PDT by ivyleaguebrat
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To: Ditter
Jim Thompson created Free Republic? Then who is this Jim Robinson I have been sending money to?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332172/posts
75 posted on 05/05/2010 3:05:54 PM PDT by ZX12R
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To: ZX12R

Has no one mentioned duct tape?


76 posted on 05/05/2010 3:10:23 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (The immigrant, legal or illegal, is always right -- and the native-born citizen's always wrong.)
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To: ivyleaguebrat

I agree that “top ten” is not practical.

For instance, somewhere in the list you have to have basic chemistry. At some point, (even though it was a series of steps), we went from believing in fire, earth, air, and water to a more detailed understanding of oxygen and stuff like that.

I suppose you could refer to it as some kind of “materials science”

And this is part of the big picture that brought us nifty stuff like Super Glue, that kind of thing.


77 posted on 05/05/2010 3:13:41 PM PDT by djf
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To: Responsibility2nd

I was not discovered - I was sent by a benevolent Power.


78 posted on 05/05/2010 3:15:43 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ( *(|):^{> At FR, every day is Draw Mohammed Day! *(|);^{>)
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To: Niuhuru

-PJ

79 posted on 05/05/2010 3:15:45 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: greyfoxx39
Has no one mentioned duct tape?

OMG! You are right! NASCAR and general repair does not exist without it.
80 posted on 05/05/2010 3:20:09 PM PDT by ZX12R
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