What Do You Think Were The Top Ten Scientific Discoveries?

Mind of Niuhuru | May 5 2010 | Niuhuru

[Niuhuru]

What do my fellow FReepers think were the top ten scientific discoveries to date?

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	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. :') To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[Responsibility2nd]

Slings and Arrow.

(Not the FReeper. The real thing.)

[70times7]

Gunpowder

[ZX12R]

Thank you Jim Robinson!

I think you meant, Thompson.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Obviously sliced bread is #1, since every new invention is compared to it."

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

[DCBryan1]

One of the best inventions of all times:

[wyokostur]

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

[DCBryan1]

"Lootie" has to be one of the best disaster-made inventions:

[G Larry]

“Silicon Transistor”

...as opposed to the

Silicon Transbrother....

[Ditter]

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

[DCBryan1]

Speaking of getting "stiffed", I think Xray machines should be one of the top ever inventions, esp. when it shows such publicly displayed stupidity:

[Eepsy]

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

[Richard Kimball]

How much power does a flux capacitor use, anyway?

[ivyleaguebrat]

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.

[ZX12R]

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

[greyfoxx39]

Has no one mentioned duct tape?

[djf]

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.

[Slings and Arrows]

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

[Political Junkie Too]

-PJ

[ZX12R]

Has no one mentioned duct tape?

OMG! You are right! NASCAR and general repair does not exist without it.