What was the greatest invention/scientific achievement in human

>>3168653
Fire.

>>3168653
Writing.

The ability to learn a lesson and never forget it is just about as powerful a tool as you could ever ask for.

>>3168681
Writing does not give you food

>>3168653
Christianity

>>3168681
You can just ask the guy who knows

>>3168653
Bronze tools.
Agriculture is all nice, but when you need 500 farmers to work to produce enough food for 501, it's not a good basis for a society.

>>3168653
Language

We could communicate and oral repetition meant that knowledge of something did not end with the death of one person.

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Porn.

Because without getting horny, population wouldn't increase.

>>3168653
Soap

>>3168653
The use of tools, the wheel, control of fire, domestication of animals, argiculture. Not in that order.

Other than that, probaly guns.

>>3168759
lul

>>3168653
Spoken languaje

>>3168804
yeah man, fuck writing, writing's for faggots

my erection

>>3168653
Paper

>>3169519
i unironically think that organized religion was one of the most important inventions of mankind

Printing press

/thread

>>3171411
>>3169820
Nope. Agriculture pretty much defined what a human is and what he's capable of, we went from being 100% dependent on the environment to shaping the environment ourselves.

>>3169808
Not an invention really.

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>>3168653
>nearby body of fresh water
>everyone is covered in dirt

>>3169814
>writing's for faggots
ya.

>>3168653
I'm fully convinced that marriage is a technology.

>>3168653
Internet has changed almost everything

Imageboards

The Internet

>>3168653

If not agriculture, then writing. Nothing else has come close to transforming us in such fundamental ways, agriculture freed us from the lifecycle of animals, writing freed us from the tyranny of time.

anime boards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0n0Et8aI3s&t=2s

The Five Great Innovations:

Abstract Language

Fire

Grand-parenting

Medicine

Jogging


All humans use these things, and have for hundreds of thousands of years. You can't single any of them out. And it should be easy to see how a few of them add up to agriculture.

>>3168653
The Internet.

>>3168653
Alcohol.

>>3168749
Give food for a day, he's fed for a day.
Teach him how to make food, he and his entire family is fed for all lifetime.

Hater Bosch process without a shadow of a doubt,

>With average crop yields remaining at the 1900 level the crop harvest in the year 2000 would have required nearly four times more land and the cultivated area would have claimed nearly half of all ice-free continents, rather than under 15% of the total land area that is required today.

>Due to its dramatic impact on the human ability to grow food, the Haber process served as the "detonator of the population explosion", enabling the global population to increase from 1.6 billion in 1900 to today's 7 billion. Nearly 80% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber-Bosch process. Since nitrogen use efficiency is typically less than 50%, farm runoff from heavy use of fixed industrial nitrogen disrupts biological habitats.

>>3171674
>the porn machine
>good
pick one

>>3171756
it comes back to agriculture.

>>3168664
this

Imagine if humans hadn't mastered the fire. We wouldn't have agriculture because we would not have survived against night creatures long enough to become sedentary.

>>3171834
Porn is just one of the many uses the internet has. The internet has literally revolutionized almost everything we do

>>3171834

the computer is fucking amazing. It gives you access to study anything at anytime from anywhere on the planet.

>>3171840
Internet is barely more revolutionary than the telephone. Putting it in the same sentence as agriculture or the printing press is a fucking joke.

>>3171834
>the Internet is just a porn machine bro
Reddit-tier meme. The fact you can think that the internet is just something to jerk off with while millions of dollars worth of finances, hundreds of thousands of messages and the entire global media travel from continent to continent at the speed of light is so retarded I can't even begin to fathom it. Are you american by any chance?

>>3171427
>Not an invention really.

How come?

So every person on a given place and community just happened to call the moon "moon" and the rain "rain" just because some random accident?

If it has a set of rules that most people observe it fits the definition of invention. It's just not random grunting.

>>3171937
Calling language an invention is like calling chimp screams an invention. It's just a natural way of communication.

>>3168653
Nuclear weapons since we may one day use them to break the cycle and go into a deep cosmic annihilation-sleep for the rest of time. Anything less than the whole planet being wrecked and there's the risk we might come back through reincarnation.

>>3168653
ANAL. SEX. BEATS. EVERYTHING.

>>3168681
>implying you truly know something just by reading about it
http://apt46.net/2011/05/18/socrates-was-against-writing/

>>3169044
Pornography has actually led to a decrease in population growth because people won't seek potential mates for sexual satisfaction because they now have pornography for that.

Nuclear weapons. Unironically the only reason World War 3 hasn't happened yet.

>>3171846
The printing press allowed knowledge and literacy to be readily available cheaply.

The internet does this but you can collaborate with someone from the other side of the world in a matter of seconds rather than months. Let's not forget how dependent we are on it economically and how much it's used for social purposes.

It's the printing press, telephone, mail, and likely more.

>>3171834

No it's chemistry.

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>>3168653
>What was the greatest invention/scientific achievement in human history that had the biggest effect on us as a whole?

1) The invention of symbolic algebra
2) The invention of the calculus
3) The printing press
4) The internet
5) H

>>3171946
Its not natural at all.

>>3168681
>The ability to learn a lesson and never forget it is just about as powerful a tool as you could ever ask for.
That is such shallow understanding of history that you should just kys.

>>3168653
The internet

>>3168653
Capitalism.

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>>3168653
Domestication of horse.