What do you think is the biggest discovery in history of mankind?

What do you think is the biggest discovery in history of mankind?

DNA or Electricity.

Oral hygiene or "cleanliness". Anyone who knows the movie that has this reference gets a sweet high five...!

;)

Sliced bread?

Bacon.

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electricity

lubricants.

fire

Electricity.

Of all time? Writing. Of the last couple centuries? The transistor.

Oral hygiene or "cleanliness". Anyone who knows the movie that has this reference gets a sweet high five...!

;)

battlefront23

Though to be fair, proper sanitation was a huge milestone for humans.

Pie and sandwiches.

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Of all time? Writing. Of the last couple centuries? The transistor.

Oleg_Huzwog

I would say electricity.

Porn.v13_KiiLtz

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Of all time? Writing. Of the last couple centuries? The transistor.

carrot-cake

I would say electricity.

I work on Civ terms. You pick something from the tech chart, wait a couple turns, then POOF you've discovered writing.

[QUOTE="v13_KiiLtz"]Porn.Goliath_unit

Oh silly me, how could I forget!?

Probably elephants.

No, wait, whales.

Mountains?

Stars?

Galaxies.

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Of all time? Writing. Of the last couple centuries? The transistor.

Oleg_Huzwog

I would say electricity.

I work on Civ terms. You pick something from the tech chart, wait a couple turns, then POOF you've discovered writing.

farming maybe?

The fact that Mario can warp to worlds 4, 5, 6

fire without it we wouldn't have lived long enough as a specie to discover electricity.funsohng

agreed, not to mention our electricity mostly relies on burning ****.

Language

Indoor Plumbing

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Of all time? Writing. Of the last couple centuries? The transistor.

Oleg_Huzwog

I would say electricity.

I work on Civ terms. You pick something from the tech chart, wait a couple turns, then POOF you've discovered writing.

this works for me.

Goats and coconuts.

Hot whips

Football

Yodels

Cornrows (kidding, ew)

I'd have to say it would be the discovery and mapping of the human genome and the discovery of DNA in general. Either that or Justin Beiber.

Electricity

Easy, agriculture. That was the catalyst that sparked the development of civilization. Without argiculture nothing else in human history happens.

bacteria that lives off of arsenic

Writing and language. Bascially the ability to communicate through means outside of spoken word.

Easy, agriculture. That was the catalyst that sparked the development of civilization. Without argiculture nothing else in human history happens.

worlock77

I think language and communication had a bigger effect on the development of civilization. Agriculture was certainly an essential catalyst, but without language civilization would have never taken off. We'd still be hunter-gatherers living in caves.

One word for ya!

CHEESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Writing and language. Bascially the ability to communicate through means outside of spoken word.

Wasdie

Easy, agriculture. That was the catalyst that sparked the development of civilization. Without argiculture nothing else in human history happens.

worlock77

The Electric Guitar. :twisted:

fire>farming>electricity

Alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Writing and language. Bascially the ability to communicate through means outside of spoken word.

Wasdie

Technically speaking, as impactful as it was, that's an invention, not a discovery.

Alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

PBSnipes

It also prevented the Irish from enslaving the rest of the world under its iron fist. (I'm Irish, so I can say that)

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Writing and language. Bascially the ability to communicate through means outside of spoken word.

GabuEx

Technically speaking, as impactful as it was, that's an invention, not a discovery.

Discovered that paper holds ink?

[QUOTE="worlock77"]

Easy, agriculture. That was the catalyst that sparked the development of civilization. Without argiculture nothing else in human history happens.

MystikFollower

I think language and communication had a bigger effect on the development of civilization. Agriculture was certainly an essential catalyst, but without language civilization would have never taken off. We'd still be hunter-gatherers living in caves.

Without agriculture we'd still be hunter-gatherers living in caves. Without agriculture civilization never would have taken off and thus neither would advanced language or writing.