Inventors.

Using just your general knowledge, who do you think to be the greatest inventor ever? The one that, if he wouldn't have existed, the world would not be the same today.

Please stay away from google or wikipedia...
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the guy who invented wheel


wheels are awsome
Da Vinci and Edison
edison & newton
what's wrong with newton? why did you take him out? (oh, yeah, maybe he wasn't an inventor :P )
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nothing i just think edison made a more important invention.

edit :but newton had one of the greatest effect of the history of science
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true... he's one of the most important physicists ever!
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Now that you are talking about physicists you shouldnt forget Einstein
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Einstein has very small impact on the todays live I'd say
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We were talking about physicists and about physics , he had a great impact on that , but yes he nearly had no impact at all at our lifes of today
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Ever used GPS?
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but yes he nearly had no impact at all at our lifes of today
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I wouldn't call that "nearly no". However there were others that obviously had a bigger (and direct) impact on our everyday life.
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Thats kinda what I meant with nearly , GPS is only 1 aspect of our life and some dont even use it at all or not a lot
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I think you're underestimating the consequences which were drawn from Einsteins special (and general) relativity.
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I'm certainly not , but when you think about it its still a small part of our life

Oh , I almost forgot , wasnt it Einstein who made the base for producing nuclear energy ? Or am I'm mixing stuff up now ?
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Afaik, it wasn't until Einstein came along with the equivalence of mass and energy (E=mc²) that scientists realized the amount of energy that could be set free with nuclear fission. That's why the nuclear bomb was developed. (furthermore he helped drafting that letter scientists wrote to Roosevelt and signed it)
The impact the nuclear bomb had on the second half of the 20th century isn't really negligible.
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the man who invent gayness :*
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he was part of my family =]
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was? :(

and he sounds like some one i dont want to meet !
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hes dead now =[
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1 down
more few milions to go !
MUhahahahHAHah

but i will spare you little mavrick
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maverick*

and plz thats so mean! that means all fo my family would preety much die =[
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your parents cant be gay
if so, then you couldnt be born :(
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Adoption ftw ?
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yes, but thats mean his real parents are not gay :)
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Its a secret ofc :D
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http://www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/thingscot.html

the jocks invented quite a lot :P go scotland!
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bill gates!! ... Henri Coanda?
i disagree with you
if one of the inventors didnt exist, so some one else would invent the same thing or even better.

you should say what invention is the most important and not the inventor
Could you say the same about Da Vinci ? Dont think so ..

He invented stuff 400 years before they were actually made
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yes i can
already did !

btw the real answer is "god"
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Do you even know inventions of Da Vinci ?

Oh and what you said was incorrect

Yes someone else would have invented it prolly , but way later
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yes
and i didnt wrong ...
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But his question was if the world would look different and it would :o)
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how do you know?
if the same stuff will be invented again and they will be invented, then it will be again.

i didnt wrong cuz we cant prove it !
and yes we cant prove im right so in the end
im right :_
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In fact, you're just the same jewish retard over and over again.
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no :(
you are mean !
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stfu jewish retard, you're wrong.
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Some inventions are based on other inventions and if these inventions would be invented later than these other inventions would also be invented way later

From that we can deduct that some stuff we have now isnt invented if the above has happend

ok?
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Then you can gtfo
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Not really , 3 ppl say you are wrong and you continue to act like you dont understand what im saying

So who is the retard here then...
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so what if 3 ppl say im wrong?
i got into situation where 6 people said i was wrong and in the end i was right :>

and a guy with a master degree in physics said i was right so?

you are the retard :O)
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You are wrong in this case but too stupid to see it
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no im not
you are the stupid one because you think you are right in a situation that we cannot know.

gg mr.doing-the-impossible-for-now !
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You said you were right and now you say 'we cant know'

Oh and btw the sentence that you replied no to says we do know ...
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i even wrote before we cant know
and below that i wrote i right its sarcasam... :/
but you are stupid to see it.
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You just cant speak english and blame me for it ...
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I disagree, most inventions were done out of competitivness with another inventor where both were going down the same path but one was just ahead of the other. And even some inventions were credited to people who had 'stole' other peoples ideas.
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Name 1 that was in competition with Da Vinci ..

He mostly worked for himself and for dukes

He wasnt competing with someone else :x
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true, thats why I said most and not all
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Ah ok , its just because you replied to my Da Vinci comment :D
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I was just generally replyin to the "someone else would have invented it prolly , but way later" bit. And I took it as talkin about inventors on a whole not just da vinci

sorry for the confusion :)
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Np , I get these things sometimes aswell :D
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world today would not be the same if ANY of the ones that'll be mentioned here never lived
the neanderthaler,since he invented to walk on our hind legs.

Guess the world would look quite a bit different without this 'invention'
I'm pretty sure it was not the neanderthaler who "invented" bipedal movement :P
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Home erectus comes closer imo :)
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seen it in english lessons, was the neanderthaler, cuz he was the one who had to start searching for food in the sea (hind legs > gets deeper);; looking for fish also explains our naked skin and the remains of hair on our head btw, exclusive the exceptions like pubes etc
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I thought hair on our body was to keep us warm and when in danger make us appear bigger? (thats why hairs raise on the back of ur neck, etc when ur scared)
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neatherlandes didnt do it btw.
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the guy who invented the intrawebZ who else !?
Bill Gates ?
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the creator of ET
Paul Wedgwood
The one that invented Gunpowder, Nobel and Edison/or w/e person first invented anything that run on electricity.
Alfred Nobel and Thomas Edison , yes
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you seem to know alot about this stuff =]
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Nobel invented dynamite, not gunpowder.
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I know thats why there is a , ( comma? ) between cause I didnt meant to set him as the inventor of gunpowder.
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Has to be Tim Berners-Lee, or the guy(s) that invented the steam train.
Scheele! He discovered around 12 Elements as Chlor, also Oxygen although it was imputed to Priestley.

But there was one gay thing about him. He always tried those elements. So he ate them or smelled them etc. And once he died because of it xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
someone has to be the first one to 'try' them...
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Well none of the other inventors did. Please think before talking shit
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the guy who invented as first a religion aka the first biggest evil thing that will destroy the world once.
I tought America would destroy the world once :o)
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the Switzerland guy that invented LSD, forgot the name.
The guy that invented PC
Chuck Norris
von Neuman.....we would not be using PCs....
do you mean von Neumann ?
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you owned my memory...now I am ashamed
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there's also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture so.... no big loss... and considering it was only based on a paper of his, it was actually developed by others... i guess PC's would have existed today even von Neumann :)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_turing has something to do with it as well i suppose :p
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not really...

the harvard and von neumann architectures refer to how CPU's work, more exactly on where are the instructions stored relative to the data

the turing machine is something theoretical, abstract, and with implications in mathematics. i'm not really that into computer science theory to know more about this one :< i do know details about the harvard and von neumann architectures, they're way more practical
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the guy/women who invented anti-pregancy pills!
the thing that gets me, is how the fuck, did some random guy , look at a cow one day and think : "i think ill try that white stuff coming out one of its 8 penis's" , and then, how the fuck did he convince some other idiot it was nice and he should try it too!
Breast feeding has been around for a LONG time , a very long time ...

It didnt take long before someone made the comparison with women and cows
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sexist! hehe.
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I meant the fysical structure lol :D
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What about Nikola Tesla?

The guy that invented:
* alternating current
* electric AC motor
* electric AC lamps
* wireless transmission of energy
* the radio (although the patent went to Marconi)
* others...
btw , he inveted a electricity bomb . There's a meteor crater in Siberian , which has no "clues" about a meteor impact. Ppl belive that he destroyed all his work , because it would have been the end of humanity.
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George Stevenson is a pretty good bet.
Shuji Nakamura (invented Blue LED) :DDD
i would go for Tesla , Edison & Da Vinci
Pierre Van den Broeck ofcourse
He invented the sliplift!
archimedes!
George Lucas.
Off topic but where abouts in Romania are you from? Are you familiar with Bucharest?
yes, sure, i live there.

how come you're asking?
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I'm going to bucharest this Summer. My friend has a chalet in a village called Arieseni near Clug Napolica, What would be a viable way of getting to it from bucharest? I cant find anything on the internet and its a long way away so it might not be worth trying to get there. Any ideas?
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http://www.infofer.ro/default_engleza.asp?lng=2
From: Bucuresti Nord
To: Cluj Napoca

Don't know how you could buy the ticket online, but you can buy one at the train station, or through some agency when you're in Bucharest like 1-2 days before you go there.

Or you could try to fly there, but I have no other details.
http://www.airportcluj.ro/en/hpg.html

How long do you stay in .Ro? And where are you from?
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aahh thanks for the airport info, I didn't even think about seeing if Cluj had one. I'm from England and we'd probably stay for something like 10 days between buch and Cluj.
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Ohwell, problem solved ( I sure hope you have someone to drive you between the city and the airport, because it's not quite close... There are busses too, but I know nothing about them)

And I recommend british airways from heathrow to bucharest. I don't really like the timings of those low-cost flights :>
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