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What is mankind's greatest achievement?

What is mankind's greatest achievement?

8 years ago by kiltman with 19 comments

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  • spaceghoti
    +9

    Velcro. I'll never tie my shoes again!

    • sugartoad
      +8

      Too bad velcro fades after a while and also looks like ass when the rings get all stretched :D When I was a kid the rings looked so bad that I decided to give em a trim to make it look nicer -- little did I know I screwed up my shoes! I guess when I was 8 I failed understand the concept of hooks and rings.

      • spaceghoti
        +8

        I typically wear out the soles on my shoes before the velcro goes bad, though.

  • LacquerCritic
    +7

    Anything that involves our activities in space - look at the Voyager probes and New Horizons. Getting those things to send signals across the solar system, predicting their trajectories with enough accuracy to use other planets to slingshot them places: it seems impossible but we've done it and continue to advance. Those pictures of Pluto were sent by a weak electromagnetic wave across billions of kilometres of space. Just thinking about it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

  • grandsalami
    +7

    The toilet, or more specifically plumbing in general.

  • 8mm
    +6

    Printing Press

  • Bastou
    +6

    Surviving, and even prospering, over half a million years despite its own incline to destroy everything it touches, most of which ends up affecting itself very much.

  • socialiguana
    +5

    Agriculture. Without that civilization never begins.

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  • jenjen1352
    +3

    The wheel. All downhill after that. The cheese wheel that is...