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  • What is man's greatest scientific achievement?
  • wanmankylung
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    Is it the moon landing, voyager, finding the higg’s boson, decoding the genome, or have they been surpassed this week by the regeneration of spinal cord and partially reversing paralysis?

    Wonderful story, but not as much fanfare as I’d have like to have seen. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29645760

    yossarian
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    Disc brakes FTW

    lazybike
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    There is no greatest..they’re just steps along the way.

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    cheviots
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    A friends then girlfriend, now wife,after much deliberation decided it was probably the teasmaid!
    “Well it wakes you up with a fresh cup of tea!”
    Gobs well and truly smacked over that one.

    Klunk
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    the Cavity magnetron (cos it has a cool name too) 😉

    allthepies
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    3d porn

    maccruiskeen
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    The Haber–Bosch process

    or possible directional hifi cables

    bikebouy
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    Chicken McNuggets 😉

    Nobeerinthefridge
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    Rockshox pikes.

    Edit. Naw, reverb. Definitely the reverb.

    muppetWrangler
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    The printing press.

    LimboJimbo
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    650b or Blu-tac.

    maccruiskeen
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    Its a matter of how you measure ‘great’. There are technological pinnacles that benefit very few (globally) and are of interest to only a few more. An achievement like regeneration spinal tissue – magnificent for the very few who have access to health care. Eliminating common illnesses like polio are of far greater significance to mankind broadly though.

    Mackem
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    Organ Transplants.

    ..until they can grow new organs.

    bruneep
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    In no order.
    Wheel
    velcro
    zip tie
    internet

    Spin
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    Brewing.

    jonba
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    There is no greatest..they’re just steps along the way.

    I agree, there are a lot of “giant’s shoulders” being stood on in that operation.

    Can we have the written word, without it the steps would be forgotten?

    5thElefant
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    Fire

    PeterPoddy
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    Cake

    kimbers
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    Contraceptives

    somafunk
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    I’d hazard a guess at Antibiotics but whether that would come under the term of modern early 20th century medical advances could be argued till we die of old age.

    Spin
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    or have they been surpassed this week by the regeneration of spinal cord and partially reversing paralysis?

    Lots of experts urging caution in assessing this advance owing to the relatively straightforward nature of the patients injury. Important yes but only the first step. Pun intended.

    Ewan
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    Quantum electro dynamics.

    tomkerton
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    Boeing 747

    cloudnine
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    Sanitation and fresh drinking water on tap. Maybe elastictrickery too

    OmarLittle
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    Something agricultural related (irrigation or the plow or even just agriculture itself) as it allowed humans to move past the hunter gatherer stage of development

    CaptJon
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    Convincing women to sleep with them.

    MrSmith
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    The atomic bomb

    MSP
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    If they manage to actually land the Rosetta lander on the comet next month, that is going to be pretty impressive.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philae_%28spacecraft%29

    Kuco
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    Internet porn

    Moses
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    Scientific or engineering.

    Engineering – probably the steam engine.

    Scientific, understanding the principles of evolution.

    jekkyl
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    I’m gonna go with electricity…..

    flip
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    Crumpets

    slowoldman
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    Something agricultural related (irrigation or the plow or even just agriculture itself) as it allowed humans to move past the hunter gatherer stage of development

    On the other hand that has led directly to over-population.

    Duffer
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    Tweed.

    slowoldman
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    Looking at earlier suggestions I reckon the printing press and sanitation probably just have the edge over brewing. But not by much.

    ernie_lynch
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    ScottChegg
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    Glass.

    I could stand on a sandy beach all day and it wouldn’t occur to me to turn it into windows.

    eddie11
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    Red IPA

    CountZero
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    Beer’s a good one, it enabled most people to drink water free from contamination ‘cos the alchohol killed the bugs. Everybody drank ‘small beer’, even children.
    Of course scientific discoveries are important, but things that help keep people alive day-to-day are too.

    flashpaul
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    The Transistor

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