what's the best thing to be invented in the past 100years?

[CJZ]

Water purification.

 

[SSP]

Fire!

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Amused
I'm honestly shocked that more people here don't understand the vast signifigance of the transistor, and just how much it has changed our lives.

No other invention of the 20th century has had as much impact on our lives. Not by a long shot.

That's cause unlike you we all understand that Bell Labs reversed engineered the transistor from the UFO crash in Roswell NM so it seems unfair to give them credit for intellectual property stealing

 

[CrazyDe1]

Originally posted by: SSP
Fire!

haha, that sh1t made me laugh

 

[flot]

I can't believe everyone here spends 10 hours a day online and isn't voting for the internet. ;-)

I can't even remember what I did without it.

 

[Eli]

I definately think it's a tie between the Automobile/Internal Combustion Engine, and the semiconductor.

Both changed our lives dramatically. Do you realize that before cars, people seldom traveled more than 20 miles from their homes?

 

[NARtheWang]

Hmm... that a hard one I like the Rail Gun, but the Laser is also neat..
Perhaps aerospace engineering..... Nah I'll go for the Rail Gun!

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

Originally posted by: udonoogen
in-n-out double double

YUM!

 

[DanTMWTMP]

transistor...if not for that...we won't have anything complicated...

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: Eli
I definately think it's a tie between the Automobile/Internal Combustion Engine, and the semiconductor.

Both changed our lives dramatically. Do you realize that before cars, people seldom traveled more than 20 miles from their homes?

LoL I still dont travle more then 20 miles from my home. Except to go skiing... then I do.

 

[Quixfire]

The generator, without this device we would even be able to post on the internet with our computers filled with transistors.

Oh yea, and quiet mattresses. So the kids don't wake up.

 

[mchammer187]

FET

 

[eplebnista]

SPAM Luncheon Meat

 

[Balthazar]

Originally posted by: Jfur
hard to say the internet is a specific invention, probably something related to medical field or techniques for understanding human genetics

Not a whole lot of "inventions" related to human genetics that spark that much interest, and alot of them either were modified from other fields or invented for more than that purpose. Genetics tends to fall under the discovery category more oftenmethinks....but it's kind of semantics really.

 

[Balthazar]

Originally posted by: voodoo33500
GUNS GUNS GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hehehe, perhaps a bit older than 100 years?

 

[Yomicron]

Duct Tape


with the transistor coming in a close second

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Yomicron
Duct Tape


with the transistor coming in a close second

Oh wow, I think we have a winner!

 

[hawkeye81x]

The Simpsons.
No one messes with the family jewels!

Internet and TV tie for second.

 

[PhoKing]

AIR CONDITIONING

 

[UglyCasanova]

assembly lines?

 

[klah]

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