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Greatest invention of the 20th century?
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We all know you'd secretly infect his drink with miasma and yellow bile to REALLY make him sick.
See, you think you're joking, but once peak oil hits, well...
It will still be retarded?
ba-dum tssssh
^ This.
it did bring us some awesome gob jokes, though
2: The Haber Process - Artificial Nitrogen Fixation, aka "we can make artificial fertilizers AND explosives/gunpowder without naturally occurring nitrate deposits!"
3: Dwarf Wheat
4: Computers (both vacuum tube based and later integrated circuit based)
5: The Ballistic Missile (used for satellite launches, human space exploration, and MAD)
I found out that Bill Maher didn't believe in Germ Theory and I was just aghast, how the fuck can any sane person not believe it?
He says he doesn't get sick because he's cleansed of toxins. What the fuck is a toxin? Can you see them in a microscope? Because you can fucking see microorganisms raping cells with a microscope.
Have these people just never taken a biology class?
Antibiotics and computers all predate the 20th century
Disinfectants were common but not antibiotics. What antibiotics were around before 1900?
The first tube computer was made in the 1940s for WWII.
Penicillin was discovered in 1928. What antibiotics existed before that?
Vaccines predate antibiotics.
I think it's fair to say that when someone says "computer," they don't intend that to include things like difference engines or abacuses.
I agree that the use of various substances to prevent infection or lower fever is fairly common in many societies in history. I suppose some of those might qualify as antibiotics in the sense that they kill bacteria, but I feel like, once again, antibiotics is being used in a more colloquial fashion meant to indicate drugs like penicillin.
The early computers were no more sophisticated then mechanical computational devices of the 19th century.
Alright, programmable/program-controlled computers then.
Microprocessors, PLCs or pneumatic control circuits?
I'm an engineer. Right now, I'm working on a project with microcomputers, PLCs and pneumatic circuits. They're only semantically different from a layman's perspective.
(And yes, microprocessor is probably the better choice in this instance.)
Both, I'm designing my chip logic on a DAQ system then shrinking it down to work on a TI MSP430 2012 chip
Heh nerds all up in dis thread
Oh shit I completely forgot the Haber process, my chemistry professor would be kicking me if he knew. Something like 2-3% of humanity's entire energy production goes towards the Haber process, it really is incredibly important.
If we're going to talk about Einstein, I would call quantum mechanics at least equally important.
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I know! Let's put H2 and N2 together at high pressures and heat it up!
Anyone can invent that when given an infinite budget and life-threatening necessity.
Brute force shouldn't always be a dirty word. Sometimes there isn't an elegant trick.
Quantum Mechanics got going in a big way in the 19th century
EDIT I know dropping Einstein's name is tiresome, but I mean really - there was physics before the big E and physics afterward.
The only thing 19th century about QM is that the questions that caused the theory to develop. Around 1875 most physicists believed all important matters settled, with only details to sort out.
The problems that caused it to be discovered/invented were in the 1800s, yes, but the actual formulation of it wasn't until the 20th century. That's kind of like saying that integral calculus was invented before jesus because people had trouble working out volumes of various shapes then.
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He had the Michelson-Morley experiment as well and it's perenial answer for the speed of light in all directions as being c=1.
It would need to have conditioned air blowing out the crotch.
I mean, sure there was basic assembly lines way back in the 18th century, but the developments made for the model T, not to mention WW2 and the like are an order of magnitude 'better'. Of course, I'm probably as biased towards it's importance as an industrial engineer as all those EE people and their microprocessors
I was more referring to the "computers pre 20th century" line. Sure they existed, and the Greeks had steam powered toys, but neither of those examples of a principal had anywhere near the societal impact that the steam engine had on the 18nth century or the computer had on the 20th century.
Now, I hope I'm done having to explain things that should have been obvious given the context of the thread.