Comments on Liviu's [Computer Science] Blog: Most remarkable inventions of the human species

@Andrei: about the flight First, flight is not c...

2009-10-02T01:44:02.468+03:00

@Andrei: about the flight

First, flight is not cool. It's useful; entertaining to some extent. It's been cool on the times of "Catch Me If You Can" or the "Aviator", but now it's just some other means of transport. Fast, indeed. Almost fail-safe, indeed, considering one ignores stupid media networks which make a big deal out of every plane crash.

Second, we, as a species, have not reached space. I consider the term scratched more appropriate. So, we have scratched space.

Since we have not reached space, we cannot infer that flight leads to space. It could be some other means of traveling not yet developed.

Why have I not included flight?
I feel it just as a stage in our rapid evolution. I feel that at the right time it shall be massively replaced by the next best thing. It took quite a long time to replace carriage with automobile/truck etc. It took incredibly less time to replace land telephones with mobile cell phones. It shall take even less time to replace flight (therefore airplanes) with the next best thing.

@Andrei: about the toilet Ah, the toilet, of cour...

2009-10-02T00:54:50.072+03:00

@Andrei: about the toilet

Ah, the toilet, of course. Quite a nice invention, I may say.

ReT provides an interesting approach and argumentation towards this useful invention. I agree with him. I appreciate the inventor of the toilet, too.

However, I do not consider the toilet remarkable enough to be present in my top n (n may change over time, currently reached 7). In the comments, yes, it may be present. It is a well deserved place.

The toilet has always been there in one way or another. The inventor is actually all the humans that improved it over time and reached its current status, shape and utility.

Why have I not included the WHEEL or the HAMMER yet? They had actually to have been invented, but all in all it's almost the same: they kind of always had been there (due to the fact they had been invented at our very beginning as tool inventors), in one shape or another, continuously improved by all humans.

Oh, and, also, come on: flight. It's cool. Any...

2009-10-01T23:04:42.953+03:00

Oh, and, also, come on: flight. It's cool. Anybody who used an airplane (and is not scared of flying) knows how damn cool the thing is. And it leads to space. And far beyond. Where no one has gone before. (Taaaa, daaaa, la la la laaaaaa laa, la la laaaaaa la laa, la la la laaaaaaa)

Of course, you have missed one essential invention...

2009-09-30T18:47:50.900+03:00

Of course, you have missed one essential invention, without which life would have never been so... careless.

Please refer to (and praise) the toilet

"(...) so he could have a good explanation to...

2009-09-29T18:08:00.028+03:00

"(...) so he could have a good explanation to present to his wife for his head getting hit (...)"

Sir Isaac Newton didn't have a wife (fortunately).