What is Mankind's Greatest Invention?

[Montegriffo]

Grain stored in a sealed granary last years too. You should read the Bible some time.

Grain is not the only food.

[Ph64]

Grain stored in a sealed granary last years too. You should read the Bible some time.

Grain is not the only food.

Centralization also isn't always a good thing. You have a drought... luckily for your village you have a granary full of grain. Unluckily for your village the drought has caused fires to break out, one of which consumed the granary destroying your stored food supply.

...might've been better off with grain stored in pots in each families home rather than in a huge granary.

[doc_loliday]

Gonna go with the transformer.

[Smitty-48]

Air conditioning.

[heydaralon]

Rain

Before that people had to carry a bucket full of river water on their head or go to a lake.

[Montegriffo]

Not the greatest invention but a personal favourite is stainless steel.
I collect shiny metal like a magpie.
Knives, pans, tables, cutlery, trays etc.
Even bits of the walls in my kitchen truck.
I fuckin' love stainless steel.

[Speaker to Animals]

I thought chefs like carbon steel best for personal knives.

[Montegriffo]

I thought chefs like carbon steel best for personal knives.

I'm over buying expensive knives.
I buy knives for their handles now. If you spend all day actually using one and you know how to keep an edge on it the hardness of the steel doesn't matter.
What matters is comfort and control which is all about the handle.

These are what I buy but a little bigger. 12'' rather than 10''.


At £25 I can buy 10 for the price of one expensive chef's knife and the ergonomic handles won't give me a callous.
It takes me about 5 years to curve the blade sharpening it at which point I buy a new one.
If I drop it and bend the tip it's no biggie. If I do that to a £250 knife it will spoil my day.

[Smitty-48]

Obviously air conditioning. For tens of thousands of years, you could get warmed up, but not until 1902 could you ever get cooled off, and you could never have had the shining cities you have now, without being able to do that.

[Smitty-48]

Heat dissipation is actually the path to the Information Age and the stars beyond, if you don't have it on your starship, you will cook in the heat generated by your computers.