Best invention for the past 200 years?

**jarvis** · 15-05-05, 19:23

the bikini

**Sensuikan San** · 16-05-05, 00:53

Originally Posted by jarvis

the bikini

Swimsuit or Nuclear test ?

Regards,

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**Sensuikan San** · 16-05-05, 01:07

Sorry folks !

It just occurred to me ....

The steam engine is invalid !

It predates 1805 !

With apologies ...

�W��

**Dutch Baka** · 16-05-05, 01:08

Originally Posted by jarvis

the bikini

mmm i like topless more then bikini.....

Mike Cash · 16-05-05, 01:14

Originally Posted by Sensuikan San

Sorry folks !

It just occurred to me ....

The steam engine is invalid !

It predates 1805 !

With apologies ...

�W��

Dang! I was just getting ready to bust you on that!

Mike Cash · 16-05-05, 01:16

Originally Posted by Sensuikan San

Swimsuit or Nuclear test ?

Regards,

�W��

Strange this should come up. Just yesterday I watched a 1987 documentary, "Radio Bikini" about those tests. Bikini has to be one of the finest examples of a good idea poorly implemented.

**Sensuikan San** · 16-05-05, 01:20

Aaaaah yes!

The old geezer's 'hot to trot' today !

Let's just say "age will occasionally beat beauty" ! (Especially when you actually went to school with Watt, Newcomen and Trevithick ....!)

�W��

**Sensuikan San** · 16-05-05, 01:25

Originally Posted by mikecash

.... Bikini has to be one of the finest examples of a good idea poorly implemented.

Yeah !

Swimsuit or Nuclear Test ?

(Is there a smiley .... for "rolling around on the floor, absolutely out of control, laughing" ?)

So sorry ! Just couldn't resist ... !

Warmest Regards,

�W��

**Mahoujin Tsukai** · 16-05-05, 03:58

I believe it's the transistor

. Without it, many of today's technological developments could not have been possible (or would have at best, progressed very slowly).

Imagine using vaccum tubes in place of transistors - the result would be unreliable electrical appliances (vaccum tubes failed easily) and theorectically speaking, the average Pentium II CPU (not Pentium IV) could be as large as a warehouse.

Mike Cash · 16-05-05, 07:46

Originally Posted by Sensuikan San

Yeah !

Swimsuit or Nuclear Test ?

(Is there a smiley .... for "rolling around on the floor, absolutely out of control, laughing" ?)

So sorry ! Just couldn't resist ... !

Warmest Regards,

�W��

You should see that documentary about the Operation Crossroads test/fiasco at Bikini. I just now did some googling on the operation and found a page that expands on some things the documentary didn't really get a chance to cover.

http://www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/weis1.htm

**Kara_Nari** · 16-05-05, 11:21

Ribbed for her pleasure? How many of you guys turn it inside out so its ribbed for 'your' pleasure???? I have heard of that being done.
I think transportation is pretty good, whether it be a huge old ship back in the days, or bumper boats in a theme park. Im a big fan.

Mike Cash · 16-05-05, 12:04

Originally Posted by Kara_Nari

Ribbed for her pleasure? How many of you guys turn it inside out so its ribbed for 'your' pleasure????

The late and much lamented Southern philosopher Lewis Grizzard (may he rest in peace) related a tale, likely apocryphal, of a small town Georgia youth in the 1950s venturing into a drugstore and asking for a "french tickler".

"Son, do you know what that will do to a woman?" asked the druggist.

"No, but it'll make a goat jump six inches straight up in the air," replied the boy.

**Kara_Nari** · 16-05-05, 12:17

... each to their own

**Sensuikan San** · 26-05-05, 03:58

Originally Posted by mikecash

The late and much lamented Southern philosopher Lewis Grizzard (may he rest in peace) related a tale, likely apocryphal, of a small town Georgia youth in the 1950s venturing into a drugstore and asking for a "french tickler".

"Son, do you know what that will do to a woman?" asked the druggist.

"No, but it'll make a goat jump six inches straight up in the air," replied the boy.

Six inches ?

That guy wasn't so good, was he ?

Mike Cash · 26-05-05, 09:56

You say that like a man who has made goats jump higher in his day.....

You post put me in mind of a song from Lewis Grizzard, with the refrain of "Damn, brother...I don't believe I woulda told that"

**Sensuikan San** · 27-05-05, 03:11

.....Well .....

I don't like to brag! .... but ....

�W��

**mynimal** · 27-05-05, 03:22

Definately the PEZ dispenser.

**galychanyn** · 26-01-10, 18:20

computers and the internet

**NewEngland** · 07-12-10, 09:03

M-16 / Ar-15

**Franco** · 08-11-11, 02:41

In my opinion: Vaccine.

**Yetos** · 08-11-11, 10:13

maybe ecology and what hurts enviroment ?

maybe what causes cancer?

or maybe how to drive the masses like tv?

**Goga** · 08-11-11, 17:31

Everything by Nikola Tesla. According to me one of the greatest genius of all times! He was a Serbian.

**lebowsky** · 08-11-11, 18:45

I think STEAM ENGINE. Regards.

**himagain** · 08-01-12, 01:56

Condoms, and especially pornography have been around for much longer than 200 years.
I think food preservation, a Napoleonic military invention, should top the list.

**Ramses II** · 19-02-12, 19:38

Best invention?

It would have to be the airplane. It's amazing how tons of metal can fly.

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