Greatest Invention
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The ivory flute (and art in general) should be up there.
After decades of claiming that the extinction of the Neanderthals was their relative stupidity compared to us, scientists now believe that the Neanderthals were actually more adept at creating effective tools than us, and roughly as smart.
The reason we're now purported to have survived over them was our ability to socially network and form communities in a way the Neanderthals never did. One of the ways we formed bonds in this way was through the trade/gifting of art and musical instruments, ancient relics of which which can be scattered over vast distances all over Europe.
It seems our love of art (and community) has helped us survive one of the greatest challenges our race has ever faced.
After decades of claiming that the extinction of the Neanderthals was their relative stupidity compared to us, scientists now believe that the Neanderthals were actually more adept at creating effective tools than us, and roughly as smart.
The reason we're now purported to have survived over them was our ability to socially network and form communities in a way the Neanderthals never did. One of the ways we formed bonds in this way was through the trade/gifting of art and musical instruments, ancient relics of which which can be scattered over vast distances all over Europe.
It seems our love of art (and community) has helped us survive one of the greatest challenges our race has ever faced.
Violator79
Take a Hit, Spunker!
Time for a Carlinism:
"What's so great about sliced bread? You got a knife, a loaf of bread...SLICE THE FUCKING THING!!"
I would have to say scientific protocol, though not simply because of the notion itself of course, I don't think anything has changed us and our view of the world so much as that has (and does). At least not since we, at least superficially, stopped thinking of ourselves as animals. Say what you will about ingenious inventions and their effect on the world, but nothing carries greater weight than ones mindset, that is after all what forms the fleeting illusion we so grandly refer to as "reality".
There, all done being philosophical for the day, time to regress back to only a glorified primate.
There, all done being philosophical for the day, time to regress back to only a glorified primate.
Really? Air conditioning and a remote control? :ban:
You would think so, but even people good with the knife can have a hard time getting those nice even slices. :dunno:
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We can distill our own, can't we?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...e+White+Lightning&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
