The best invention ever. - Page 3

mura_gadi (Steve) · #41 20-10-2021, 02:26 PM

One of the most interesting CPU/Network designs underway atm is the SKA project.

The network is scaled to 8 petabytes, which if my old networking days means anything, about 40% of capacity. They have two 100 petaflops computers online (Oz/S. Africa) and expect about 600 Petabytes processed data a year. The support for all of that is amazing as well...

The glossy stuff doesn't talk about MTBF but that would be interesting to know as that is a prod buttock network.

toc (Tim) · #42 21-10-2021, 11:30 AM

I would go with the scientific method, although I'm not sure it is considered an invention as such.

JohnF (John) · #43 21-10-2021, 12:04 PM

Wife

astroametuer (Jay) · #44 21-10-2021, 12:10 PM

The internet!

xelasnave · #45 21-10-2021, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by toc

I would go with the scientific method, although I'm not sure it is considered an invention as such.

If only everyone on the planet followed it what a wonderful place it would be...Even a semblance of checking stuff someone told you or checking stuff you see on youtube and perhaps not ignoring the facts available that conclusively show that you are simply wrong. The propensity of folk to believe rubbish over science is alarming...those who still will say evolution is wrong and that it is after all only a theory...and these folk of course have never read up on what the theory actually says but rely on the straw man constructed by folk who prefer to get their science from unknown sources written at a minimum of 2000 years ago...dure way to go...and so they argue against something that they have no idea of what is set out...and ...well I will leave it there and wont waste more time thinking about fools.
Alex

sn1987a (Barry) · #46 21-10-2021, 02:21 PM

Argo Navis

gary · #47 21-10-2021, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by sn1987a

Argo Navis

Thanks Barry.

Where do I mail the cheque?

toc (Tim) · #48 21-10-2021, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by sn1987a

Argo Navis

"If your happy and you know it clap your hands"

sn1987a (Barry) · #49 21-10-2021, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by gary

Thanks Barry.

Where do I mail the cheque?

It was the only thing I know of that addressed both criteria in the question.
"What if taken away would be a huge loss to you or humanity".

xelasnave · #50 22-10-2021, 07:34 AM

Last night I was reading up on the Sumarians and their various inventions and although I have been studying them for some time found in the stuff that I was reading that they are believed to have invented the wheel and the sail boat...as well as many other things. I think it is criminal that they are neglected it seems in history classes in our schools. I expect that most people would not have a clue about them or the contributions they made that are with today. The tos prevent my explanation as to why this is so however it becomes entirety obvious when you study their "stories" ...one may find that one has heard them before from a later time in history.

AND rather than list their contribution to our world I simply encourage members to take the time to learn some very interesting stuff by googling them.
Alex

Hans Tucker (Hans) · #51 22-10-2021, 07:40 AM

The best invention ... the refrigerator.

xelasnave · #52 22-10-2021, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

The best invention ... the refrigerator.

I think the Sumarians invented the first cold storage...but I am not sure on that...that will keep me occupied checking ...
Alex

RB (Andrew) · #53 22-10-2021, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by xelasnave

I think the Sumarians invented the first cold storage...but I am not sure on that...that will keep me occupied checking ...
Alex

It was the Eskimos Alex.

RB

Hans Tucker (Hans) · #54 22-10-2021, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by xelasnave

I think the Sumarians invented the first cold storage...but I am not sure on that...that will keep me occupied checking ...
Alex

Was that to keep their Beer cold?

mura_gadi (Steve) · #55 22-10-2021, 09:07 AM

I'll add domesticated animals, front and foremost the dog.

Live just wouldn't be the same without ya dog.

Ps. Alex if you're taking the "Coolgardie safe/cooler", you'd have to go back a long way. As for ice transport that would be a distance and transport tech. issue, people close to ice would have been utilising it prior to a lot of other basic inventions... Roman had ice shops, is one I found...

Other:
"...between 1000-2000 BCE—people discovered that they could make their food last longer by storing it at cold temperatures. The ancient Mesopotamians developed the most common form of storage called “ice pits” that evolved into “Yakhchāl” in Persia. These large dome-shaped clay structures had a hole on the top and a vaulted ceiling over the ice pit. Water from the ice would evaporate and cling to the walls of the dome to cool the air inside."

*The Artic Small tool tribes of Siberia may have been freezing fish and hacking them out 6000 years ago. I'd guess the tribes around the foot hills of Mount Kilimanjaro would have been storing food even prior to that.

Stonius (Markus) · #56 22-10-2021, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

The best invention ... the refrigerator.

Speaking from a purely selfish perspective I would have to nominate the dishwasher. Every time I stack that thing I say a little thanks to Josephine Cochran for the fact that I don't have to do them.

And, er, Penicillin was pretty good too. Sometimes I even use the dishwasher to clean the penicillin off dishes I find hidden in the back of the fridge.

Markus

xelasnave · #57 22-10-2021, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

Was that to keep their Beer cold?

The only thing I have against the Sumarians was they invented beer and thus opened the doors for drunkeness for humans ..just think of the lives taken by booze it is terrible....

Alex

xelasnave · #58 22-10-2021, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by mura_gadi

I'll add domesticated animals, front and foremost the dog.

Live just wouldn't be the same without ya dog.

Ps. Alex if you're taking the "Coolgardie safe/cooler", you'd have to go back a long way. As for ice transport that would be a distance and transport tech. issue, people close to ice would have been utilising it prior to a lot of other basic inventions... Roman had ice shops, is one I found...

Other:
"...between 1000-2000 BCE—people discovered that they could make their food last longer by storing it at cold temperatures. The ancient Mesopotamians developed the most common form of storage called “ice pits” that evolved into “Yakhchāl” in Persia. These large dome-shaped clay structures had a hole on the top and a vaulted ceiling over the ice pit. Water from the ice would evaporate and cling to the walls of the dome to cool the air inside."

*The Artic Small tool tribes of Siberia may have been freezing fish and hacking them out 6000 years ago. I'd guess the tribes around the foot hills of Mount Kilimanjaro would have been storing food even prior to that.

Yes you have a decent grasp of subject but it was the Sumarians who invent ice

Alex

Hans Tucker (Hans) · #59 22-10-2021, 02:02 PM

Possibly this is the best invention ever .. and no the Sumerians didn't invent this a Hungarian did.

xelasnave · #60 22-10-2021, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

Possibly this is the best invention ever .. and no the Sumerians didn't invent this a Hungarian did.

I think the inventor got the idea after looking at Ziggurats.

Edit much later.

What gave it away is the black between the "bricks" which is reminiscent of the bitumen used as mortar between the bricks in the Ziggurat.
Alex