SCIENCE/ technology

dogsbody70 · (#1 (**permalink**))

what do you think has been the greatest and most beneficial advances in

Science and technology?

WingsToDiscovery · (#2 (**permalink**))

Pretty much anything that contributes to the understanding of who we are as people on this earth, including the human genome project. To understand how what we're made up of, the limits are endless in medicine and biotechnology.

Granted, it's a hard question to answer, but this was definitely the first thing that crossed my mind.

evanny · (#3 (**permalink**))

supercollider at Switzerland.

dogsbody70 · (#4 (**permalink**))

what is a super collider?

evanny · (#5 (**permalink**))

27 km long tube underground where magnets send particles close to speed of light and collide them replicating results of the birth of the universe and creating mini black holes for 1/million's of a second.

it's like scientist's meca that costs 10 billion.

RealJames · (#6 (**permalink**))

the most obvious answer is the transistor,
otherwise none of these other things could be done.

aside from that, the internet is a pretty obvious 2nd...

as far as cool, non-obvious, answers go; the おしり　－　the washlet for the toilet

WingsToDiscovery · (#7 (**permalink**))

Quote:

Originally Posted by RealJames

the most obvious answer is the transistor,
otherwise none of these other things could be done.

Come on! lol. Give us some creative liberty here.

SCIFFIX · (#8 (**permalink**))

I think the first and most important are the antibiotics

can you imagine how many people were saved after the discovery of the penicillin by Alexander Fleming? This discovery increased the population longevity.

the second: the abacus and the other mechanic calculators.

for me the transistors are in third position, without they we would be using gigantic mechanic computers, the PC and Mac would never exist. The capacity of calculation would be very low, nothing compared with a simple PC that we have today, can you imagine that ?

Therefore the Large Hadron Collider (what evanny was talking about) would not exist, and if there were (only by a miracle), the results of particles collisions would not be analyzed due to non existence of a machine to solve advanced calculations in a short time.

MMM · (#9 (**permalink**))

dogs body, it is funny to me you are asking this question to a group so much younger than you. I think you would be the best to answer this question.

I recently heard this question asked to a 93 year old woman, and her answer was, without hesitation, the radio.

dogsbody70 · (#10 (**permalink**))

why is it funny. I am interested in others views. so I ask/

there was a programme about it recently so I thought it would be a good subject to consider.