Which single person has contributed most to the human race?

IvaBigWun · 20-08-2008 5:53pm #1

Alexander Flemming?

Newton?

Florence Nightingale?

Einstein?

Marie Curie?

Watson & Crick?

Im going to go with Jimmy Saville.

He fixed it for everyone.

Replies with "yore ma" "yore da" "your sister" and variations thereof = Fail

cobweb · 20-08-2008 5:55pm

the guy who invented the wheel

Morlar · 20-08-2008 5:56pm

cobweb wrote: »

the guy who invented the wheel

He found out how to use fire too - v handy he was.

Ruu_Old · 20-08-2008 5:56pm

Bob the Builder or Wally (from Where's Wally? books)

biko · 20-08-2008 5:58pm

Socrates

Creature · 20-08-2008 5:58pm

Rob Schneider.

HalloweenJack · 20-08-2008 5:58pm

God (if he exists)

Mena · 20-08-2008 6:00pm

Charles Darwin, for allowing reason and enlightenment to come to the fore and slowly begin the banishment of the dark ages (some still cling to).

Marcus.Aurelius · 20-08-2008 6:00pm

Aside from a particular demigod (No, not Asok!),

1 Albert Einstein for his contributions to Science
2 Adolf Hitler for teaching the world how cruel humanity can be to each other
3 Watson and Crick for their double helix model

AARRRGH · 20-08-2008 6:01pm

Al Gore. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be able to post this.

Ass · 20-08-2008 6:04pm

AARRRGH wrote: »

Al Gore. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be able to post this.

Is he your father?

m83 · 20-08-2008 6:04pm

Michael O'Leary.

The_Minister · 20-08-2008 6:05pm

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Florence Nightingale?

Seriously?
I'm sure she was nice, but contributed most? Come on.

m83 · 20-08-2008 6:06pm

Ass Face wrote: »

Is he your father?

Al Gore invented the interwebs.

slipss · 20-08-2008 6:06pm

Give it around 50 years and I reckon Ernest McCulloch and James Till will be right at the top in alot of peoples estimations.

Winters · 20-08-2008 6:06pm

Charles Darwin would be well up there on my list.

m83 · 20-08-2008 6:08pm

Bill Gates?

Jimbo · 20-08-2008 6:11pm

Jesus

HalloweenJack · 20-08-2008 6:12pm

Hitler.

shenanigans1982 · 20-08-2008 6:13pm

jimbo78 wrote: »

Jesus

The Brazillian footballer?

Katie French....such a shame she was cut down in her prime.

Morlar · 20-08-2008 6:14pm

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Quayle.jpg

BroomBurner · 20-08-2008 6:16pm

Can I cheat a little and say the Pope? Not just the current one, but every Pope there was (bar the nice ones that mysteriously died before being able to change anything). Any good work they may have been able to do is completely abolished by all the crap contributions they have made to the world.

ancientdog · 20-08-2008 6:16pm

tomas eddison( he invented the light bulb) good man.

Standard Toaster · 20-08-2008 6:23pm

Homor J Simpson

admiralofthefleet · 20-08-2008 6:23pm

eh..yore ma?

d0gb0y · 20-08-2008 6:33pm

Archimedes gets my vote as he was a true genius & his findings have been around for a very long time therefore they have had a much greater effect than any of the modern suggestions already mentioned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes

I have to say its kinda sad that he wasn't mentioned so far as without him or possibly someone with the same genius/inclination we would not have advanced to the level that we are currently at. If there was one person we could resurrect you can be sure that most modern scientists would go for him or maybe DaVinci, I personally would go for Bill Hicks so he could take the piss out of Bush Jnr(the resurrection idea could be a good thread in iteslf pity about the religious crap it implies)

smellslikeshoes · 20-08-2008 6:33pm

ancientdog wrote: »

tomas eddison( he invented the light bulb) good man.

I'd agree with this, Edison invented a crazy amount of important things. I don't think Hitler contributed much to the Human race but did have an enormous effect on it.