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Which single person has contributed most to the human race?

IvaBigWun · 2008-08-20 16:53:35

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

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#62 20-08-2008 9:50pm
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moe_sizlak wrote: »

perhaps the guy who invented penicilin , whats his face

This is his face.

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#63 20-08-2008 9:55pm
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#64 20-08-2008 9:56pm
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I'd say either Edward Jenner or Louis Pasteur. Their work on disease treatment and vaccines has saved millions of lives.

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#65 20-08-2008 10:09pm
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Depeche_Mode wrote: »

This is his face.

Nope, Fleming was another rip off merchant I'm afraid, he didn't discover it, just popuralised it i.e did none of the work but took all the credit.

(ok I'll stop now)

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#66 20-08-2008 10:10pm
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#67 20-08-2008 10:10pm
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IvaBigWun wrote: »

Which single person has contributed most to the human race?

....

Watson & Crick?

Fail imo.

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#68 20-08-2008 10:22pm
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I like to think I've contributed a lot to humanity.

Yeah, I'm great.

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#69 20-08-2008 10:36pm
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I was going to say Barry Scott but according to Time magazine, who publish a list of the most influential people of the twentieth century, it's Albert Einstein with the runners up being Roosevelt and Ghandi. They change the list every year with Oprah holding the record for being in the list six times.

So I'll have to go with Heather Graham.

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#70 20-08-2008 10:52pm
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James Bond Jr. FTW

He chased S.C.U.M around the world

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#72 21-08-2008 12:21am
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OK... the lads who invented the wheel. That did not just pave the way for the Audi A5 but mechanisms that are used to manufacture items of high value such as life saving drugs... and other things i can't think of!

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#73 21-08-2008 12:35am
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RonMexico wrote: »

Captain Birdseye

+ 1,000,000

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Morlar wrote: »

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

Prometheus?

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#76 21-08-2008 12:55am
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Thomas Newcomen
Invented the steam engine, without which modern life as we know it wouldn't exist

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#81 21-08-2008 2:11am
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Thomas Malthus.

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Antithetic wrote: »

Thomas Malthus.

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!
Controversial!

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#83 21-08-2008 2:22am
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His laissez-faire policies exacerbated the famine. That forced a million Irish to move to America. That would eventually turn America into the economic juggernaut it is today, inducing all of its inventions which, of course, includes the internet.

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#84 21-08-2008 2:25am
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Aw, I thought that you were one of those who are begining to support his views:( (he seems to be becoming more popular recently)

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#85 21-08-2008 2:26am
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The_Minister wrote: »

Aw, I thought that you were one of those who are begining to support his views:( (he seems to be becoming more popular recently)

No, I'm trolling. D'uh. His views were/are ridiculous. Technological advancement FTW.

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#86 21-08-2008 2:28am
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Antithetic wrote: »

No, I'm trolling. D'uh. His views were/are ridiculous. Technological advancement FTW.

You don't think that there is a limit to the expansion of food production? (I don't like his ideas, but I sometimes wonder if he wasn't just premature)

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#87 21-08-2008 9:30am
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Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg. His invention of moveable type printing paved the way for the last 600 years of improvements by allowing the rapid dissemenation of ideas and advances as well as allowing their storage for future study after the deaths of the originators of the ideas. Almost everything we can achieve today can be linked to his work because we all learn from printed books everywhere around the world. He may not be the greatest human who ever lived but his invention of movable type printing is the nexus for rapid and sustained human advancement.

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#88 21-08-2008 9:39am
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I would say that Norman Borlaug is worth a mention here. I believe he is probably the biggest contributor who is (AFAIK) still alive. He is commonly credited with saving over a billion people from starvation.

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#89 21-08-2008 9:40am
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I'd say Hitler too, if it wasn't for him we may not have the European Union, the UN or strict controls over the way the military invade a country. He was a bastard but good things came out of his madness.

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HITLER defo, Evil bastard but if it wasnt for him wed be speaking with a cockney or scouser accent now

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#91 21-08-2008 9:52am
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Go Darwin go!

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