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Which single person has contributed most to the human race?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Cloud of course!!

    If it wasn't for him, none of us would be here!!
    Shame on you all for taking 7 pages not to have mentioned him...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭Al_Fernz


    John von Neumann

    Contributed so much in such little time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,208 ✭✭✭Économiste Monétaire


    Al_Fernz wrote: »
    John von Neumann

    Contributed so much in such little time.
    +1 The man was a pure genius.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭testicle


    Adam


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    Thomas midgeley


    - In opposite world! :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    William Shatner.

    End. Of. Discussion.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    testicle wrote: »
    Adam

    You're assuming he actually existed.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    kraggy wrote: »
    You're assuming he actually existed.

    Chances are that there was an Adam at some point in time.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    I knew an Adam once. Had a missing rib and a quare taste for apples...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Rovi


    Chances are that there was an Adam at some point in time.
    There was indeed-
    http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/2568/adamant8175220iv7.jpg


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    Brenda Fricker


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,375 ✭✭✭kmick


    Mata Amritanandamaiy - The hugging saint.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata_Amritanandamayi
    Worldwide, Mata Amritanandamayi is said to have hugged at least 30 million people in the past 30 years

    No tangible benefits apart from a warm fuzzy feeling?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    The Virgin Mary, who gave birth to Jesus, who saved the entire human race :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9 sthi


    Dinny from Glenroe


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    Nah, it's clearly Biddy. Ireland's first primetime sex symbol.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭mumhaabu


    George W. Bush, a true genius and the best president America has has in a long long time. Hopefully John McCain will be as good when he is elected.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9 sthi


    Smart Bug wrote: »
    Nah, it's clearly Biddy. Ireland's first primetime sex symbol.

    and dont forget that sexy sultress fidelma who nearly ruined it all by riding miley in the shed after drinking all that whiskey. he should have been sent to live with Blackie Connors


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    Ah yes. She introduced the idea of marital infidelity into our innocent oIrish minds, the filthy little mare


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭bill_ashmount


    Apu Nahasapeemapetilon


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    mumhaabu wrote: »
    George W. Bush, a true genius and the best president America has has in a long long time. Hopefully John McCain will be as good when he is elected.

    Which single person has contributed most?

    GWB is married to Laura.
    WindSock wrote:
    Gengis Khan had 1000 wives so he was bound to be a large contributor.

    And he's definitely out.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Smart Bug wrote: »
    Nah, it's clearly Biddy. Ireland's first primetime sex symbol.

    She must have shagged like the devil in a dress. Check poor Miley at 30 seconds in



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 91 ✭✭thats_life


    homer simpson


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭Ishmael


    James Bond Jr. FTW

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

    What about Captain Planet?,

    He's a Hero don't ya know!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Jesus.

    Declan Nerny

    The Lead designerof the atari jaguar.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭BroomBurner


    Ishmael wrote: »
    What about Captain Planet?,

    He's a Hero don't ya know!

    He was going to take Pollution down to zero.
    Unfortunately, he hasn't yet, so he can't be included :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    The Wright Brothers. Plane > Buildings.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Adolf Hitler.

    Man was very much misunderstood...


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Kinetic^ wrote: »
    The Wright Brothers. Plane > Buildings.

    Ooooh. Too soon. :D


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 2,432 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peteee


    To everyone not saying Isaac Newton, you're all wrong!

    The man wrote the book on Maths, and pretty much invented calculus, he 'discovered' gravity and came up with the 3 laws of motion which are still largely valid today.

    Science as we know it we owe to him.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭shenanigans1982


    Peteee wrote: »
    To everyone not saying Isaac Newton, you're all wrong!

    The man wrote the book on Maths,


    Thats the reason we are not picking him, nobody in the country can understand his book or did you miss the overview of the leaving cert results. :D


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