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Post by laklak » Fri Mar 25, 2016 2:08 am

The birth of Emperor Lak.
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Post by JimC » Fri Mar 25, 2016 3:01 am

The thread brings up the important issue as to whether the unfolding of human history is largely dependent on certain special tipping points (often associated with decisions by particular individuals), or whether history flows in broad currents, where individual events are not specifically important, in that if X hadn't done Y, something very similar would have been done by Z instead...
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Mar 25, 2016 3:18 am

Yeah, most people and events stand on the shoulders of giants.

Maybe a truly exceptional event was the ability to start fire. That would have changed human history significantly.

And the adoption of cultivation and agriculture.
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Post by laklak » Fri Mar 25, 2016 3:38 am

Beer. Seriously, there's a school of thought that agriculture developed to insure a steady supply of beer. Works for me.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Mar 25, 2016 1:36 pm

rEvolutionist wrote:Yeah, most people and events stand on the shoulders of giants.
And sometimes people and events stand on the necks of giants.
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Post by laklak » Fri Mar 25, 2016 1:38 pm

Sometimes a giant stands on The People's necks. Sometimes a little dwarf motherfucker does the same, just look at Li'l Kim.
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Some stand on the erect penises of others. Those people are fucking sickos! :nono:
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sun Apr 24, 2016 1:29 am

Maxwell's four electrodynamic equations, 1861, and the invention of the Scanning Electron Microscope by Manfred von Ardenne in 1937.

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Post by pErvinalia » Sun Apr 24, 2016 4:32 am

I could have done that.
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