Which incredible invention would be best for mankind..?

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Simple reply:

State which of the below inventions in your opinion would benefit mankind most. You can only have 1!


Complex reply:

State which inventions suck! Why?



1) The power switch.

Technology is invented that gives humans as much free power as they want for 30 years (environmentally clean). After this it runs out. Any power stored in any form from the technology in any way (eg batteries) disapates quickly. We're back where we were.


2) Justice

One off event, that will expose all the crimes (against UK law - no matter where the crime happened- if you get me -- eg it might be technically legal for gadaffi to murder his own people in his country - that would still be flagged as it breaks uk law) that every living human has committed up until that point in time. Anything committed afterwards is not recorded. The human race can do what it wants with the information.

3) Oil substitute

Can be produced by any nation in unlimited quantities kinda forever for a (inflation linked) $90 per barrel. Does double the environmental damage as oil, apart from that, identical to oil in every way.

4) The environmental switch

One off event. returns all the greenhouse gases in the world to the level they were at in the year 1700 (so before the industrial revolution). Also neutralises all radioactive waste. Doesn't mean the planet stays that way .. thats up to us ..

5) Anti-aging pill

Pill can be produced for £500 a pop (not cheap) that stops ageing. You still die if you starve, get cancer, are hit by a bus etc ..

6) The teleporter.

Can teleport humans (and their clothes!) only - up to 10 miles instantly (no environmental damage - no cost). After that the human in question can not be teleported for one hour to 'allow their body to recover' ( this does not hurt, and the process has no lasting damage). So it's gonna take a while to get 35 miles by the teleporter ..

7) The cleanser

A beam of light will pass over the planet once every 24 hours, having no effect but destroying all crops used to produce heroin and cocaine or any derivitive. Does not affect other crops or anything else. Marijuana not affected.

8) The producer

Virtually free chemical that makes crops grow to double the size, and also stops any creature apart from humans being able to digest the produce. If chemical is released anywhere, it will effect 1000 mile squared area. So no 'only douse half the field in the stuff' ..

9) The cure

Cures found for top two leading causes of death in the world. Simples. (And yes, all forms of cancer)

10) The answer

Definitely states whether god in any form exists or not in a form that can not be disputed by anyone. If something close enough to 'god' exists, states once and for all which religeon (if any) actually had the correct deal down in their religeous texts!!




So - what ya' gonna go for? :)
 
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1) The power switch.

This would be my choice, would allow us to build infrastructure sustainably and answer many physics questions. Would also allow us for a limited time to use many un-economical and power hungry industry methods.


2) Justice

Would be pretty pointless what are you going to do with teh entire world population, everyone has broken a UK law

3) Oil substitute

Again pretty pointless unless you solve the environment option and I'm not just talking Global warming but everything from heavy metals to smog and everything inbetween.

4) The environmental switch

Useful but solving the problem is much better than reverting.

5) Anti-aging pill

Again pointless as your brain will still become useless and everything else. So you would just look young for your life. So i don;t see much point.

6) The teleporter.

Useful, but other options are better.

7) The cleanser

Be absolutely rubbish. a lot of medical painkillers and drugs come from such plants.

8) The producer

with the 1000 mile rule, it would destroy the eco system and so be useless, with no insects to pollinate.

9) The cure

Usefull but again better options.

10) The answer

Interesting but ultimately pointless. people will believe what they want and other people need to believe in something, others use it as an excuse. So nothing much would change.
 
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The cleanser - 7 would be a good one, I have seen the effects of drugs, shame it can't get rid of all drugs - i'd also ban alcohol - that's the biggest cause of **** in this country!
 
dbov22 said:
The cleanser - 7 would be a good one, I have seen the effects of drugs, shame it can't get rid of all drugs - i'd also ban alcohol - that's the biggest cause of **** in this country!
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Would be rubbish as it would remove a load of pain killers.
 
dbov22 said:
The cleanser - 7 would be a good one, I have seen the effects of drugs, shame it can't get rid of all drugs - i'd also ban alcohol - that's the biggest cause of **** in this country!
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aye this. But I will go for 10 the answer. Alcohol will be banned anyway if god existed since its stated in the bible and the quran.
 
1) To use the energy to develop technologies that wouldn't be dependant on the source but that would also be sustainable, reliable and environmentally clean.

If I had the choice for two the next would have to be the environmental switch to aid number one mostly :)

I think that number 10 would hinder mankind more than it would benefit it, because it would divide people even more with one side suggesting that it was one big hoax and go to war over it. It would also cause mass panic because of what we have believed to be true was wrong and what they dismissed as wrong because of the religion such as aliens
 
well 8 dooms us to die

7 causes untold pain

9 we can do our selves

1 will screws over long term because we will rely on it too much

10 is pointless and will only cause more fighting


6 interesting and would actually be useful for shipping people into space, but if it only works on people not as useful but it means ships/equipment could be lunched in ways humans could not survive and then the crew transported up

3 again probably going to screw us over

2 again mostly useless and will result in horrific crimes of revenge that will lead only to more violence



5 very interesting but i can see it necessitating some law changes.

4 seems rather pointless, and i imagine the massive instant "reset" will cause incalculable damage as we don't know the knock on effects.

So I'd go 6 because I'm assuming from this

5) Anti-aging pill

Pill can be produced for £500 a pop (not cheap) that stops ageing. You still die if you starve, get cancer, are hit by a bus etc ..
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that the pill requires multiple administration because that is pretty cheap for the product.
 
AcidHell2 said:
I doubt it as we would know the time scale, so is pointless depending on it.
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we still would though because there are massive profits to be made just using that and you can cut an run at the end.

Also places like Africa would develop faster but then at the end not be able to affords to carry on.

Also it's very vague assuming it means electricity, having lots of it isn't really that useful for advancing technology or energy research.



we have more enough enough power and money to run the experiments but we still fail at making them work.

It's more a question of time than energy.
 
Orbital elevator.

Overnight you have the platform to begin to sort all of human kinds problems.
 
Tefal said:
we still would though because there are massive profits to be made just using that and you can cut an run at the end.
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Of course you can, but not everyone would.
unlimited energy would allow for currently unused manufacturing methods to increase raw materials and other areas of manufacturing and greatly reduce teh cost of everything to produce. While I'm sure many would use it for money. We would be better of, as some would think long term.

Sparky__H said:
Orbital elevator.

Overnight you have the platform to begin to sort all of human kinds problems.
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That should be an option, the possibilities are endless. For a start we could put solar panels in space, far more efficient and always day light.
 
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