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Gibberings CLXVI - You go away for a weekend...

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BecomingJulie said:
I also live in a valley (and from Montoya Mansions, it's practically uphill to the river) but not in Wales. It's the valley where the most important event in the whole of human history began. And I think that's pretty cool.
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the discovery of the invention of fire ? Or tool making ? Or the wheel ? Industrial revolution, nuclear weapons, or the internet ? Its arguable which is the most significant and important. :?
 
The Industrial Revolution. Why we have time to muck about with computers, and computers to muck about with. Otherwise we'd be mostly subsustence farmers; with a few lucky people having all their work done for them by rather more less lucky people. And don't forget that one of the things the IR brought us, is fiftieth birthdays.
 
BecomingJulie said:
The Industrial Revolution. Why we have time to muck about with computers, and computers to muck about with. Otherwise we'd be mostly subsustence farmers; with a few lucky people having all their work done for them by rather more less lucky people. And don't forget that one of the things the IR brought us, is fiftieth birthdays.
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I'd say the discovery of fire was significantly more important than that personally, not least because the industrial revolution couldn't have happened without it.
 
Right so it was Birmingham then. Still a load of western-centric bull to say that was the biggest event in the whole of human history. For more reasons than I care to mention.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
Or maybe Anglesey. Though it's quite a way from there. How about Chester?
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Haha, just spotted that. Damn autocorrect.

I've never been to Chester, so probably not. We used to holiday in Wales every other year and would stay near Mwnt or Anglesey. We used to cover miles just driving around taking in the beautiful scenery.
 
BecomingJulie said:
The Industrial Revolution. Why we have time to muck about with computers, and computers to muck about with. Otherwise we'd be mostly subsustence farmers; with a few lucky people having all their work done for them by rather more less lucky people. And don't forget that one of the things the IR brought us, is fiftieth birthdays.
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I thought that Manchester held that claim. :?
 
BecomingJulie said:
The Industrial Revolution.
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How are you defining the very first moment of the Industrial Revolution? As I recall it was a whole series of incremental changes over a good century or so which came together in what became known as the Industrial Revolution but which event and/or advance/invention actually was the first spark is highly debatable I suspect.

Also, as MDB points out, fire was a bit more important cos no fire no Industrial Revolution. Tricky bizniz is this deciding of importance of things.

EDIT: I actually typed that before the flurry of replies - wasn't intended as a greatest hits compilation :o
 
omen_owen mk2 said:
I'd say the discovery of fire was significantly more important than that personally, not least because the industrial revolution couldn't have happened without it.
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What about stepping down from the trees and making a new life on the open grassy plains? Of course, you could argue that that wasn't really humans, but the last common ancestor we share with chimpanzees .....

Or you could say walking on the ground, fire, growing food near to home to make it easier to catch -- all that was just moving stuff into position for the big one. And after the next big life-changing event, things such as kinetic energy not from muscles, transport networks and mass-production will be relegated to "just arranging things" for what happened next.
 
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