@korno 547817 wrote:
god can bite me!
my fave invention is prob LSD… None of this technical shite
just a different form of science using different technology though (and Dr Hoffman would still have needed all his glassware, thermometers and other lab kit).
hard to decide what mine would be, it would either be the bicycle (especially as you can just about still ride it even when tripping hard as the good doctor proved) or Marconi discovering wireless communication.
Apparently just seconds after he set up his equipment and transmitted “… (S) ” to a distant vessel, the Post Office chaps turned up very shortly and said “hey!, you need a license for that!” – so he was also the first pirate broadcaster (he did get a license alongside manufacturers of the new fangled “wireless receiver”, and this consortium became the BBC)
