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post #31 of 41
11/6/09 at 10:52pm
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Originally Posted by TheAudioDude View Post
How about eating utensils? What about forks and spoons that could slightly heat up/cool down food quicker than the time it takes to scoop it up?

Soup too hot? Not this time, buddy. I've got my Coon (COoling spoON).

Had to get up to do something and your chicken and rice are cold? Ah man, now I have to heat it up in the microwave, what is this the 1900's? Nope, it's the year 2009. Just use your Hork (Heating fORK).
I'm sure somebody would welcome this, but before you start selling these things I would reconsider the name Coon, it sounds slightly Mississippi 1964.
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post #32 of 41
11/6/09 at 10:57pm
Also, "hork" is a synonym for vomit.

I would make every effort to retain your daylight employment.
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post #33 of 41
11/7/09 at 12:48am
Read this Crumbs: half of Britons injured by their biscuits on coffee break, survey reveals - Telegraph and tell me that the cookie doesn't need a re-design!

On a slightly more serious note; what about re-designing the vegetable peeler. It's cheap, easy to work on, unchanged in I don't know how many decades (centuries?) and dangerous! I'm constantly cleaving off sections of skin using one. Too bad it's still the quickest way I have to get the job done.
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post #34 of 41
11/7/09 at 2:38am
On the same vein as paper, I think writing utensils would apply as an 'old' technology we use.
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post #35 of 41
11/7/09 at 3:08am
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Originally Posted by wantmyf1 View Post
Read this Crumbs: half of Britons injured by their biscuits on coffee break, survey reveals - Telegraph and tell me that the cookie doesn't need a re-design!

On a slightly more serious note; what about re-designing the vegetable peeler. It's cheap, easy to work on, unchanged in I don't know how many decades (centuries?) and dangerous! I'm constantly cleaving off sections of skin using one. Too bad it's still the quickest way I have to get the job done.
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More unusually, three per cent had poked themselves in the eye with a biscuit and seven per cent bitten by a pet or "other wild animal" trying to get their biscuit.
To me it seems like a re-design in people would be more effective.

On a similar note, most of the technologies we use in everyday life, or life in general, are roughly 3.8 billion years old.
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post #36 of 41
11/7/09 at 3:27am
A few items come to mind...
  • Electricity
  • Irrigation/canals/plumbing (first developed by the roman empire)
  • Fossil fuels and their by products
  • Navigating using a compass
  • Embalming
  • X-rays
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post #37 of 41
11/7/09 at 3:28am
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Originally Posted by limpidglitch View Post
most of the technologies we use in everyday life, or life in general, are roughly 3.8 billion years old.
Mitochondrial DNA?
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post #38 of 41
11/7/09 at 6:03am

LL
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post #39 of 41
11/7/09 at 6:05am
* Moving coil and electrostatic transducers
* Vacuum tubes
* Telephones
* Musical instruments
* Batteries
* Electricity
* Otto engines
* and SO much more...
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post #40 of 41
11/7/09 at 6:23am
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Originally Posted by Sherwood View Post
Mitochondrial DNA?
Following the endosymbiotic theory there were no mitochondria 3.8 billion ya., but DNA/RNA in general, yes, taking the exact same place in protein biosynthesis in all living organisms, since life as we know it emerged very roughly 3.8 bya.
As famously said by Jacques Monod: "Anything found to be true of E. coli must also be true of elephants."
Evolution is a conservative process, rarely throwing away old 'technologies', but rather preferring slight modifications and keeping the basics as-is.
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post #41 of 41
11/7/09 at 2:12pm
fishing rods/reels/lures, electric toaster, portable electric heater, hairbrush, electric plugs and receptacles, automobile steering wheel,
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