Ok, well you might have already heard of this guy, but a lot of people only know him (and most hate him) for one thing. |
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There are many things that we take for granted and we don't know how it is we happen to have these luxuries that we have. Post people in this thread that we haven't heard of that invented something/ did something to make our lifes better! |
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Ok, well you might have already heard of this guy, but a lot of people only know him (and most hate him) for one thing. |
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I got another one. This one's kinda multifaceted... |
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Lol, as if George Lucas and Nikola Tesla aren't recognized. |
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I'd consider him to be more important than Edison. Edison didn't invent shit, he only refined what already existed in basic form and somehow got all the credit for an entire generation of inventors. |
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Last edited by Omnis Dei; 01-21-2012 at 11:24 PM.
Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Thomas Edison Invents Marketing Other People's Ideas | The Onion - America's Finest News Source |
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Another good one is Sir Frances Bacon, editor for the King James Bible and, along with Shakespeare, the father of modern English. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
I didn't know what he did... I thought he was a painter... |
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Sir Francis Bacon unrecognized? He was knighted for fucks sake. He was the father of empiricism, and a famous philosopher (among other things). May as well include Plato, Nietzsche and Sartre. |
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Last edited by Seroquel; 01-22-2012 at 06:03 AM.
Can we stop discrediting people and realize this isn't just a thread for people no one has heard of but is also for people who deserve greater recognition than they received due to their impact on modern society? |
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Last edited by Omnis Dei; 01-22-2012 at 05:14 AM.
Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
I asked someone if they knew who Napoleon Bonaparte was and they thought I was talking about Napoleon Dynamite.. |
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Mohandis Gandhi; he never received a Nobel Peace Prize, even though he successfully rebelled from British rule, peacefully. (And then somehow Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize? Oops.) |
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If they're in Bill and Ted, they're recognized enough. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
John Muir is a good one, but how the fuck is Napoleon Bonaparte not French? |
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Another similar thing, know the name, may not know the achievement. Steve Jobs actually revolutionised computer animation when he was building NeXT. |
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Last edited by tommo; 01-23-2012 at 09:21 AM.
Well SooooOOOOORy, Sero. |
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