What Are the Most Remarkable Things Humans Have Done?

[andy06shake]

Humans have developed a living consciousness or the ability to think of things and bring them into fruition...

Consciousness itself likely evolved over millions of years.

How it arises through remains one of the greatest mysteries.

[andy06shake]

Lever and fulcrum is pretty cool too. 

"Give me a lever long enouth, and a fulcrum on which to place it, and i shall move the world" Archimedes, around 200 BC.

[ArMaP]

I think that the first person to eat a raw oyster was pretty brave.

Or hungry.

Or Portuguese, as we (me not included) eat almost anything!

[andy06shake]

Or hungry.

Or Portuguese, as we (me not included) eat almost anything!

I'll eat just about anything but Eggs.

Don't mind them in other things.

I have even been known to eat an omelette.

But not fried, boiled, or poached.

The smell sends me in the opposite direction.

The only other thing that springs to mind that i would not eat is Tripe.

Again, down to the smell...

My gran would cook it in milk for my grandfather.

And we would all go stand in the back garden(bit of a flashback there with associated pong LoL).

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Oh, you all are WAY too positive. Where's the misanthropy?

Our most remarkable achievement is the Anthropogenic Extinction  - Because It truly is a masterclass of our species to take what took 60,000 years during the Permian-Triassic and compress it down into mere decades at rates 100 to 1000 times faster then "The Great Dying."

Siberian Traps don't have a thing on humans! 

Hypothetical Aliens Planet Tour in 2526:

"If you look off to your left, you'll see Earth. On this planet a single species drove it to severe climate change and mass extinction in only 320 (alien years). They now live underground since they tried to nuke a Supervolcano in an attempt to stop a runaway greenhouse effect."

[Orby]

Radios. Just amazing things. Keeps one uplifted at work. You get music and can have it anywhere, effectively live. Must have been amazing when it first came out. Magical 

[ArMaP]

Radios. Just amazing things. Keeps one uplifted at work. You get music and can have it anywhere, effectively live. Must have been amazing when it first came out. Magical 

My grandfather (born in 1900) remembered the first time he listened to a radio. It was a doctor from the village he was born that bought a "galena" (the simplest form of radio receiver, that converts the radio waves directly to sound, without amplification, and that uses a galena crystal) and invited people to his home to listen to the transmissions.

PS: the first thing I do when I get to my desk at work is to turn on the radio. At the end of the day, when I get home, the first thing I do is to turn on the radio, and turning it off is the last thing I do before I go to bed.