Worst invention

[CaliforniaNow]

I thought this topic was already on here, but I didn't find it with "search."  So what, in your opinion, is the worst invention ever?

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[Athena James]

ROFLOL  What in the world is that used for - to shoot over your shoulder??? :)

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it sounds worse than it is.

[WS]

I agree! I couldn't believe this when I saw it on TV!

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the green beard doesn't match.

[LoveLife&Laughter]

Religion. The religions of the world have done so much to stifle human advancement, it's absolutely horrifying and upsetting to think about how much further we could have advanced by now without religion holding us back. High fashion is pretty bad too.

[ProblemAgain]

how bout this:

The world's largest ship has hit the water in South Korea.

The 1,601-foot, 600,000-metric-ton vessel, called the Prelude, is a floating liquified-natural-gas facility owned by Shell. According to the Telegraph, the Prelude, which floated out of dry dock at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje, South Korea, took a year to build. When it officially launches in 2017, the ship is expected to produce 3.6 million metric tons of liquified natural gas per year by extracting gas from underwater seabeds off the coast of Western Australia, storing it at a frosty -260 degrees Fahrenheit.

But its the sheer size of the Prelude that has people talking.

The 243-foot-wide ship is 150 feet longer than the height of the Empire State Building. It boasts three 6,700-horsepower engines, has storage tanks that have a liquid capacity equal to 175 Olympic-size swimming pools, a 305-foot-high tower and a massive hull that was constructed in halves and joined in August.

According to Shell, it was designed to withstand a Category 5 hurricane.

let's see, The volume of water in an Olympic sized swimming pool is 660,000 US gallons. it can hold the equivalent of 175 olympic size pools of liquified natural gas....so you'll have a floating container with 115,500,000 gallons of LNG....what could go wrong?

well, it could be this or flavored douches....you pick

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[LoveLife&Laughter]

What a great firecracker she'll make.

[The Dyslexic Dodger]

 " ....so you'll have a floating container with 115,500,000 gallons of LNG....what could go wrong?"

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Gawd I just feel a wave of environmental grief reeding this. We do not Deserve to be the dominate species on Earth, collectively we are greedy dangerous Bastards. 

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