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Nobel Prize - Chemistry

...Do I really need to explain any further? I don't think I really need to justify this guy for winning this award. He hasn't even graduated from kindergarten, he could hardly speak, and in fact, he wasn't aware of what discoveries are all about. It wasn't for the money, it wasn't for fame or social status. It was all about survival and that's it.

Where did he get this idea from? What was he thinking??? Was he in a bad mood and was looking for methods of destruction? Obviously, we will never quite find out what actually happened on that particular day. I am assuming that it would be this caveman really getting into two big rocks, rubbing them together until sparks appeared. We can never imagine what life would be like if this caveman never rubbed the two big rocks together like this. I mean, cool people will not be able to light up their cigarettes, dodgy shop owners will need to resort to an alternative method to destroy their shop in order to claim insurance, Crown casino will need to design another way to waste their money instead of setting off balls of flames on an hourly basis etc.

On a more sensible note, fire is definitely something we can't live without. The caveman that made this achievement would have never realised how much of an influence he has on our world 750,000 years later . So next time you are spending time admiring the intelligence of Einstein, Newton or Pythagoras, spend a few seconds admiring this Stone Age guy as well. Put it this way, would Einstein be able to make this discovery? Or would Newton be able to make similar discoveries via rubbing two apples together viciously? This Stone Age guy might be primitive, but his intelligence should not be underestimated.

Once again, congratuations to the Stone Age guy for :the discovery of fire".

posted by Estnivek @ 6:22 PM