What do you think is the worst invention in history?

I am going with weapons and that stupid exercise machine that you put the belt around your waist and it jiggles you.... When in the gym it is a horrible horrible site to watch some using that......

Originally posted by infinite
worst thing ever made....hmmm....let me think about that.....................................*thinks* it would have to be the Gun. Just think of how many people have lived and died by the gun.

I gotta disagree on this one Infinate mate, Without the gun, Industrial standardization ( the micrometer look into who it was made by ), street lights (dick turpin - look into why streetlights were first used), and various medical breakthroughs would have come much more later, (anti- co-agulants and co-agulants)

The gun is actually technically a very important invention in the context that it actually paved the way for really important #..