What if the Wheel had never been Invented?

And I specifically mean an object attached to an axle. Circles are still a recognized shape it's just that nobody bothered to associate the shape with movement. How would this effect human history?

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My guess is that we would never have invented the car, no airplanes, no high quality land roads, and being a seafaring traders.

A guy called dvorak is tired. Tired of humanity not wanting to change to improve itself. Quite the sad tale.

Then the people who reinvent it will be geniuses instead of idiots.

The wheel was "invented"? I'm pretty sure it's one of those things that separate people make use of on their own.

Like how different cultures all over the world all came up with the bow and arrow, the knife, fire, and so on. It's so simplistic that it's always just been there.

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Then we would be backwards idiots and nothing would ever have been invented. Because if you can't make a wheel, damn hell you don't have the ingenuity to make much of anything.

/thread.

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SUPER SLEDS.

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Indigenous inhabitants of the Americas never invented the wheel. They generally used, yes, sleds. Pulled by people, dogs, other animals, or later horses.

edited 5th Feb '11 1:14:48 PM by Tzetze

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As opposed to earlier horses?

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Everything would be built on a slant. SLEDDING EVERYWHERE!

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There weren't horses in the Americas  ^*

before the Spanish brought them.

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I know, I was just being stupid.

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Aztecs had the wheel, but they only had it as a kid's toy instead of using it economically.

And if there is no wheel then technoogy would be increbily stinted. Really think about everything that needs a wheel: cars, clocks, machinery, trains, guns... the list goes on.

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My car is a sled, your argument is invalid?

Someone would probably invent it eventually. But if it never gets invented? We probably would be far behind on technology since the lack of circles moving would kill our transportation such as cars and elevators.

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If we did not have The Wheel, we wouldn't be able to build Chariots. We wouldn't be able to make road improvements on our tiles for movement and hooking up resources. We wouldn't be able to tech Pottery, Metal Casting, Machinery, Optics, Engineering, Guilds, Banking, Economics, Corporation, Astronomy, Printing Press, Replaceable Parts... So basically we'd be stuck in the Renaissance Era and our empire would be pretty crappy.

No Gizmos and Gadgets.

She's playing with fire! He's not ready for Nibbly Pig!

Hey, there's always pistons with which we can make legs.

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It would be kind of hilarious if we'd somehow invented complex piston legs and then someone invented the wheel. I bet a lot of people would feel very stupid.

I'm not even sure that's theoretically possible though.

The Martians of War Of The Worlds were said to of never invented the wheel despite their high tech. Instead using 'muscle-like contractions' to produce movement.

In both the films there is a scene where the aliens are investigating junk in a basement and are amazed with a simple bicycle wheel.

edited 6th Feb '11 1:42:23 AM by joeyjojo

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@Matrix: i see what you did there.

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^^ There are no The War Of The Worlds films.

edited 6th Feb '11 12:50:34 PM by pagad

With cannon shot and gun blast smash the alien. With laser beam and searing plasma scatter the alien to the stars.

Addendum to last post, @Matrix: Not to mention we'd get buttfucked early because we couldn't connect any copper or horses.

Unless we're surrounded by ocean. Then we're fine.

I'm convinced that our modern day analogues to ancient scholars are comedians. -0dd1

I wonder what technologies aliens ask themselves this about.

Just like, Oop and Eep going

"Dude, can you imagine if that anti-gravity rock had never been invented?"

"I don't want to think about that, man. We'd be like...stuck in the information age, and stuff."

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Three options, in order of probability:

1. Seafaring civilization; most cities would be along ocean and river shores; we'd use (singular) horses and maybe small sleds to carry stuffs.

2. we'd invent something else (like the aforementioned pistons)

3. Rocket-powered super sled.

edited 6th Feb '11 4:07:34 PM by Diamonnes

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