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Air conditioning is the greatest invention in the world

Posted on 7/13/25 at 9:55 pm
Posted by Smeg
Member since Aug 2018
14232 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 9:55 pm
Lost power for a few hours last night. Hot humid night outside. Made me really think how beautiful air conditioning is. It would be my first choice of human inventions, over anything else.

If you said "you can either have air conditioning or the light bulb" - it's a no brainer. I could live with candles and air conditioning. I couldn't live with light bulbs and no AC.

The man who invented it, Willis Carrier, deserves his own Mount Rushmore, for contribution to humanity.

If they tried to take it away in the name of "climate change" I think I'd be ready for war. It would be worth fighting and dying for. That's how much I love it.
Posted by Rockbrc
Attic
Member since Nov 2015
9316 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 9:55 pm to
No doubt
Posted by thejudge
Westlake, LA
Member since Sep 2009
14995 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 9:57 pm to
Yep.

Im college they made us write about a life changing invention. A lot of students picked shite like heart transplant, peacemakers, etc.

I picked AC. None of that shite is possible if surgeons are sweating in the patient with bacteria growing like wildfire.

AC is amazing.
Posted by TideSaint
Hill Country
Member since Sep 2008
82636 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 9:57 pm to
Wet wipes aren't far behind.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
52854 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 9:58 pm to
You can live without it in some climates. My uncle lived up in the very NW tip of Washington, and it was pretty unnecessary. In LA, I'd easily trade lights, internet for AC.
Posted by olemc999
At a blackjack table
Member since Oct 2010
15003 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 9:59 pm to
Statues of Willis Carrier should be all over the south.
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
147768 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:00 pm to
I haven’t turned on my AC yet this year

This post was edited on 7/13/25 at 10:08 pm
Posted by OWLFAN86
Erotic Novelist
Member since Jun 2004
194058 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:01 pm to
fake boobs are up there
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
42513 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:01 pm to
Pussy gotta be up there.
Posted by holdmuh keystonelite
Member since Oct 2020
3537 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:03 pm to
I didn't have AC until I was 22. Now it would be hard to live without.
Posted by lsufan1971
Zachary
Member since Nov 2003
23490 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:03 pm to
Willis Carrier was trying to solve a humidity issue at a printing plant in Brooklyn. Best invention of the modern age. The first window units sold in 1932 for $10k-$50K.
This post was edited on 7/13/25 at 10:06 pm
Posted by Eurocat
Member since Apr 2004
16337 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:05 pm to
Vaccinations are number one.
Posted by Turnblad85
Member since Sep 2022
4222 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:05 pm to
Walking out of the wet humid swamp weather we've been having into a home that has dry 50% humidity air is hard to put into words.


I don't know how people lived in the south for hundreds of years without it. Leather shoes in a closet would turn into a science project if not cleaned every other week. Salt granules become a salt rock. Wooden furniture starts to grow spores. No telling how compromised people's lungs were from breathing all that mold.
Posted by lsufan1971
Zachary
Member since Nov 2003
23490 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:07 pm to
quote:

I don't know how people lived in the south for hundreds of years without it.


A lady I worked with back in the 90’s built a house in Woodville,MS in 1995 and didn’t put A/C in it. I don’t know how she did it.
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
6009 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:08 pm to
I thought of the flavored taco shell but didn’t follow through. I’ll be damned if the Dorito flavored ones didn’t start showing up about 2 years later.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
132934 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:09 pm to
The fact that I, a poor man, lives in greater comfort than the richest men of a hundred or so odd years ago, blows my mind.


Cool clean water, with ice, at my fingertips.

Cold air in the dead of summer. Heat without fire in winter.

I'm lucky.
Posted by The Cool No 9
70816
Member since Jan 2014
10948 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:09 pm to
This post was edited on 7/13/25 at 10:13 pm
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
132934 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:09 pm to
quote:

fake boobs are up there



Well if they are down there they were done wrong
Posted by StansberryRules
Member since Aug 2024
4044 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:09 pm to
Places like Florida were very sparsely populated before AC.

AC single-handedly tuns some of the worst places to live into some of the best.
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
6009 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:09 pm to
quote:

I don't know how people lived in the south for hundreds of years without it.


A/C allowed the population growth of the South. Density was much lower before A/C
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