Australia's biggest contribution to humanity?

[3db]

Lets not forget their cultural attache  Sir Les Patterson.   
There's also Nicole Kidmans friend Naomi Watts.
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[BradC]

Keeping to an electronics theme, I would like to suggest the Parks Radio Telescope which received the 'one great step for mankind' images of the moon landing.

Second that. Not to nitpick but it's Parkes.

If you ever get the chance, grab a copy of 'The Dish'. A great Aussie movie centered around that particular time.

[Brumby]

Lets not forget their cultural attache  Sir Les Patterson.

Please.  Do forget him.  I'm trying to.

Dame Edna, however, is a different matter.   

[PChi]

Electronics Today International magazine?

[Nozzer]

I think it has to be Florey, whose work has literally saved hundreds of millions of lives. Before penicillin became available in sufficient quantities to be used for all those who needed it, people could die from a simple cut and in wartime many deaths were the result of infected wounds or burns.

[elgonzo]

Coal, what else...

[Halcyon]

Trumpet Winsock. For those who used the internet in the 1990's (pre-Windows 95), you'd have fond memories of this. It was written by a bloke by the name of Peter Tattam from Tasmania, Australia.

[ez24]

Trumpet Winsock. For those who used the internet in the 1990's (pre-Windows 95), you'd have fond memories of this. It was written by a bloke by the name of Peter Tattam from Tasmania, Australia.

wow, 14400 baud (I had 1200).  Chicken winner, chicken dinner (?)  - bob's your aunt (?) - root for your team (? Cubs ?)

My vote is slang.  The chicken one is showing up on US commercials

[John Coloccia]

Trumpet Winsock. For those who used the internet in the 1990's (pre-Windows 95), you'd have fond memories of this.

"Fond" isn't exactly the words I'd use, but certainly useful.

[mtdoc]

In no particular order:

Midnight Oil
Julian Assange
Simon Anderson and his Thruster design

[RGB255_0_0]

My teenage fantasy. Back in the early 90s one of the women's magazines (Woman's Weekly or New Idea or some other rag) published a several-page semi nude (boobs out) swimsuit spread of Elle. A school mate of mine secretly tore the spread out of his mums issue after she had consigned it to the read pile and sold it to me for several bucks. We had to be quite resourceful in those pre-internet days! Now I can't find a drooling smilie with a boner anywhere.....

Bootleg porn from your mum's lady mags. Probably still cheaper than dial up internet, spending 2 hours looking for someone you like, download to floppy only to realise half the image was corrupt 

[dannyf]

Trumpet Winsock.

I remember that. not sure if I would make it that high up though.

[3db]

Lets not forget their cultural attache  Sir Les Patterson.

Please.  Do forget him.  I'm trying to.

Dame Edna, however, is a different matter.   

Les was epic IMHO   

[GK]

Lets not forget their cultural attache  Sir Les Patterson.

Please.  Do forget him.  I'm trying to.

Dame Edna, however, is a different matter.   

Les was epic IMHO   

Les: "What is the most attractive thing a lady can wear on her ears."
Parkinson: "Well I dunno, what is the lost attractive thing a lady can wear on here ears?"
Les (dribbling and grinning): "Her ankles".

 

[VK5RC]

Didn't "Sir Les" place Russian Salad in a vomit bag on a plane surreptitiously, then later pretend to vomit and eat it in front of others! 
But then the 80s were quite different times!

[sainbablo]

Rail road workers from Afghanistan along with their camels.

[wkb]

The kindest greeting (to my ears) in the world: "G'day mate!"

[AlxDroidDev]

Trumpet Winsock. For those who used the internet in the 1990's (pre-Windows 95), you'd have fond memories of this. It was written by a bloke by the name of Peter Tattam from Tasmania, Australia.

I had no idea! Thanks for the info!

I used Trumpet Winsock to connect to the internet for a long time. Since I am from the BBS time (using a 300/75 baud modem), my the first offline program I used to send/receive messages was a DOS program called BlueWave. I'd connect to the BBS and then have BlueWave send and receive the messages through that connection. Later, I also used BW to send/receive e-mails, which were relayed through the BBS' internet link 1x/2x a day.

[cowboy]

Australia's biggest contributions as seen from up here in USA:

- discovery of h.pylori being the cause of ulcers
- AC/DC
- Elle McPherson
- Kath & Kim
- EEVblog
- improvements to AT&T/NCR's WiFi
- salt water pool chlorination system
- Trumpet winsock


Australia's in trouble with us for:

- Rupert Murdock/Fox News (which gives us these horrible politicians like Bush/Cheney, Trump, etc.)

[StuUK]

Australia's biggest contributions as seen from up here in USA:

- discovery of h.pylori being the cause of ulcers
- AC/DC
- Elle McPherson
- Kath & Kim
- EEVblog
- improvements to AT&T/NCR's WiFi
- salt water pool chlorination system
- Trumpet winsock


Australia's in trouble with us for:

- Rupert Murdock/Fox News (which gives us these horrible politicians like Bush/Cheney, Trump, etc.)

The latter far outweighing the positive Aussie Global Contribution... 

[Smokey]

Australia's biggest contributions as seen from up here in USA:

- discovery of h.pylori being the cause of ulcers
- AC/DC
- Elle McPherson
- Kath & Kim
- EEVblog
- improvements to AT&T/NCR's WiFi
- salt water pool chlorination system
- Trumpet winsock


Australia's in trouble with us for:

- Rupert Murdock/Fox News (which gives us these horrible politicians like Bush/Cheney, Trump, etc.)

Did you already forget what a knife is?

[RIS]

LOL

[VK3DRB]

Three unknown Aussie scientists who changed the world? Not sure about Henry Sutton, though.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-29/three-unknown-australian-scientists-who-changed-the-world/7962180

[daybyter]

My vote goes to those cute little birds:



(All of them of course. Not just the ones in the video.)

[Rerouter]

Like most of Australia's scary looking and/or sounding creatures, as long as your don't piss them off, they wont piss you off

That's a wolf spider, he is kinda the one you wont get rid of, but don't like around as they may try to bite you (non deadly), huntsmen spiders are the best around a house, as they are so passive you can pick them up and walk them elsewhere, while being very good at catching insects, only downside is they can get big enough that guests may freak out. (think tarantula size or bigger)