In your opinion, what is one of the most perfect human-made creations?
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October 5th, 2011
I am thinking mainly of artistic creations of one kind or another but it could also be a concept or philosophy. The question was sparked by my re-reading of the first stanza of T.S. Eliot’s “Little Gidding” – in my mind an almost flawless creation. I love it for its cadence, its imagery and its meaning. What work is that to you and why, if you care to elaborate?
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Music. I’m not going to specify because 99% is beautiful.
Penicillin……… it just is.
The design of a belt of land called a Park.
@PhiNotPi I don’t get it. It’s a link to the same thread.
@Blackberry I fixed the link now. It is supposed to link to a New Scientist article.
I’ll go with the Lady Blunt Stradivarius violin. No one has found a way to make a better fiddle in 300 years of trying, and the “Lady Blunt” is perhaps his finest (“The Messiah” is sometimes called the best, but it has never actually been played and its pedigree is disputed).
A Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome.
Guinness draught, extra cold……….. :-)
Circle but perhaps it was simply discovered and not invented? In that case Pie.
Mattresses and cozy pillows.
…the most perfect human-made creations?
I agree with @Blackberry and @Imadethisupwithnoforethought both are creative and can be considered “romantic”. Thus being darn near perfect creations.
And subject to personal preference and taste.
So I’ll toss in a few more for consideration.
The Graf Zeppelin
Supermarine Spitfire
‘69 Chevy Camaro
Beethoven symphonies. And Mozart’s.
My mind goes first to art, to paintings in particular. I couldn’t choose just one. But I’d be thinking Botticelli, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Monet… If I had to select only one painting to see on my wall forever, and no other, I could easily pick this or this or this or any number of other masterpieces and be content.
Or maybe just this, not a painting at all.
Velcro. Granted it’s based on nature, but what a great adaptation using man made materials.
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