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#4232408 - 02/23/16 02:21 AM What do you think Man"s greatest achievement is to date?  
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Just watched (yet another) show on the Apollo program. Mind blowing.

The un-believable goal set by a standing President, the resources required: 1 out of 4 people in
the US worked directly, or indirectly, on the program. Technology advancements/innovations, etc.

You might say penicillin was more important, I could argue the hamburger, but what do you think?

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Having thermonuclear weapons through the last 70 years and not ending all up in nuclear winter and using the same principles of that technology to allow us to go to space and produce energy.

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Originally Posted By: piper
Just watched (yet another) show on the Apollo program. Mind blowing.

The un-believable goal set by a standing President, the resources required: 1 out of 4 people in
the US worked directly, or indirectly, on the program. Technology advancements/innovations, etc.

You might say penicillin was more important, I could argue the hamburger, but what do you think?


I just watched that too. I can't imagine a project that large being done today. Could you imagine the outsourcing, the political wrangling, and the inevitable under estimating of the overall budget that would happen today. I believe the U.S. space program of the 1960's was the greatest achievement because it required great cooperation, coordination, planning, courage, vision, sacrifice, etc.. I don't know that we as a nation are capable of at this point in our history.

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And to think we reached the Moon with technology weaker then the watch I wear.
Totally Amazing the math required to do this on slide rules back in the day.
I was 8 years old and the proudest kid around watching this event that will last
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I think the fact we haven't vaporized the entire planet is probably pretty high up the list


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#4232439 - 02/23/16 03:34 AM Re: What do you think Man"s greatest achievement is to date? [Re: piper]  
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@L4LB4 - wasn't it cool? To be given a seemingly impossible goal, and achieve it.

@OG you mentioned the transistor. Shockley, et all. I started out playing with TI's 7400 series NAND gates. Now, I play
with Cortex-M4s (for embedded work).

And don't forget Newton. Invented calculus so we could try and understand.

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Maybe the written language... Ya that is probably more important. Computers and the like are great, but you can always do things with math the much more painful way. Which leads into the understanding of Math.

So maybe written language, math, and means of propelling knowledge down the ages. It means folks do not have to start over making the damned wheel over and over again so to speak. Simply build on what was recorded in various texts. The one time in western civilization where this did not happened so much was the Dark Ages after the fall of the Western Roman empire. That threw a wrench in the march forward. Would have gone to the Moon in like 1600 perhaps without that mess. At least we got this alphabet from them. I guess that is good right?

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the invention of modern computing hardware and programming languages ranks pretty high up there i would say. with this technology we will someday be able to do away with our physical bodies and actually become immortal by putting the entire sum of our body and brain data into computerized form. still a long way off but it will come someday, if we can survive the turbulent years ahead.

nuclear fission is important but we've kind of squandered it on less than peaceful pursuits, if you catch my drift.

moon landing same thing, we went there and then we did nothing ever since. squandered opportunity. space technology would be the greatest achievement if we actually started using it to solve the problem of overpopulation and pollution.

i think the invention of sailing ships and the wheel may be man's most important achievements. with sailing ships we can visit virtually coastline on the planet and have unlimited, free fuel to do so. then using the wheel we can traverse lands not accessible by ship but still carry heavy loads with us. primitive technology yes, but we still use it thousands and thousands of years later.

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