#4232411 - 02/23/16 02:29 AM
Re: What do you think Man"s greatest achievement is to date?
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#4232412 - 02/23/16 02:32 AM
Re: What do you think Man"s greatest achievement is to date?
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#4232428 - 02/23/16 03:07 AM
Re: 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? 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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#4232432 - 02/23/16 03:13 AM
Re: What do you think Man"s greatest achievement is to date?
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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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#4232450 - 02/23/16 04:04 AM
Re: What do you think Man"s greatest achievement is to date?
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Harnessing the atom, for better or worse.
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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#4232471 - 02/23/16 05:29 AM
Re: What do you think Man"s greatest achievement is to date?
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#4232472 - 02/23/16 05:35 AM
Re: What do you think Man"s greatest achievement is to date?
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