Which of the Following is the Greatest Achievement in Human History

Would anybody explain me why the conquer of the Moon is the greatest achievement?

Written Communication.

Why the fuck is wikipedia on there?

Has to be sending people to the moon. Anything to do with space travel is just rediculous

Written language is basically the only thing to come close to the moon landings. Seeing all that grainy footage from Apollo 11 is really moving to me to this day.

Why the fuck is wikipedia on there?

@Atramentous said:

Why is the Veyron on here? Its poor design was outdated before it even got produced.

It was not outdated, it was the fastest production car on the planet before the Veyron Super Sport was introduced. The Super Sport is the current fastest production car.

@MikeGosot said:

@MooseyMcMan said:

Sending people to the goddamned Moon. There's a reason why they haven't done it in decades. It's REALLY hard to get up there, let alone back.

And because we're spending money on other things.

Or because they never went! This:

@coakroach said:

THE MOON WAS A CONSPIRACY MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN.

Armstrong has even admitted it:

conspiracy-theorist-convinces-armstrong-moon-landing.html

"In a symbolic display of his newfound skepticism, Armstrong then grabbed a collection of moon rocks he had kept as souvenirs and dramatically dumped them into a trash can."

And you can't argue with this:

man-on-the-moon-a-colossal-hoax-that-cost-billions-of-dollars

"Although many believe man first reached the moon in July, 1969, we have information from a very reliable source, the Sanskrit Vedic scriptures, that the astronauts never actually went to the moon. The manned moon landing was a colossal hoax."

WAKE UP PEOPLE! Consequently, the correct answer is Games For Windows Live.

@Breadfan said:

Written communication, yo.

Nothing else comes close.

The internet is the most complete accumulation of human knowledge and experience ever created and it's all available nearly instantaneously.

The Veyron is sick, outdated my ass

@antikorper said:

Would anybody explain me why the conquer of the Moon is the greatest achievement?

The Earth has a finite life, our ability to leave the Earth and explore space allows humanity the possibility to outlive the Earth, travelling to the moon and back was the first step in that process.

Normally I would say the internet, but written communications without a doubt. If it wasn't for that, we probably wouldn't have any of those other things.

I will be more impressed with space travel when we get to another planet (Mars probably). Not that the moon wasn't impressive though.

How about toilets and the sewer system. That for me wins hands down. Latrines suck.

@antikorper said:

Would anybody explain me why the conquer of the Moon is the greatest achievement?

The Earth has a finite life, our ability to leave the Earth and explore space allows humanity the possibility to outlive the Earth, travelling to the moon and back was the first step in that process.

The correct answer is of course cities/towns.

/thread

I agree that Written Communication is the most IMPORTANT achievement for humanity, but I still think the Internet and space Travel are far more impressive achievements.

There is no denying the importance of written communication, and I guess you can make a strong argument that it is our greatest achievement as most of the other options would not exist without it; but I just think space travel and the Internet are greater feats.

For me written communication is a part of having a civilized society, a basic building block for human interaction and development. Space travel is fucking space travel. We have travelled to other fucking planets by robots, that is completely insane to me. And the Internet....... words can not describe the greatness of the Internet; it literally changed the course of human development and human life in less than 20 years.

Magellan baby.

Others.

The soviet expeditions to space, launching of the satellite to space and the Space Station Soyuz, which is still necessary for NASA and other astronauts.

Up yours, USA :P

@antikorper said:

Then grant this honor to the first man in space. And even then, this would have no impact on our everyday life. The only thing that could change our faith is leaving the Solar system, which doesn't seem to be possible at this time.

While I agree with you that the moon isn't the most important part of going to space safely, that wasn't part of the poll nor was whether it has any impact on everyday life.

Really the only other option that even compares is written communication and that seems to be more of a natural evolution rather than an achievement seeing how it developed independently in many different cultures.

@antikorper said:

Then grant this honor to the first man in space. And even then, this would have no impact on our everyday life. The only thing that could change our faith is leaving the Solar system, which doesn't seem to be possible at this time.

While I agree with you that the moon isn't the most important part of going to space safely, that wasn't part of the poll nor was whether it has any impact on everyday life.

Really the only other option that even compares is written communication and that seems to be more of a natural evolution rather than an achievement seeing how it developed independently in many different cultures.

Edward Jenner & his work on immunology would be my pick. Also I would disagree with the people saying written communication, cheap written communication is far more important to the way the world developed.

evolution

the internet. Communication across the world virtually instant and cheap. If you were to talk to someone from 100 years ago I think that person would be more impressed by the internet than going to the moon. talk to anyone anywhere, buy things from other countries, watch any video, read about everything that happens or has happened. Can you imagine life without the internet?

I don't know if it's been said, but what about Vaccines and Antibiotics? Modern Medicine? If you look at a chart of the total human population over the course of the history of humanity (all 200,000 or so years of it), you'll see a massive spike in the population from the 1950's onward as better surgical and medical technology decreases infant mortality. We went from about 1~2 Billion at the beginning of the 20th century, to 7+ Billion within one person's lifetime. That's right - modern science and medicine has done more to improve human living conditions in 100 years than all the hundreds of thousands of years of previous human history put together. The picture is a little blurry, but if you look carefully, you can see the massive spike in human population that occurred in the 20th century, and the 20th century ALONE - and that's due to modern, evidenced based medicine and vaccines. Science has done more to help humans live than thousands of years of mumbo jumbo, shamanism, witch-doctors and quackery.

Vaccines, Antibiotics, and Modern Surgery have saved hundreds of millions, if not billions of lives and the population statistics proves it. That's got to be worth a mention.

If not Modern Medicine, then the Scientific Method. If not that the Computer.

So, My picks are:

1) Vaccines, Antibiotics, Surgery

2) The Scientific Method

3) The Computer.

Viagra. You might scoff now, but 20 or 30 years down the line, you'll understand.

I'm going to go with agriculture and/or medicine.

Writing and literacy forms the basis of all that we are today. Education through books is the reason we are no longer ruled by the nobility and the church these days.

@nintendoeats: Watching Top Gear right now too. Almost choose that. LOL

Top Gear is so good. I hate flashy cars but the show is so much more then that.

penicillin

the double jump will be man's greatest feat

The fuck is the agricultural revolution

Cards Against Humanity is the answer.

Masterbation lube its how i was concived

Nothing has sped up technologies and the overall human evolution, and its condition in human history, as fast as the instant communication of information that is the modern internet. Currently at least, everything else falls under that umbrella.

Other.

Unity/Peace/Whatever you want to call it.

To bad it never lasts.

Really the moon? without written communication you wouldn't be able to say that!

I feel as if near-instant communication is the right answer... but man, I am still flabbergasted by the mere concept of an airplane.

@JJGIANT said:

Civil Rights Movement

A great answer. The British anti-slavery movement is even more impressive than that, though. Check out the book Bury the Chains. Those could both be on this list as feats of ethics and courage.

As for the written communication crowd, the question is which achievement is greatest. Language was easier than going to the moon. That was a culmination of everything we had done before. We had to use everything in our technological toolkit and invent several new things along the way. It was a test for us. We reached farther than we ever had before by a wide margin. The internet was close, but the challenge of the moon puts it over the top. I'm going by greatest here, not most vital.

Sending humans to the moon and bringing them back alive or The International Space Station.

As for the written communication crowd, the question is which achievement is greatest. Language was easier than going to the moon. That was a culmination of everything we had done before. We had to use everything in our technological toolkit and invent several new things along the way. It was a test for us. We reached farther than we ever had before by a wide margin. The internet was close, but the challenge of the moon puts it over the top. I'm going by greatest here, not most vital.

Professional wrestling. 
 
But seriously, the moon.

Jonathan Blow.

@Still_I_Cry said:

I would say...

Whatever we achieve, at some point we manage to fuck it up and wreck it.

I totally disagree. I think we have literally only improved upon ourselves throughout the generations. Bring a cave man to the modern world and show him the almost brutally excessive lives of luxury we live; he would most assuredly agree that we have come a long way, and we have not failed yet.

Zombie Genocider.

Firing criminals into the sun.

Written Language obviously or else we'd all be lerjewlewprirj23prj23prjlkdflz3isd4f65.131`2

O: Getting all the achievements in Star Ocean 4

Not killing ourself by now.

I think you really have to go with written communication, because without it none of the rest would have happened. A good alternative would be maths, as without that we wouldn't really have anything.