What do you think is the greatest achievement mankind has made?

[SamuelRSmith]

Samus Aran said:

TheRealMafoo said:

Xxain said:

Samus Aran said:
Going to the moon was the most useless and money wasting achievement. It was just done so the Americans could brag against the Russians.

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Yea, I mean forget about the 400,000 people in employed, the thousands of scientific discoveries we made, and the fact that the whole thing cost less then the bailout that allowed chrysler to live for 2 more months.

Actually, it costed a tremendous amount of money in that time and who cares about people employed? It's not like they couldn't find another job now is it? They were highly educated people and it's not so hard to find a job then. The discoveries were laughable compared to the amount of money wasted on it. They could have invested that money in something more important to get some real scientific discoveries. I'll tell you this again, the only reason why America went to the moon is to show off against the Russians. That was there most important reason.

You do realise that the space race led to many great inventions such as the Internet (USA) and satellite communications (Russia), don't you?

Anyways, for me, it was probably the establishment of civilisation - moving from tribes to countries.