kitler53 said:
the_dengle said:
I think landing on the Moon was the most badass event in human history. For hundreds of thousands of years, our species was confined to this little rock, unable to leave a single grain of sand to explore the beach. Held down by gravity, held back by our need for warmth, oxygen, sustenance that can only be aquired on Earth. "No," we said, "this little rock is not big enough for us. We are too badass to be repressed by gravity!"
The only events that compare in badassery are the Lunar Rover missions, when humans went all the way back to the Moon just to drive around on it. Badass.
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you know, i was going to argue against but you have convinced me otherwise.
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i think you guys completely forgot the context of the cold war and the reasons behind the huge budgets deployed...
Anyway :
Most badass moment in US history : nuclear bombs on Japan
Most badass moment in world history : nazi extermination programme
Landing a man on the moon is a nice moment, full of illusions, in the mean time it hasn't shaped our conscience the way those two things did. To prove my point : science is only a big part of the budget when war is around - in other words it is still secondary to war
