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50 years ago today man walked on the moon.

I thought this thread would be about John Dorsey ... maybe someday soon

In all seriousness, what a day that was

Penicillin.

After controlling fire...beer.

Penicillin is definitely one of the greatest discoveries/innovations of all time.

But the thing about the moon landing was the concerted effort needed by hundreds of thousands of people over a decade.

How did they even do that with 1960s computer technology? (computers were the size of large rooms back then - primitive PCs weren't even invented until the late seventies.)

And the entire rocket had the precise engineering of a fine watch.



Of course unless it was all faked.

I am going to have to go with "Being half as smart as woman"

Of course unless it was all faked.

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Breast implants
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups


Seriously:

Harnessing electricity
Flight
Automobile/motor transportation
Modern agriculture
Water treatment

Honorable mention:
- Harnessing the power of the atom (weapon and energy)
- Eradicating polio, malaria, smallpox, etc.
- 2016 Cavs coming back from a 3-1 deficit against the 73-win Warriors
- Democracy
- Voyager (1 & 2)

Yes, landing on the moon is up there or at the top. We had only invented the airplane 60 years before that.

Face balanced putters.

Waffle House

I have always wondered about this.

If some one confronts you face-to-face with a verbal assault (in this case, "you're a coward and a liar") can you legally punch them in the face?

My knee jerk is ABSOLUTELY!

(but I'm not sure, I skipped that day in law school)

It's too bad Aldrin wasn't 30 years younger, there would have been a lot more umpf behind that punch. I guess that's what the jerk figured on.

1. Harnessing Fire.

2. Art (No other creature makes things culturally or purely for aesthetics and visual communication).

On a side note:

When I lived in England I was at a pub with a handful of English friends, several pints in and joking. They listed all of England's achievements to the world (however, they somehow forgot to mention their sad history of colonization, but that's typical of the English/Europeans!) they then jokingly (banter) asked me to name one thing America has given the world. My instant response was "Jazz". It was a quick reply with little thought, but to be honest...what an amazing gift to give the world. And, they all held their glasses up and said "cheers to Jazz". They thought it was a good reply and had no come back.

You ever hear the story behind this one? A guy in New Jersey was tasked with making the water cleaner for their water district. He was a physician and knew chlorine could disinfect water, but adding chemicals to drinking water at the time wasn't exactly smiled upon. So he secretly built a facility that slowly added chlorine to the aquifer, and basically used everyone in the water district as a guinea pig. Ended up working, and now everyone does it.

Sewage systems & treatment

I think the Romans were the first to design ways to direct their sewage away from the city.

The wheel
Electricity
Airplanes
Computers


We’ve made communicating/traveling exponentially easier over the centuries ... teleportation next?

It used to be compassion. I'm not so sure anymore.

Rescue from Gilligan's Island.

Man's greatest accomplishment?

Not yet having destroyed ourselves.

This is up there

and now we’re jinxed.

Lol thanks y town

I calls 'em like I sees 'em.

Im going with cars electronics houses air conditioning toilet paper and Mountain Dew.

Man gave us life as in god and man created about everything on this earth I'd go with woman being half as smart as man.

You sound like you're not married. If you are, try telling your wife that.

You are single, aren't you?

No im married lol...

If you tell her what you posted I suggest you work on your 40 time first.

Come on Pit us men no who has the brains in the family

The ones who can't spell?

You would be definitely be proof of that answer.

You no I'm just kidding right? Haven't seen you in a while. I love my wife and she's every bit as smart as i am.

That’s better.

See what I mean, bro?

I finally got a chuckle out of this thread.

One of the also rans:

Mapping the DNA genome / sequence

mans greatest accomplishment...…

Agriculture....by a wide margin...

Our ability to grow crops gave rise to the surplus of food necessary to move away from our primitive hunter/gatherer society, and instead build large permanent settlements.....It allowed for huge population growth, and it cleared the way for human ingenuity, cooperation on a large scale, and the industrial revolution as we were able to pursue other advances as the constant need to procure sustenance was no longer a primary objective of day to day life....

In the modern age, something many take for granted; indoor plumbing.....the evolution of the concept of efficiently bringing clean potable water into the home while separately removing waste water from our cities played a large role in enhancing quality of life and lengthening average lifespans throughout civilized society.....

I want to reveal the greatest accomplishment, but I think the question is too vague...........not intended to insult the OP.

I go back and forth between which accomplishment has helped society the most or what accomplishment was the hardest to accomplish or what accomplishment was the best at combing both elements.