In the very short-term, yes, these were nationalistic totems. But these are human achievements.Montegriffo wrote:Like I said before, it's a national identity thing like us trying to be the first at the poles or raising the flag attop Mt Everest.GrumpyCatFace wrote:Nonsense, hippy bitch, on this I stand firm. We inspired humanity for probably the first time EVER, revamped scientific knowledge, changed our place in the universe, and did something that will eternally be regarded as "fucking badass". All within a decade-ish.
No guns on the moon, no billboards, just footprints. (and a flag and some trash) That was an all-time Badass Win for humanity, and I won't have it tainted by politics.
You have to remember that every single one of those scientific advances happened right here down on Earth. No reason to assume you needed the space race to acheive them. Necessity is the mother of all invention after all. I just find putting a man on the moon for a few short hours is not a necessity for me, mankind or the future of life on Earth.
Gonna have to agree to disagree on this one my freind.
The poles are a bit different, because as soon as we determined that there WERE poles to the planet, sooner or later, somebody would walk up there. The moon though, was considered completely impossible by a large chunk of humanity - just as Mars is now.
To children learning about our history, on the plains of Erdania Planetia, it will not matter which little Earth tribe got there first. What matters is that on Date X, humans finally got the fuck off the home rock and stood on a new celestial body. There was more infighting, and we almost blew ourselves up, but eventually, we reached a little further... and a little further...
And thank the Ancestors we did, because that asteroid could have wiped us all out in 2108...
(Pulls a Dan Carlin, takes his ball and goes home).
