The moon landings were the greatest scientific and technological triumphs in history.
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Mitchell
on April 29, 2007
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The Great Western Railway?
The SS Great Britain?
Velcro? The pill? Semi-dwarf high-yield, disease-resistant wheat?
Fire.
Agriculture.
Food always wins this. The greatest triumph of the 20th century was wheat.
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Sticks! Churches! Very small rocks!
Lead! Lead!
Although destroying smallpox gets pretty high up there too.
I disagree with scientific triumph, and agree with the technological triumph. So I'm not voting on this one. Even more remarkable is that those who landed on the moon returned safely to earth.
Geez, and here I thought that endosymbiosis would have made the list. Oh, that's anthropocentric history...
Getting humans to the moon and back is staggeringly complicated. I don't have the perspective to confidently agree or disagree with this claim, but certainly share the sentiment.
Perhaps if the claim was:
"The moon landings were one of the..."
I'm with WC.
Ooh! You guys forgot the polio vaccine and the heart transplant!
I dunno, it seems like Future Tech is always the greatest technology you can get, so that'd be my vote.
The Earth can't and won't last forever, so sooner or later the human race will have to permanently colonize space. The Moon landings were the first step in the process, but the first missions to another world has got to the greatest human achievement.