Mankind's last great achievement

[Hans]

I think at least parts of it are from Black Hawk Down. I may be wrong.

[slowpoke]

"great achievement" based on what criteria? For what that ego trip cost the Third World could well be part of the First World by now.

[Jeaves]

Certainly our greatest achievement when it comes to saying to the universe "f#%k you, ill decide where im gonna go".

[Hans]

"great achievement" based on what criteria? For what that ego trip cost the Third World could well be part of the First World by now.

You're not being serious, surely? You think money can solve the problems of the Third World. How much time have you spent in the Third World?
No. Scientific and technological advancement, the stuff you're calling an "ego trip", is actually one of the things that set us apart from the Third World.
So what you're saying is we need to bring ourselves down to their level instead of bringing them up to ours.
The Third World largely needs to change it's attitude. You can't really buy that with money. Besides I'd much rather see my tax go towards the likes of an Apollo program, then to feed someone who's starving because they're part of an unsustainably high population somewhere in Africa.

[pzkpfw]

Besides I'd much rather see my tax go towards the likes of an Apollo program, then to feed someone who's starving because they're part of an unsustainably high population somewhere in Africa.

...and run by Governments that are either inept or corrupt (and often both).

See Mugabe and his drive to turn his country from a food exporter to a charity case.

[Fluffy Cat]

...and run by Governments that are either inept or corrupt (and often both).

See Mugabe and his drive to turn his country from a food exporter to a charity case.

Well said, the UK govt if you can call it that spent years paying reparations to Mugabe(who buy the way is a racist). When his corruption became to much for the said govt they withheld payments. Which led to an acceleration of repossession of white farms. These were the farms feeding the country. The rest is history. People need to do things for themselves, like build big rockets.

[imdying]

Oh sweet, we might even get 'back' there some day.

[Swoop]

Clarkson might be right. The Concorde was "the Zenith"...

Jb-Hi Fi had a great boxed set of dvd's on sale recently. Covered from V1 through to the middle of the shuttle era.
Great viewing.

[Mikkel]

Nevermind going to the moon... that rocket is approximately 100 meters tall. Anything that can make a jet of flame more than half a kilometer long is awesome in my book.

Everything you need to know in order to go to the moon was formulated by a chap called Isaac Newton in the late 1600s.

I disagree. The "automatic" washing machine released all women in Western Civilisation from slavery.

No, it just made them more efficient slaves. There'll still be dishes to be cleaned and eggs to be cooked.

While nuking the whales

There is a committee for that you know.

[KiwiGs]

Do a Google on One Square Killometre Array. The stats on this are staggering.


Skyryder

The stats are staggering, what is even more staggering are the huge gaps in technology that have to be bridged between now and 2012.

[Street Gerbil]

A bit of research has shown that the soundtrack of the first video consists of two parts:
'Baltar's Dream' and 'Roslyn and Adama' from Battlestar Galactica by Bear McCreary.
Both works appear to be a near-verbatim copy (plagiarism much?) of 'Vale of Plenty' and 'Ashes to Ashes' by Hans Zimmer from Black Hawk Down OST.