It's beyond question that putting human beings on another celestial body has been the highlight of human achievement so far (besides rising from our primitive and shitstained origins, obv).
What do you think will be the next unequivocally "greatest achievement" or milestone we reach within our lifetimes?
Personally I'm partial to the creation of an Artificial General Intelligence capable of passing the Turing test (and not murdering us for our atoms) or creating a viable star ship with an Alcubierre drive capable of reaching other star systems in a reasonable amount of time. A lasting world peace would be cool too tho.
Massively available VR at the Fisher Price level to the points that women are absolutely BTFO'd by the ai sexbot boom
Next achievement:
Turn civilisation to dumpship, fuck ourself, and let rodents and cockroach dominate the world.
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>>67764680
Lol, why would either of these be reasonably considered mankind's newest highlight/"greatest achievement" though?
The Orbital Elevator is going to be our key to the heavens
>>67764202
Destroying the patriarchy and ending white male privilege.
>>67764202
Global planned economy.
>>67764202
Muslim genocide
Surviving the collapse of our present industrial civilization.
Flying planes over mecca, dropping thousands of pigs from the skies, each with their own parachute
>>67764803
The first one would destroy feminism, one of the modern age's great cancers
>>67765282
...exploding on contact, spewing entrails in a 10 metre radius.
>>67764202
Finally exterminating a certain minority.
Electing Trump. /thread
>>67764202
Being able to harness the energy of our planet so we don't have to worry about fuel and shit and finally become a Type I civilization
>>67764202
Invention of nuclear fusion reactors, US manned Mars mission, space elevator, NANOMACHINES SON to name a few.
>>67764202
understanding/splitting the atom > moon landing
the same field of endeavor leading to your Alcubierre drive.
>>67764202
Building a wall around America to keep them in.
Fusion
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>>67765488
Come to think of it, the parachutes are entirely unnecessary with good aiming
>>67766014
That was just the previous "greatest achievement," I agree it was a pretty big fucking deal though.
>>67764509
First post best post
>>67764202
>"greatest achievement"
cuckgenics
>>67764202
A defeat of the global elite who manipulate our politicians.
>>67764202
its going to be immortality via nanotech
or almost
the kind where you can heal bullet wounds instantly and not age.
in the next 20 years at the earliest
more likely in the next 50
>>67764803
That took too long and the ending sucked. 2/10
>>67766548
Our first baby steps beyond our little mud ball are kind of a big deal, no matter how you look at it. I'm not soz if you can't grasp such a simpleconcept, autistgenic.
>>67766526
lol, okay >>>r9k
Genetically engineered cat girls
Actually landing on the moon.
>>67764202
Visiting mars..
next huge achievements will be social
re-empowerment of POC, women LGBTQ, end to borders, one human society
hurr i step on planet is stupid ass macho crap when children in africa are starving
we have a perfectly good planet here just need to take better care of it
>>67766418
i thought it was a nice touch. imagine seeing those piggies floating gently to earth.... then kaboom.
soundtrack: ride of the valkyries.
>>67764202
>putting human beings on another celestial body has been the highlight of human achievement so far
The Internet has been the highlight of human achievement so far you moron. Are you kidding me?
>>67767159
I'm not sorry if I think our first steps in reaching out to the stars > altering how we talk with one another/get porn.
>>67764202
LEAVING HUMANITY
>>67767309
>our first steps in reaching out to the stars
This was a great achievement for its time.
>altering how we talk with one another
That's a really basic way of putting it. You must be about sixty years old.
Exploring the new opportunities brought to us by th down fall of the patriarchy
>>67764202
Super intelligent AI.
It'd result in a third world war, but... It'd be good.
It wouldn't be gone forever if it did die however. Someone would build another one. And another one. And another one.
Eventually we'd just succumb to our literal AI overlord and go into a complete socialist economy and style of government.
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>>67767493
Nope, 20something like you (probably). Personally I feel like the greatest heights to be reached with the web are still ahead of us, perhaps when the IoT matures.
>>67767493
>That's a really basic way of putting it.
*that's the point*
>>67767949
I'm kind of curious how you would succinctly describe it tbqh.
We'll successfully terraform mars
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>>67767159
What is it about America that makes us so good at propelling humankind forward? Has any other nation ever contributed so much in so little time?
>>67768182
a ubiquitous communication network
>>67768257
"We choose to go to the moon and do the other things. Not because they are easy but because they are hard."
p.s. apollo rocket engineers, einstein,... not exactly american.
>>67768254
>Turkisch_Special_ Forces.jpg
>>67764202
Finding the traces of life on far way exoplanet.
>>67767836
>Personally I feel like the greatest heights to be reached with the web are still ahead of us
OK, but it had to exist first, right?
The fact that you and I are even interacting at all, is a huge fucking deal. I feel like you're taking it for granted, even though this conversation was literally facilitated by it. Imagine trying to pose this philosophical conversation only to the people in your immediate vicinity?
We've made it so ideas can reach almost anyone in a ridiculously short amount of time. It's the first stop on a journey to having all of our minds linked, to each of us becoming neurons in a brain larger than any of us. The internet is already that to some degree, there's just currently a limit to what can be expressed, how it can be consumed, and how fast.
If you still disagree with me, try forgetting that you ever read this post, today, or for the rest of your life. And yet I'm over here and you're way over there.
Landing on the moon was an impressive technological and logistic feat. But the Internet is/was a game-changer. Our lives revolve around it.
Cloning a Mammoth. They are so close to it now.
>>67768892
Try readin Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
>>67764202
cleansing this earth of retards
>>67764202
Society seems to idolize physical achievement over intellectual achievement.
While just a year or so ago we've confirmed the existence of the Higgg's boson very few people idolize it as a crowning achievement of humanity, although it was on the scale of effort a much bigger project than going to the moon.
So I guess based on this presumption of human appreciation of achievement the next thing will have to be sending humans to Mars or something along those lines.
The reification of anime.
>>67768776
I donno. The president seemed to trust those rocket engineers. That's enough to be American in my book.
the next "greatest achievement" will be:
to make India poo in the loo
>>67764202
The destruction of islam
>>67764202
dunno probably felix baumgartner doing something sponsored by Redbull®
>>67769255
sasuga canada
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>>67768892
VIP quality posts
>>67764202
Artificial intelligence
>>67769211
fair enough. werner von braun was a great man. kennedy too.
>>67765586
> /thread'ing your own post
>>67769852
That they were. Something we have a shortage of these days.
>>67764202
solution for global warming
or
moon colony
or
near total independance from fossil fuels
>>67764202
Making America great again
>>67769518
>sasuga
sry i don't understand your qt moonspeak
>>67770314
>Making America great again
This.
>>67768776
why the fuck did germany not go on their chimpout and instead keep their best scientists, and direct their amazing war effort to creating utopia within germany?
>>67770393
it means you stood up to your reputation of not contributing anything worth of quality
CERN will soon open a gateway to hell unspunning a demonic and evil dimension to spill into ours.
Man kind will not survive the cataclysm
Moving away from fossil fuels while still using the same amount of energy, so either alt fuels or room temperature superconductors.
Nano machines and materials.
Living on mars.
>>67770980
um that gateway was already opened in 1948, it was called Israel
Removing Kebab.
>>67764202
Hopefully colonization of another planet before the brown wave genocides the whites.
