Thread 17950431

Was the Apollo Program the peak of human achievement?

>>17950431 (OP)
Yes, followed closely by the icbm programs of America and the USSR

>>17950440
ICBMs are less impressive in my opinion, and we have less to show for them, which is ironic since we've arguably poured more time and resources into developing ICBMs and the defense infrastructure surrounding them than we did putting people on the moon

>>17950431 (OP)
I was watching documentaries on the Challenger tragedy and it truly was a different world. People were chanting USA watching these rockets launch, we truly thought we were going to the stars. The future was American and we were doing amazing things. Space was being opened up, everyone legitimately thought we would be living on spacestations very very soon.

Then NASAs management dogfucked the entire thing, incompetence and negligence lead to not one but two fully manned shuttles exploding and killing 14 astronauts for no reason other than scheduling pressure. What a complete fucking joke, Larry whatever his name is should be executed for destroying America's future.

>>17950489
The Space Shuttle program in general was a massive mistake in retrospect and the only reason it lasted so long is because NASA already invested too much into those flying bricks.

>>17950489
And the fact that kids were growing up watching astronauts go to space was motivating them to study science and technology. Now were dealing with a generation of faggots who are completely vapid and dumb as shit, no desire to accomplish anything besides making money. No wonder we have to import people who aren't completely dead inside to fill tech jobs, USA is over. The experiment failed.

>>17950431 (OP)
Modern medicine is the peak of human achievement and has done the most good for the human race. Synthetic insulin by itself is a miracle drug that has saved millions of children’s lives.

>>17950501
Youtube used to promote science and tech. It was interesting they hooked me. Bush's wars and Obamas lies set us up for where we are now. People are tired of thier shit so now they're suppressing thier own. Oh yeah and scientists and engineers got hooked by the tranny bug hard.>>17950501

>>17950506
Who photoshopped that guys head in bottom left?

>>17950506
>Synthetic insulin by itself is a miracle drug that has saved millions of children’s lives.
It saved my life so I can definitely attest to this. Fascinating how it was done too, because insulin is a carbon based molecule that's not too dissimilar to alcohol, it was just a matter of modifying yeast strains to ferment sugar into insulin instead of alcohol, hence rDNA origin
>>17950501
>>17950518
Take your meds there schizo

>>17950529
See posters like this one. This is a chudjack who would happily stand atop Capitold Hill with a rainbow flag and one of every race singing in a circle around him. So long a Phizer keeps making Mrna shots.

>>17950431 (OP)
English Puritanism was the peak of human achievement

>>17950547
The Apollo Program was the logical conclusion of English Puritanism

>>17950553
With a little help from the Nazis

>>17950529
Lol it would be some faggot who can't produce his own insulin that tells me to take my meds. Maybe you should go take your meds, you genetic failure.

>>17950456
That's what makes them so impressive

>>17950556
>With a little help from the Nazis
Von Braun was working off of existing work by Robert Goddard, according to Braun most of the Nazi rocket scientists were. It was all the work of Americans with some contributions by Russian Cosmists. The V-2 was never capable of achieving orbit, it went up, and it went down.

>>17950559
>Maybe you should go take your meds, you genetic failure.
I did, and you can too my raging schizo child, I'm clearly not the only genetic failure in the room here.

>>17950523
He works out at the library

>>17950563
If there was one field the Nazis surpassed everyone in it was rocketry and jet turbines. Von Braun was in charge of the moon rocket design.
In fact even the A-bombs chief architect was an axis turncoat.

>>17950567
Oh well my library is full of homeless people and my attempt to produce a breakthrough in physics has been stifled by the inheritors of "Anglo arischronos'". Go figure.

>>17950576
Have you tied taking your meds though? It might help you think more clearly and get closer to your breakthrough.

>>17950566
Would love to hear what is schizo about my post. I'm >>17950501 btw. I'll wait while you gather enough blood sugar to recite some bullshit.

lmao Schizo going into complete tard rage now

>>17950431 (OP)
i hate this nonsense about human achievement. nigga is that a human flag or is that an American flag?

>>17950590
Take your meds, little buddy

>>17950593
It's clearly an American flag but it's representative of all of humanity up to that point

>>17950593
It's an American flag and America represents the pinnacle of humanity so the flag is a stand-in for human achievement in general

>>17950593
It's true, Americans are not human

>>17950609
show flag

>>17950615
Relax lil bro, it was just a joke.

>>17950617
Bong

>>17950617
expose colors

>>17950629
>>17950630
I'm Canadian, commence the roasting.

>>17950643
>commence the roasting.
No need, you just roasted yourself in the first half of your post

>>17950645
4.5/10 not bad

>>17950643
show maple syrup

Yes
>kino related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkXcfnHCPYo

>>17950603
>America represents the pinnacle of humanity

>>17950431 (OP)
No. It was peak American achievement. Everyone doesn't get credit for it.

>>17950431 (OP)
Yes, but it need to be true. And it is'nt, since it's fake

>>17950431 (OP)
demonrat hoax

>>17951801
>>17951780
>>17951743
Your rageb8 has been acknowledged and duly noted sirs

It's definitely up there. The fact that we launched a 111 meters tall rocket to the moon and managed to pick up 380 kg less than a decade after Kennedy’s moon speech is astonishing.

>>17952192
>Kennedy’s moon speech is astonishing.
You can thank Ted Sorensen for that speech and many of Kennedy's other speeches.

I know it's not technically /his/ but I want to talk about space damnit, the recent Starship Flight 10 was a success (finally). I'm glad we got this thing off the ground again without it exploding.

>>17952778
What's the rule on /his/, it's gotta be events from at least 20 years ago?

>>17952785
>For the purpose of determining what is history, please do not start threads about events taking place less than 25 years ago.

>NASA launched the OAO-B astronomical observatory on an Atlas-Centaur rocket on November 30, 1970. It carried an ultraviolet telescope and should have been able to detect previously un-observable objects. Unfortunately, OAO never made it to orbit--one of the two halves of the payload fairing failed to detach and the excess weight prevented the Centaur stage from reaching orbital velocity. The Centaur and OAO reentered and broke up over the Atlantic Ocean.

>The cause of the failure was one of the ten explosive bolts holding the fairing together failing to activate. A single $100 part had caused the loss of an $11.8 million ($98 million in 2024 dollars) satellite.

>>17952802
Today that single $100 part would cost $1,000 now because of extra safety and stress testing requirements.

>OAO-B was not the only failure in the program--the first satellite in the series had been launched in 1966 and topping the scales at 3,911 pounds was described by NASA as the heaviest payload yet launched on an Atlas-Agena rocket. However the satellite experienced a massive electrical short before any of the instruments could be activated and the solar panels could not be deployed. The batteries ran down after three days and OAO-1 was abandoned.

>Subsequent launches switched to the more powerful Atlas-Centaur. OAO-3 was the final of the series, launched in 1972 and operated for nine years. Despite the two failures, the program would eventually make the Hubble Space Telescope possibly by proving the viability of orbiting telescopes.

>>17952795
Hmmm what was happening in spess in 1999? Chandra observatory sent up on the shuttle, ikonos-1 failed bigly, we crashed some probes on Mars and the moon. Fun year.

>>17952806
Adjusted for inflation it would be about $830 today.

>>17952824
2000 would be the most recent year you might discuss.

I think all those gigantic spy satellites America was launching in the 70s/80s were pretty neat

>>17952840
no one actually mentioned that the Hubble Telescope was mostly a modified KH-11 reconnaissance satellite with a different set of mirrors and lenses designed to view faint deep space objects rather than ground targets

>>17952841
It makes perfect sense when you think about it

>>17950431 (OP)
No, not really. The peak will be the terraformation of Venus followed by Mars. It will dwarf the Apollo program to the point that we will view it as we view Magellan's circumvention of the globle: impressive if you really think about it but archaic by modern standards

>>17952887
>The peak will be the terraformation of Venus
This will never happen
>followed by Mars
This will never happen on any significant scale. I think we could support a Colony on Mars but "terraforming" would just amount to a couple of tiny glass dome habitats.

>>17952890
Terraforming in our solar system is a compete waste of time. We should be building colony ships to get to Proxima Centauri b ASAP.

So will mankind return the moon this decade or no