Space Programme: Overrated or Best thing since sliced bread?

[Moros]

I don't really understand your position, Moros: we could, with unprecedented international cooperation and organizational optimization, have achieved a super-duper awesome result -

so it really, really sucks that we achieved only a super-awesome result?



You get no porridge tonight, Moros.

I said it was an incredible feat of technology and dedication. But whether it was as great as was previously suggested is a different matter. Especially at the cost of human decency. (connected with the rape 3 thread and the V1, V2 rockets)

The reasons that later backed up the claim for making it one of man's greatest feats were then merely said to have been commercial gain, others said it was necessary to be able to get away from this planet in the near future. While the last is so untrue, the other isn't limited to a project that wanted to put people on rocks somewhere in space.

My point is thus that it isn't one of man's greatest deeds. Perhaps I just have another definition of what constitutes a great deed. Nor does it in my eyes make it up for ignoring war crimes. What I'm saying thus would be, if I were to have been in charge I'd rather wouldn't have my eyes shut for data and technology and would have invested in different scientific research. Is that such Blasphemy or weird?

I'm not saying planting flags on the moon isn't cool. If a friend of mine would do it, I'd utter a 'woha' at least. But humanity as a whole or large and advanced nation can do and should do greater things. At least in theory, sadly enough.

"Thresher Maws are a multi-planet species" I had noticed, thanks. Gave me a lot of sweat in Mass Effect the first... Specially one on a icy planet...

Yeah in the first game, I got a heart attack when that thing showed up out of nowhere while I was exploring on foot. In ME2 it wasn't that much special though. A tad hard if you forgot to bring a heavy weapon, carrying a cain that wasn't fully loaded or something. But in ME1 those were scary.