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I like how the moonwalk part actually caused an "oohhhh" in the audience - as if they were reacting the to eloquence. This was one of his better ones.

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Nothing's happened as big as going to the moon?

The 90s saw the invention of the internet, and in the human sciences were considered the "decade of the brain." The 2000s saw the sequencing of the human genome and the first successful milestones in organ regeneration.

Annual global scientific output now is orders of magnitude greater than it was in the 60s.

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Maher

Moon landing was kinda pointless, too. THERE WAS NOTHING THERE.

>> ^jerryku:
Moon landing was kinda pointless, too. THERE WAS NOTHING THERE.


Maher's analogy still applies...

Too bad he's wrong in that Obama looking at an ass bit.. If you watch the video that still CAME from, he's looking to greet his wife.

George Bush didn't really give the thumbs up to Misty's ass, either, so that's okay

I was thinking about the subject of national achievements the other day. One hundred years ago, people were for the most part not using internal combustion for transportation. In the fifty years hence, amazing advances took place. However, it seems at first glance to have tapered off since the late 60s.

My two cents: First off, we can thank the Cold War for the space race and our landing on the Moon. Second, Mars rovers anyone? That was a pretty fucking amazing feat! Third, IMO, most national (and global) achievements haven't been as outwardly observable as past achievements. For example: the internet. Personal computing. Nanotechnology. Miniaturization of every conceivable electronic device. They are all amazing achievements, but they aren't as sensational as a trip to the moon.

Theres one thing on the moon that will virtually ensure we return, despite the cost.

Resources.

He has fantastic writers. I think his point is that there hasn't been a national goal achieved to rival the moon walk.

>> ^nach0s:
IMO, most national (and global) achievements haven't been as outwardly observable as past achievements. For example: the internet. Personal computing. Nanotechnology. Miniaturization of every conceivable electronic device. They are all amazing achievements, but they aren't as sensational as a trip to the moon.


I love how people just don't care about organ regeneration or any advances that are more than 10 or 20 years away.

Even if you're young now, some day your organs will fail --in one of an endless variety of painful ways. When that happens, you'll be surprised, and you and your loved ones will probably cry at the unforeseeable tragedy of it. Then, since nobody likes a dying person who's bitter, you'll talk about how the death and disease process is actually beautiful, even though, um, you kind of wish you weren't dying.

If you have organs, then organ regeneration is orders of magnitude more useful to you than watching on TV some guy in orbit walking on a piece of rock.

To clarify, I use 'sensational' as a subjective term. A moon landing and organ regeneration can be equally sensational, in other words. That's what I was trying to say in my previous post.

- Sequencing of the Human Genome
- A computer better at chess than any living human
- A worldwide communications network
- Super computers approaching the processing power of the human brain
- Cheap access to global positioning electronics

It's funny how all of these things (and many more) are seen as mundane compared to a guy walking around on the moon, especially considering that the computing power NASA had during the moon landing was less powerful than a modern cell phone.

What's a walk on the moon compared with instant access to midget porn and Brazilian fart fetish porn ...

We're slowly becoming a multi-planets species. Yes, landing on the moon was a big deal.

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