The most exciting event in the history of the world.

I sometimes try to picture that enthousiasm of english socialists that went off to fight Franco in the spanish civli war. Not sure how excited they were but they seem to went with such a strong motivation that they were doing the right thing. In a way it is inspiring as well (although things appeared a bit different once they got there with their idealized purpose).

 

Perhaps their enthusiasm was more appropriate than that of soldiers off to fight WWI. They were people with a cause - to fight against fascism. In WWI they were off to prop up an empire.

Probably people who volunteer to go and fight in any conflict are not fully aware of what they are getting into - otherwise they might think twice.

 

The Moon landings.

 

Ten Years After at Woodstock 1969

 

alley oop meeting dr who. lol.

all the things i would consider exciting are nerd things. and nerd things thousands of years ago.
magnets, wire and electric sparks, the relationship between them, oh and blowing this up by boiling water,
or even letting freezing water crack rocks.

all the dumb things people learned not to do the hard way with fire.

scratching pictures on rocks, that you could do that, and you could see something that someone who died before you were born had done that.

really i think that was the beginning of history itself, possibly even our sapience as a species itself.

the furst hug was probably pretty cool too.

 

Still thing my first titty grope wins !

 

/thread.

 

There are those who would argue we never landed on the moon.

 

Fuckin peaches they were

 

if i have to go with one thing, it would be the discovery that you could make a picture, or symbolic image, by scratching or painting rock, and it would still be there if you went away and came back and other people could see it and unless someone deliberately defaced it, it would still be there long after you were gone.

i really think that was the whole beginning of our species becoming anything any other species wasn't.

 

I appreciate matey, your thread is almost four years old, but in response to it I have to say that my Dad (George) was one of those who joined the 'International Brigade'.

 

oh wait; titties or the looner landing denier loonies. well i guess it works both ways.

 

I would guess the most exciting events in world history were the invention of the airplane and flying, and the invention of the automobile and driving. Besides being exciting to experience they changed human behavior and life on earth more than anything else in human history.

 

richard thevathic and high pressure steam, and then putting it on rails. flanged wheel on steel rail did more to change human history then anything since the invention of agriculture.
sure the coming of the internet and computers an ordinary person could afford, but for shere impact on politics and culture and even how an ordinary person views their world.
metal working is another one, and the tools metal working made able to create which made it easier to accurately shape wood and stone.
and then the kind of combination of micro-photo etching and the chemistry involved that made possible transistors and intigrated circuits.
these kinds of things the ordinary person was less likely to notice or credit their significance at the time, have done more to shape our perspectives, then big events like wars and conquests.

 

Ahhh - you mean Richard Trevithic

 

Yes matey, it shows the impact and the shock wave and devastation from the shock wave, but what about the Tsunami ???

 

The most exciting event in human history was the first "Earthrise" photographed by the Apollo 8 astronauts on Christmas Eve 1968. This really put everything else into perspective.

Jim Lovell: "The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth."

Frank Borman: "The Earth was the only thing in the entire universe that had any colour – a beautiful sight, we're very fortunate to live on this planet.”

William Anders: "We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth."

Earthrise

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/297755main_GPN-2001-000009_full.jpg

 

i think excitement is a distraction from anything accurate or useful we might otherwise gain from the long memory of all the hows and whys of what has happened.
i do think cello is right about a perspective on this island planet we share that no had previously witnessed.

yet i do believe many people had already many times imagined it in their minds.
it is significant that we have learned a way to escape from the prison of our planets gravity well,
though only to visit what lies a relatively short way beyond.

the perspective is good. it makes us realize a lot of things, but there is a great deal more we need to know and understand, if we are to assure the survival of our species.
that the dust beneath our feat can grow weary of our tread, lest we become mindful of it.