New NASA Photos Show Footprints on the Moon From 1969 Landing - Polidicks

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[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;32158459]Well, if you want social and historical events making it into the history books, this last decade was pretty good. [b]It has the longest war in US history[/b], numerous technological achievements, the development of entire cultures based around the free exchange of information, [b]numerous revolutions and changes of power[/b], the first time a man's mutilated anus became a cultural phenomena, the first mind-controlled prosthetic limbs, the beginnings of medical nanobots, yet more rapid emergency medical treatment (like the skin spray gun for burn victims), etc.[/QUOTE] What is bold is what will get chapters in history books. What is not bold will get a paragraph, if it's lucky.

They should enhance more, I can't see shit. Some photo CSI expert do it!!!

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;32158507]What is bold is what will get chapters in history books. What is not bold will get a paragraph, if it's lucky.[/QUOTE] Are you kidding? The [i]"development of entire cultures based around the free exchange of information"[/i] will certainly be at least half of a chapter. The medical shit (especially prosthetic limbs) will get listed as a major side-effect of whateverthehellthisIraqandAfghanistanthingiscalled whether it deserves it or not (like penicillin for WWII). As for Goatse, that's not the kind of thing that just dies; expect to see history teachers wake kids up with that for decades, if not centuries, to come.

[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;32158714]Are you kidding? The [i]"development of entire cultures based around the free exchange of information"[/i] will certainly be at least half of a chapter. The medical shit (especially prosthetic limbs) will get listed as a major side-effect of whateverthehellthisIraqandAfghanistanthingiscalled whether it deserves it or not (like penicillin for WWII). As for Goatse, that's not the kind of thing that just dies; expect to see history teachers wake kids up with that for decades, if not centuries, to come.[/QUOTE] Hopefully, it will be like that. But going by today's standards, I mean, they really won't get much attention. I'm merely comparing how today would be scene by today's history books if this all happened a hundred years ago.

Kind of odd how they took a path from the Lander, and then took the same path back to it, instead of just cutting straight for it, wonder what the reason for that was

[QUOTE=TheTalon;32159414]Kind of odd how they took a path from the Lander, and then took the same path back to it, instead of just cutting straight for it, wonder what the reason for that was[/QUOTE] I think they were out there for a couple days, maybe those were separate excursions?

My dad met Pete Conrad. From what I hear he was a pretty awesome guy.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;32157689]There have been decade long conflicts before and financial crises before. The ones in the 2000s are significantly unimportant and minor compared to the wider scope of history. 30 Years War, for example - 3 decades long and far more bloodier. Besides, thinking only in terms of Iraq and Afghanistan is very blind. Somalia, Darfur and many other African nations have been in conflict for far longer. These two only get attention due to US involvement, which really is no big deal. Hell, the Vietnam War is more of a precedent than Iraq. As for financial crisis - Great Depression is a given, but there were many other "great recessions", such as the one in 1896 and another in the (I believe) 1830s (1820s?).[/QUOTE] Of course there have been more significant moments in history but I still think these will be memorable for the next few decades. I mean the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s was hardly game changing but I hear about that in every class I do. I think that the Afghanistan war will be particularly significant in the presence of non-state actors and even though there were those in previous domestic conflicts, this will change the nature of war forever. The major point of these is that while they may seem like run of the mill conflicts now, we don't know what major repercussions they'll have over the next quarter of a century. The global financial crisis is still affecting lots of countries now, so while the US has had its depressions before, they've never brought about such global change. Maybe the 2000s will be significant in the way they globalised domestic problems and how nations can't simply opt out of others' affairs nowadays.

Fuck yeah the Moon.

[B]Moon Snakes!!![/B]

[QUOTE=Mlisen14;32160691]Of course there have been more significant moments in history but I still think these will be memorable for the next few decades. I mean the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s was hardly game changing but I hear about that in every class I do. I think that the Afghanistan war will be particularly significant in the presence of non-state actors and even though there were those in previous domestic conflicts, this will change the nature of war forever. The major point of these is that while they may seem like run of the mill conflicts now, we don't know what major repercussions they'll have over the next quarter of a century. The global financial crisis is still affecting lots of countries now, so while the US has had its depressions before, they've never brought about such global change. Maybe the 2000s will be significant in the way they globalised domestic problems and how nations can't simply opt out of others' affairs nowadays.[/QUOTE] To be honest that depends a lot on where you are. I don't really recall the asian crisis mentioned too much in Europe, since we had nations emerging out of the iron curtain and the economics that entailed it as well as pretty drastic changes to the unification of Europe. People also forget that this is the decade that gave the EU legal subjectivity and essentially set up the path for relatively major power changes in Europe. While that won't be a chapter headline in coming history books, I'd say it will be a pretty major part of history textbook which will talk about European history. But yeah, this decade was relatively unimportant in terms of global happenings. It's actually kind of funny really. If you look at modern nations, you see a less and less impact of wars on the population of them. Just compare ww1 and what it meant for the public, ww2 likewise. Even the war in vietnam and Korea saw some changes for the people living in the US. The current climate? There's a global recession, the US is in at least two occupation zones and even so, the economical impact on the people is minor at best. In part it's perhaps due to a lack of a military opponent to the western world. While the US has economic and political opponents and the EU is slowly drifting away from them as well, none of these opponents are military opponents and as a result you can't even have proxy wars. Hell their biggest current economic opponent has no power projection capabilities in the sense either the Europeans or Russians do and even those pale in comparison to the US. All of these factors probably lead to a very calm decade. Obviously the question is if this is the calm before the storm or not.