The Best Things People Have Done

[MatthewV]

This thread is for recognizing the good accomplishments that large groups of people have done. Too much of the internet is about the good, bad, or ugly things that happen to us. Step back a moment and appreciate some collective human effort.


I think that Central Park inside New York city was a very good idea.

[MNOWAX]

Since I'm watching it now, The Olympic Games is a great achievement to mankind.
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[Courk]

The Interblag!

[The Potter]

The Grey Labyrinth! Huzza for being a place that cares about people!

[itisally]

It may not be a big international and timeless accomplishment, but several of my friends got together about 8 years ago and were inspired to build a mock pirate ship to take to events. It is hard work and I am proud to be counted amoung this crew. We are more than just friends after all this time and the dream keeps growing as this year we took to our event 123 people, 3 ships, and a fort with a clock tower and still have 2 "ships" in dry dock. It has been an amazing ride.


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[Hitchhiker]

The Mars rovers.

[Death Mage]

I took a nap. You guys may not be impressed, but I thought it was pretty damned awesome.
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[Pervy*]

A raised glass to the first of the Homo species that discovered sex. An accomplishment that made every succeeding accomplishment possible.

[Death Mage]

Microwave popcorn. If you've never taken the time to appreciate this little miracle, I suggest you buy a bag and do so.
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[Nsof]

This one is still in the works but I believe its a huge one: Autonomous cars.
Advantages are overwhelming.

I would have loved to work on one of the current projects such as Google's.
Kind of dwarfs almost anything I worked on.
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[Macros]

Whilst I appreciate the scale of the technology involved.

I have zero desire to see self driven cars being legally mainstream.
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[Macros]

Whilst I appreciate the scale of the technology involved.

I have zero desire to see self driven cars being legally mainstream.
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[Nsof]

why not?
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[Macros]

Personally I really don't like the idea of a computer driving me around, I want to be in control of the vehicle.

Hypothetical situation, a dog dashes in front of the car, in taking evasive manovres the computer ends up hitting a child its sensors did not pick up until it was too late.
Id have mowed that dog down because I had seen the kid leaving the garden chasing a butterfly or whatever stupid thing it wae chasing.

Yes its reducto adumsurdum, and yes I think that god awful film I am Robot might use a similar idea in setting up will smiths character.

The fact remains computers can not deal with everyday situations like humans can.
Their logic will always be to cold and, well logical to deal with the vagaries of life and what the world throws at us.

Not to mention that if they became common place, like someone who hqs only driven auto not being able to handle manual, the requisite skillset fornindependant driving would be lost to many and so a computer failure would cause panemonium across the board.
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[Macros]

I accept the arguements put forward in favour of the idea, and I likely am being, what could be considered, irrational on the subject.
But I, personally, do not want to have a computer driving me around, I want to drive myself, although the easing of traffic appeals to me, people really don't know how to keep traffic moving effectively.

NSOF's comment on how people won't know how it works and will just call up a technician when thugs go wronis certainly not an appealing aspect of this idea. To hell with that, if my car stops I'll generally get it going again myself, I have no desire to be held waiting for some Muppet to come along, plug hid laptop into my car and then say "ok fixed, that's £200 please"
Computers crash and freeze, yesz blah blah things are getting more reliable, doesn't matter. When my car has a problem (unless it siezes or a wheel falls off) I'll pull into the side of the road and investigate.
When the computer freezes and the person behind the wheel has no idea how to control the vehicle, its shit the pants time.
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[Pablo]

1. PVC Pipe
2. The bicycle
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[Pablo]

When gas hits $10/gallon, you'll see the importance of a bicycle. You'll need it to get to your concerts.
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[Macros]

Managable man made fire
Agriculture.

We wouldn't be posting here without them
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[Pablo]

This (Traeger grill)


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