The Internet or Space

[The Floridian Coast]

Simple question - which is the greater technological achievement and which is more significant to humanity, the internet or space travel?

[Norstal]

Space travel.

The internet don't make oil or other natural resources.

[Conserative Morality]

The internet. Space may be more useful someday, but the internet is unparalleled as an outlet for human creativity and as a mechanism for the dissemination of information.

[Conserative Morality]

Space travel.

The internet don't make oil or other natural resources.

Neither does Space, friend.

[Lackadaisical2]

I'd say the 'net is a greater achievement, but space travel could turn out to be more significant.

[Occupied Deutschland]

Space.
Because there you can troll on EPIC proportions

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Edit: Alternative joke
TROOLLLSSS INNNNN SPAAAACCCEEE!

[Unchecked Expansion]

Near instant worldwide communication of ideas is a potentially amazing thing for civilisation
Then again, satellite communication helps allow it, so space travel is partly responsible...

[Hellsgrind]

Space space space.

[Unchecked Expansion]

Space space space.

Wanna go to space. Spaaaace

[Lackadaisical2]

Space.
Because there you can troll on EPIC proportions

(Image)

NYA Nya Nya Nya Nyaaaa Nya!

"we claim the moon"

Satellites are pretty awesome...

[Norstal]

Space travel.

The internet don't make oil or other natural resources.

Neither does Space, friend.

I should say I'm more for space research, not space travel. Can't travel to places you don't know about. Well, I mean, you can, but...

[Zatarack]

Space.

There's no refuge from world-ending events on the Internet.

[Xiscapia]

The Internet in space. *nods*

EDIT: No, wait. Cyberspace. What now?

[Mare Nectaris]

Space travel is the greater technological achievement.

While the internet is pretty impressive, the

is the pinnacle of human engineering. We, us humans, made that in under 9 years with just the use of slide rules.

However, picking which one is more significant to humanity is much more difficult. Both have been significant in their own ways.

[Unchecked Expansion]

Space travel is the greater technological achievement.

While the internet is pretty impressive, the

(Image)

is the pinnacle of human engineering. We, us humans, made that in under 9 years with just the use of slide rules.

However, picking which one is more significant to humanity is much more difficult. Both have been significant in their own ways.

It's pretty. But sending man to space was international dick waving. Unless we have somewhere we need to go, sending people where a probe with a camera and a dozen sensors could go is just wasteful

[New Ziedrich]

Space travel is the greater technological achievement.

While the internet is pretty impressive, the

(Image)

is the pinnacle of human engineering. We, us humans, made that in under 9 years with just the use of slide rules.

However, picking which one is more significant to humanity is much more difficult. Both have been significant in their own ways.

Yo, I just saved that pic to my awesome pics folder.

Anyway, space travel wins; sure, the internet's grand and all, but you can't carve Goatse into the moon if you can't get there in the first place.

[Bavin]

Space travel.

The internet don't make oil or other natural resources.

Neither does Space, friend.

I call bullshit.

In 2004, the world production of iron ore exceeded a billion metric tons.[4] In comparison, a comparatively small M-type asteroid with a mean diameter of 1 km could contain more than two billion metric tons of iron-nickel ore. The asteroid 16 Psyche is believed to contain 1.7×1019 kg of nickel-iron, which could supply the 2004 world production requirement for several million years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining

[Norstal]

Space travel is the greater technological achievement.

While the internet is pretty impressive, the

(Image)

is the pinnacle of human engineering. We, us humans, made that in under 9 years with just the use of slide rules.

However, picking which one is more significant to humanity is much more difficult. Both have been significant in their own ways.

It's pretty. But sending man to space was international dick waving. Unless we have somewhere we need to go, sending people where a probe with a camera and a dozen sensors could go is just wasteful

Getting to the moon reveals something to us: that it's going to be really fucking difficult once we stay there.

Moondust is a bitch. Not to mention in vacuum, constructing a moon base would be near impossible. Even more, we found that the suits the astronauts are wearing is not enough to protect them from the dust. So, its not all dickwaving.

There's also space junk travelling at you at (insert hyperbole here) speeds.

[Frenequesta]

As it stands now, the Internet. We can fling information halfway round the globe but still can't fling ourselves to the nearest star in any reasonable amount of time.

[Meryuma]

FACT: Space does not exist.

BTW I thought this was going to be a thread of "if only the internet or space travel could exist, which would you pick".

[Cannot think of a name]

Then again, satellite communication helps allow it, so space travel is partly responsible...

you fuckered my answer because I hadn't thought of that...they're intertwined...

[Greater Rhodes]

As of current time, the internet, but the development of the internet has been aided by advances in space technology and observation a great deal.

[Mare Nectaris]

As it stands now, the Internet. We can fling information halfway round the globe but still can't fling ourselves to the nearest star in any reasonable amount of time.

There's a perfectly good reason for that though. Sending information is easy because it doesn't have any mass. Sending massless information through cables and the air at 98% of the speed of light is easy compared to sending several tons of mass to the nearest star in a reasonable amount of time. The amount of energy that would be needed to get any space ship even half way to the speed of light would be unfathomable.

[Norstal]

FACT: Space does not exist.

BTW I thought this was going to be a thread of "if only the internet or space travel could exist, which would you pick".

Well, "vacuum travel" sounds boring.

[Soviet Haaregrad]

The internet.

Although they're almost polar opposites. Space exploration is the ultimate in adventure and looking outside. The internet is like autism for humanity.