Most Inspiring Moment in History

[Cameroi]

custer's defeat.

dr king's march.

ghandi's salt march. (and india's independence)

b.a.r.t., amtrak, and capital corridor.

the interurban in japan that was saved by making biscuits, and another by a cat.

and all the odd little corners where the good guys have occasionally won.

[Sociobiology]

Noone mentioned a movie.

The whole Moon landing business was nothing more than a Hollywood-esque studio production, but this really isn't the thread for it.

Though I suppose it can still be considered inspiring, in the same way Rocky or Rambo were inspiring to a whole generation.

go away loony.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw

[Kleomentia]

But in seriousness of serious seriousness, it hasnt yet happened.

[Cabra West]

In my lifetime? The fall of the Berlin wall.
And the Good Friday agreement.

Other than that, the moon landing.

Those would be the biggest I can think of, though there are tons and tons of smaller ones. Every little and large medical breakthrough, every little law to protect animals and the environment, every pease treaty that actually results in peace...

[L Ron Cupboard]

I think Laika and Yuri Gargarin are getting a bit short changed here. The conversion of Ashoka to Buddhism, Edward Jenner's work, or Norman Borlaug's, or the decoding of the human genome are all good moments.

I am going to go for the launch of Voyager missions.

[Ostroeuropa]

Battle of Britain.
Potentially fall of the berlin wall.

The moments when Totalitarian ideology isn't just defeated, but discredited.

[Forsakia]

The Man Who Outran Hitler: Jesse Owens

I always thought his story was rather sad.

But with these threads, I always tend to feel a bit of a backlash against what's said, feet of clay and all that.

[Varijnland]

Forth Eorlingas!

Oh, real? Uuuuhhhh...............moon landing?

[Cill Airne]

Ashoka's conversion to Buddhism.
Tianmen Square
Fall of the Berlin Wall

[Wind in the Willows]

Creation of NS.

I'd say this as well.

[Delanshar]

Noone mentioned a movie.

The whole Moon landing business was nothing more than a Hollywood-esque studio production, but this really isn't the thread for it.

Though I suppose it can still be considered inspiring, in the same way Rocky or Rambo were inspiring to a whole generation.

Gah.. Not this conspiracy trash again.
I suppose you also think that obama is from Kenya, and 9/11 was an inside job

[Landenburg]

The agricultural revolution.
The industrial revolution.

[Serrland]

The siege and suicide at Masada might be worth a mention. So too might be Napoleon's march from Antibes to Paris following his escape from Elba.

Also, Alexander Peresvet fighting the Tatar warrior in the single combat before Dmitri Donskoy's victory in the Battle of Kulikovo. Begone, ye Mongol Yoke! Well, at least it got that process rolling (and infighting within the Golden Horde did just as much, I suppose)

[Key West]

When Siddartha Guatama, Shakyamuni Buddha, ascertained enlightenment.

[High Nalograd]

The crucifixion of Jesus Christ, son of god.

[Alyekra]

I believe the Moon landing was the climax of human history.

[Nazis in Space]

I believe the Moon landing was the climax of human history.

>Implying it wasn't the iPhone

[Priory Academy USSR]

The invention of the can. Without it, nation's wouldn't have had the ability to put large armies on the field in close confines. This then happened in WW1, and the extensive casualties caused the downfall of most of the European powers, starting a chain of events that has lasted until the present day.

[Norvenia]

For my money, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The Jewish fighters all knew that it was doomed from the start - they were weak, and sick, and outnumbered, and armed with homemade weapons. And they fought anyway, because - in the end - they knew that the only choice left was to die on their feet instead of on their knees. "The meat insurgent, the meat defiant, the meat fighting! The meat in full cry!" To my eyes, it doesn't get any more tragic, or any more inspiring, than that.

[Srboslavija]

The whole Moon landing business was nothing more than a Hollywood-esque studio production, but this really isn't the thread for it.

Though I suppose it can still be considered inspiring, in the same way Rocky or Rambo were inspiring to a whole generation.

Gah.. Not this conspiracy trash again.
I suppose you also think that obama is from Kenya, and 9/11 was an inside job

That's a clever way to discredit legitimate concerns regarding the 'moon landing'; loony-by-association.

No, I don't believe in any of those nor was it my intention to debate here - I just think it is incredible that even with all the information now available to us that people are still gullible enough to believe in the governments version of events - and feel "inspired" by it. Ugh.

[Priory Academy USSR]

Gah.. Not this conspiracy trash again.
I suppose you also think that obama is from Kenya, and 9/11 was an inside job

That's a clever way to discredit legitimate concerns regarding the 'moon landing'; loony-by-association.

No, I don't believe in any of those nor was it my intention to debate here - I just think it is incredible that even with all the information now available to us that people are still gullible enough to believe in the governments version of events - and feel "inspired" by it. Ugh.

OK, why don't you make a thread with your 'information' and convince us all the Moon Landings were fake?

[The God-Realm]

The overthrow of the Corporate federal bank.

What? I can want things.

[New Dominion (Ancient)]

The crucifixion of Jesus Christ, son of god.

I agree

[Baiynistan]

October Revolution and the Spanish Civil War (anarchist, communist militias). So much wasted potential.

[Chinese Regions]

Gah.. Not this conspiracy trash again.
I suppose you also think that obama is from Kenya, and 9/11 was an inside job

That's a clever way to discredit legitimate concerns regarding the 'moon landing'; loony-by-association.

loonies in self-assertion that they know physics more than university graduates.

No, I don't believe in any of those nor was it my intention to debate here - I just think it is incredible that even with all the information now available to us that people are still gullible enough to believe in the governments version of events - and feel "inspired" by it. Ugh.

It was a milestone in exploration and engineering.