What was humanity's single greatest achievement?

Crashing this plane

Probably stone tools.

It's the first achievement that can be attributed to "humanity" and it's a little hard to do the other ones if you physically don't have enough protein in your diet to develop a large brain.

Fire and clothing also fall into this category.

>>1665025
Shrek 2

Reddit.

>>1665052

Shrek 5 (aka Shrek is Love Shrek is Life)

>>1665025

Atom bomb.

>>1665025
Wiping itself out

>>1665025

Diogenes, actually. Everything and everyone other than Socrates and him been a long string of disappointments.

Telegraph out discovering penicillin

>>1665025
Language.

>>1665258
Or*

those fleshlights you can stick on the wall and fuck while showering. Improved quality of life x100. this and world of warcraft.

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>>1665025
Domestication of animals.

>>1665259
Thats pretty good too i guess

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>>1665025
>What was humanity's single greatest achievement?
>humanity's single greatest achievement
That's like saying when Sisyphus got to the top of the mound, pushing his boulder.

>>1665025

Living

>>1665025

working together
dreaming

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Marxism-Leninism

The written word is the single greatest achievement.

You wouldn't be able to know that I fucked your mother without it.

>>1665025
The wheel.
Wind and water mills allowed us to harvest energy from the nature for the first time and that changed pretty much everything.

>>1665025

going to the moon

>>1665025

That despite disease, politics, natural disasters, wild animals, accidents, and our own nature we somehow managed to succesfully propagate for generations and become the dominant species on earth

>>1665025
the wheel and saliling/navigation

>>1665587
t niel armstrong

>>1665025
Agriculture and mass organization.

splitting the atom

>>1665025

Stem cell and gene therapy and unraveling the inner workings of organisms

>>1665025
At work a package fell off the conveyor and a guy caught it with his foot and flipped it onto the right pallet.
It's not the greatest but it's gotta be up there.

There are so many answers, but my top ones are the written word and completely eliminating smallpox.

>>1665025
Language and agriculture+division of labor. Everything else follows

Besides the obvious civilization-building technologies, I actually think the Internet is one of the greatest acheivements of all time. Humanity is really coming together because of it, and it speaks volumes to me how we use it as a medium to socialise and store information for all to see and learn. It's a worldwide digital equivalent of the Library of Alexandria.

>>1665038

Wasnt it cooking that allowed our brain to increase.

I remember reading somewhere that our closest relatives spend 6 hours eating while we can do it in 3 because we cook our food.

Language.

All inventions mean jack shit when you cant tell other people about it.

The only reason humans are on top is because of our collective knowledge, the only reason we have that is because we can tell other people stuff.

Pizza.

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AFWM (A Fucking White Male)

The Moon

>inb4 cliché

I don't even care. Looking at how low the technology level was, the fact that we managed to send some assholes to the moon and bring them back again just to fucking say we could is the tightest shit on (or off) the planet

>>1665025
Shitposting, the most noble and old human art.

Flight and Refrigeration

Splitting the atom

Space travel

>>1665025
The active use of external energy sources, iE. fire. The use of external energy sources is the only thing that sets us appart from other animals.

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>>1667410
>Neil Amstrong
>some asshole

>>1667410
Man, the moon landing never happened

>>1665025
Fake tits.

Writing

being able to transcribe knowledge to tell to future generations is how we got as far as we did.

>>1665033
>WITH NO SURVIVORS

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>>1665414
>Leninism
>true communism
>ruling class own a ton of luxury products
>average citizens owned technically nothing
inb4 state ruled everything therefore everybody owns everything

>>1665025

Anal sex.

>>1667608

>tumblr

I'm glad you've found a new community. You definitely fit in here.

>>1665038
Other animals use stone tools.

>>1665025
Christianity.

>>1666840
Carnophagy came first, then cooking.
It's no coincidence that the animal with the widest diet spectrum are also the smartest.

>>1665025
Electricity ... Nikola Tesla enlightened us and started modern era

>>1665388
Let me guess. You just read the mith of sisyphus by camus and want to bring it up al to thw conversation by anyway.

In a scale of 10-10.1

How right i am?

>PD thats atlas, not sisyphus

>>1665025
The conceptualization of good and evil. Mankind's greatest fall was the deconstruction of it.

>>1669714
What language is this?

>>1669714
Are you me? I was going to write him the same shit

I still have hope for /his/

>>1669714
>>1669730
samefag

>>1665025
pies

>>1665025
memes

>>1665618
>disease
>natural disasters
>wild animals
>accidents
>our own nature

You do realize those aren't exclusive to humanity right? Politics isn't exclusive to us either. Our societies are just built with a higher complexion compared to other animals.

>>1669566
Kek, care to provide your evidence that proves this point? That's quite a generic statement, which has no evidence to back it up.

>we eat a lot of animals
>we are smart
>therefore the fact that we eat a lot of animals leads to our intelligence

Nice reasoning.

The modern world is the culmination of human achievement up to now

>>1665025
Writing, by a mile. Agriculture is a distant second, followed by tools and control of fire.

>>1669722
English motherfucker, do you speak it?

>>1669747
lel you got busted anon

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>>1665025
domestication

>>1667602
the only thing

Writing. It's fucking insane when you really start thingking about it.

Toilet

Mathematics, it's a tool that automatically stimulates the brain and allows us to come up with better ideas. We can also use it to represent properties of the universe, which allows us to calculate things in turn that will aid our survival. With physics, machinery will become easier and easier to make and can even help us with colonization and exploration of the Solar System.

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>>1667422
>you will never shitpost via ancient cave walls

god

Boipussy and traps.
They are the highest caliber of human existence.

>>1665025
Jamal's new mixtape.

>>1665025
The moon landing.

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>>1665025
Why do you think King Louis wanted it

Memetic psy-ops.

>>1670074
>politics aren't exclusive to us either
/sci/ pls go you know what anon meant.

I would say cooperation. I don't think there's any creatures that altruistically cooperate, which is what allows us to be dominate imo. Then again I think humans are innately dominate so there's that.

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>>1665025
>What was humanity's single greatest achievement?

Only me.

>>1673442
>I don't think there's any creatures that altruistically cooperate
Seriously? Try ants. Or anything that has to die to reproduce.

Cooking or memes

>>1665025
Myself and everything I like

biggest failures are everything I dislike and or am indifferent towards to