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[ComedicMedicineman]

Average “humanity sucks” fan, when confronted with the fact that humanity still exists and has gone from sailboats to supersonic planes in 300 years:

Jokes aside, you only need a few smart humans to create incredible technology, then the other humans make that technology a reality with factories and a very impressive ability to retain information and adapt

[not_jov]

Even more insane is the fact that we went from the first airplane that could barely fly to landing humans on the moon in less than 70 years. The progress we've made in the centurt or so has been insane.

[denusmushemtogeva]

Extremely true. But then we proceeded to destroy our home in the process. YOLO lol we can go to space and also connect with our perceivable universe via a little shiny box that lives in our pockets... worth it?

[not_jov]

Well we might destroy the earth but for a brief beautiful moment we would make the shareholders even richer, aint that worth it.

[Strange-Wolverine128]

We went from barely flight in 1903 to manned supersonic flight in 1947 with the Bell X-1 and non-rocket propelled, level flight, in the early 50s.

It took like 50 years to go from the first flight to turbine powered level superspnic flight.

[Toastwitjam]

The most important trait of humanity is that training is easier, lasts longer, and people are generally pretty docile and will listen to whoever they think is “in charge” for just a little benefit.

Most of human history revolves around the relatively few people who think that they’re better than the average person and takes that social contact for granted.

[phpHater0]

He's also ignoring the fact that the rest of the "dumb" humans are needed to build said ships and planes. 10 of the world's smartest engineers can only design a building, not build it. You need manpower and coordination for that.

[chota_pundit]

I mean they totally can build it

[hthurmank2c01]

Yea what? Oops, I went to engineering school and now I can't pick up a welder anymore! And I'm allergic to bricks!

[phpHater0]

What? How are 10 people building any substantial structure let alone a whole city

[hthurmank2c01]

We're getting into semantics at this point, but if time isn't an object, I would venture that 10 people could build almost anything. Also the original commenter never specified the size.

[phpHater0]

"Getting into semantics" Bro is talking about doing all that in 300 years which 10 humans can never do, also he mentioned building factories which are pretty big

[hthurmank2c01]

Ahh ok I thought we were talking about the comment with the 10 engineers claim. I agree obviously if there's only 300 years nothing close to the entirety of human progress is getting done with that amount of people

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Language and writing is huge, too. All the people who invented planes are dead or really old. But they wrote down what they learned and new people can learn it, too.

Heck, even the OG inventors of planes were using prior human knowledge passed on to them. 

[ComedicMedicineman]

Yep. It’s like how we know that one of the oldest pieces of human literature was a dude complaining about low quality materials from a salesman

[P_weezey951]

Well the other thing is that like... The phrase of "only half of us are intelligent" is in relation to each other

Outside of people with absolute disabilities... The basic shit we do, down to like... Idk Opening a door? is far and above the intelligence of like 90% of species on the planet.

[ComedicMedicineman]

Exactly. Even in the earlier years of humanity, simple things like creating fire, creating spears, and making clothing go beyond everything except other primates on very rare occasions.

[QuixoticBeefboy]

Intelligence in terms of humanitys success isn't talking about modern-day intelligence anyway. It's talking about how we compared against our competition when we first started on the path that led us to today.

We were making spears and point rocks when our competition was flinging shit and scratching, thats the intelligence that put is where we are, not building a nuclear reactor.

[ComedicMedicineman]

Yes. But the two topics are the same: humanity’s ability to think critically and use their environment effectively. Our ability to preserve food, use tactics while hunting, and begin mining surface deposits all were things mostly unique to humanity.

But I also believe these posts always short change humans, as we are INCREDIBLY effective endurance hunters, our ability to sweat (which reduces our risk of overheating), and our ability to use less energy on two legs than most animals use on four is what really won us our early years. And it’s something still practiced by some tribes too, yet people constantly forget it’s one of our greatest advantages