In 1969, Neil Armstrong took his first small step (and giant leap for man-kind), when he bounced out of a rocket and onto the moon.
This moment was not the work of one individual; instead, this step was the culmination of years of work by many brilliant minds working together towards a common goal… a goal that many had thrown away as being impossible or not worth striving towards.
Imagine for a moment if all of those minds hadn’t been working together. Imagine if those minds, complete with their world-changing ambition, had been spread out and placed randomly amongst organizations made up of non-believers.
Think of how the the 10 years leading up to that fateful day would have been different. Each of those minds, bent on changing the world would have spent their time trying to prove the validity of their wildest dreams and ambitions to an audience not ready to hear it.
We’re at a turning point in the way that people are communicating with each other. There is a new crop of believers, and a mass of non-believers, who believe that the world is the same as it always was.
Are the believers scattered too far and wide to be used to their fullest potential? Are we all working together as best we can to build rockets? Or are we biding our time, spinning our wheels, trying to convince the non-believers that there is a moon worth reaching?
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It would have been far different.
It's possible the world may have been changed in countless other, incredible ways. But then, would we have the accomplishment made possible by the collaboration of those minds together?
I read a great article once that details just how complex the construction and programming of the craft they used to get to the moon was. Considering the technology they had at the time, it was so much so that they didn't even realize just how “impossible” it was until they had already started. Compared to what we have today, it could've been described as a miracle. No truer a testament to human ingenuity.
I often wonder what things would be like today (in a broad sense) if those great minds hadn't come together and done that.