When Neil Armstrong set foot on our neighbouring dust ball, it was widely seen as the greatest achievement in human history. And, boy, what an adventure it was: three guys blasted into the great unknown on the technological equivalent of monster fireworks run on Commodore 64 processing power.
And yet, for all its impressive credentials, the moon shot was, to be brutally honest, a pretty useless piece of work. Besides the obvious chest beating aspects that went towards justifying the existence of every America-is-number-one geezer, the only tangible benefits for humanity were the improvement in our ability to bomb each other from further away. Indeed, much of the technological developments o
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