The biggest top buzz in history?

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I reckon those Richard III Society folk finding his grave and remains under a car park in Leicester has got to be up there.

Any advance on that?

 

[TCIB]

1923 - Edwin Hubble the pipe smoking quintessential English gent with his tweed jacket, well he was American but from what i read of people who worked with or knew him he should have been English and kept in a shed with tools by all accounts, i digress...

In 1923 he conclusively proved the Andromeda galaxy was indeed a separate galaxy and very very far away, not just a nebulae/gas cloud at the far end of ours. Until then our galaxy was the entire universe as far as we knew, this man comes out and say's we are one of what he now knew to be beyond count. Imagine being told that back then, flight was in it's infancy and religion had a stronger hold then on those with less education than the lucky few. I can imagine large sections of society finding such an idea very scary, the fact we are so very very small.

What would be the equivalent now? being told there is advanced life detected? i mean most people i know who have a grasp of cosmology are forced to the same conclusion i am, namely there probably is!

 

[Nascent Blues]

Hillary and Norgay summiting Everest.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

1923 - Edwin Hubble the pipe smoking quintessential English gent with his tweed jacket, well he was American but from what i read of people who worked with or knew him he should have been English and kept in a shed with tools by all accounts, i digress...

In 1923 he conclusively proved the Andromeda galaxy was indeed a separate galaxy and very very far away, not just a nebulae/gas cloud at the far end of ours. Until then our galaxy was the entire universe as far as we knew, this man comes out and say's we are one of what he now knew to be beyond count. Imagine being told that back then, flight was in it's infancy and religion had a stronger hold then on those with less education than the lucky few. I can imagine large sections of society finding such an idea very scary, the fact we are so very very small.

What would be the equivalent now? being told there is advanced life detected? i mean most people i know who have a grasp of cosmology are forced to the same conclusion i am, namely there probably is!

Great shout that, mate.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

The first time Tommy Flowers powered up Colossus and proved Alan Truing was correct.

 

[better dead than red]

Robert Ballard, and his crew, finding the wreck of the Titanic in 1985.

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/03/s...iscovered-12000-feet-down.html?pagewanted=all

http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2015271,00.html

 

[citizenyank76]

When Albert Hoffman synthizezed LSD and took some before a bike ride home. It has definitely got to be up there.

 

[dickie davies]

When out on a bike ride and meeting the one and only Ronnie Pickering

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

Yuri Gagarin experiencing Weightlessness.

Seeing the entire earth from space in full field of view (well, the visible half).

First person to successfully use a parachute.

 

[Mid Wales blue]

The 4th November 1922 Howard Carter finding the tomb of King Tut ankh amen. Then even more of a buzz on the 26th November he entered the tomb to find it untouched for 3000 years, and ladened with archaeological treasures. Just imagine dedicating your life to something with very little reward day in day out for 22 years, then finding the greatest treasures ever unearthed. Wow.....