

The US doesn’t give the US all the credit. People that don’t pay attention in class give the US all the credit.
If there’s a flaw in how it’s taught I’d say it’s the over focus on the the US, UK, and Soviets implied by the literally famous phrase “American steel, British intelligence/grit, and Russian blood.” For one thing it conflates Soviet blood with Russian which is it’s whole own thing.














Well said, this is what really gets me wondering just how astronomically (heh) lucky humanity is. I think the by far best argument for the Early Bird hypothesis is our status as a third generation system, in a relatively safe position in the galaxy, on a planet with the right amount of gravity, with a moon and gas giant asteroid shield, with a Goldilocks zone, with a fossil fuel reserve which required the right cascade of environmental disasters and evolutionary progress, etc etc etc.
Life seems to arise very easily, but the circumstances you need to build a space ship don’t.