At some point here we're going to have to stop drawing silly lines on the ground and consider ourselves all humans. We have a finite amount of time to get off the planet or our whole species is doomed.
For a very simplistic example, I doubt we would have been to the moon yet if not for those silly lines.
> Apollo stimulated many areas of technology. The flight computer design used in both the lunar and command modules was, along with the Minuteman Missile System, the driving force behind early research into integrated circuits. Computer-controlled machining was first used in the fabrication of Apollo structural components.