When USA developed collaborative computers for humanity 1939-1983, in between conservatives attacking the project.
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
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Too many to name. Consider, for example, the ISS or the LHC (a real shame those utter fucking morons in the US gov't killed the superconducting supercollider).
I'm still amazed we lifted cities by hand to rebuild them with sewer systems
I wouldn't call using screw jacks "by hand", but yeah it's impressive. Especially that one where the building remained fully operational while being moved: https://www.archdaily.com/973183/the-building-that-moved-how-did-they-move-an-11000-ton-telephone-exchange-without-suspending-its-operations
Vaccines and space
Giant collaborations analyzing data from many distributed sources. Examples: Pulsar Timing Arrays and Extremely Long Baseline Interferometry.
I mean, we came from banging rocks together to making those rocks think for us. Our entire modern world is so far divorced from ancient humanity it's hard to list all the individual accomplishments. Recently though has been the electrical grid, global logistics chains and the internet. In these times of medical doomerism, it's also important to remember that we banded together killed smallpox.
COVID vaccine comes to mind
CFL creating a hole in the ozone
DDT killing bald eagles
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I was looking for positive things that have been accomplished in the sciences when people from across the world come together.
Sorry yes, I was just trying to shorthand. I meant the collective corrective effort to address these issues.
These are pretty much the prime examples where the entire world came together for once and solved some major issue, thanks to science. Like stopping the hole in the ozone layer last minute, with a coordinated major effort from the entire world.
If you mean, where scientists from all over the world work together... I think that's pretty much all science. Go to any university, institute... And you'll find people from all over the world working together. That's the case in almost all disciplines. And they'll publish papers, so the next team (maybe from a different part of the world) can build upon that. And they'll occasionally gather at conferences and people will come from all around the globe. That's the default.