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Unsung Heroes.

  • 29-08-2010 6:02pm
    #1
    Saermegil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭


    Who do you know of that's an unsung hero? I'm talking major stuff here, i.e. has helped a lot of people or has helped humankind progress greatly.

    One of mine would be James Harrison. He's a blood donor that's saved two million children with his blood, as his blood containes a rare antibody that prevents infants who receive his blood from dying of Rhesus disease.

    Yes, he is just blessed with that special blood of his, but he could have sold it for huge sums of money - instead, he donates it!

    This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to be a better person.


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  • #2
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,238 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Everyone on this list

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #3
    TPD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    Norman Borlaug

    Credited with saving over a Billion lives through his work on genetically modifying food.

    Edit: Damn you ScienceNerrrrrrd!!


  • #4
    Saermegil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Saermegil


    My guy is in there as well. Ffs, don't preempt the thread


  • #5
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    your oul one


  • #6
    scientific1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭scientific1982


    My fathers generation and the thousands before them that went away to work in different countries and sent money back home. Warriors.


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  • #7
    Saermegil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Saermegil


    Here's another one : Fist E.V.A. or spacewalk - the courage of this man and the inspiration he provides are really awesome.


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Anne Doyle FTW.


  • #9
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Unsung.... the guy who runs my local Chinese........ i forget his first name.


  • #10
    LFC5Times
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭LFC5Times


    Bill "Penny Apples" Cullen.................................................


  • #11
    Scuid Mhór
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭Scuid Mhór


    me.


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  • #12
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Jonas Salk. Not exactly a household name.

    Developed the vaccine against Polio.
    Regarding the patent to the vaccine which would have made him uber-wealthy, Salk replied: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"

    Legend.


  • #13
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    another, John Houbolt.

    How do you land on the moon? Proposed the concept of Lunar Orbit Rendezvous as the mission mode for the Apollo flights.

    Became something of a pariah in engineering circles due to this dangerous idea. Rendezvous in earth orbit was deemed too dangerous in the early 60's.
    Without his advocacy of LOR the US would not have landed on the moon before the end of 1969.


  • #14
    pvt6zh395dqbrj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭pvt6zh395dqbrj


    The greatest unsung hero I know is my hero, Michael Scofield.

    He noticed a great injustice when his brother went to prison so he used his skills as a prison designer to go into the prison and break his brother out but his mother turned them in and at the end of it he died of an electric fence.

    For always, I will remember this man.


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