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Starship Flight 7

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649 points chinathrow | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 21:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.353s | source
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vvpan ◴[17 Jan 25 02:09 UTC] No.42733316[source]▶
I absolutely cannot relate to the HN excitement over rockets. What is the point? What are we going to do with them? It feels like half religion half misplaced techno-positivism.

(Also a person who actively platforms outspoken neo-nazis runs the company that is launching them)

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1. sfifs ◴[17 Jan 25 03:12 UTC] No.42733711[source]▶
Many of the techie people on HN undoubtedly dreamed of building and flying rockets at some point in their tweens / teens till the harsh realities of the material world took over. So they are vicariously living childhood dreams... Just like many "normal" people live theirs by following sports teams or celebrities. To each their own :-)