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Actually 6 different posts and discussions over the past 48 hours all on the same canonical story. See => https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Earth%20flat%20rocket&s

Actually 6 different posts and discussions over the past 48 hours all on the same canonical story. See => https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Earth%20flat%20rocket&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Earth%20flat%20rocket&sort=byP... Why does this even belong on HN? Why are people obsessed with this onion-esque gimmick?

tom_mellior 9y ago
It's about (pseudo-)science and rockets... I guess it is a good fit for HN, otherwise it would not have been voted onto the front page three times in two days. On the other hand, the people upvoting it are apparently not the ones who pay attention to what was recently on the front page?