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I'm reminded of the 4-minute mile. All it takes for something once thought technically impossible to be achieved repeatedly, is for someone to do it once. http

by hliyan 6y ago

I'm reminded of the 4-minute mile. All it takes for something once thought technically impossible to be achieved repeatedly, is for someone to do it once. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-minute_mile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-minute_mile

ctdonath 6y ago
In other news, Starman is at his orbit's apogee now (past Mars). https://www.whereisroadster.com https://www.whereisroadster.com
- hliyan 6y ago
  Do we have a video link? Never actually seen proper video streamed at interplanetary distances (only photos). Maybe that's another thing SpaceX could try to solve: an interplanetary inter-network protocol. TCP/IP is not going to work because of the minute-range latencies and the heavy packet losses.
  - ctdonath 6y ago
    No data link. There is an “interplanetary Internet”, look into it.
chrischattin 6y ago
This is such a great example of human psychology and our ability to adapt to new paradigms. The amazing thing about the four minute mile, is once someone broke the previously thought impossible barrier, we had high school kids routinely running four minute miles within a few years. I think it also says something about how hard it is to truly do something unique and break new trail. But, it opens things up for the rest of humanity. It takes a special person.
- AtlasBarfed 6y ago
  And then in America, a drought of high schoolers running 4 minute miles for what seemed to be two decades. Whoa, it was actually over 30 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_high_school_students_who_have_run_a_four-minute_mile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_high_school_s...
jml7c5 6y ago
>The claim that a four-minute mile was once thought to be impossible by "informed" observers was and is a widely propagated myth created by sportswriters and debunked by Bannister himself in his memoir, The Four Minute Mile (1955). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bannister#Sub-4-minute_mile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bannister#Sub-4-minute_m...

by hliyan 6y ago

ctdonath 6y ago

In other news, Starman is at his orbit's apogee now (past Mars). https://www.whereisroadster.com https://www.whereisroadster.com

hliyan 6y ago
Do we have a video link? Never actually seen proper video streamed at interplanetary distances (only photos). Maybe that's another thing SpaceX could try to solve: an interplanetary inter-network protocol. TCP/IP is not going to work because of the minute-range latencies and the heavy packet losses.
- ctdonath 6y ago
  No data link. There is an “interplanetary Internet”, look into it.

chrischattin 6y ago

This is such a great example of human psychology and our ability to adapt to new paradigms. The amazing thing about the four minute mile, is once someone broke the previously thought impossible barrier, we had high school kids routinely running four minute miles within a few years. I think it also says something about how hard it is to truly do something unique and break new trail. But, it opens things up for the rest of humanity. It takes a special person.

AtlasBarfed 6y ago
And then in America, a drought of high schoolers running 4 minute miles for what seemed to be two decades. Whoa, it was actually over 30 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_high_school_students_who_have_run_a_four-minute_mile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_high_school_s...

jml7c5 6y ago

>The claim that a four-minute mile was once thought to be impossible by "informed" observers was and is a widely propagated myth created by sportswriters and debunked by Bannister himself in his memoir, The Four Minute Mile (1955). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bannister#Sub-4-minute_mile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bannister#Sub-4-minute_m...