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I remarked earlier to my flatmate how much it said about our society that this wasn't the top item on all the major news sites. At least it's the first thing on
by ionfish 18y ago
I remarked earlier to my flatmate how much it said about our society that this wasn't the top item on all the major news sites. At least it's the first thing on Hacker News.
- habs 18y agoScientists and engineers have long been the engine of progression for societies. I think it's a shame that people don't have more of an appreciation at the technological and scientific wonders of the modern world. But like you said "At least it's the first thing on Hacker News" :D
- jackchristopher 18y agoWe don't get the credit because we're nerds; The suits will. Suits believe they are progressing things. And the rest will always credit the nearest authoritative looking type. Worse still, many scientist and engineers credit the suits themselves.
- gaius 18y agoThat's a relatively recent thing. Back in the day, engineers like Brunel were rock stars.
- jackchristopher 18y agoTo my ears you're saying, "Nerds are high status; They're valued above CEOs and politicians (or historical equivalents) for most of history." I'm saying, "Suits are overvalued. And nerds are undervalued even by themselves. That's always been true with periodic exceptions." And I don't mean "suits" as a pejorative; I'm not using it in contempt. It's a fact that people of that class wear them. Actually, I like wearing them.
- jsyedidia 18y agoIt is currently #3 on news.google.com and on the front-page of nytimes.com. It's not exactly being ignored.
- jimbokun 18y agoNow number 1 on Google News, and considering that Google News is a news aggregator, this must mean that a lot of other news sources are giving prominent coverage as well.
- abstractbill 18y agoI have a theory about this: Misleading headlines often make people tune actually interesting things out. I've seen a bunch of articles before this one, with headlines that make it seem like photos have been taken of planets in other solar-systems. On closer inspection they've often turned out to be artists' impressions, computer renderings, or similar things. The net result is that today, when I saw this article, my reaction was a mix of "didn't that happen already?" and "are they real photos?".
- unalone 18y agoYour comment just made me click on this link. Thanks for clearing through the noise a bit.
- Anon84 18y agoHN isn't like any other site out there.