2 ms·

Might be making a mistake there, it sounds like you are dismissing sports as unimportant, instead it might be impressive that something so abstract and distant

• tivert 3y ago
  > Might be making a mistake there, it sounds like you are dismissing sports as unimportant, instead it might be impressive that something so abstract and distant was able to rival something so elemental and popular. My only point is I think geeks over-estimate the popularity of space exploration, incorrectly generalizing "it excites me/my type" to "it excites everyone/humanity." If regularly-held sporting events eclipse singular events in space exploration, it deflates high-flying rhetoric that expects the latter to be "the single most watched event in human history." I make no comment on the importance of sports. But I'd argue that professional sports are probably more abstract (ultimately counting according to some arbitrary rules) and (practically, in a human sense) about as distant as space exploration.