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Do you think more than a billion people will watch the catch attempt, either live or later, in this Starship flight test?
by amichail 2y ago
Do you think more than a billion people will watch the catch attempt, either live or later, in this Starship flight test?
- stainablesteel 2y agoprobably not live, i imagine that many people will hear news about it though
- 7thpower 2y agoIf we’re talking about the near future? No, most people do not care. If it’s successful it will likely be in the history books, so maybe billions of martians will one day watch.
- edm0nd 2y agoOver how long of a time span are we giving this? I don't think so. https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceX/streams https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceX/streams = most popular live stream has 33M views https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceX/videos https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceX/videos = most popular video has 29M views I'm pretty sure this also includes embedded views from news articles that embed the videos. So to answer the question: In the short term, unlikely it seems. Over the span of hundreds of years? Likely so.
- whyenot 2y agoNo, I don’t think one in every eight people on earth is going to see the catch attempt or even care about it. The launch and catch attempt is exciting but I don’t think it’s something that most of the planet is following. Even in the US, I doubt many people will watch it. It’s not the next moon landing.
- bloopernova 2y agoHonestly I don't even see a future Moon landing garnering that many people. Maybe a Mars landing would, but non-techie people just don't seem very interested in space.