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Incredible story with a great ending. This used to be an apex HN discussion. It's so sad to see it devolve into a partisan flame war.

• nrb 2y ago
  Unsurprising that it did after the story itself devolved into a partisan flame war though, emotions are running high when the same sort of misinformation and lies are finding their way into previously sacrosanct topics like space exploration.
  • justapassenger 2y ago
    > previously sacrosanct topics like space exploration. Space exploration was full of misinformation (or corporate BS, if you want to call it that way) for decades.
• aorloff 2y ago
  The notion of "apex HN discussion" assumes a kind of fealty to performative feuilletonism that I'm just not yet willing to submit to.
  • euroderf 2y ago
    "Fealty to Performative Feuilletonism" is a great name for an art-punk group.
  • sepositus 2y ago
    Well, it's certainly subjective, and that's how I meant it.
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• GuB-42 2y ago
  That's because the main story is one of politics. Take out politics and the story is nothing special. These guys are astronauts, their mission just took longer than expected because people considered it was safer that way. A movie about it would as boring as a movie about people working in space can be. But political figures and the media took the story as an opportunity to do what they do best in creating "engagement", i.e. flame wars.