Re:SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast
by Klathmon on Friday April 08, 2016 @09:31PM
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Now this is just my opinion, but I wouldn't see any of that if any country was chanting their name for an accomplishment like this.
This is almost a universally good thing, and having pride that your country was able to do it isn't a bad thing to me! I would fully expect another nations company to be chanting their nation's name, and I would probably join along with them if I were there!
It's a celebration, not a contest.
(side note, I was born and raised in the US, so my view might be tainted by that)
Re:SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast
by nojvek on Saturday April 09, 2016 @11:38AM
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I second this. Even if Iran, N Korea, China e.t.c were doing this I'd be very happy for them. Space missiles and nuclear missiles have things common to them, but if the only intention of the folks working on it was to make space exploration cheaper, I'd cheer for them.
What space X did landing in the middle of the ocean on a tiny little platform, was nothing short of genius.
Re:SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast
by BetterThanYou on Friday April 08, 2016 @08:15PM
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Iranians are not arabic in general.
Re:SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast
by imaginenore on Friday April 08, 2016 @10:11PM
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Persian, not Arabic.
Patriotism can have a hugely different emotional response depending on where you live. It can connote “home!” or “remember, we have weaponized drones hovering above your head”.
Imagine this video feed was from Iran, and ended in a patriotic arabic chant. Would you think, “it is good to see that they are Iranian and proud”?
It is not about being offended. It is about political undertone and tacit military implications.
(That said, I am proud, as a fellow human, of what was accomplished. Also, I live in a country pretty solidly allied with the US.)