Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours

Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours by geuis on Monday April 17, 2023 @05:29AM (#35598486)

Yep, you are correct.

But 100% of the launch is an American company out of American territory. And the majority of the users of Hacker News are also based in the US.

So for this audience, considering the other facts, I don't see why people are having a problem with an extra comment that simply posts the relevant launch times in terms easier to understand at a glance for an American audience.

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Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours by geuis on Monday April 17, 2023 @05:42AM (#35598575)

@ta1243 its 2:40am PST. Sorry I can't reply to you directly, apparently HN has some comment thread depth limits. (Who knew?) Yeah sorry I forgot to include all of the time zones covering the entire country and its possessions.

Post edit. I'm not sure what you want. All I did was post the 4 standard American time zones that affect most of the somewhat 330 million Americans living in the continental part of the country.

Why is the original timezone post generating any conversation at all? This is insane.

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Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours by riffic on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:15PM (#35602885)

PDT lol

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Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours by ta1243 on Monday April 17, 2023 @05:37AM (#35598535)

Yet you decide to ignore multiple American timezones including Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska, Samoa, Guam and Wake Island

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Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours by swarnie on Monday April 17, 2023 @05:40AM (#35598559)

Do you not see this as a human achievement or do you need to segment it off with ethno-centric logic? Is so we seem to have lost the "Giant leap for mankind" within a generation or two.

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Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours by dkdbejwi383 on Monday April 17, 2023 @07:24AM (#35599211)

> And the majority of the users of Hacker News are also based in the US.

Is this really the case?

Even if it’s true, I wouldn’t say this is anything to be proud of or something to uphold. Why not use international standards to make the place more welcoming the the majority of the world?

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Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours by ricardobeat on Monday April 17, 2023 @07:40AM (#35599316)

https://toolhub.tech/blog/Demographics-of-Hacker-News/

The USA accounts for 41% of users according to this site.

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Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours by helli8390 on Monday April 17, 2023 @08:15AM (#35599612)

> Why not use international standards to make the place more welcoming the the majority of the world?

How do you think the US or China became leading world superpowers? By welcoming every standard and culture of the world?

Oh wait, that is Europe. And look what happened to them. (Spoiler: they are not number 1 any more)

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Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours by dkdbejwi383 on Monday April 17, 2023 @09:06AM (#35600048)

Huh?

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