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Re:Private company landing on the moon today by unstatusthequo on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:02PM (#39475103)
Maybe it had an AT&T SIM? ;)

But seriously, it's weird how this really didn't make a lot of news today overall. Did the cellular outage really overshadow this? Times have changes if so. Our idea of "wow!" has been desensitized I guess. Pretty impressive to me!

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Re:Private company landing on the moon today by layer8 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:09PM (#39475163)
The JWST is on a similar level of impressive (if not more), and arguably more important than a single moon landing, and the general public doesn't have much interest in that either.
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Re:Private company landing on the moon today by belval on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:21PM (#39475246)
To defend the general public, landing an unmanned craft on the moon just doesn't sound impressive anymore, it's like SpaceX landing their boosters. The first time it's mindblowing, the Nth time, not so much.

EDIT: And for JWST for the average person it's just a new Hubble.

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Re:Private company landing on the moon today by layer8 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:44PM (#39475432)
The average person is likely to not even know about Hubble or any space telescopes.
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