[odonnellryan]

> Sorry. We are living in a period where mediocrity and even complete fraudulent stuff is hailed as profound and "amazing".

Like what? Even the transistor is pretty damn amazing.

It's fine to be critical, but let yourself get excited sometimes too.

[castis]

Check out the history of the person you're replying to. That person doesn't get stoked about anything. It's a shame, really.

[thrownear]

Getting stoked about trivial stuff and mistaking stunts for real achievements is one of the ways we will end up in Idiocracy. I see here, a whole generation of people reduced to a bunch of stupid cheerleaders...

The shame is on you. Not because you play along in this charade. But for how you see and project me for not taking part in it.

[Inconel]

I suppose the ultimate compliment that can be payed to the employees at SpaceX is when the successful launch of a rocket, the successful delivery to orbit of its payload, and the subsequent successful landing of it's first stage on a remotely piloted barge in the middle of the ocean can be described as trivial.

I always knew the day would come when such things would be looked at as routine and trivial, but I honestly didn't think the day would come so soon.

Perhaps HN readers such as yourself are way ahead of the curve in this regard.

[castis]

That shame is fine with me. My apologies for dragging you back into a thread that is so obviously beneath you.

[thrownear]

>Like what?

Look around. If you don't see it already, I won't be able to make you see. And what does the transistor has to do with the period we live in? I mean, right now, not 50 years earlier.

>It's fine to be critical, but let yourself get excited sometimes too.

Do you know why landing a rocket in salt water is bad. I mean, do you really, really know?

From Spacex subreddit..

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/219sow/how_signific...

[maxerickson]

Isn't that why they are landing on a barge though?

[odonnellryan]

> I mean, right now, not 50 years earlier.

I'm saying even the transistor is amazing. Be amazed!

> Do you know why landing a rocket in salt water is bad. I mean, do you really, really know?

I'm not working for SpaceX. Are you?

I didn't design the rocket. I assume they have some idea of what they're doing. They just landed a rocket on a damn barge.