[rootusrootus]

So we should stop? SpaceX did it first, everyone else can just fold up shop?

C'mon. Blue Origin has a proper rocket, it seems very capable. They even land the booster like SpaceX does. To be unimpressed with their achievements seems like sour grapes.

[philistine]

No, but the press has been crazy about this event to a dispiriting level. I'd have loved to see some restraint and clear criticism of their tiny hops.

[serf]

>To be unimpressed with their achievements seems like sour grapes.

Carlin says something similar to what I was going to say, but he's better at saying it.

" The phrase sour grapes does not refer to jealousy or envy. Nor is it related to being a sore loser. It deals with the rationalization of failure to attain a desired end. In the original fable by Aesop, "The Fox and the Grapes," when the fox realizes he cannot leap high enough to reach the grapes, he rationalizes that even if he had gotten them, they would probably have been sour anyway. Rationalization, that’s all sour grapes means. It doesn’t mean deal with jealousy or sore losing. Yeah, I know you say, "Well many people are using it that way, so the meaning is changing." And I say, "Well many people are really fuckin’ stupid too, shall we just adopt all their standards?" " [0]

- George Carlin

[0]: https://www.sense.net/~blaine/funstuff/carlin.html