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by rainyMammoth 749 days ago
Yeah for some reason when SpaceX did it we couldn’t stop hearing about it. When OldTech does it, nobody cares.
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Quick, without cheating, can you name the second human being to run a mile in less than four minutes? Can you name the current world record holder?

I guess that most people in my small town don't know who Roger Bannister is. A lot more of them can tell you the name of the first local to officially run a mile in less than four minutes. They couldn't tell you if anybody from my state has done it since.

I guess that's just a long way to say, "That's natural."

If old tech had done it 5 years ago then that would have been newsworthy.

The first jet flight across the Atlantic was newsworthy. The 837th isn’t.