[nothrabannosir]

Assuming you're being sarcastic; those are actual competitions between nations, by design. His entire point was that this is not a competition. Obviously, if it were, America would be winning. That's not being contested; the problem is not that the US won, the problem is that by continuing to beat the rest of the world over the head with it they are alienating a large chunk of the world.

The Art Of War, and all that.

[happyscrappy]

Are Europeans so hypersensitive that the we should ban celebrations at NASA?

[saiya-jin]

patriotism in such things as space exploration is laughable, however reasonable commercial reasons behind it are (well described in another post). seeing logic "usa reached pluto" instead of "mankind reached pluto" is a bit sad, and i don't care if it's US, China, India or Monaco spacecraft. it just feels as wrong and antiquated view of the world... but maybe typical to generic US person? (no clue really)

[rimantas]

Maybe you don't care, but I am sure that people in US, China, India or Monaco care a lot. And this is a normal view of the world.

[saiya-jin]

well if they care, you shouldn't be then surprised that this approach would go against the fur of quite a few people (safe to say more than 1000% of US population?). and since even people with different mindset, like me, find it a bit distasteful and unnecessary, not-so-positive reactions are to be expected. btw welcome to the internet, where people complain about stupid things, all the time :)

[Zirro]

Why, out of all parts of the world, do you bring up Europe specifically?