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0 pointsmatt_kantor1mo ago0 comments

> TBF there’s very little change on what we can do more than what was achieved in the 60s.

People could do backflips and write moving poetry and memorize thousands of digits of pi in the 60s too. Such things were impressive then and they're impressive now.

I could understand someone thinking that the Apollo program was more impressive than the Artemis program, but to think that the Artemis missions are not impressive is completely foreign to me.

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mrtksn1mo ago

Doing it the second time is so less impressive that soviets cancelled their whole human moon landing and Americans stopped paying attention on Apollo 13 and cancelled the program after 17.

Obviously it is huge engineering achievement each time, just not as impressive as it was done before.

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mrtksn1mo ago

Doing it the second time is so less impressive that soviets cancelled their whole human moon landing and Americans stopped paying attention on Apollo 13 and cancelled the program after 17.

Obviously it is huge engineering achievement each time, just not as impressive as it was done before.

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