Yuri Gagarin's launch on Vostok 1 and the launch of Apollo 11 are 8 years 3 months 4 days apart. Or, 3,017 days. For reference, it took 11 years between SLS' announcement and an uncrewed launch. It'll be around twice the time difference between Vostok 1 and Apollo 11 before the SLS delivers humans to the moon.
Humanity progressed so quickly during Project Apollo because they were accepting of "failure" and willing to embrace the associated risk. Post-Apollo and post-Challenger, this willingness and risk appetite completely disappeared leading to paralysis.
When we call something as awesome (in the traditional sense of the word) as yesterday's test a "failure," we are implicitly rejecting the Apollo paradigm and embracing the SLS one. I think it's harmful for humanity, in the long run, to do so.
We should build and launch more rockets. Some of them will explode. Such is life.
People are mad about whatever dumb thing Elon did with Twitter this week.
Even when applied to Twitter, the question presents itself:
Are you really happy with what it was before?
The only path from "then" to "better" is through "doing lots of stuff, some of it stupid".
IIRC Apollo cost around a quarter trillion dollars in today’s money.
* (Admittedly a little too groundbreaking.)
Sometimes it is worth looking past the obvious interpretation. I thought the article was a good read, kudos to the author.
Do you go around whenever a new album is about to drop and tell people the single is meh and they should in fact not be excited? What is your actual motivation here to take the wind out of peoples sails?
If the spin is unwarranted gravity, as we saw, will take care of it without your input. If the hype is unwarranted it will evaporate on its own even without your input.
So what are you contributing here? How does your attitude benefit anyone/thing? Pessimism is perfectly fine don't get me wrong - but if you are so pessimistic why even bother to make this sort of remark..