Furthermore, as far as I know, no Canadian has ever been to the moon. And now no-one at all can go to the moon, so the question's moot anyway, making the search even more useless.
I fear a day (it will happen) when we walk around like the emotionless idiots found inhabiting the minds and stories of authors like Aldous Huxley.
So to answer your question of "Who Cares": I do, deeply.
"I do, deeply."
There must be a 50-year-old woman living somewhere within a few minutes' walk of your current location - go ask them, then.
Being emotional was a trait considered as crazy.
The criticism that this is exactly the shallow type is valid, imho.
You do realize the name doesn't come from Brave New World right?
But I think you're right.
Truly caring and sensitive people are becoming rare these days and it's not easy to identify the main causes.
But I think mass media are to blame, at least partly, for the commercialization of people private lives. It is so deeply hardwired in our psyche that even on the web this (commercializing our own self) has become almost a requirement for success.
I doubt people are essentially any different today. The way we communicate is different though. It's much easier to be insensitive when everyone is anonymous.
It now takes a conscious effort to always treat people as if they were standing right in front of you. There are communities on the web that get this -- and that's where I try to hang out.
"Dream in a pragmatic way." - Huxley
...after all, we need only look near the end of his life to see what conclusions he drew of all this as to what we ought to do: "In regard to man’s final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead. The degree to which this unitive knowledge is achieved here on earth determines the degree to which it will be enjoyed in the posthumous state. Contemplation of truth is the end, action the means." (thoughts on the perennial philosophy, after he went mystic)
huxley perhaps is not the name to invoke to defend human interests in triviality, or rejections of reason.
invoking a reminder of huxley's ideas works well for rejection of trivial banter, rejection of living life as efficient strife for the accomplishment of the superficial (like finding this girl), and the rejection of making ourselves slaves to technological progress while making no progress in our deep understandings of life (like having successful startups and never taking the time to ponder the cosmic whole).
But I bet you many people (like me) do dismiss both.
The problem is that different groups value each type of story, the end result being lots of TechCrunch AND this kind of stuff, but very little else.
This is basically like getting a pulse on society. Yes, it's not scientifically rigorous, and yes, it might not even be grounded in reality. But it s a nice quick test to see if society have progressed past sexual divides at all.
And it makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside!
And now no-one at all can go to the moon.
If my memory serves me correctly, both India and China have active space programs that are interested in moon exploration.
How's about we go someplace actually interesting next?
YES!
We can dress a lot of stuff up in rational clothing, but there is very little on HN that isn't, at its heart, subjective, sentimental, and not grounded in empirical research.
I don't personally care who she is either, but I wouldn't call it nonsense to care or to post it here.
Nowhere does the article state that any Canadians have ever been to the moon.