Getting stoked about trivial stuff and mistaking stunts for real achievements is one of the ways we will end up in Idiocracy. I see here, a whole generation of people reduced to a bunch of stupid cheerleaders...
The shame is on you. Not because you play along in this charade. But for how you see and project me for not taking part in it.
I suppose the ultimate compliment that can be payed to the employees at SpaceX is when the successful launch of a rocket, the successful delivery to orbit of its payload, and the subsequent successful landing of it's first stage on a remotely piloted barge in the middle of the ocean can be described as trivial.
I always knew the day would come when such things would be looked at as routine and trivial, but I honestly didn't think the day would come so soon.
Perhaps HN readers such as yourself are way ahead of the curve in this regard.
