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@hisham_hm Damn right. I was sad about the last space shuttle flight too, and for the same reason: the old isn't being replaced with the new. It's fading away with the inadequate replacement of vague promises of private innovation.
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 @platypus @bright_helpings @hisham_hm but this last part is precisely the kind of nostalgia you describe as having a good reason - appliances last less because of planned obsolescence and globalization, precisely those processes that are endangering the future of our planet and making our world worse. nostalgia always serves a function, as the late great Svetlana Boym taught us. π€π  @loshmi thatβis literally what I said? There is no βbutβ from my sentences to yours? Some space βnerdβ nostalgia I could really take a miss on (eg Pluto does not care exactly how itβs classified, people claim to love science and then hate that science refines and revises itself). I then gave an example ofβexactly what you said? How sometime itβs quite good? π€¨ I donβt know what your reply means @platypus Iβm sorry, I misunderstood! I understood your βAnd then..β as being βbutβ, as this is how some people use that phrasing. Youβre absolutely right! |
@bright_helpings @hisham_hm yes, absolutely this.
I do sometimes get frustrated with people (oh god especially during my brief stint at NASA) who get overly attached to nostalgia for no good reason. But sometimes there is VERY good reason and the next phase of the plan is really bad.
And then it's like nostalgia for when your grandparents could buy an appliance and it would last the rest of their life.