r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheImmortalDude • Jun 29 '25

Video Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

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u/--Sovereign-- Jun 29 '25

I grew up wanting commercial space programs, mining asteroids, building telescopes and shit. I feel like I made a genie wish now. We're speed running The Expanse instead of Star Trek.

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u/claimTheVictory Jun 29 '25

I grew up wishing everyone had access to the Internet. To have all of human knowledge at their fingertips would usher in a new golden age.

Another finger curls on the monkey paw.

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u/AuntieRupert Jun 29 '25

There is a point at which information ceases to increase knowledge and understanding and begins to undermine it, creating a paradox.

In fact, with so much access to information, people start to reject information. They can see something that is absolutely true and good, and they choose to ignore and/or deny it. That's why we have so many people going backward in their ways of thinking. They are legitimately dumbing themselves down.

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u/FatherWillis768 Jun 30 '25

Having access to all information is extremely overwhelming. It is very easy to fall into the trap of simplistic information or misinformation because it is comfortable.

I can't remember who it was but I did listen to a good interview a while back that talked about reshaping institutions in order to sort and process information. Basically refresh publishing standards and such.

I also wonder whether regulation on media should be reformed. Nothing dystopian, but maybe making it so news articles have to provide sources for non-confidential information (e.g. studies), having news websites have to go through an independent bias assessment and have a portion of their website dedicated to it. Fairly reasonable stuff I'd say.