Comment by nabla9 6 months ago
Everything nowadays comes packaged with excessive emote track.
People in the internet don't enjoy rocket launch with roaring sounds unless there is laugh track over it that validates that the launch is awesome and simulates social connection.
But you hear no crying or shouting during e.g. Moon landing [1]. TBH I expect "disinterested" behavior from professionals in such situations.
That's not a video of live broadcast TV coverage. It's a recording of the operational communcations (which you could hear in the BO livestream and it didn't have crying or shouting). Actual TV broadcasts at the time did show some actual emotions including laughter and possibly even tears, despite being from professional newscasters rather than employees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMF58ZP681A
> from professional newscasters rather than employees
Then it's not relevant.
You don't say. SpaceX used to have "technical" launch streams with just launch status updates, but even they no longer do that :-/
Didnt they get caught when a launch went badly but their narrator keep reading from the script, reporting events that clearly were not happening? I would watch a technical stream, but i can read a canned script myself.
I distinctly recall that occurring. The event was 28 January 1986, and whilst I didn't watch it live, I did catch it within a few hours.
Though that wasn't a SpaceX launch.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas...>
The launch broadcast narration continued for several seconds following the vehicle explosion reporting either telemetry or programmed flight path information before breaking script with the infamous announcement "There's obviously been a major malfunction". Various reports I've seen are that the previous commentary was based on telemetry rather than watching video.
>Everything nowadays comes packaged with excessive emote track.
You may have never done anything that warrants an emotional response.
Some of us have.
We enjoy seeing others express the joy we ourselves have felt at the end of a long, winding, process.
All of them can't shut up and just let us watch the launch without listening to their bs like "...aand lift off for Orion space mission off Cape Canaveral which is a huge leap for humanity"
Its a feed of the Blue Origin staff, who have been working towards this for years and years - makes sense that they would be pretty excited considering the level of success this was.
You dont have to consider everything you dont like to be a negative on the world
"I'm unhappy, so I'll force everyone else to be unhappy too" :/
Most news stories on tv are presented as being "Breaking News!" It's absolutely bonkers some of the things they'll push that way.
Those are the real emotions of the people at Blue Origin watching the launch. They've been working toward this moment for 24 years. Should they censor themselves because their "excessive" emotions offend you? Or maybe they should hire newscasters to do an disinterested presentation up to your standards, instead of employees who actually worked on it?