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TeMPOraL on May 7, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: What we got wrong: the Guardian’s worst errors of ...

> 49 years

It seems that it took humans landing on a Moon to make them realize rockets can actually work in space.

dredmorbius on May 12, 2021 [–]

There's realising a mistake, and there's finding an appropriate moment to make an unambiguous and highly-visible mea culpa.

It seems far more probable that this is a case of the latter, not the former.

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