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Comment by jedberg | Hacker News Reader

I'm a grown man and I still cry every time a booster lands successfully and every time a rocket clears the tower.

What a thing of beauty.

Watching the successful touchdown of the 3 boosters and subsequently tearing up had me feeling like maybe something was wrong with me, but I’m glad to hear I’m not an isolated case and that this achievement was indeed packed with emotion

Grown men are supposed to cry

Birth of a child. Death of a dog. Epic wins.

Yep, checks out.

or maybe... whenever they feel like it?

Yeah, but we can agree that among certain community there can be a shared "whenever they feel like it".

Crying is nominal.

Norminal.

(In case some don't get it, pay a visit to r/SpaceX on Reddit.)

haha, my wife automatically handed me the box of tissues when i put on the spacex live stream just now..

I'm emotionally destroyed today. Betrayal and arrest of Julian Assange last night (Australian time) and successful second launch of the Falcon Heavy this morning. Feeling greatly upset while also feeling joy from two very different but simultaneous events.

p.s. not meaning to start a derail about Assange which would be off-topic

Same here. Watching this in the office and thinking to myself "don't cry, please don't cry"

It is pretty emotional, I admit to some tears as well. Then a thought about joining the SpaceX team.

I am not alone on that then!

I tear up as well, it's an incredible, beautiful display of engineering and physics.

found my people

It's also a beautiful display of human ambition and looking to the future :)

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