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0xDEAFBEAD • today at 2:42 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

Everything is plausible with the benefit of hindsight. E.g. "Tintin on the Moon" predated the Moon landings. From the perspective of e.g. 1850, the idea of landing on the Moon was "extraordinary and without a basis in known science or technology".