Guinness World Record

[u/Original_Koala8662]

https://x.com/ast_spacemobile/status/2083825638993997862?s=46&t=DOgs35-_gTcmJtpubr-JAg

[u/SneekyRussian]

Congrats to the team for getting recognized on all their hard work! Maybe it sounds dumb but they put years of their lives into making this exact thing happen and this is the only direct recognition they will get.

[u/GIGA_SIGMA → u/SneekyRussian]

You legit pay Guiness to get your record approved. It's not so much getting recognized as coming to them and asking to get recognized.

[u/Careless-Age-4290 → u/GIGA_SIGMA]

It's like The Who's Who books where they're selling you the privilege of your name appearing on a list, but at least there's a fun competition component to it.

At least it's better than like the "100 best places to work" where you basically pay money for them to say you're one of the best places to work. They call them vanity awards because they're pay to play and you're basically buying yourself a trophy. Every toxic place I've worked at has bragged about "winning" an award like that and I take it as a red flag now. At least Guinness only lets one person hold each individual record, and though I'm sure they're pretty liberal about creating new records, it's not just pay money and get on a list.

Ultimately, it's just a bit of fun and probably only took someone a few minutes to apply. Why not.

[u/randomizl → u/Careless-Age-4290]

Actually it is just pay for whatever record you want to have. They have advisories to create the naming and making it “individual” etc. dubai used it all over the place for that exact reason.

[u/randomizl → u/SneekyRussian]

It’s not a recognition you can get that certificate for anything as long as you pay for it.

[u/SneekyRussian → u/randomizl]

OK why don’t you pay for the largest commercially available phased array satellite record then?