New York City location mentioned as site of crowds watching rescue mission in The Martian, contrasted with lack of public interest in real stranded astronauts
"Now it's like if all of Manhattan was Times Square, filled with crazy people, cops, glaring advertising, boring lowbrow normie tourists, and the unchallenging corporate fare that appeals to them."
"The heartwarming 'humans coming together' scenes of crowds in times square watching the rescue mission hit different when you realize that the astronauts currently stranded in space barely make the news"