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minus-squarepulsewidth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up114·1 year agoEven worse - he named his space vessels ‘Starship’ - implying that they have the ability to travel between stars. They will study this man’s narcissism in future history classes alongside Trump. The era of the ego.
minus-squaresmiletolerantlylinkfedilinkarrow-up24·1 year agoEven worse worse, he named prior projects after Culture ship names. Whose author despised him.
minus-squareiAmTheTot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 year agoI mean by that definition, Voyager is a starship, eventually.
minus-squaremoody@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·1 year agoVoyager I and II are probes, not ships.
minus-squareiAmTheTot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoA ship can transport people or goods, and I argue that data is a type of good.
minus-squareCeedoestrees@lemmy.worldBannedlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 year agoFriendship transports a type of good.
minus-squareRooskie91@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoThere’s that golden record, so there are physical goods as well.
minus-squareZiglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI would argue that its purpose as a probe outweighs its purpose as a ship, as such the specification of probe would still outweigh it being a starship by technicality.
minus-squarevala@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoYeah but we already have a less ambiguous name which is “probe” haha.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI can’t find the article now, but there was a news article that talked about “interstellar missions to mars”, and it drove me nuts
minus-squaretheolodis@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agotechnically, travelling on earth (or anywhere else in the universe), is travelling between stars, because we’re likely to be between 2.
minus-squareknatschus@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoA car isn’t a ocean cruiser just because it’s always between two oceans
minus-squareLeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoNarcissists are pure evil and deserve to be slaughtered in gas chambers
Even worse - he named his space vessels ‘Starship’ - implying that they have the ability to travel between stars.
They will study this man’s narcissism in future history classes alongside Trump. The era of the ego.
Even worse worse, he named prior projects after Culture ship names. Whose author despised him.
I mean by that definition, Voyager is a starship, eventually.
Voyager I and II are probes, not ships.
A ship can transport people or goods, and I argue that data is a type of good.
Friendship transports a type of good.
There’s that golden record, so there are physical goods as well.
I would argue that its purpose as a probe outweighs its purpose as a ship, as such the specification of probe would still outweigh it being a starship by technicality.
Yeah but we already have a less ambiguous name which is “probe” haha.
I can’t find the article now, but there was a news article that talked about “interstellar missions to mars”, and it drove me nuts
technically, travelling on earth (or anywhere else in the universe), is travelling between stars, because we’re likely to be between 2.
A car isn’t a ocean cruiser just because it’s always between two oceans
Narcissists are pure evil and deserve to be slaughtered in gas chambers