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I love that a moon mission is a milestone en route to SpaceX' moonshot, not the moonshot itself. We need new idioms for these people.
by dalbasal 10y ago
I love that a moon mission is a milestone en route to SpaceX' moonshot, not the moonshot itself. We need new idioms for these people.
- rkuykendall-com 10y agoIt may seem less weird as trips to the moon become more common. We still use "flew too close to the sun" even though human powered flight at high altitudes is now common. It's more about the story of the original moonshot.
- gydfi 10y agoBut flying close to the sun is still really bad. It's just we've never got close enough to the sun for it to be a problem.