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A new normal has just been defined. Amazing to see. "Thank you for flying with Falcon 9 today", as though it's an airplane.

• hsnewman 6y ago
  Wouldn't it be "Thank you for flying with Spacex today"?
  • Gene_Parmesan 6y ago
    You'd think so, but that's what they said to the astronauts on the stream today.
• spopejoy 6y ago
  So many cheeky touches! It's such a different vibe than the NASA launches of old. It's old news but I still was caught off guard by announcers flatly referring to "Of Course I Still Love You" EDIT this is not a criticism, I really like it. Maybe "cheeky" is the wrong term, I'm bad with Anglicisms
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  • plerpin 6y ago
    The name felt like a nod to Iain Banks' Culture series, whose AI-piloted spaceships had pretty funny names. https://concord.fandom.com/wiki/Iain_M._Banks_Culture_Universe_Spaceship_Names https://concord.fandom.com/wiki/Iain_M._Banks_Culture_Univer... (ctrl-f for Windward)
    • trothamel 6y ago
      It explicitly is.
      • shrimp_emoji 6y ago
        Ironic since the Culture is anti-capitalist. xD
        • antepodius 6y ago
          So is spacex. It's a dictatorship.
          • ralusek 6y ago
            All the people forced to buy contracts with them. All the people forced to work with them. Pure. Tyranny.
            • antepodius 6y ago
              No, just internally, where king elon makes decrees from high and you follow or are exiled from the nation of spacex. It's a private corporation: it's a mini-dictatorship. Basically everything functional in the world is built by one. Could you imagine the department of transportation making a car?
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        • yellowapple 6y ago
          "By the way, I am actually a socialist." -- Elon Musk
          • shrimp_emoji 6y ago
            Oh word https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1008013111058526209 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1008013111058526209 Ok, he can use Culture names without irony. uwu
            • plerpin 6y ago
    • rst 6y ago
      It is. The other one is Just Read The Instructions.