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I'm not seeing any evidence the book was particularly widely read; it's barely googlable and shows up on no historic bestsellers list I can find. Apparently I'm
by raldi 6y ago
I'm not seeing any evidence the book was particularly widely read; it's barely googlable and shows up on no historic bestsellers list I can find. Apparently I'm not the only skeptic:
> One might surmise from this that Glenn and his fellow astronauts took a highly technical term and "adopted" it into a more general term for any malfunction. But that overlooks the history of the term predating the space program — a history only now becoming clear.
https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-hidden-history-of-glitch/ https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-hidden-his...