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No, I’m just happy people are launching new rockets. Imagine getting pissed off about the name of a breakthrough rocket.

• decebalus1 6y ago
  Not saying I'm not happy people are launching rockets. That's awesome. And I'm not 'pissed'. Just call them rockets, not starships. If tomorrow I write a wrapper on top of grep and call it a 'search engine', half of hackernews is gonna jump at my throat bUt ThAt'sNoT aSeaRchEngInE!!!
  • NikolaeVarius 6y ago
    And yet people still refer to the orbiter as the Space Shuttle, when it isn't
    • decebalus1 6y ago
      which orbiter? What?
      • lutorm 6y ago
        Presumably he's talking about the Space Transportation System, colloquially known as the "Space Shuttle".