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Headline: “…exploded over Berlin” Body: “…producing a bright but harmless fireball visible for miles around.”
by PorterBHall 3y ago
Headline: “…exploded over Berlin”
Body: “…producing a bright but harmless fireball visible for miles around.”
- blueflow 3y agoSomeone is getting paid for clicks.
- Xylakant 3y agoIt also wasn’t over Berlin, but like 60 kilometers away.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 3y agoAnd I live 2 hours' drive outside of DC but if I'm talking to someone not from the region I just say "DC area" if asked where I live. It's pretty common to reference a nearby place name that is well known/recognized versus a place name that might be more accurate but leaves most receivers/readers/etc thinking "...where?"
- yencabulator 3y agoThe article did not say "Berlin area", so your "DC area" is not the same. If something happens over your house, is it "over Washington"?
- sjsdaiuasgdia 3y agoIn a news article about it? Probably.
- peddling-brink 3y agoI really don’t see that as misleading. Do you? Evocative imagery for sure, but that’s surely less boring than “the specimen exhibited an incandescence of magnitude…”
- rzzzt 3y agoIt boils down to whether the main goal is to have fun or read something factual. If "west of Berlin near Nennhausen" === "over Berlin", I don't know what to say.
- AlbertoGP 3y agoSame as “Gigafactory Berlin”.
- rzzzt 3y agoThere's an agglomeration area around Berlin(-Brandenburg) which is similar to a sibling commenter's "DC area" example (of course smaller). The Gigafactory is just outside this imaginary dotted line; Nennhausen is way over to the West.
- AlbertoGP 3y agoI see, just checked it up on a map and you are right of course, thanks for the correction.
- peddling-brink 3y agoPorque no los dos? That's a false dichotomy.