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I feel this should have a note that it's fictional in the title. I clicked this expecting to read about some kind of space race development with China or Russia
by bb123 4mo ago
I feel this should have a note that it's fictional in the title. I clicked this expecting to read about some kind of space race development with China or Russia.
- embedding-shape 4mo agoI mean it's pretty obvious from the very first paragraph, isn't it? > By good luck we have been able to make an emergency landing on this uninhabited space station. There have been no casualties. We all count ourselves fortunate to have found safe haven at a moment when the expedition was clearly set on disaster. Lots of short stories on HN have just their original title with nothing like [Novella] or whatever, seems fine.
- jibal 4mo agoI expected it to be fiction from the title, and knew it was from the structure, before even reading any text.
- fartfeatures 4mo agoSure but isn't that the definition of clickbait?
- deleted 4mo ago[deleted]
- sscaryterry 4mo agoHN is starting to grind my tits with the amount of clickbaity articles of late.
- red-iron-pine 4mo agothere has always been a ton of bait and bots here mon ami. now it's bursting at the seams with them.
- necovek 4mo agoThe definition of clickbait includes intention. If anything, the poster here likely followed a rule to use the original, non-editorialized page title, and certainly the original page has not had the title set with intent to attract clicks by misrepresenting what it is.
- mcphage 4mo agoI guess it could be. Wikipedia says the term "computer mouse" first showed up in print in 1965, but this wasn't printed until 1982.
- maxerickson 4mo agoYou could write a tale in response, about how you spent seconds, minutes, hours, days, years...a lifetime identifying that the several hundred words at the link were fictional.
- aaron695 4mo ago[dead]
- JKCalhoun 4mo agoJust append it with "J. G. Ballard".
- thatguy0900 4mo agoI was confused on how someone might even launch a covert space station. Would there be a way to do so unnoticed?