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No I actually follow spaceX and understand the political reasons. I meant, how did spaceX receive the largest contract ever, then 2 lines later, it says Boeing
by vonklaus 12y ago
No I actually follow spaceX and understand the political reasons. I meant, how did spaceX receive the largest contract ever, then 2 lines later, it says Boeing received a larger contract.
- ceejayoz 12y ago> I meant, how did spaceX receive the largest contract ever, then 2 lines later, it says Boeing received a larger contract. The contract SpaceX received was bigger than any contract SpaceX had previously received. The contract Boeing received was larger than SpaceX's, but not Boeing's largest in its history by far.
- euid 12y agoThanks you for this. That means that in the original wording: >Last month, NASA said it would pay SpaceX its largest single contract ever, $2.6 billion The word "its" is an ambiguous pronoun - those who read it to mean "NASA" are left confused, since it seems like NASA just went around awarding even larger contracts. In fact, I think it's not only ambiguous, but in the most obvious interpretation of that sentence, it does indeed sound like NASA's biggest single awarded contract ever.
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