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Re:Boeing CEO Vows to Beat Musk to Mars by rbanffy on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:51AM (#12650340)
Only in the most literal sense they could be called spaceships. They are no more spaceships than a swimming suit is a boat.
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Re:Boeing CEO Vows to Beat Musk to Mars by dragonwriter on Thursday October 06, 2016 @09:07AM (#12652083)
Those two sentences are contradictory. A swimming suit is not a boat, especially in "the most literal sense."

A suborbital manned spacecraft, OTOH, is a spaceship in every sense. (It's neither an orbital spaceship nor, say, an interplanetary spaceship, but it's definitely a spaceship.)

Saying they aren't is like saying a riverboat isn't a boat because it's not ocean-going.

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Re:Boeing CEO Vows to Beat Musk to Mars by rbanffy on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:40PM (#12655422)
A suborbital spaceship is analogous to a boat that can go into waters, just as long as they are knee-deep.

It can touch space, but a ship is not defined by its ability to touch the water.

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