‘Voyager on steroids.’ Mission would probe region beyond our Solar System

Re:‘Voyager on steroids.’ Mission would probe region beyond ... by makeitdouble on Friday July 29, 2022 @12:24PM (#32278922)

Slight OT, but I wish “on steroids” wasn’t used in serious publications to refer to improvements and overall positive evolutions. I know it’s colloquially accepted, but we also wouldn’t express someone being very focused as “being on Adderall”, or a very creative idea as being “on shrooms” in a scientific publication.

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Re:‘Voyager on steroids.’ Mission would probe region beyond ... by bseidensticker on Friday July 29, 2022 @03:06PM (#32280634)

IDK seems fine to me.

> we also wouldn’t express someone being very focused as “being on Adderall”, or a very creative idea as being “on shrooms” in a scientific publication.

We don't because nobody does, and many people might not know what you mean.

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Re:‘Voyager on steroids.’ Mission would probe region beyond ... by makeitdouble on Friday July 29, 2022 @11:31PM (#32284053)

Hmmm…but then, do you personally do steroids ? Or do you directly know people doing steroids ?

It looks to me like most people’s knowledge of steroids come from pop culture/doping scandals and news report, and use in articles like this one.

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