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Re:SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who ... by lupusreal on Sunday September 29, 2024 @08:07AM (#41686757)
> If my car breaks down while I'm at my fully-loaded villa on day 2 of my 30 day vacation, my friend coming to pick me up isn't a rescue mission.

If you chose to say it was, nobody would be doing the "Well ACKSHULLY..." routine with you because that is in fact totally in line with common use of the word rescue and not worth making a stink about even if you think it sounds a little melodramatic.

The ISS situation is more extreme than your example in every way, but you're pulling the ackshully bullshit because you don't like the company that has done it.

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Re:SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who ... by unethical_ban on Sunday September 29, 2024 @01:22PM (#41688811)
>but you're pulling the ackshully bullshit because you don't like the company that has done it.

I wonder if you, like me, have taken a vacation to travel half-way across the United States to watch a SpaceX launch, or had discussions with former heads of NASA as far back as 2011 about what the company meant/means for manned spaceflight. I wonder if you grew up around astronauts or knew people who died on Columbia.

This isn't an appeal to authority, it's a statement of experience. I'm in a pedantic HN subthread and threw in my subjective opinion regarding the use of the term "rescue" - please don't jump to assuming I'm some evil troll.

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Re:SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who ... by lupusreal on Monday September 30, 2024 @06:59AM (#41695725)
I will repeat myself, you wouldn't be doing this pedantic nitpicking bullshit with the word 'rescue' in any other context.
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Re:SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who ... by unethical_ban on Monday September 30, 2024 @01:50PM (#41699985)
No need to repeat yourself, it serves only to self-gratify.
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Re:SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who ... by lupusreal on Monday September 30, 2024 @03:28PM (#41701070)
Oh yeah that's annoying. But please, tell me more about all your vacations.
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Re:SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who ... by unethical_ban on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @01:44AM (#41704930)
I really hope you're as young as you you're acting.
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