If martians flew around the earth they would be flying to earth.
Propoganda
We are going to the moon. Artemis II is going to bring humans further from earth than any human has ever been, and doing a drive by like this is part of the process of landing on the moon
Further how? I’ve admittedly not looked anything up but the Apollo missions orbited the moon as well.
They’re going higher around the far side of the moon than previous missions, so further from earth
Artemis II won’t fully orbit it, it slingshots around it.
Which means it will fly higher over the lunar service, and while it’s on the far side will be further away from earth than previous missions.
doing a drive by
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It’s the cover story in case Grok got distracted by white genocide in South Africa while doing burn calculations. Now it can be a successful impact.
Because we’re flying to the moon.
Plus from a news standpoint it sells better than to say “around”.
Don’t get hungup on this, it’s just part of the process of eventually landing.
Would you say Voyager didn’t go to Jupiter because it didn’t land?
I mean, technically speaking, if you didn’t go to the place, you didn’t visit the place.
That would be like a 6th grade boy saying that he totally got laid because he sat together with Jessica at McDonald’s for dinner. Like, just because you got closer than anyone else doesn’t mean you went all the way.
I went to South Korea…
In the airport waiting for a transfer flight xD, never went through customs…
But technically I was stepping on South Korean Soil… am I not?
I was at the grand canyon. I was at the edge of it and looked down into it. Was I at the grand canyon or not?
You were
I’d say you looked into it, but not visited it.
“I saw the grand canyon”
Mow much of the canyon do you need to explore before it counts?
Anything below the edge, really. Like a 3D map where the level of detail increases since you are inside the area.
How far up your friend’s ass do you have to be to say you visited them?
The official mw entry lists seeing. You may want to recalibrate your interpretation.
No I would say Voyager is doing a Flyby…sorry kind of nerd came out.
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Straight through, at full speed. Bonus points for tires leaving the ground, multiplier for full-on air time.
We totally have this down.
Because it sounds better, more historic, more impressive. I’ve seen several outlets say “travel further from earth than any other humans” and I think that’s the angle that should be taken here since we aren’t actually going to the moon, we are actually going around it, going as far away as we ever have which is incredible in and of itself then returning. Considering what country NASA is located in I doubt the symbolically inflated language is an accident
It’s a shuttle run. More literally than usual.
Cuz they are going to the moon, they just aren’t going to go on the moon.
Because some people in this world are mentally normal and use language in mentally normal ways.
When you do a free return trajectory around the moon, you first “fly” towards the moon, and then you “fly” away from the moon.
It’s Apollo 8, but with 60 more years of experience, more computer power than the entire world had at the time, and 10,000x the budget.
They are only going back to what they should have been doing in the 70s. I’m happy they are finally doing it, but I never understood why they abandoned it in the first place.
Am I visiting (going to) Yosemite, or driving around it?
Did you visit the grand canyon if you did not go to the bottom but only stood on the rim?
Did you visit the grand canyon if you did not go to the bottom but only stood on the rim?
Yes. Did you visit it if you flew over it on a commercial flight?
Much more similar to a chartered helicopter flight, which are quite popular at the Grand Canyon.
Maybe if that helicopter were flying 18x higher than the International Space Station.
Well now I can’t see the canyon, thanks a lot
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Well the brochure did state the the helicopter tours and views were “out of this world” so no refunds.
I guess that depends on how much bigger the moon is than the Grand Canyon.
Well great now my brain is going to waste the next 30 minutes unsuccessfully trying to conceive a joke about mooning, the size of the Grand Canyon, and the size of Uranus.
Am I visiting (going to) Yosemite, or driving around it?
Well that depends, did you visit it or drive around it? These are fundamentally different things. Did you go there, enter the park, stay inside the park for a time and leave? Then you went there. Did you never enter the park and literally drove around its perimeter and went back to your starting location? Because that’s driving around it.
We are not going to the moon with Artemis II, we just aren’t.
If you went through a Taco Bell drive through, you’d still be “driving to Taco Bell” even though you just drove around the building and never went inside.
People keep mentioning this but isn’t it more of a definition of to and towards?
The moon is far away. Like really far away. They ISS is hard to get to, and the moon is 1000x farther away. So, just getting far enough to swoop around and come back is an achievement in its own right.
Also, it is part of a series of missions that will culminate in humans walking on the surface of the moon once again.
