walden comments on Artemis II astronauts pass 100,000 miles from Earth on voyage to the moon

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 3 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

Thanks for the explanation. It's an odd combination of pedantry and ignoring facts.

Apollo 13 - 400,171 km (248,655 miles)
Artemis 2 - 406,773 km (252,757 miles)

One of those is clearly further.

I tend to agree about language changing, presidents not having speech writers because they can't read anyway, etc., but in the case of "not breaking a record because it's not a high enough margin" I have to completely disagree.

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[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip -1 points 7 months ago (1 child)

It’s an odd combination of pedantry and ignoring facts.

i am not ignoring the facts, you just don't like my interpretation of them and you are twisting meaning of the word (or maybe you are ignorant of the meaning... do you see what i did there? 😂) hoping it will support your argument. so i thank you for so nicely proving my point about the language abuse.

it is an odd pedantry to insist on calling 1,5% difference between two highly imprecise numbers, where one of them does not even exist yet, record breaking and historical, but you do you.

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[–] walden@wetshav.ing 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What's your opinion of people dropping capital letters at the beginning of sentences over the years, especially in informal online spaces?

I just noticed one more thing. You confidently say that the current record is held by Apollo 13. In the link you provided earlier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13#cite_note-130), it says they only beat Apollo 10 by 240 km. If 240 km is good enough for you to believe 13 holds the record, then how come you don't want to accept the upcoming record with a difference of 6602 km?

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