Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoELI5 Why are most Americans news outlets keep saying we are flying to the moon? When in all actuality we are flying around it?message-squaremessage-square35linkfedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down17
arrow-up133arrow-down1message-squareELI5 Why are most Americans news outlets keep saying we are flying to the moon? When in all actuality we are flying around it?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square35linkfedilink
minus-square🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 months agoIt’s how language works. We are flying to the moon, not to land on it, but to orbit it. That’s still to the moon. We’re not flying to the sun, or flying to mars. We’re flying to the moon.
It’s how language works.
We are flying to the moon, not to land on it, but to orbit it. That’s still to the moon. We’re not flying to the sun, or flying to mars. We’re flying to the moon.