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Joel_Is_Online t1_j1u8je8 wrote

"Italian Samantha Cristoforetti has become the first European to take a spacewalk." Just factually untrue. Why bother to write an article if you're going to make it shit?

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KristnSchaalisahorse t1_j1v78yv wrote

The “first European female” is what they meant to write, which is a fairly obvious error, unfortunately.

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zeeblecroid t1_j1vredc wrote

It's just a clickbait content-farm site.

Wouldn't be surprised if the posts were procedurally generated, since those sites do that more often these days since it's even easier than the traditional "steal other articles and throw a thesaurus at them" approach. We're going to see a pretty maddening amount of "news" "articles" in coming months that are just written by chatbots.

Pretty sure OP either owns or is working for that site, since they've posted nothing but links to it for months.

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Soapspear t1_j1u2y9b wrote

“European space conquest” 🤨 they could’ve worded that better.

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joef_3 t1_j1v5owd wrote

Eh, it tracks with Europe’s history of showing up places other people already are.

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danielravennest t1_j1wfqk7 wrote

The Conquest of Space is a 1949 book by Chesley Bonestell and Willy Ley, which inspired a 1955 science fiction film of the same name. We haven't talked about things that way since most of the colonial empires were dismantled. Specifically the Antarctic Treaty of 1961 and the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 ended the practice of grabbing territory by nations that abide by the rule of law. Russia and China haven't got aboard that idea yet.

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cdnBacon t1_j1tvlvm wrote

Hilarious that at a time when our technology is able to show us just how incredibly small, clumsy, costly and insignificant our species and its reach into the universe is, that technophilic publications still use words like "conquest".

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thadallen t1_j1y4sqv wrote

Will any of this great space news help to quell the flat- earthers’ arguments: “ It’s all just NASA lying to us”?

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alexige1 t1_j1zr6rv wrote

In a Russian Spacesuit? For some reason I figured the Russies didn't allow non Russies in their suits.

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