Lingusitics Who writes this stuff? (Starship X article)

[DaveC426913]

"... rockets that keep on exploding into fiery columns of fire ..."

...as opposed to those non-fiery columns of fire ...


"...Musk said he plans to send an unmanned crew to Mars next year..."

"An unmanned crew"....

I'm picturing a team of crew members who have tiny little pilot chairs with consoles in their skulls where their brains should be, but all the little pilot's chairs are empty.

Because, you know, the crew is unmanned.


"Depending on the position of Earth and Mars from one another, the distance between the two planets can vary from 35 million to over 200 million miles."

Let me get this straight: the distance between the two planets being variable is dependent on their position.

So, at certain positions, the distance beween them stops varying from 35 million to over 200 million miles?

(OK, now I'm just being b*tchy).





https://futurism.com/the-byte/starship-explosion-spacex

 

[gleem]

"... rockets that keep on exploding into fiery columns of fire ..."

...as opposed to those non-fiery columns of fire ...


"...Musk said he plans to send an unmanned crew to Mars next year..."

"An unmanned crew"....

Those are right out of the pages of Edwin Newman's book "A Civil Tounge".

"The United States is the most wasteful country in the world, and our use of words is extravagant. This waste has two causes. One is the feeling not seldomly encountered that an idea is more effective if it is repeated and reinforced. . . . The second cause of waste is a failure to understand what words mean."

 

[PhDeezNutz]

The distance depends on the distance……who would have thought?

That article is exceptionally bad.