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chat is this true?
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this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
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Well, yes, very clearly it's a "man on screen said it" situation, but it's not like that's new.
People who repeated "ground control to {insert name}" to get the attention of someone whose mind was elsewhere didn't believe they were actually addressing an astronaut. It's an idiom born of the current cultural zeitgeist.
Chat, can we get some protein pills for major tom