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What's your favorite spaceship? (programming.dev)
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[–] 24 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Not sure in what context you're asking this question, but my answer is the International Space Station. I love how it's possible to see it at random sometimes at night, and the way it crosses the sky just looks different compared to a regular airplane flying at night.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Pedantic question! Does the ISS count as a spaceship? I feel like something that travels in an orbit is kind of the equivalent of something stationary on a planet… so it feels like more of a, uh, station, than a ship to me. It’s a good answer, though!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Feels like a tomato fruit situation. It's technically a ship, but we know it as a station?

    A marine equivalent might be a floating structure with its own propulsion system. Technically a boat, but it doesn't move around that often and it let's other boats dock/undock from it.

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