• Chobbes@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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.