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[–] ilinamorato 158 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

I love this sort of thing. Like NASA engineers calling an explosion a "rapid unscheduled disassembly."

[–] marcos 75 points 10 months ago (6 children)

At the first days of planning their Moon landing, NASA came out with lithobraking for the times the capsule wouldn't slow down enough.

Then, some 20 and something years lather, when planing their Mars landers, they decided that no, lithobraking is a perfectly fine thing to do and the landers would use it by design.

So be wary of rocket scientists making jokes.

[–] Trashcan 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For anybody like myself who doesn't know enough ancient greek.. Lithos means rock...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithobraking

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