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minus-squareCombatWombat@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoI might translate it that way in some contexts, but if you told me Lewis and Clark were “sputniks” I’d assume you meant they got married in secret, rather than that they were explorers.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoEspecially now that I found out it involves a bacon cheese sausage somehow
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoIt’s strange they called it a ‘companion’ of any sort since it was the sole first satellite in space
minus-squareRustySharp@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoAs in, a companion to the planet. Moons are satellites. Satellite: from Latin satellitem (nominative satelles) “an attendant” upon a distinguished person; “a body-guard, a courtier; an assistant”
I might translate it that way in some contexts, but if you told me Lewis and Clark were “sputniks” I’d assume you meant they got married in secret, rather than that they were explorers.
Especially now that I found out it involves a bacon cheese sausage somehow
It’s strange they called it a ‘companion’ of any sort since it was the sole first satellite in space
As in, a companion to the planet.
Moons are satellites.