Accidentally the first commercial lunar satellite.

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21 points·RiderOfGiraffes··10 comments

I love the way this was declared a write-off by the insurers, and then the engineers found a way to boost it around the Moon, and bring it back into a usable orbit.

1. Force clients to stop trying to save satelite via legal actions, claimint it will void the insurance.

2. ???

3. PROFIT

So there is some serious calculating going on to figure out how to use all these resources to deliver a sat minimizing fuel use. Impressive.

Surely "commercial lunar satellite" means "thing orbiting the moon in order to make someone a profit" rather than "thing orbiting the earth that happened to go past the moon a couple of times"?

Well, yes. Perhaps the title should've been something like:

"The first satellite intended as a commercial geostationary satellite but which went past the Moon accidentally on purpose."

Doesn't have the same ring to it ...

<grin>

Accidentally the whole satellite?

Aye, he Accidentally the whole English language.

Though given the article, the title can be construed to make sense, albeit still badly worded.

Apparently it's some sort of 4chan meme

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally

Huh - I knew nothing about that. My intention was to say that this was the first commercial satellite that went past the Moon, but that it was not originally intended to do so. In this way, to have done so was more-or-less an accident.

I didn't have enough space ...

And nothing was left out - I could have said "this was the first commercial lunar satellite - by accident." but that would have been silly.

Yeah I don't think silly meme language is appropriate at HN, it just lowers things a bit too much. Reddit is great fun, keep it there.

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