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[–] brunofin@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] Chobbes@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 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!

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] Chobbes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The ISS’s propulsion is just for small orbital adjustments, right?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I think so, not sure if it can do much more.

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

It has boosters. If it can move, it is a spaaaceshiiip!

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

True but it still has to be a ship!