A Starlink satellite exploded

https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/2001691802911289712

by wmf • 7 months ago

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dzhiurgis• 7 months ago

Content says:

The satellite is largely intact

leephillips4• 7 months ago

That’s some weird use of language in the tweet. It uses “demise” and “root cause” as verbs (demise can be a verb, but it doesn’t mean what the tweet author thinks it means). Is this some new form of corporate-speak that I haven’t encountered before?

wilg3• 7 months ago

Demise is a term of art in the space industry: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Preparing_for_the_Futur...

Root cause is commonly used as a verb https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/root_cause

leephillips4• 7 months ago

There is nothing about using “demise” as a verb in your first link. I see “root cause” as a verb in the Urban Dictionary, but neither that nor your link (both crowd-sourced) are evidence that it’s a common usage. But it’s clearly not unheard of. How unspeakably vulgar.

hulitu• 7 months ago

A Starlink satellite exploded

But testing it was successful. /s

A Starlink satellite exploded

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