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Explain Like I'm Five

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Am I visiting (going to) Yosemite, or driving around it?

Did you visit the grand canyon if you did not go to the bottom but only stood on the rim?

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did you visit the grand canyon if you did not go to the bottom but only stood on the rim?

Yes. Did you visit it if you flew over it on a commercial flight?

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Much more similar to a chartered helicopter flight, which are quite popular at the Grand Canyon.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Maybe if that helicopter were flying 18x higher than the International Space Station.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well now I can't see the canyon, thanks a lot

realizes we all have no oxygen

fucking dies

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Well the brochure did state the the helicopter tours and views were "out of this world" so no refunds.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess that depends on how much bigger the moon is than the Grand Canyon.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Well great now my brain is going to waste the next 30 minutes unsuccessfully trying to conceive a joke about mooning, the size of the Grand Canyon, and the size of Uranus.

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Am I visiting (going to) Yosemite, or driving around it?

Well that depends, did you visit it or drive around it? These are fundamentally different things. Did you go there, enter the park, stay inside the park for a time and leave? Then you went there. Did you never enter the park and literally drove around its perimeter and went back to your starting location? Because that’s driving around it.

We are not going to the moon with Artemis II, we just aren’t.