alt Hacker News> Marcos explained, "Asteroid 2024 PT5 will not describe a full orbit around Earth. You may say that if a true satellite is like a customer buying goods inside a store, objects like 2024 PT5 are window shoppers."
Is it a NASA thing to deploy outrageously absurd analogies for no apparent reason? Is there a checkout desk for space objects?
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ravenstine • 10/01/2024
Yes, I'm not sure why they chose that analogy. It just sounds cutesy and doesn't really add anything.
It's not absurd, you're reading too far into it.