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Tkacka15 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Outbound

"Alice Bowman, the mission operations manager, said no errors or problems with the probe had been recorded: “We have a healthy spacecraft. We’ve recorded data of Pluto’s system and we’re outbound from Pluto … Just like we practised, just like we planned it. We did it.”" (The Guardian.)

Is "we’re outbound from Pluto..." used as a metaphor in the above context?
  

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No, it means that the probe is now speeding away from Pluto.

— GPY

  • No, it means that the probe is now speeding away from Pluto.
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No, it means that the probe is now speeding away from Pluto.
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GPYNo, it means that the probe is now speeding away from Pluto.
I've meant it as a metaphor in which "we" represents "the probe".
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tkacka15I've meant it as a metaphor in which "we" represents "the probe".
Oh, I see. For me it is a stretch to call this a "metaphor". Perhaps other members could comment.
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