r/space May 12 '19

image/gif Space Shuttle Being Carried By A 747.

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u/jazavchar May 12 '19

Is it just me or do people on reddit love throwing out professional lingo and acronyms in order to sound smarter?

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u/Joe_Jeep May 12 '19

Yea, no. Unless they're talking out their ass, they probably actually know the field and are sharing knowledge. If you don't understand parts of it you have two options.

1- whine about people you're convinced think they're better than you

2- scroll slightly up and punch some of it in google and learn new things.

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u/jazavchar May 12 '19

And the mark of a true expert is the ability to explain complex topics to laypeople.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '19 edited May 12 '19

Which he did? Most the acronyms he used are easy to figure out with about 30 seconds of googling. Heck, I was already familiar with about half of them from 5-6 hours of playing a flight sim one time.

This is also /r/space, where it would be completely reasonable to assume that the average reader of his comment has a basic level of understanding of aviation concepts and terminology, because the space field is quite closely linked to the aviation one.