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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 10 months ago

Why in Sci-Fi they always use Marine or Naval terminology and structure instead of Aviation for the spaceship structure, navigation and military ranks?

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Why in Sci-Fi they always use Marine or Naval terminology and structure instead of Aviation for the spaceship structure, navigation and military ranks?

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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 10 months ago

I don’t really know how to structure this question, but yeah, why is always Naval and never Aviation?

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Space is an ocean. That’s why there’s space whales.

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