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by iClaudiusX
2621 days ago
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The use of such a vague and overloaded term as "anomaly" is deceptive. The purpose of communication is to inform the audience, and rather than clarify what happened, this statement obscures the truth to the public. The test capsule exploded. It means both SpaceX and Boeing have had test failures in the launch abort system for their respective human launch capsules. It will set back the timeline for the US to regain the ability to launch humans into space without paying for seats on the Soyuz. Instead of discussing the event and its implications, the longest thread is now dedicated to excessive pedantry and incorrecting each other over textbook definitions of the word "anomaly". |
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Explosion has a technical meaning too, and many things that look like an explosion aren't. AMOS-6 for instance was not an explosion, even though it really looked like one to a bystander.
This isn't excessive pedantry, it's jargon meant for an audience that will understand it and not take more away from a statement than they intend to say. Better to use the word that means "something bad happened" rather than a word which means something specific only to have to follow that up with "sorry, we were wrong, it wasn't that, it was..."