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CombatWombat@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I might translate it that way in some contexts, but if you told me Lewis and Clark were “sputniks” I’d assume you meant they got married in secret, rather than that they were explorers.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Especially now that I found out it involves a bacon cheese sausage somehow

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SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It’s strange they called it a ‘companion’ of any sort since it was the sole first satellite in space

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- RustySharp@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  As in, a companion to the planet.
  
  Moons are satellites.
  
  Satellite: from Latin satellitem (nominative satelles) “an attendant” upon a distinguished person; “a body-guard, a courtier; an assistant”
  
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