Forbes…
Fantastical
while it is possible they changed the headline, the word is not in the 24 hour old snapshot: https://archive.is/cKdl5 and this thread is 3 hours old
It does appear in the body of the article but in what I read as a positive usage
the New Horizons spacecraft that aced a close approach with Pluto while sending back fantastical images of the otherworldly orb and its moons
But adding it to the title does seem to make it into a derogatory use.
fair point, i did not catch that, but it is still not the same.
you can argue that the images sent back remind you of some tolkien illustrations, the same argument is significantly harder to make about “fantastical nasa mission”. or maybe the forbes author just doesn’t care about nuances 🤷♂️
i still think that OP’s edit is
journalisticeh… reposting malpractice 😆i’ll leave this here for anyone willing to dive into the rabbit hole - https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/417796/fantastic-and-fantastical
Luckily there’s still ESA and CNSA, and I think India and Japan(?) have both been stepping up their space programs recently.
And I bet with NASA being gutted other agencies will want to try for the spot as the world’s leading space agency, like what NASA once was. It would be a huge boon for local industry.
