Comment by bb123
7 days ago
I feel this should have a note that it's fictional in the title. I clicked this expecting to read about some kind of space race development with China or Russia.
7 days ago
I feel this should have a note that it's fictional in the title. I clicked this expecting to read about some kind of space race development with China or Russia.
Just append it with "J. G. Ballard".
I mean it's pretty obvious from the very first paragraph, isn't it?
> By good luck we have been able to make an emergency landing on this uninhabited space station. There have been no casualties. We all count ourselves fortunate to have found safe haven at a moment when the expedition was clearly set on disaster.
Lots of short stories on HN have just their original title with nothing like [Novella] or whatever, seems fine.
Sure but isn't that the definition of clickbait?
The definition of clickbait includes intention.
If anything, the poster here likely followed a rule to use the original, non-editorialized page title, and certainly the original page has not had the title set with intent to attract clicks by misrepresenting what it is.
You could write a tale in response, about how you spent seconds, minutes, hours, days, years...a lifetime identifying that the several hundred words at the link were fictional.
HN is starting to grind my tits with the amount of clickbaity articles of late.
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I guess it could be. Wikipedia says the term "computer mouse" first showed up in print in 1965, but this wasn't printed until 1982.
I expected it to be fiction from the title, and knew it was from the structure, before even reading any text.
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I was confused on how someone might even launch a covert space station. Would there be a way to do so unnoticed?
Not a chance. Everything larger than 10cm is cataloged and there are multiple catalogs from different sources.
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5258
https://planet4589.org/space/gcat/
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