AlgoMantra wrote:
That's like saying that an ocean liner isn't
a ship because it wouldn't be able to get off
the ground into the sea by itself.
It has the body of a lion, and the head of a lion,
but does that, in fact, make it a lion?
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spaceship (plural spaceships) 1. A vehicle that flies through space. [1] spaceship (-ship') n. a spacecraft, esp. if manned [2]I should have confirmed my definitions before posting. I had heard the "space shuttle as the only true spaceship" comment on television once, probably by some NASA official. But since I have no reference to the original quote, and since "spaceship" and "spacecraft" appear interchangeable in common usage - do a lookup on spaceship in wikipedia - then the whole argument is moot. It should be noted that Orion is "NASA's new spaceship" [3]. So to tie this all back in with Pygame and game development in general, if someone writes an Apollo simulator it is perfectly valid to include it under a spaceship category.
[1] wiktionary: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spaceship (last edited 10:01, 2 October 2007), though "*flies* through space" makes the definition questionable.
[2] Webster's New World Dictionary of American English, Third College Edition, Deluxe Color Edition, (c) 1991 by Simon and Schuster, Inc.
[3] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/spacecraft/cev_hi_res.html (accessed March 5, 2008)
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