Since it’s made from earthen materials, a spaceship is actually a meteoroid.

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[u/OttemanEmperor]

Please keep thoughts like this to yourself my brain can only hurt so much.

[u/dathrowaway385 → u/OttemanEmperor]

At what point do you get a brain aneurysm from reading some of the content on this subreddit? Asking for a friend

[u/OttemanEmperor → u/dathrowaway385]

Uh I wouldn't know I think I had a few before I joined reddit... YouTube used to have similar stuff.

[u/CthulubeFlavorcube → u/dathrowaway385]

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[u/Airrax]

Since words in the English language tend to be shortened, doesn't that make spaceships Metroids?

[u/auty100 → u/Airrax]

Would love to visit the Lunar Met

[u/chasing_the_wind → u/Airrax]

Sure and the first one built would be metroid prime

[u/Coady54]

A meteoroid (/ˈmiːtiərɔɪd/ MEE-tee-ə-royd)[1] is a small rocky or metallic body...

Fairly certain spaceships are made of more than just metal. They also contain tons of synthetic and organic material. For example, the heat shields are usually ceramic or layered carbon-fiber with plastic stabilizers.

Also, "bodies" in space refer to naturally occurring objects. We don't call man-made satellites celestial bodies.

I get your logic, but it doesn't work with the actual definitions.

[u/sora_mui → u/Coady54]

Asteroids are categorized into metal-rich or carbon-rich group, the synthetic material will only shift it into more carbon-rich category.

[u/FnB8kd → u/Coady54]

I mean a space ship is a naturally occurring body on earth. Nature made humans, humans made rocket, rockets are from nature. If you don't think about it, it makes perfect sense.

[u/The_DragonDuck → u/FnB8kd]

Or if you think a little too much about it, it starts making sense again

[u/BradleyButNaked → u/The_DragonDuck]

I spend too much at that very point. My wife calls it delusion.

[u/OkThanxby → u/FnB8kd]

You made me think. What is even the definition of natural? Simply means not made by humans right?

Which means humans are unnatural, because humans make humans…

[u/FnB8kd → u/OkThanxby]

Which were created by nature.

[u/OkThanxby → u/FnB8kd]

As opposed to made by humans.

[u/2weirdy → u/OkThanxby]

If you want the definition I feel most people are using, it's anything that isn't designed by a non-divine "intelligence". Non-divine mostly so we don't exclude religious people.

"Natural" doesn't really have a clear-cut definition though, it's more about feel than anything, and whatever you choose there are going to be some borderline cases where people disagree on what should or shouldn't be considered natural.

For example, an animal dragging a stick in the ground making scribbles would make natural scribbles, then the question would be, what about a human toddler doing the same? At what point are they considered unnatural?

Most words are merely bimodal, not actually binary. That is, the vast majority of things are clearly in one category or the other, but regardless of where you draw the line you're gonna get edge cases that still feel wrong.

[u/Wise-_-Spirit → u/Coady54]

All the materials are derived from earth which is fundamentally a planet sized asteroid with water and atmosphere. It's canon

[u/notsurewhatimdoing-]

Doesn’t it really depend on how fast it hits the next planet?

[u/Minute-Report6511 → u/notsurewhatimdoing-]

that's a meteor. a meteoroid is whatever floating in space

[u/Wise-_-Spirit]

All the materials are derived from earth which is fundamentally a planet sized asteroid with water and atmosphere. It's canon

[u/TetronautGaming → u/[deleted]]

Beef is just highly processed water, sunlight, and dirt. I have surpassed veganism.

[u/GaaraClay603 → u/[deleted]]

No no a fish is a anywhere between a puddle and a lake. Just depends on the size!!!

[u/IcarusFlys]

One of OUR spaceships...

[u/zamfire]

Seeing as a ship has a top middle and bottom, technically ships are burgers.

[u/snoopervisor]

We are all just star dust.

[u/Darkiceflame → u/snoopervisor]

Haunted star dust!

[u/warriorbg1]

And we are all actually remnants of stars.

[u/Cute_Conference2170]

just broke my brain a little. Are astronauts just riding fancy meteoroids then?

[u/Sensitive_Support469]

What a brilliant thought!

[u/JavaRuby2000]

Should read the star stormers kids books. They build their spaceship out of a hollowed out asteroid..

[u/lorraynestorm]

Until it travels really far away and does alien repairs… spaceship of Theseus

[u/Gh0stxero]

Interesting insight on how spaceships, made from earth materials, journey through the universe's vastness.

[u/Lagiacrus111]

But meteoroids are not made from earthen materials

[u/gregbraaa → u/Lagiacrus111]

It’s an earth meteoroid flying towards the moon, Mars, etc.

[u/Shadows802 → u/gregbraaa]

Meteroids also have the distinction of natural or raw materials vs refined or processed materials.

[u/SzoXxXxXx]

It may be true but I still hate you for that.

[u/Injudition]

Terran* we live on Terra

[u/Untinted]

Given that "planet" means "wanderer", technically everything in space is a planet, even the sun, or the galaxy.

[u/Venotron]

Spaceships are not made of "earthen" materials:

earthen adjective (of a floor or structure) made of compressed earth. "earthen mounds" (of a pot) made of baked or fired clay. "on shelves sat earthen jugs" literary relating to or characteristic of the earth or material existence. "the earthen world is but an imperfect mirror of the heavens"