Rocket crashes and English language suffers

A rocket crashes in the desert, bringing back to earth cremated humans who had hoped to spend eternity floating around the earth. Ah well. As the article claims, their form wasn’t much changed in the crash. But the language suffered instead! This is how the mission director described what happened: “Because of an unexpected aerodynamic effect, the vehicle was short of its effected range.”

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