• vithigar@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Well, yes, very clearly it’s a “man on screen said it” situation, but it’s not like that’s new.

    People who repeated “ground control to {insert name}” to get the attention of someone whose mind was elsewhere didn’t believe they were actually addressing an astronaut. It’s an idiom born of the current cultural zeitgeist.