# Misinterpreted thread titles

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 17, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360 "2023-01-17T17:58:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/121 "2024-11-25T18:05:32Z")

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[Starship development and progress  
[previous title: Will Musk’s starship reach orbit this year?]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-development-and-progress-previous-title-will-musks-starship-reach-orbit-this-year/967583)

I keep seeing this thread in the ‘Latest’ column, reading the first line, and thinking it’s a CS thread referring to a fictional Starship, like the USS Enterprise or something similar.

Which then leads me to wonder, what kind of childishness or hubris does it take to name your spaceship a ‘Starship’ when it will not only never travel between stars, but at present can barely take off and land?

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