Joe Strout wrote:

I rather prefer the BBC version in this case, though -- I'm so sick of
hearing things like "space, defined as 62 miles above the earth."
Miles. Sheesh. But anyway...

That caveat is needed so that differentiate between the
lower-end-of-spectrum 'spaceships' and the upper-end-of-spectrum
orbital craft.

D.
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