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Why in Sci-Fi they always use Marine or Naval terminology and structure instead of Aviation for the spaceship structure, navigation and military ranks? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't really know how to structure this question, but yeah, why is always Naval and never Aviation?

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 8 months ago

Because they're way more like ships than they are planes -- Planes don't stay in the air indefinitely or take long voyages, have large crews, etc -- They often treat the fighter pilot space ship people like AF though -- Like if I have a 'carrier' with a bunch of smaller ships on it