• dustyData@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Wouldn’t it have to be a star system? You can’t go to the wrong solar system, as there is only one solar system, the one where the star is Sol. Unless the aliens called all stars Sol, or there are several systems where the star is named Sol.

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      6 months ago

      Regular people say shit like ATM machine so why would a gas station yokel be more precise just because he knows aliens exist?

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      6 months ago

      Unfortunately, this error appears a lot even in more “serious” sci-fi. Really breaks immersion, doesn’t it?

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      6 months ago

      If I’m understanding my Google search correctly it would actually be planetary system since they were looking a planet in an nothing system. I think by definition star systems don’t include planets.