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Because we're flying to the moon.
Plus from a news standpoint it sells better than to say "around".
Don't get hungup on this, it's just part of the process of eventually landing.
Would you say Voyager didn't go to Jupiter because it didn't land?
No I would say Voyager is doing a Flyby....sorry kind of nerd came out.
I mean, technically speaking, if you didn't go to the place, you didn't visit the place.
That would be like a 6th grade boy saying that he totally got laid because he sat together with Jessica at McDonald's for dinner. Like, just because you got closer than anyone else doesn't mean you went all the way.
I was at the grand canyon. I was at the edge of it and looked down into it. Was I at the grand canyon or not?
You were
I'd say you looked into it, but not visited it.
"I saw the grand canyon"
How far up your friend's ass do you have to be to say you visited them?
The official mw entry lists seeing. You may want to recalibrate your interpretation.
I'm fwb with most of my friends, so the answer to your questions will not be the answer you want :P
And uh, your second sentence agrees with me...?
Mow much of the canyon do you need to explore before it counts?
Anything below the edge, really. Like a 3D map where the level of detail increases since you are inside the area.
I went to South Korea...
In the airport waiting for a transfer flight xD, never went through customs...
But technically I was stepping on South Korean Soil... am I not?
I'd say yeah. I've been to a couple of states that way.