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Explain Like I'm Five
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When I say I'm going to a football game, I'll sit at some distance and watch it, not walk on the pitch.
Same thing here.
Being 5000 miles away you won't see much.
Doing a flyby is like going to the cinema, sitting outside then going home.
You just used "to" in the same way the media did in the process of trying to argue against it.