Good grief what's happened to The Register? Rampant clickbait everywhere. Mike and John would be horrified.
bell-cot•1h ago
Yeah. OTOH, the clickbait seems confined to the title & subtitle on this one. By the 4th para, the story has admitted that "called on" is just noise in the SpaceX-fan bubbleverse. And that the chance of it being technically optimal is ~0.0000% - even if the CCP was somehow utterly blind to the optics of such a "rescue".
jaggs•36m ago
>> OTOH, the clickbait seems confined to the title & subtitle on this one
LOL, the definition of clickbait, no? :)
verzali•1h ago
>A Chinese rescue mission is improbable as the Shenzhou-20 crew faces no immediate danger and China could simply launch Shenzhou-22 earlier as a replacement, if needed.
This is just clickbait. There's no one seriously calling for this and it wouldn't work anyway.
beardyw•1h ago
The headline never matches the <title> so it seems to be a final stage in publishing. And the headline is always more catchy, though in this case it is just an annoying waste of time for a non story.
jaggs•1h ago
bell-cot•1h ago
jaggs•36m ago
LOL, the definition of clickbait, no? :)