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Did it actually"vanish"? I mean, if they just weren't able to detect it, then it was still there, just undetected.

"Vanish" suggests to me it was portaled to an alternate universe, engaged its cloaking device, put on its ring of invisibility or something.

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Really? You actually thought the article was about how a lunar spacecraft ported to another dimension based on the title?

The title pedantry is getting to new levels of silly.

I agree. This fussing about titles has really gotten annoying. I understand that some titles can be improved but I'm tired of the endless discussions.

You're right: Going somewhere full of tech geeks and discussing the finer points of English should be expected to whoosh right over their heads and anger them.

Clearly the issue is that whooshes right over your and sundry down-voter's heads is within my point: the spacecraft failed and its operators could not find it. Stating that the craft vanished has the effect of moving the fault to something other than the operators.

If you don't think headlines matter, then the propagandists win.

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