On: The company building a rotating detonation engine is pushing the tech forward

[snakeyjake]

Some of the first non-apian drones to ever fly were "missiles".

You're going to have to invent time travel, go back over a century, and murder all of the people who started calling drones "drones" if you want to win this battle.

[1letterunixname → snakeyjake]

A crushed bit of paper could be a "missile."

The mass media put its thumb on the scale, lambasting phenomena by reforging certain words to create a culture of fear and taboo using such example words as "hacker", "terrorist", and "drone".

And while a Unabomber approach to language use is unlikely to influence anyone, it's important to know the history of multiple meaning of words because those are additional meanings because a single word means different things to different people based on situational factors. To suggest one meaning is more "right" than another is to champion some people's experiences and invalid others'.

[shiroiushi → 1letterunixname]

>A crushed bit of paper could be a "missile."

As anyone who's played D&D knows, an arrow shot from a bow, or a rock shot from a slingshot, is a "missile".