A few years ago, when I was new to Florida, a student approached me after class and started talking. "I have to go to Jupiter this weekend and--" I didn't hear any of the rest of what she said because I was thinking, "People can't go to Jupiter--they can't even go to Mars yet!" Then I realized she was talking about Jupiter, FL (population: 61,047), which is 270 miles away from here, not Jupiter the planet (population: 0), which is 487.53 million miles away from here. I had to ask her to repeat herself.
In my defense, there is a LOT of space stuff here in Florida, and it's all closer than Jupiter (the one in Florida) is.
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