I know this term goes way back, but can somebody tell me why we refer to a canceled launch as "scrubbed"?
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nice! i will remember that for sureFound this on Reddit. There are other explanations offered as well, pretty murky.
The expression is in common use in the Royal Navy and has been for many generations. It derives from the days when all signals and orders were written on a slate. When the signals were cancelled or orders executed, the words on the slate were ‘scrubbed out’ or, equally correctly ‘washed out’.
Correction...And it’s used in horse racing to indicate a horse has been canceled from a race.
Correction...
Horses are scratched not scrubbed from a race.
It's been scrubbed....What topic is slated for our next discussion?
Make sure you blow it off after you brush it off.Not having a witty reply was bothering me, but I decided to brush it off.
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