Help me to understand the meaning of this phrase, please."Catch you on the flip side"
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See you later is the common form of that saying. There is a lost meaning to it as well. It can also mean see you on the other side. Like in the afterlife as in the next stage of life after death. It is a modern version of the Greek or Roman "Till we meet in the Elysian (Elysium) Fields." Farewell that soldiers or beloved friends would make thinking that they will never see each other again on this Earth. In hopes of meeting in the afterlife once again.
In the early stages of spaceflight, NASA developed a technique that saved much needed fuel to return space craft back to Earth by using the moon’s orbit like a slingshot. Astronauts in space and ground control would lose radio signal once the space craft makes its way to the “back-side” of the moon and away from line of sight with Earth. They would of course regain radio signal when they reach the other side of the moon (the “flip side”). It was customary for Ground Control to say “Catch you on the flip side” before they would lose radio signal. The none-space working-class community adapted the phrase as a “good-bye” or “see you later.”
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It means "see you later" or "talk to you soon."
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