I believe that it was a whale at free fall, falling along side a bowl of petunias
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One of my favorite lines comes from those books.
"The ships hung in the sky much in the way that bricks don't."
Yeah! Its right in the start! After that you get kind of used to them but they are still there! brilliant wordplay!
Oh no, not again.
Thag. Lucky bastard. Got to name two things.
I wish he'd also called it planet Thagomizer, instead.
Thaghome!
Better than Thagburgh.
Super Earth, our home...
Yes we do know, It comes from the Latin language during the roman empire. Terra which means soil/ground in Latin. it deviated to Terra in italian and portuguese, tierra in spanish and terre in french.
English was influenced by french so they took the meaning of earth from there. The word earth in english comes from old english or irish I dont remember correctly.
You're aware the word we're discussing is "Earth" right?
But was Latin the origin or just another step in the process?
Earth comes from OE, which comes from Proto-Germanic, which comes from Proto-Indo-European. Seperate from the Latin "Terra".
Yeah, earth in Dutch is "aarde" and in German it's "erde", which both sound related to "earth".
However, it originally must have meant soil/dirt/land, long before those humans were even aware of the concept of planets. So who was the first to call Earth after earth or Terre after terre? Probably the first persons to figure out that they were living on a planet is my guess, it makes sense to name something after the part that you can see imo.
Its named after dirt.
Dirt will be a term for the remains of mankind in future civilizations. So much dirt left from those f**kheads. /s
Dirt? Do you mean the mythical home planet of humanity in Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series?
Man that brings back memories. Mono-molecule wire and shenanigans :-D
As a soil scientist, I politely request you stop using that word.
Or else.
What's wrong with dirt?
On a planetary scale, all soil is dirt, because it's all been displaced so many times from glaciers and mountains and oceans and taking part in the biosphere, you can't tell where each particle was originally weathered from or which plant first captured it from the air. No one can trace sod to a fault line.
It's hard to have a rich history when evwn sharks are older. I bet you can't even tell if a soil is from regolith younger or older than Pangaea!
Wait what? It dates back a thousand years? So what did people call the planet they lived on in 200 AD? Or 500 BC? Surely they had a word for it before then. Or did they feel they lived ON the universe?
Once this planet was called round.
They lived on dirt. Thats it.
Motherfucker... Stop
First dude I’ve blocked on lemmy
I'm honoured
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