Blaze@reddthat.com to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 28 days agoTIL that we don’t know who named the Earth. Unlike other planets there are no records of how it got its name. The name Earth, and variations of it, date back 1000+ years.www.skyatnightmagazine.comexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that we don’t know who named the Earth. Unlike other planets there are no records of how it got its name. The name Earth, and variations of it, date back 1000+ years.www.skyatnightmagazine.comBlaze@reddthat.com to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 28 days agomessage-square57fedilink
minus-squareGreyEyedGhost@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·28 days agoDirt? Do you mean the mythical home planet of humanity in Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat series?
minus-squareuebquauntbez@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·28 days agoDirt will be a term for the remains of mankind in future civilizations. So much dirt left from those f**kheads. /s
minus-squareTrack_Shovel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·28 days agoAs a soil scientist, I politely request you stop using that word. Or else.
minus-squaremeseek #2982@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·28 days agoWait 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?
minus-squareuebquauntbez@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·27 days agoOnce this planet was called round.
Its named after dirt.
Dirt? Do you mean the mythical home planet of humanity in Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat series?
Dirt will be a term for the remains of mankind in future civilizations. So much dirt left from those f**kheads. /s
As a soil scientist, I politely request you stop using that word.
Or else.
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