Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoTIL the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through immigration in Hawaii when they splashed down because they had left U.S. borders.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square130fedilinkarrow-up1951arrow-down110file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1941arrow-down1imageTIL the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through immigration in Hawaii when they splashed down because they had left U.S. borders.lemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square130fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarelambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago renaming the Earth, or the Moon I’d be totally up with renaming out Tierra and Luna to something that is not eurocentric. Would be a nice change of pace against how much of immediate astronomy is caught up in remixes of Greek and Latin.
minus-squareabbotsbury@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt’s only Eurocentric in the Western tradition, and even then the names of many stars come from Arabic.
I’d be totally up with renaming out Tierra and Luna to something that is not eurocentric. Would be a nice change of pace against how much of immediate astronomy is caught up in remixes of Greek and Latin.
It’s only Eurocentric in the Western tradition, and even then the names of many stars come from Arabic.