Flying Squid to Today I [email protected]English • 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-up1919
arrow-up1919imageTIL 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 to Today I [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square130fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•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.