Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months 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-up1948arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1938arrow-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 · 9 months agomessage-square130fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarelambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months 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-up1·9 months 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.