What do you call an aircraft that isn't flying through...air?

[derg]

I thought the moon's name was "Luna"? Or is that only in the expanse?

And telenovelas!

 

[deadstick]

When Elon Musk’s next clone founds Marsopolis, will there be airplanes, or something else? This of course assumes airplanes even will be practica...

Start with Don Quixote’s horse...

 

[Fixtur]

Long live the Tachi!

 

[invadertim]

which is as idiotic as us naming our moon, “Moon” when a moon isn’t unique to Earth.

It occurs to me this might be a Chicken & the Egg type of linguistic thing; The moon, in various languages, was a well defined concept long before humanity was aware of other moons I suspect. So maybe Copernicus still needs that whuppin, but for an act of commission rather that omission? I suspect his defence is something about being an Astronomer, not a Latin nazi.

 

[derg]

Or we can just call them orbital satellites and ours if The Moon. Imagine how crazy it’s going to be if we ever colonize Mars. “I need to call the moon.”

“Phobos, Deimos, Earths thing they call the moon? Speaking of that, it’s kind of like how Colombus called the indigenous people “Indians”, amarite?”

 

[Richman]

Atmospheric Vehicles. I think even “The Expanse” book series refers to airplanes as these.

We should start with “The Moon” though. But even then, it’ll be a generation of idiots bellyaching about “Now they wanna cancel the moon! I CANT HANDLE THIS!!”.

But, of course, in DougVille, science would be a thing, we’d all be metric and there’d be fewer F-35’s and more funding for NASA.

Well, details matter. When I tell people I’m a god, not the God, sometimes they miss the difference.

 

[knot4u]

Well, details matter. When I tell people I’m a god, not the God, sometimes they miss the difference.

And then what happens?

 

[Richman]

And then what happens?

I get a really cool night out, but then the next day is just the same as the one before.