@[email protected]M to Earth, Environment, and [email protected]English • 1 month agoAstronauts of the underworld: The scientists venturing into the deep, dark Earthwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up115arrow-down1external-linkAstronauts of the underworld: The scientists venturing into the deep, dark Earthwww.bbc.com@[email protected]M to Earth, Environment, and [email protected]English • 1 month agomessage-square5fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@damnthefilibusterlinkEnglish3•1 month agoShouldn’t they just be called Terranauts? Or Subterranauts?
minus-squareAlexanderlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoThat’s mixing greek and latin. Geonauts? Buthonauts?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month ago That’s mixing greek and latin. And we never do that. Ever.
minus-squareAlexanderlinkfedilinkEnglish2•29 days agosome Greek root for bottom, used, for example, in “abyss”, sounds totally chtonic.
Shouldn’t they just be called Terranauts? Or Subterranauts?
That’s mixing greek and latin.
Geonauts? Buthonauts?
And we never do that. Ever.
I’m ok with Geonauts. Dafuq is Butho?
some Greek root for bottom, used, for example, in “abyss”, sounds totally chtonic.