fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Earth, Environment, and Geosciences@mander.xyzEnglish · 22 days agoAstronauts of the underworld: The scientists venturing into the deep, dark Earthwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down11
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minus-squaredamnthefilibuster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·22 days agoShouldn’t they just be called Terranauts? Or Subterranauts?
minus-squareAlexander@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·22 days agoThat’s mixing greek and latin. Geonauts? Buthonauts?
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 days ago That’s mixing greek and latin. And we never do that. Ever.
minus-squaredamnthefilibuster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoI’m ok with Geonauts. Dafuq is Butho?
minus-squareAlexander@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 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.