fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Earth, Environment, and Geosciences@mander.xyzEnglish · 5 months agoAstronauts of the underworld: The scientists venturing into the deep, dark Earthwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down11
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minus-squaredamnthefilibuster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoShouldn’t they just be called Terranauts? Or Subterranauts?
minus-squareAlexander@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoThat’s mixing greek and latin. Geonauts? Buthonauts?
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months ago That’s mixing greek and latin. And we never do that. Ever.
minus-squaredamnthefilibuster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoI’m ok with Geonauts. Dafuq is Butho?
minus-squareAlexander@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months 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.