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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wait what? It dates back a thousand years? So what did people call the planet they lived on in 200 AD? Or 500 BC? Surely they had a word for it before then. Or did they feel they lived ON the universe?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They lived on dirt. Thats it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

First dude I’ve blocked on lemmy

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Once this planet was called round.