• Etterra@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Many Indigenous Americans called the continent “turtle Island” or similar in their native languages. We really missed the chance to have a cool local name, rather than the name of some random map maker who’d never even been here.

      Also we could have named South America “Hydra” instead, because I mean have you seen the Amazon river? That thing’s ridiculous.

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    21 hours ago

    See also: Discworld

    (Sir PTerry solved the problem by having the turtle swim continually through space so it doesn’t need to stand on anything.)

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    1 day ago

    Oh that would explain why we are all the way up here in space. Lol. 🙄 🙄 🙄