@Zoboomafoo - Ask the Peopleverse

Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net

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Cake day: December 31st, 2023

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Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.nettoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL about Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Americas, the first one to show that North and South America were connected by an isthmus and the first to call it 'The New World.'
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6 months ago
Looks like they called it Cuba

Cuba - It is derived from either coabana meaning “great place,” or from cubao meaning “where fertile land is abundant”.

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Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.nettoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Gravity is not about mass pulling other mass. It's mass bending ~~time~~ spacetime that makes other mass get closer
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6 months ago
Why do you assume they’re hostile?

Maybe they want to help but respect our free will as a species.

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Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.nettomemes@lemmy.world•Unnatural disasters are not an act of god, change my mind
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7 months ago
Isn’t everything ultimately an act of God?

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