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Its named after dirt.
As a soil scientist, I politely request you stop using that word.
Or else.
What's wrong with dirt?
On a planetary scale, all soil is dirt, because it's all been displaced so many times from glaciers and mountains and oceans and taking part in the biosphere, you can't tell where each particle was originally weathered from or which plant first captured it from the air. No one can trace sod to a fault line.
It's hard to have a rich history when evwn sharks are older. I bet you can't even tell if a soil is from regolith younger or older than Pangaea!
Dirt? Do you mean the mythical home planet of humanity in Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series?
Man that brings back memories. Mono-molecule wire and shenanigans :-D
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?
They lived on dirt. Thats it.
Motherfucker... Stop
First dude I’ve blocked on lemmy
I'm honoured
Once this planet was called round.
Dirt will be a term for the remains of mankind in future civilizations. So much dirt left from those f**kheads. /s