I liked Buckminster Fuller and family’s use of “sunsight” and “sunclipse”. The way we talk about things affects the way we think about them, but pedantry is just annoying, so try on some neologisms instead.
Actually, there’s plenty of atmosphere left, honey :D
Yes but it’s ruined. Thanks, fossil fuel industry
Touché
This just reads as a girl who has feelings for a boy…but that boy is autistic, and she’s getting irritated by his autism. Meanwhile, he just thinks she’s an idiot.
Edit: also, I can’t upvote, because it’s at 69 right now. Might upvote later.
As a professional pedant though, he’s not really right on his points. The sun is setting, that’s literally what it means. and the sun is gone, if I drop my phone out of the car it’s gone, even though I’m moving and the phone isn’t.
It’s at 75, well now 76, go for it!
Well it was at 90 when I saw this reply. So I upvoted the post, then I upvoted YOU! Might eat a bagel later.
I was the 100th upvote, I win
…oh yeah? Well I STILL might eat a bagel later!
That sounds deliciousness, me two.
The sun isn’t really setting, it’s just the Earth turning
That’s what a sunset is. When the sun begins to become occluded by the horizon, for whatever reason.
Usually “set” in the terms of putting down is a transitive verb. Like, “he is setting the bucket down.”
“Sunset”, though is intransitive, right? The sun is setting. There is no reason to think that an intransitive verb must have the same definition as a transitive verb with the same spelling.
“Set” (v. intransitive) literally always refers to orbital bodies becoming occluded by a horizon. She knew this
Nah, glue sets (hardens). Set is the longest entry in the oed - it has DOZENS of meanings!
…and the atmosphere is still mostly nitrogen and oxygen, together with some Argon and other gases. 🧠 💨
Little too much CO2 though.
Aktchually…
The sun’s still in its first day, the Earth just keeps spinning around in it.
Thats just me without her
