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[-] ralakus@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Fun fact: The firmament is also what flat Earthers call the dome-like wall that encapsulates the flat Earth disc to prevent people from leaving.

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 28 points 4 days ago
[-] rImITywR@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

That sounds rill-y scarey.

[-] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 11 points 4 days ago
[-] meleethecat@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Of copse it is!

[-] tyler@programming.dev 5 points 4 days ago

Geez that article is terribly written. But interesting nonetheless!

[-] TwentySeven@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Caution, don't click that link. It's just a redirect to an image of a single pixel, and it won't let you back out of it.

I had to literally mash the back button a dozen times as fast as I could, and when I finally escaped, I had to scroll through to find this post again.

Not a very funny joke imo

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 days ago
[-] TwentySeven@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Thanks for the heads up. Maybe it's an issue with Lemmy connect

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Linked worked just fine for me.

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Barranca is literally just Spanish.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 5 points 3 days ago

Cool, I learned a Spanish word today!

[-] Mrs_deWinter@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

And Firmament is German. Bit of a fancy word, but I guess most people would know it anyway.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 2 points 3 days ago
[-] expr@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

Used in English translations of the Bible, so if you grew up Christian you probably have heard it before.

[-] GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 days ago

I knew "copse" from Dark Souls 2.

[-] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 3 days ago
[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

For the record, mountain rills have some of the best trout in them.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I think this is the first time these have helped me.

I first heard the word firmament in a Rammstein song and when I translated it it was the same in English so I looked it up the only definition I could find was just "the sky".

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

I thought it was some ancient nonsense about it being the veil that all the stars were attached to. Regardless it's a pretty archaic word.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

It’s, yes. Back when they thought the sky had to be solid because something was holding it up.

Early Christian’s, for example believed that the water for Noah’s flood came from the firmament melting (since that bit in genesis describing the sky as “the waters” etc.)(it was written by Bronze Age peeps. Not exactly at the height off science.)

[-] Sakychu@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah in the context of the song it more so refers to the sky above the horizon (the part which seemingly curves around the earth). Thinking about that I guess that is also what the picture is talking about

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

I guess it's more commonly used in other languages than English. I'd think it's the same in most Latin-based languages.

The firmament is just the sky.

this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2024
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