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What would you expect from a seahorse though, am I right?

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do you like living in the ether?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just realized how odd that name is.

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The idea was first documented in a memo that Metcalfe wrote on May 22, 1973, where he named it after the luminiferous aether once postulated to exist as an "omnipresent, completely passive medium for the propagation of electromagnetic waves."

Hmm, I really thought there would be some clever name I didn't understand, but it really is that aether.

[–] Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

You either love hating it or hate loving it

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

Like it or leave it.