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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Hmm, so they were aiming for something else, but got here instead because they had crank theories about the shape of the universe? (Columbus thought Earth was egg-shaped instead of a sphere, like everyone had correctly thought since the time of ancient Greece)

They call us something translating to "the Andromidans".

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

I mean you don't have to go with the analogy fully, but yeah, that's a deep answer, I suppose.