flatlander

(idea) by dg (11.4 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Sep 23 2000 at 22:50:29

Mildly derogatory term for someone who has never been off a planetary surface. Resonant with the term used in Edwin A. Abbot's classic mathematical fantasy Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions to describe two-dimensional creatures unaware of the third dimension of space.

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions	Flatland	Mobius stripper	Transhumanist Terminology
cheesehead	The strength of the hills is in the people	The Flatlanders	The Fermi paradox
Known Space	Sphereland	Known Space Universe	Beowulf Shaeffer
Flatterland	Doorways in the Sand	organlegging	Codpiece
Vermont	Larry Niven	Spaceland: A Romance of Two Dimensions and a Timeline	fib
Appalachia	January 19, 2005	1/0	Jarhead

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