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minus-squareSomething Burger 🍔@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·6 months agoArctic and Antarctic don’t mean anything about actual bears. They are named after the Ursa Major constellation. The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.
minus-squareElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoBut isn’t Ursa Major a bear?
minus-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agono, she’s a major general in the forces, you hippie!
minus-squareIron Lynx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoThey are, in fact, the very model of a modern major general! They have information vegetable, animal and mineral!
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoDammit, beat me by 5 minutes! I tip my hat to you, good sir/madam/other 👌🎩
minus-squarePringles@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoYes, it means “The great bear” or “The big bear”.
Arctic and Antarctic don’t mean anything about actual bears. They are named after the Ursa Major constellation. The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.
But isn’t Ursa Major a bear?
no, she’s a major general in the forces, you hippie!
They are, in fact, the very model of a modern major general!
They have information vegetable, animal and mineral!
Dammit, beat me by 5 minutes! I tip my hat to you, good sir/madam/other 👌🎩
Yes, it means “The great bear” or “The big bear”.