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minus-squareFordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoWe all live on this rock. Floating through space. Anyone who doesn’t want to spend more time looking out is someone with something in their closet you don’t want to look in. Ad Aspera Ad Astra
minus-squareorrk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agowell, I think he meant: Per aspera ad astra just remember that almost all older languages had fewer nouns and verbs, so “thorns” here is referring to difficulty and obstruction so more meaningfully translated, this old Latin saying is closer to “through great treachery is the path to the stars”
minus-squareFordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoAd Astra Per Aspera Going for the Starfleet quote, sorry my Latin is lacking
minus-squareRed Army Dog Cooper@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agotheythey have the qote mixed up its Ad Astra Per Aspare, To the stars through dificalties… you see it everywhere in Kansas
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoWhy in Kansas? EDIT: Oh, googled it.
minus-squareRed Army Dog Cooper@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoState Motto… do not ask me why it is the state motto, because I have absolutly no Idea
We all live on this rock. Floating through space.
Anyone who doesn’t want to spend more time looking out is someone with something in their closet you don’t want to look in.
Ad Aspera Ad Astra
“To thorns, to stars”?..
well, I think he meant: Per aspera ad astra
just remember that almost all older languages had fewer nouns and verbs, so “thorns” here is referring to difficulty and obstruction
so more meaningfully translated, this old Latin saying is closer to “through great treachery is the path to the stars”
Ad Astra Per Aspera
Going for the Starfleet quote, sorry my Latin is lacking
theythey have the qote mixed up its Ad Astra Per Aspare, To the stars through dificalties… you see it everywhere in Kansas
Why in Kansas? EDIT: Oh, googled it.
State Motto… do not ask me why it is the state motto, because I have absolutly no Idea
“Just keep going”