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(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.

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