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		jobigoud on Aug 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in t... > I'm still pissed at all the people who've decided they should call my non-autonomous quadcopters "drones" Apparently we should call them quadpters because it's based on helicopter for which the ethymology is not heli + copter, but helico + pter, like in helicoidal and pterodactyl.

taejo on Aug 29, 2018 | [–]

Or tetrapter, to stick with Greek roots (though I'm personally fine with heteroradicalism!)

bigiain on Aug 30, 2018 | [–]

From now on, I'm shall call them "spinning dinosaurs"!

"Hey mister! Is that your drone?" "No kid, it's not a drone, it's a spinning dinosaur..."

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