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Re:The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New ... by jobigoud on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @03:14AM (#17866323)
> 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.

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Re:The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New ... by taejo on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @03:47AM (#17866466)
Or tetrapter, to stick with Greek roots (though I'm personally fine with heteroradicalism!)
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Re:The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New ... by bigiain on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @09:33PM (#17873510)
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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