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Basically the equivalent of a lighter than “air” craft but in a different fluid. I wonder if there’s a word for a craft that controls its buoyancy regardless of
by bodhi_mind 3y ago
Basically the equivalent of a lighter than “air” craft but in a different fluid. I wonder if there’s a word for a craft that controls its buoyancy regardless of medium?
- pvaldes 3y ago> I wonder if there’s a word for a craft that controls its buoyancy regardless of medium sperm whale
- javajosh 3y agoAn Archimedes craft. (I made this up just now).
- gigiggufh 3y agoFluid is a Latin root, so why not "fluidostat" on the model of "aerostat"?
- 4gotunameagain 3y agobecause -stat is a Greek root. merriam-webster borrowed from French aérostat, probably back-formation from aérostatique "of aerostatics," with -stat (after héliostat heliostat) taken as the Greek agentive element -statēs "one who causes to stand" — more at -stat
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- moffkalast 3y agoI've never looked at it this way, but it really is literally an underwater blimp lol.