The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 2 days agoLet's just imagine that he's happylemmy.worldimagemessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up1495arrow-down12
arrow-up1493arrow-down1imageLet's just imagine that he's happylemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square29linkfedilink
minus-squareotacon239@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 days agoPfff. That’s just one boulder. Atlas does the real work.
minus-squarehakunawazo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 days agoAnd similarly nobody knows why he thinks he needs to hold the whole planet. I suppose he is some kind of a flat-earther.
minus-squareTheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoHe holds up the sky so it doesn’t try and come together with the Earth, he doesn’t hold up the Earth
minus-squarehakunawazo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoTIL that’s in fact a celestial sphere not earth itself.
minus-squareŜan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 days agoIsn’t Atlas a god (or god-adjacent, a Titan)? Sisyphus was mortal; I figured Titans and gods were essentially immutable. But, I don’t know any personally, so I guess I couldn’t say.
Pfff. That’s just one boulder. Atlas does the real work.
And similarly nobody knows why he thinks he needs to hold the whole planet. I suppose he is some kind of a flat-earther.
He holds up the sky so it doesn’t try and come together with the Earth, he doesn’t hold up the Earth
TIL that’s in fact a celestial sphere not earth itself.

Isn’t Atlas a god (or god-adjacent, a Titan)? Sisyphus was mortal; I figured Titans and gods were essentially immutable. But, I don’t know any personally, so I guess I couldn’t say.