xeno: meaning stranger or foreigner
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agape referring to brotherly and unselfish love for another person without sexual implications.
Therefore, xenoagape would refer to a brotherly love for a foreigner.
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agape referring to brotherly and unselfish love for another person without sexual implications.
Therefore, xenoagape would refer to a brotherly love for a foreigner.
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The guy who is gets a girl and is always embarrassed when talking about her and the type of guy to try to find swear words in the dictionary
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*Example: In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, the team investigating the Monolith on the Moon is practicing Xenoarcheology. In a real-world sense, scientists analyzing odd stellar dimption patterns (like Tabby's Star) for signs of alien megastructures are engaging in a primitive, astronomical form of it. It’s archeology without a known history or culture to guide you.*
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Example: In Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, Xenoagriculture involves genetically engineering Earth crops to tolerate perchlorates in Martian soil, creating lichen to begin terraforming, and later developing entirely new agricultural systems in pressurized domes. It's farming where every variable—gravity, day length, soil chemistry—is a problem to be solved.
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