NASA renaming cosmic objects for woke movement - image

Now NASA too? The Eskimo Nebula and the Siamese Twins Galaxy are the first to be de-named. Eskimo means "a person who laces a snowshoe". Siamese Twins is a reference to the famous Siamese-American conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker.

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Distant cosmic objects such as planets, galaxies, and nebulae are sometimes referred to by the scientific community with unofficial nicknames. As the scientific community works to identify and address systemic discrimination and inequality in all aspects of the field, it has become clear that certain cosmic nicknames are not only insensitive, but can be actively harmful. NASA is examining its use of unofficial terminology for cosmic objects as part of its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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More:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-to...cosmic-objects
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1291138415342354433


Previously:

NASA beauty pageants
Judy Sullivan, first NASA female engineer of spacecraft operations
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...273#post161492
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...171#post138360
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...806#post133341
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...3598#post99565

does this mean black holes will be renamed to something else?

Sorry, I think this is a creazy circus. Not to be unrespectful of people. This is a distortion of general, common names seeing them as something they never was meant for. Let's start with black. First and foremost it is a color, not one of many kind of humans. Also names (nouns, adjectives, etc.) may change their meaning by changing the context in which they are used. So please stop this creazy circus.

Whilst I couldn't agree more that we're living in "interesting times", I know there has always been people looking for offense... it just seems now their voices are much louder, and their reach is considerably longer than it used to be.
I read 1984 when I was young, and watched many british shows which introduced me to the use of twisting language to suit agendas. As fast as we talk about critical thinking, there is a concerted effort to only apply it on "approved causes"

Only another 50 odd years on this planet and I'll get my pass to leave. hopefully I can bite my tongue that long.

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Originally Posted by Claudio HG

Sorry, I think this is a creazy circus. Not to be unrespectful of people. This is a distortion of general, common names seeing them as something they never was meant for. Let's start with black. First and foremost it is a color, not one of many kind of humans. Also names (nouns, adjectives, etc.) may change their meaning by changing the context in which they are used. So please stop this creazy circus.

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The idiocy is not new.

George V renamed the House of Saxe-Coburg to Windsor in order to erase their Germanic connection.

German shepherd dogs suddenly became Alsatians for similar reasons.

During the wars classical music written by Germans, eg Beethoven, wasn't performed despite the fact that the composers had died long before.

The dumbing down of the species is moving along smoothly.

I think the greatest spin nation there's ever been is Austria, that managed to make the world think that Beethoven was Austrian and Hitler was German, while the opposite is true.

I think the B movie The Idiocracy, where a pair of contemporary teen slackers is propelled to a future in which they're considered god-like geniuses, is prophetic.

I guess this means they'll be renaming Uranus? That will be a whole stack of puns — shot in the butt. :cool:

Whatever are they going to call Black Holes if it isn't allowed to acknowledge factual description because someone doesn't like it? Absence of Visible Emissivity Orifices? I don't think a society of morons can cope with that moniker.

If one insists on viewing things from an Earth centric viewpoint does that make him (or her) a Terraist?

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Originally Posted by Crusty

...If one insists on viewing things from an Earth centric viewpoint does that make him (or her) a Terraist?

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You win the internet today — with that one Crusty.

I do what I can, sometimes with good results and other times not so much. :cool:

This P.C. BS is just totally out of hand. Crusty, I totally agree with you about Idiocracy, I've been calling it a "Prophetic Documentary" for years and
I think we took a GIANT step in that direction when a reality tv star was elected president. (how long till we elect a friggen pro wrestler?)

Jesse Ventura?

Crusty is awarded 100 interwebs!

My vote for celebrity POTUS is Terry Crews.

Sometimes when I hear the so called woke, (whatever that is supposed to mean) idiots, I feel as though I fell asleep one time too many while watching old "B" movies and awakened in an alternate timeline. maybe I am stuck in Murray Leinster's sidewise in time or A dean Koontz novel or maybe we are all stuck in the world of Greg Egan’s Dichronauts.
Which ever it is or whatever has been slowly overtaking reality as we once knew it there definitely seems to be a growing number of persons who do not posses a level of self cognition to even know how to dress themselves anymore they have succumbed to the hive mentality of being nothing more than drones who must be told how when and what to do at every level of their lives. The cosmic or universal pool of knowledge from which every living being draws their individuality plus the core or seeds of intelligence is implanted deep in the subconsciousness of our brains where this core or seeds are expected to grow and flourish thereby allowing the cosmic pool to be ever increasing allowing humans to continually evolve as their knowledge increases. Somehow some when the positive growth in knowledge versus the negative has taken a turn. So now instead of persons being born with the ability to learn they are born without it. Hence the hive mentality.
I could be wrong as I often am but it is my belief that a large contributor to much of this has been brought on by our advancements in technology we now have the means for some form of technology to do almost everything for us. Soon we will be little more than the animated characters in the little movie Wallie where humans are on a ship traveling through space while doing nothing but lounging in there continually moving chairs eating themselves to oblivion

Yup. If there's not an app for it or a YT video then they're completely lost.