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Astronomers call for renaming the Magellanic Clouds...Explorer Ferdinand Magellan's name is not fitting, a group of scientists argues
Science News ^ | SEPTEMBER 26, 2023 AT 7:00 AM | By Emily Conover

Posted on 10/02/2023 8:50:28 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Larry Lucido
He discovered the Mississippi.

Like they wouldn’t have found that anyway.

21 posted on 10/02/2023 9:09:48 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Red Badger

they are immune from their own asinine agenda requirements


22 posted on 10/02/2023 9:09:51 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Red Badger

First they came for Pluto, now for the Magellanic Clouds..


23 posted on 10/02/2023 9:13:18 AM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected. No Baggage, No Drama.)
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To: Bob434

How about “ Laphonza “ Clouds.

Fad of the day.

Checks ALL the boxes.


24 posted on 10/02/2023 9:15:24 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
You'd think scientists wouldn't be this silly...

But, there is a 97% Consensus of them... if 97% of them want to be silly, they'll be silly.

25 posted on 10/02/2023 9:15:39 AM PDT by C210N (We're at war: Make them have to cheat so much it becomes comical, then ridicule them into oblivion.)
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To: Larry Lucido

DeSoto and his men literally destroyed the native Americans lifestyle and ecology all across the Southeastern US.

They brought hundreds of pigs with the to use as food on their explorations.

Many of them escaped and became wild feral pigs that are still here to this day...................


26 posted on 10/02/2023 9:17:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Let’s, while we are at it, rename USA to
United States of Apples,
since this guy is a fruitcake and
We can’t use Amerigo Vespucci any more.
It’s all part of the left’s Amerigo-round.


27 posted on 10/02/2023 9:17:51 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: Red Badger

I mean, the term “Magellanic clouds” is used in hundreds of textbooks, and thousands of papers, going back centuries.

So they’re going to generate some kind of Newspeak concordance to help students figure out what the new, woke astronomers are talking about?

Of course, that will be an occasion for every astronomy professor having to explain to their class all about the oppressiveness of the individuals for whom various stars and galaxies are named. Further chances for virtue signaling and preening, which takes up class time that would otherwise have to be filled with boring, difficult math.


28 posted on 10/02/2023 9:19:03 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

Somebody discovered something.


29 posted on 10/02/2023 9:19:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Yes. Omar’s Exemption.


30 posted on 10/02/2023 9:23:07 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Bob434

Sure thing, “Mia Of the Kings” - Your surname celebrates patriarchal hegemony and Conquistador funders.

You need to change it.


31 posted on 10/02/2023 9:23:15 AM PDT by Strident ("Hi, my name is Joe and I am powerless over making $#!7 up")
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To: Steely Tom

Most of the commonly known stars that have names are names in Arabic.

They enslaved more people (and still do) than all the Western nations combined................


32 posted on 10/02/2023 9:24:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Piss on this clown. I just read where New Mexico is reinstalling their statues of European Conquistadors now that all the venon from the Cancel Culture Clubbers tantrums has worn off. European colonizers are deserving of statues in New Mexico again. I hope we Texans can get our Texas Rangers statue reinstalled and the pre-adolescent Cancel Culture Clubbers can kiss our Red, White and Blue ....


33 posted on 10/02/2023 9:26:01 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Prosecutors say Trump may have broken the law admiring gun in South Carolina" ROTFLMAO!)
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To: Red Badger

Yes, the most prolific slave traders of all time.

Their religion gives them moral justification for enslaving whole nations. Not one word is breathed about that.

There are slave markets today, in muslim countries.

No Vice documentaries about those, though


34 posted on 10/02/2023 9:26:43 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Reno89519
”First they came for Pluto…”

And I said nothing, because I wasn’t a planet.

35 posted on 10/02/2023 9:37:11 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: Strident

she’s special though- she exempts herself


36 posted on 10/02/2023 9:38:33 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Red Badger

Name them the Large Virtue Signaling Cloud and the Small Virtue Signaling Cloud.


37 posted on 10/02/2023 9:39:58 AM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: Red Badger

They killed Columbus, now they’re on to Magellan. Their hatred for our civilization is insane.


38 posted on 10/02/2023 9:41:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Democracy dies when you take away from those who work and give to those who won't. Khrushchev.)
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To: Red Badger

I’m so effing sick of these people.

L


39 posted on 10/02/2023 9:43:28 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Allegra

Can’t use ‘Large’ and ‘Small’, that would be ‘Size Shaming’...................


40 posted on 10/02/2023 9:43:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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