[Red Badger]

The Large Magellanic Cloud (center) and Small Magellanic Cloud (right) can be seen with the naked eye in the Southern Hemisphere, as shown in this photo from Paranal Observatory in Chile.

Y. BELETSKY/LCO, ESO

[Red Badger]

Ridiculous Ping!...................

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Astronomers call for renaming the Magellanic Clouds...Explorer Ferdinand Magellan's name is not fitting, a group of scientists argues

You'd think scientists wouldn't be this silly - but that's forgetting that scientists are just human beings, prone to stupidity like everyone else.

[Bob434]

[[But Magellan’s name is not fitting, astronomer Mia de los Reyes and colleagues argue.]]

Wow are they lame!

[Bubba_Leroy]

[imabadboy99]

they’ll do anything to disparage whites and white history

[FlingWingFlyer]

Another tiny prick still hung up on the slavery BS. He needs to pay “reparations” to some black guy instead of accepting a paycheck for himself.

[blackdog]

Ok.

Name it, "God's business, not ours, nebula"

[silent majority rising]

Get them the hell out of our science system. Tell them that the world is flat and that they should shut up.

[Steely Tom]

And Pluto isn’t a planet.

What about “man” and “woman” ?

And what about “up” and “down” ?

“Day” and “night” ?

Aren’t all those words traceable in their origins to some sort of slave trading or other oppressive behavior?

[katana]

The main problem, of course, is he was a white European. The Mongol Horde or the Mughal armies murdering, raping, and enslaving millions across the Steppes and Infia respectively? No problem. White sailors shipwrecked and roasted in a Long Pig feast? Meh. But lead and die during the first expedition to circumnavigate the planet? Heinous.

It is long past time to tell these self hating bastards to go and **** themselves.

[Reno89519]

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

[bunkerhill7]

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.

[Steely Tom]

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.

[FlingWingFlyer]

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 ....

[Allegra]

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

[I want the USA back]

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

[Lurker]

I’m so effing sick of these people.

L

[NorthMountain]

Mia de los Reyes and colleagues should be tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail.

[NorthMountain]

Mia de los Reyes:

Little brat isn't worthy to hold Magellan's sextant.

[GSWarrior]

I trust the science. 🤮