Posted on 06/26/2007 6:42:04 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - The International Space Nomenclature Council today adopted the term 'emplacements de hauts gravité super' - or 'super high gravity locations' - as the official replacement name for black holes. Originally named in reference to the fact that light cannot escape their intense gravity, the term 'black hole' was increasingly criticized as being insensitive to African-Americans and African-Europeans.
"We're glad the council finally took action on this issue." said Isaiah Herman, Chairman of the National African-American Coalition of People. "The unimaginable destructive power of these super high gravity locations was giving the word 'black' a negative connotation throughout the universe."
Super high gravity locations are the remnants of giant stars that collapse into a substance so dense that it has a gravitational pull that consumes all matter that comes near it. "They're the bad boys of the cosmos." says Nokidi Imsure, Professor of Astronomic Anthropology at Howyflyl University. "You would definitely want to cross the street if you saw one coming."
Early after their discovery, there was little controversy over the former name of super high gravity locations. However in recent years, scientists theorized that most galaxies had massive super high gravity locations at their cores, and would eventually be swallowed up by them. A doomsday overtone began to be associated with the former 'black holes' - even a slang term for something unendingly wasteful developed - prompting the insensitivity criticism.
"There was never any intent to be offensive or malicious." says Imsure, commenting on the original naming of super high gravity locations. "It just seemed to fit at the time. But this name fits well too - it's definitely a location of super high gravity."
Damn... ya got me.
It is absolutely plausible that the PC crowd would do something like this.
Otherwise, I don't want to know how you know about this practice.
Or desire to want this done. Or to do it.
I'm sure people that go to med school to train to look at "holes" all day long don't care.
Besides, early attempts at bleaching the other end led to some pretty bad dental problems.
Will history repeat?
Space, the final frontier...
Well at least they weren’t called “nappy-headed black holes.”
ROTFL! I tip my hat to you, sir!
Super high gravity locations are the remnants of giant stars that collapse into a substance so dense that it has a gravitational pull that consumes all matter that comes near it. "They're the bad boys of the cosmos." says Nokidi Imsure, Professor of Astronomic Anthropology at Howyflyl University. "You would definitely want to cross the street if you saw one coming."
Almost got me but I caught on about half way through. “Coucil on Nomenclatures” was an early tip-off though. Ha!
Ummm... guys (& gals)... It wasn’t so long ago that the “Jewfish” was ‘officially’ renamed the “Goliath Grouper” because of perceived insensitivity toward our friends of the Jewish persuasion. Now I don’t know any fisherman that consults the ACLU (or whoever) when he boats a fish... (let’s see, what shall I call this? No, can’t call it THAT.) Nevertheless, all the fish guides & aquariums will reinforce the use of “Goliath Grouper” until us newly-defined ‘insensitives’ die off.
THIS is entirely possible! Good satire, though.
The activist trolls who abuse the abuse button, and the mods who empower them...
Just saying.
The activist trolls who abuse the abuse button, and the mods who empower them...
Just saying.
Not quite sarcasm. Not much of a parody. Might pass as black humor.
IB4TZ?
Just out of curiosity, do you enjoy Florence King?
How about P.J. O'Rourke?
Speaking of which, have you heard the latest report from al-Jazeera?
They signed up the Muppets to air weekly episodes of Pigs in Space! in all muslim countries.
Just a rumor, I think.
I say we shorten that to "Super HIgh graviTy holes".
Why.. per LA county you can't use the term "Master/Slave" for computer disk drives any more
The guy that thought this up probably graduated from the Sam Houston Institute of Technology.
I’ll have to see if his name is on the alumni “list”.
Go Plungers! [GRIN]
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