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just don't name anything after anyone because chances are they are not flawless

by denimnerd42 5y ago

RspecMAuthortah 5y ago
Or name after people mainstream media would approve and never dare to question.
- drstewart 5y ago
  I'm not sure why you're downvoted. MLK was a rampant cheater and emotionally abused his spouse, and yet I've never seen anyone dare to say the many things named after him should be renamed despite the glorification of infidelity this clearly promotes. I wonder why?
AllegedAlec 5y ago
Or accept that people have flaws and celebrate them in spite of that.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago
  > Or accept that people have flaws and celebrate them in spite of that You don't even have to celebrate them. Just acknowledge the contributions they made.
- deleted 5y ago
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- jacknews 5y ago
  Why do we have to name things after people to celebrate them? We can acknowledge and celebrate Einstein's contributions without calling his theory "Einsteinian Mechanics" or whatever, but instead the more descriptive and accessible "General Relativity".
  - AllegedAlec 5y ago
    > Why do we have to name things after people to celebrate them? This is a time-honored tradition going back centuries, if not milennia.
    - jacknews 5y ago
      Perhaps it's time to reassess this tradition.
      - AllegedAlec 5y ago
        Why?
        jacknews 5y ago
        Because, when it comes to scientific and mathematical objects, it adds an unnecessary political dimension and a layer of obscurity.
      - somethingyammy 5y ago
        Why do people have names instead of just being assigned IDs? Perhaps it's time to reassess this tradition. "Hi, I'm US Citizen AXJ80182!"
        jacknews 5y ago
        That makes about as much sense as current scientific naming. The way we name people makes sense - with a family name, and an individual name. Conversely it makes no sense for scientific objects. As an example, 'Higgs boson' does not make sense. 'Higgs' gives no clue what the particle is. Is Peter Higgs a worthy person? Etc. Since it is the mass-carrying particle, it should clearly be called the 'masson', 'massion' or similar.
tzfld 5y ago
I find this relatively recent trend of naming spacecrafts after people very unfortunate. Would be much easier to have names like in the 60's or 70's like Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager followed by a number. Even abbreviation like OSIRIS-REx seems to far-fetched and hard to place in context, while when you see a name like Mariner-9 you know that it is a one of the small-scale planetary spacecrafts of the broader Mariner program.

just don't name anything after anyone because chances are they are not flawless

RspecMAuthortah 5y ago

Or name after people mainstream media would approve and never dare to question.

drstewart 5y ago
I'm not sure why you're downvoted. MLK was a rampant cheater and emotionally abused his spouse, and yet I've never seen anyone dare to say the many things named after him should be renamed despite the glorification of infidelity this clearly promotes. I wonder why?

AllegedAlec 5y ago

Or accept that people have flaws and celebrate them in spite of that.

JumpCrisscross 5y ago
> Or accept that people have flaws and celebrate them in spite of that You don't even have to celebrate them. Just acknowledge the contributions they made.
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jacknews 5y ago
Why do we have to name things after people to celebrate them? We can acknowledge and celebrate Einstein's contributions without calling his theory "Einsteinian Mechanics" or whatever, but instead the more descriptive and accessible "General Relativity".
- AllegedAlec 5y ago
  > Why do we have to name things after people to celebrate them? This is a time-honored tradition going back centuries, if not milennia.
  - jacknews 5y ago
    Perhaps it's time to reassess this tradition.
    - AllegedAlec 5y ago
      Why?
      - jacknews 5y ago
        Because, when it comes to scientific and mathematical objects, it adds an unnecessary political dimension and a layer of obscurity.
    - somethingyammy 5y ago
      Why do people have names instead of just being assigned IDs? Perhaps it's time to reassess this tradition. "Hi, I'm US Citizen AXJ80182!"
      - jacknews 5y ago
        That makes about as much sense as current scientific naming. The way we name people makes sense - with a family name, and an individual name. Conversely it makes no sense for scientific objects. As an example, 'Higgs boson' does not make sense. 'Higgs' gives no clue what the particle is. Is Peter Higgs a worthy person? Etc. Since it is the mass-carrying particle, it should clearly be called the 'masson', 'massion' or similar.

tzfld 5y ago

I find this relatively recent trend of naming spacecrafts after people very unfortunate. Would be much easier to have names like in the 60's or 70's like Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager followed by a number. Even abbreviation like OSIRIS-REx seems to far-fetched and hard to place in context, while when you see a name like Mariner-9 you know that it is a one of the small-scale planetary spacecrafts of the broader Mariner program.