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Surely a name with a lot of baggage for a rocket?
by thom 5y ago
Surely a name with a lot of baggage for a rocket?
- jamessb 5y agoI'm not sure why you're downvoted. The name immediately makes me think of the submarine-launched ballistic missile system that proceeded Trident [1, 2]. TBH, I was expecting the link to be to an article about the history of SLBMs. There's apparently also an Israeli reconnaissance satellite [3] and North Korean SLBM that are referred to as Polaris [4] (plus, obviously, the star). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGM-27_Polaris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGM-27_Polaris [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_(UK_nuclear_programme) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_(UK_nuclear_programme) [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TecSAR-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TecSAR-1 [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukguksong-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukguksong-1
- hbrav 5y agoWhy the hell would someone choose to refer to a second, unrelated, SLBM as 'Polaris'? This has the same energy as the professor who decided to write an exam question using small epsilon and large epsilon for different energies.
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- gameswithgo 5y agobecause normal people don’t care
- fsloth 5y agoIMO stars names precede the weapon systems that unfortunately tarnish their name. I would view this as a chance to eradicate the unfortunate association between the star and war.