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I'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
by jamessb 5y ago
I'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