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Sure, you'd expect that to happen. There are lots of interesting things you could do there, all of which are better than random letters and numbers that never c
by Mizza 4y ago
Sure, you'd expect that to happen. There are lots of interesting things you could do there, all of which are better than random letters and numbers that never change. Committees and proposals, objects and references. Things change their names all the time and society is perfectly capable of handling. Pluto isn't even a planet anymore and we all survived that.
I just think we can do better than the first system we came up with, and improving the system would open the whole thing up to more people and possibility.
- sokoloff 4y agoIsn’t it convenient that you could talk about Pluto without saying “PlutoTheOrbitingObject, which was known as PlutoThePlanet from 1930-2006, isn’t even a planet…”
- Mizza 4y agoI mean, we do almost the exact same thing with most celestial objects (ex., HUDF-JD2 aka UDF 033238.7 -274839.8 aka BBG 3179) - but the difference is they don't _do_ anything. I'm never going to write a "program" with planets, but I am interested in writing "programs" using genes. I know it's not a 1-1 example, but you know what I'm getting at.
- sokoloff 4y agoAre those replacement names or additional names that point to the same underlying object? The former is much more problematic IMO.