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>referred to as Blazars For me, legitimately one of the best names for anything ever. First time I heard the word it gave me goosebumps lol.
by jcims 4y ago
>referred to as Blazars
For me, legitimately one of the best names for anything ever. First time I heard the word it gave me goosebumps lol.
- mongol 4y agoHow about blazer? Any reaction to that?
- zikduruqe 4y agoI'm partial to Thagomizer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
- unsupp0rted 4y ago> The term thagomizer was coined by Gary Larson in jest. In a 1982 The Far Side comic, a group of cavemen are taught by a caveman lecturer that the spikes on a stegosaur's tail were named "after the late Thag Simmons".
- mattkevan 4y agoMy 5 year old surprised me when she pointed to the spikes on a dinosaur tail and said ‘that’s the thagomizer’. I knew about the cartoon and that it’d been adopted as the official term, but somehow wasn’t expecting it to be taught in primary schools as standard dino anatomy.
- LegitShady 4y agothagomizer is a lot more fun to say than something technical like "distal tail bone spikes" or something similar.
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y agoDistal Coccygeal Osteophytes
- donw 4y agoI love that band.
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y agoI met their lead singer, Spike.
- maxnoe 4y agoThe name comes from BL Lacertae (the prototypical object) and Quasar (A kind of Active Galactic Nucleus, that name is for quasi stellar, which it really isn't...)