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In molecular biology, you are doing research that will affect people's health. Out of respect for people who will be diagnosed with illness, you choose nomencla
by heresie-dabord 3y ago
In molecular biology, you are doing research that will affect people's health. Out of respect for people who will be diagnosed with illness, you choose nomenclature carefully.
We are unlikely to ever visit BEBOP. In short, it doesn't matter. But if we identified a very large impactor heading towards Earth, I suspect we might have a care in the naming instead of calling the asteroid something silly, such as "Butthead".[1]
[1] _ This is not intended to be a possible name for future very large impactors.
- marcosdumay 3y agoYou mostly can't shame all of humanity at the same time (shame doesn't work like that). So even something like "The Big Bunny Ass asteroid is predicted to collide with Earth in 12 years and kill 5 billion people" doesn't get the same reaction as the Sonic gene from the example. But the tradition from physics (and the closest areas, like astronomy) of using silly names does make it sound a lot like witchcraft. What is very funny for some people, and enraging for others.