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"Scientists really should have made up their own categories instead of using our words." If they could do it all over again probably most of them would. The sc
by jerf 1mo ago
"Scientists really should have made up their own categories instead of using our words."
If they could do it all over again probably most of them would. The sciences all grew organically too. Some of these things like "berries" aren't even just the product of one reclassification, they're the product of several over the course of decades or centuries, which is how they get so common-sense silly over time.
- zdragnar 1mo agoWe had the perfect opportunity to introduce new names when the IAU created the "dwarf planet" classification in 2006. That was literally the perfect time to do it all over.
- odyssey7 1mo agoAlthough there may have been a chance from an opportunism standpoint, the wisdom needed to do that well was clearly absent.