Little brat isn't worthy to hold Magellan's sextant.
Posted on 10/02/2023 8:50:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
Names have significance, especially when they’re written in the stars.
A group of astronomers is coalescing around an idea to rename two neighbors of the Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
Named after explorer Ferdinand Magellan, the satellite galaxies are visible with the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere. But Magellan’s name is not fitting, astronomer Mia de los Reyes and colleagues argue. The leader of the first expedition to successfully circle the globe, Magellan enslaved and killed Indigenous people encountered on the voyage, which set out from Spain in 1519 (SN: 9/17/19).
“Because we’re naming things in the night sky, which belongs to everyone, we think that it’s important to have names that reflect all of humanity,” says de los Reyes, of Amherst College in Massachusetts. She calls for the name change in an opinion piece published September 12 in Physics. Magellan’s voyage helped pave the way for Spanish colonialism in South America, Guam and the Philippines, says de los Reyes, who is Filipino American. “Many people see Magellan as a villain in the Philippines.”
The Magellanic clouds loom large in the field of astronomy. They’re independent galaxies, but close enough that astronomers can observe the individual stars within (SN: 4/1/22). “The Magellanic Clouds are this amazing laboratory for seeing things up close and personal,” says astronomer Sally Oey of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a supporter of the name change.
Magellan wasn’t an astronomer. The clouds were noted by a member of his expedition, but they were already well-known to many cultures in the Southern Hemisphere, and even to previous European explorers. “It doesn’t make sense to have them named after any one person, let alone a person who never actually studied them,” says astronomer Gurtina Besla of the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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One feature of narcissism is a "parasitic lifestyle."
These pseudo-scientists are definitely parasites.
I can't do astronomy, but I can screw astronomy up. Aren't I grand?
I bet her ancestors killed , raped and enslaved a lot of people.................
Little brat isn't worthy to hold Magellan's sextant.
The left wants to disrespect European (in this case Latino but who cares) explorers, statesmen, scientists. But whom would they respect instead? What discoveries have they made? What inventions? Anything like the story below?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan
Magellan was killed after interceding in an ongoing war between 2 Philippino kings. No one circumnavigated the globe for 58 years after Magellan did it.
I trust the science. 🤮
Another unaccomplished little brat.
An awful lot of the stars have arabic name origins. Lots of slavery associated there. Greek and Roman mythical stuff as well for much of named astronomical bodies. Still more slavery associations from ancient times. I have no connection to these things so change every named item pretty much in the sky. Of course only if one is being consistent which of course the left never is.
I wonder how far back in her family tree you have to go to find a cannibal ...
but Uranus is left undisturbed
I’ll say!
My thoughts exactly.
Or one named after Gyorgy Schwartz?!
You’re probably right.
So am I. Those anti white cancel culture freaks can all burn in hades.
So he brought bacon to the Americas.
In my best Archie Bunker voice Would it make you feel better, little girl, if they was enslaved and killed by Chinese explorers instead?
“Scientists” obey their colonial masters.
Today they have new colonial masters so they need to rename everything.
How about “No”.
These types are never satisfied; they’ll just continue to move the goalposts.
Give em an arcsecond and they’ll take a parsec.
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