Lowell Observatory Pushes To Name an Asteroid "Trayvon"

Slashdot ^ | 9-5-2013 | Flash Modin

[Quintus]

'William Lowell Putnam III says his family has identified with the cause of African American rights, and thus an asteroid named after Trayvon Martin is perfectly appropriate.'

[Quintus]

Tripe like this really takes the imbecile cake.

[lbryce]

A black hole would be more appropriate.

[Feckless]

cause of African American rights

Which do NOT include the right to assault another, especially if that other is ARMED.....

[Gay State Conservative]

That's cool...just as long as they use the name *he* chose for himself on Facebook...”No Limits Nigga”.

[shadeaud]

love it.

[BenLurkin]

Funny, cuz I was thinking of naming my hemorrhoid the same thing.

[humblegunner]

an asteroid named after Trayvon Martin is perfectly appropriate

Only if it mindlessly collides with a greater object and is summarily destroyed.

[olezip]

'William Lowell Putnam III says his family has identified with the cause of African American rights, and thus an asteroid named after Trayvon Martin is perfectly appropriate.'

Some of us would suggest that William Lowell Putnam III should name his children Trayvon. Then their playmates could ask them why they were named after a dope head thug.

[GeronL]

Thats not about “African American Rights” that is about Gangsta Thug Rights

[Empireoftheatom48]

Another foul liberal smell from Uranus!

[TigersEye]

The trajectory of Asteroid Trayvon is on course to collide with a bigger asteroid which will obliterate it.

[PowderMonkey]

When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
William Shakespeare - "Julius Caesar" (Act 2.2).... /S

[oldbrowser]

Too late because I already named it “shorty”.

[wny]

African Americans do not have the right to beat someone’s head on the sidewalk

[Pearls Before Swine]

Well, that’s what you think, and that’s what I think. Holder, Sharpton, Obama, and the rest think differently.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

I think ‘Tray’ should also be honoured and memorialized. I can think of two appropriate venues.

How about the next SPCA clinic being named the ‘Travon Martin Memorial Spay and Neuter Clinic’?

Perhaps the next Planned Parenthood abortuary could be called the ‘Travon Martin Memorial Birth Control Clinic’

On second thought, perhaps the former should instead be called the ‘Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton Spay and Neuter Clinic’.

[VanDeKoik]

I believe the star HD 5980 in Tucana should be named “Trayvon Sidus”.

It’s dim, in a constellation that 99.9% of the world has never heard of, and not visible in this half of the world.

[I want the USA back]

And if the asteroid turns toward Earth and is aiming to hit it and destroy all life on Earth, the media will turn a deaf ear, so as not to appear racist. NASA will decide not to blast it out of space, so as not to appear racist. The NYT will have a headline “Payback for slavery?” the day before Earth is pulverized.

[Pikachu_Dad]

and we can name the body it crashes into zimmerman?

[reg45]

The Russians and the Chinese would have no problem blasting it into pebbles.