Astronomers want to rename celestial bodies named after Ferdinand Magellan

[The Arizonan]

https://www.9news.com.au/world/astronomers-want-to-rename-magellanic-clouds-because-of-explorers-violent-colonialist-legacy/7b3c3443-c714-4164-ac42-753adcba55d9

[Edu]

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'd probably support this, as I support renaming anything named after Christopher Columbus.

[ProudModerate2]

Interesting.
Not very people here in the US are aware of these two small bodies of stars, that are close to our own galaxy, because of the fact that you can only see them from the Southern Hemisphere.

[Cokeland Saxton]

Stop letting the SJWs win

[Crumpets]

I support this on the grounds that Magellan's legacy is an erasure of Juan Sebastián Elcano and possibly Enrique of Malacca, as part of a centuries-long dismissal of Malayo-Basque achievements.

[dead0man]

we're going to have to name a trillion things in space, it's ok (or at least not that big of a deal) if some of the people some of things are named after did some bad things

isn't one of the constellations literally called "Cancer"?  Even if Magellan is 5 times worse than Columbus, he still wouldn't be as murdery as cancer.


<and don't come at me with the etymology of cancer, you damn well know the people who get pissy about this sh**t don't care about details like that>

[Meclazine for Israel]

2023 strikes again.

[The Arizonan]

we're going to have to name a trillion things in space, it's ok (or at least not that big of a deal) if some of the people some of things are named after did some bad things

isn't one of the constellations literally called "Cancer"?  Even if Magellan is 5 times worse than Columbus, he still wouldn't be as murdery as cancer.


<and don't come at me with the etymology of cancer, you damn well know the people who get pissy about this sh**t don't care about details like that>

I know. We shouldn’t be renaming stuff just because the person it was named after did some terrible things.