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NASA will no longer use offensive names such as "Eskimo" or "Siamese Twins"
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Berni:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-to-reexamine-nicknames-for-cosmic-objects

In order to not offend anyone, from now on the star nicknamed "Eskimo Nebula" will now be refereed to only as NGC 2392 and the galaxy pair nicknamed “Siamese Twins Galaxy” will now only be known as  NGC 4567 and NGC 4568.


This is getting ridiculous.  :palm:
Zero999:
Yes, it's retarded, but do we really need about another thread bitching about political correctness gone mad? The last one got out of controlled and was eventually locked.
BravoV:
+1 on stopping these talks, and to mods, lock please.
Simon:
We have had one of these already that descended into political bickering.
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