• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
    5 months

    Interstellar survey names will be changed. America wasn’t called America by the natives. The place where the pyramids were built wasn’t called Giza by the Egyptians.

      • stonkage@aussie.zoneEnglish
        5 months

        If the Chinese name a consolation and the Greeks name it something else what is it’s name?

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
        5 months

        The North Star, Polaris, part of the little Dipper constellation, was named “Kynosoura” in ancient Greece. Kynosoura means, “The Dog’s tail.”

        Star names will not last.

        We know the names of great Greek and Chinese philosophers because of their work. So while the names of the stars might change, being the Einstein of your generation is a likely path to immortality.

  • Kairos@lemmy.today
    5 months

    Earth won’t heat death it will be burnt to a crisp by the sun

      • yesman@lemmy.world
        5 months

        “Heat death” is the popular name given to hypothesis that the Universe will continue to expand and cool until there is no light or energy left. Using the term for Earth burning up is going to confuse people.

          • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
            5 months

            Communication is Paramount

            Yeah, so you shouldn’t use a well-established term like “heat death” in your own way just because you feel it’s appropriate. Words have meanings. That’s how we communicate.

            If I call you a nincompoop to say you’re really smart, just because I think there’s no clear etymology for the term, so it isn’t “linguistically relevant through uniqueness” (whatever the fuck that means) to say it means you’re foolish, you probably wouldn’t understand that’s what I meant. You might even take it as an insult. So our communication would have broken down through my misuse of a word with a well-established meaning.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
    5 months

    Unlikely.

    You underestimate the size of the Universe. There’s 8 billion people on Earth, there’s about 200 billion stars in our galaxy, and between 100 billion to 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
    5 months

    Star names chabge. Certain stars used to have Arab/Indian names. And Mesapotamian names before that.

    In kde’s KStars program if you go back far enough to middle age, star-names will change.