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| Subject: Lame NASA renames mysterious Ultima Thule after Nazi controversy arises Wed Nov 13, 2019 7:38 pm | |
| NASA has renamed the most distant object ever explored, the mysterious Ultima Thule, after controversy arose that its name was linked to the Nazi party. Previously known as "2014 MU69," the celestial object was given the informal name of Ultima Thule by the New Horizons team, after a mythical northern land in classical and medieval European literature, according to Science Alert. However, the Thule Society, founded in 1918, was also the name of a German occultist group that would later evolve into the Nazi party. NASA has since renamed the object as Arrokoth, a Native American term meaning "sky" in the Powhatan/Algonquian language, after getting consent from elders in the Powhatan Tribe.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/nasa-renames-ultima-thule-nazi-controversy
Oh great, now named after the cannibalistic Powhatan Tribe. |
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| Subject: Re: Lame NASA renames mysterious Ultima Thule after Nazi controversy arises Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:23 pm | |
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