Tumblr Thread: Researchers Are Ridiculous With Naming Things

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mattstaff
Oct 30, 2021 1:00 PM EDT

So many of us take for granted just how ridiculous some of the names of scientific things are. It's fun to take a moment and appreciate what kinds of wild thought processes went into naming various objects of observation. For some more gold from Tumblr check out this post about how trees are low key monsters. Just a tad bit unnerving. 

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    Rectangle - friend-called-boxcar who was the fool who was tasked with naming the galaxy and the only adjective they could think of was 'mmmmmmmmmmmmilky. skazuhira-miller scientist: (gazing up at space) scientist: . it sure is a milky boy
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    Font - freshfriedtrash NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND ASTRONOMERS ARE THE EVER AT NAMING THINGS I KID YOU NOT. When it came time to name the two theoretical particle types that might be dark matter THEY INTENTIONALLY CHOSE THE NAMES SO THAT THE ACRONYMS WOULD SPELL "WIMPS" AND "MACHOS" I "YOU NOT THEY ARE TERRIBLE AT NAMING ANYTHING
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    Font - braincoins I just listened to a talk by Neil deGrasse Tyson himself LAST NIGHT and he went on about this more than once. "I'm walking down the street and I'm like 'ooh pretty rock.' and some Geologist is like 'actually, that's anorthosite feldspar' and I'm like 'Nevermind, I don't want it anymore.' Any biologists in the audience? [some clapping] Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. The most important molecule in the human body, what did you name it? It has NINE SYLLABLES and it's so lon
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    Rectangle - But astrophysicists and astronomers? No, man, we call it like we see it. Star made of neutrons? NEUTRON STAR. Small white star? WHITE DWARF. You know that big red spot on Jupiter? Know what we called it? JUPITER'S RED SPOT." the-scarlet-spider okay i'm glad you mentioned the biologist nonsense bc their naming methods are the bane of my existence
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    Plant - gallusrostromegalus I see your astrophysicists-are- you Marine-Biologists-Are- -at-names and raise -Maniacs. See this beautiful creature?
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    Font - It's a carnivorous deep-sea sponge that lives off of Easter Island and never sees the light of day, as it's about 9000 feet down. Those delicate-looking orbs are covered in millions of tiny hooked spines, which latch onto anything unfortunate enough to bump into it, and hold it in place as it is digested alive by the sponge's skin. Amazing, beautiful and profoundly creepy. They could have given it so many cool names. Could have drawn on mythology (I think Scylla would have been an appropr
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