This is where I draw a line in the sand. Uh, sky.
Galaxies Dedicated to ‘Colonist’ Explorer Must be Renamed, Demand Academics
The National Pulse | 11/13/2023Astronomers have advocated for a renaming of two galaxies, currently named the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds after Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, due to his record of “violent colonialism.”
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Simon Capone in Cosy Corner, Western Australia, captured this panoramic view of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds on April 5, 2022. The Magellanic Clouds are nearby systems thought to behave like galactic satellites, orbiting our own Milky Way galaxy. He wrote “On my recent holiday in the great southern region of Western Australia, I imaged this from the front porch of our cabin at Cozy Corner. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds were clearly visibly in the Bortle 1 sky.”
Now I want to be in Cosy Corner with a Bortle.
Nice
Agreed. Helluva professional photo.
By the way, he didn’t even make it around the earth before he was killed by Filipinos, so cut him some slack as a “colonizer.”
His servant, Enrique, was the first human ever to literally go around the world, from longitude A back to longitude A.
He had been seized from some Pacific Island and brought west, where Magellan acquired him, and kept going west ever since. He finished the voyage that Magellan didn’t. When his shipmates made it back to their home port, they had done it, too, but he had done it already when they passed his native island.
Oh good. One less thing.
Well that will finally solve all the world’s problems.