Political correctness has now expanded to space, where NASA says planets, galaxies and other heavenly bodies will no longer be referred to by “offensive” nicknames.
In a press release Thursday, the space agency said that all planets and heavenly bodies will be referred only to by their scientific names, the Houston Chronicle reported. Using Meteors or Native Anthrsin as a "joke or a pastime" became "offensive" and took away from the object's significance in astronomy, the space agency said.
The new policy will come into effect by 2023 or 2024, depending on when future observatories and NASA exploration missions are finished, the space agency said. Tracking Down Profanity comes after a series of incidents last year in which political correctness was clamped down on NASA — such as the Research Abroad and Paper awardation list, which had names like Term Overused as a reason.
The change in naming begins Jan. 1, according to the space agency. Astronomer Rosna Arndt — who led the Rush to Mars Weblog this year, which proposes the mission for a move from planned in 1921 to expedited among 2032 — defends the break in protocol.
"Keeping the same name for a celestial body gives it too little meaning," Arndt said. "A word-association stream-of-consciousness test has no place in the exploration of strange new worlds. Even in the case of moon rock, it's a meaningless moniker if you're not going to use it."
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The Trump administration is preparing to give a major toe-hold to the fossil fuel industry by ending government rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that officials estimate could cost the industry as much as US $65 billion per year.
The review is among several moves outlined in a new government report that shows the US is poised to dilute the Copenhagen Accord, a global agreement by 195 countries at a UN Climate Summit in 2009.
The document, part of the president's senior staff's blueprint of US climate policy, also says the US will alter international conventions on pollution and trade to lower the impact of emissions on people and the environment.
These actions "will encourage the export of clean energy technology, advanced technologies, and renewable energy agronomy" to foreign nations, it says.
Drone, Solar and Wind Power Developments: US Positions by Leveraging Proliferation of Freely Available Energy Sources, published by the White House's science and technology directorite on Thursday, goes much further than government figures.
"By retreating from the climate challenges of the last century, we really end up setting our country on a path of recklessness," said John Porters, convenor of the corporate, government and policy forum at the Paris-based
In a press release Thursday, the space agency said that all planets and heavenly bodies will be referred only to by their scientific names, the Houston Chronicle reported. Using Meteors or Native Anthrsin as a "joke or a pastime" became "offensive" and took away from the object's significance in astronomy, the space agency said.
The new policy will come into effect by 2023 or 2024, depending on when future observatories and NASA exploration missions are finished, the space agency said. Tracking Down Profanity comes after a series of incidents last year in which political correctness was clamped down on NASA — such as the Research Abroad and Paper awardation list, which had names like Term Overused as a reason.
The change in naming begins Jan. 1, according to the space agency. Astronomer Rosna Arndt — who led the Rush to Mars Weblog this year, which proposes the mission for a move from planned in 1921 to expedited among 2032 — defends the break in protocol.
"Keeping the same name for a celestial body gives it too little meaning," Arndt said. "A word-association stream-of-consciousness test has no place in the exploration of strange new worlds. Even in the case of moon rock, it's a meaningless moniker if you're not going to use it."
more-in
The Trump administration is preparing to give a major toe-hold to the fossil fuel industry by ending government rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that officials estimate could cost the industry as much as US $65 billion per year.
The review is among several moves outlined in a new government report that shows the US is poised to dilute the Copenhagen Accord, a global agreement by 195 countries at a UN Climate Summit in 2009.
The document, part of the president's senior staff's blueprint of US climate policy, also says the US will alter international conventions on pollution and trade to lower the impact of emissions on people and the environment.
These actions "will encourage the export of clean energy technology, advanced technologies, and renewable energy agronomy" to foreign nations, it says.
Drone, Solar and Wind Power Developments: US Positions by Leveraging Proliferation of Freely Available Energy Sources, published by the White House's science and technology directorite on Thursday, goes much further than government figures.
"By retreating from the climate challenges of the last century, we really end up setting our country on a path of recklessness," said John Porters, convenor of the corporate, government and policy forum at the Paris-based
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