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Renames - Screwing up the Timeline
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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 997104" data-attributes="member: 175144"><p>In the same vein as the brontosaurus/apatosaurus debacle, a recent renaming of a pile of stars - many supposedly owing to their proximity to ours to aid clarity to (exo)planetary exploration, means rewriting a number of sci-fi classics in order to preserve their validity for future generations.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.space.com/34835-alpha-centauri-new-star-names.html" target="_blank">Alpha Centauri Gets a New Moniker as 227 Star Names Are Clarified</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 997104, member: 175144"] In the same vein as the brontosaurus/apatosaurus debacle, a recent renaming of a pile of stars - many supposedly owing to their proximity to ours to aid clarity to (exo)planetary exploration, means rewriting a number of sci-fi classics in order to preserve their validity for future generations. [URL="http://www.space.com/34835-alpha-centauri-new-star-names.html"]Alpha Centauri Gets a New Moniker as 227 Star Names Are Clarified[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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