No More Black Holes!

[Joy 0]

Black Holes Renamed 'Super High Gravity Locations'

 

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - The International Space Nomenclature Council today adopted the term 'emplacements de hauts gravité super' - or 'super high gravity locations' - as the official replacement name for black holes. Originally named in reference to the fact that light cannot escape their intense gravity, the term 'black hole' was increasingly criticized as being insensitive to African-Americans and African-Europeans.

 

"We're glad the council finally took action on this issue." said Isaiah Herman, Chairman of the National African-American Coalition of People. "The unimaginable destructive power of these super high gravity locations was giving the word 'black' a negative connotation throughout the universe."

 

Super high gravity locations are the remnants of giant stars that collapse into a substance so dense that it has a gravitational pull that consumes all matter that comes near it. "They're the bad boys of the cosmos." says Nokidi Imsure, Professor of Astronomic Anthropology at Howyflyl University. "You would definitely want to cross the street if you saw one coming."

 

Early after their discovery, there was little controversy over the former name of super high gravity locations. However in recent years, scientists theorized that most galaxies had massive super high gravity locations at their cores, and would eventually be swallowed up by them. A doomsday overtone began to be associated with the former 'black holes' - even a slang term for something unendingly wasteful developed - prompting the insensitivity criticism.

 

"There was never any intent to be offensive or malicious." says Imsure, commenting on the original naming of super high gravity locations. "It just seemed to fit at the time. But this name fits well too - it's definitely a location of super high gravity."

 

:: sighs ::

 

OK, how does one pronounce "SHGL"? "Shigle"?

Edited June 22, 2007 by Joy

[Atragon9 0]

:: sighs ::

 

OK, how does one pronounce "SHGL"? "Shigle"?

 

Thank goodness it's a fake article, but you did have me going for a minute, sheesh, can you imagine?

 

http://www.dailyredundancy.com/archives/1018.html

[Captain Huff 0]

But... Do I still need to worry if a visible spectrum absorbing pigmented cat runs across the road..? Would Schroedinger? If his cat were visible spectrum absorbtion pigmented and placed in a box painted with visible spectrum absorbtion pigments, would it still hiss if hit with the hammer? The cat, not the box. Boxes don't hiss.

[will_marx 0]

But... Do I still need to worry if a visible spectrum absorbing pigmented cat runs across the road..? Would Schroedinger? If his cat were visible spectrum absorbtion pigmented and placed in a box painted with visible spectrum absorbtion pigments, would it still hiss if hit with the hammer? The cat, not the box. Boxes don't hiss.

 

But is that visible spectrum absorbing pigmented domestic feline alive or dead in the box?

[will_marx 0]

Has anyone got a Breen truncheon? The fembot :) is raking the muck again.

 

Nah, I just think it's a different version of gynoid. Maybe Joy 4, or some Mirror Universe version that snuck out.

[Guest STSF Lebowski]

:: sighs ::

 

OK, how does one pronounce "SHGL"? "Shigle"?

 

It's pronounced "Show gal". Uh oh... now someone else might have issue with THIS term.

 

But is that visible spectrum absorbing pigmented domestic feline alive or dead in the box?

 

Depends on if Huff has hit it with a hammer, yet.

[Arch Angel 0]

Hmmmm...Hammer + delivering a Huff stroke of the hammer = RIP Kitty.... :)

[Travis Kroells 0]

I'm going to fear the day when the term "Black Coffee" becomes politically incorrect.

[LadyHitchhiker 0]

My last name is Black IRL. I hope it doesn't eventually become politically incorrect. I'd hate to have to change my name. Yuck!