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Given the extremely short supply of telescopes deserving naming, it’s absurd to think that anyone who doesn’t have a telescope named after themselves has been erased from history.

What you’re defending is James Webb’s immaculate memory. Please think long and hard about whether it’s worth defending the immaculate memory of anyone.

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I think there is one group of people who are assuming that because it's a diversity thing it's justified, and another group that thinks that because it's a diversity thing it's unjustified, whereas it may be that NASA is right and that it depends on some old documents that they have to get out of the files, none of which we have seen.

You're probably right on that mark, but on the other hand it is weird that it's not named after an astronomer. Of course, Harriet Tubman isn't much better on that score.

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