What is it? An odd circle of radio waves. What are we going to call it? Well, if we call it an "odd radio circle" the initialization is the same as the monstrous bad guys from a classic fantasy novel.
ORCs it is then!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telesco...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Magellanic_Cloud
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Void
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Void
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fury_and_Hecla_Strait#%22The_P...
In the post-modern era (roughly 1945-20??) people were highly skeptical of their egos and of power, advertised humility, and consequently had a sense of humor about themselves and the world. Thus you get names like quark and Google.
Now in the newly-born (reactionary?) era, ego is our God, and we get names like Uber. Physics perhaps hasn't quite joined the new era, yet.
I dunno, I've noticed that most physicists I've met have the "ego is God" vibe pretty well cooked in, and they will definitely let you know it.
Social constructivism and the like also aren't anti-facts or pro-subjectivity (assuming that's what you were implying, just a guess though) - it's about acknowledging which things we consider objectively true are actually only true by convention or tradition rather than being rooted in physical laws. Also how the human mind models knowledge and the relations between our models of reality and reality itself, so we don't mistake the map for the territory.
I agree completely! The "new era" to which I referred is not post-modernism, but what I describe as the current 'reactionary' era in my earlier post (the GGGP, beginning "An hypothesis ..."). Sorry if that was confusing.
Some humantities and social science academics I know disdain post-modernism, with all the scholarly reason and social momentum of being 'no longer cool' in high school - 'you're still wearing those shoes?'. I asked one, in front of their friend, about the post-modern person on whom they wrote their thesis. They changed the subject and then later told me quietly, 'I don't read that anymore'.
For all the ridiculousness of that, it's serious business. Post-modernism contained the weapons and armor against fascism and other ideology, and we've disarmed ourselves. What do people intend to replace it with?
They got sued for using the word "cab" in "UberCab", and just shorted the name to "Uber".
It would be ego-less if they called it CabApp or something.
All the other cabapp names are egoless
Also compare the word 'uber', however you interpret it, with words like 'google', 'yahoo', 'GNU', 'quark', 'charmed', 'C', 'C++', etc. Those have wit, humor, and disarm ego. (In fairess, maybe there are similarly witty names now that I'm not thinking of?)
And you are factually wrong: UberCab was created without Travis Kalanick, by Garrett Camp. Travis invested in UberCab 6 months later or so, and he became CEO as part of the deal.
Do your research please.
Lift, Cabify and Freenow are slightly more down to earth ;)
Even so, your thesis was falsifiable which makes it good in my book :)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch#Use_by_the_Naz...
> So much for ego being a new thing and cherry picking how in olden times things were better.
I never said ego was a new thing, or that all of history was better. In fact, I chose the post-war period - whose culture, I would guess, was partly a reaction to the fascist ideology (or any ideology).