2011-12-22

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2011-12-22 04:08 am

From beamjockey: Merry Grotemass!


It has been 100 years since the birth of Grote Reber on 22 December 1911. He died nine years ago, but his scientific legacy opened a new window to the universe for astronomers.
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2011-12-22 05:34 am

Inspired by a recent discussion of interplanetary adventures

If you could educate the writers of interplanetary adventures about just one thing, what would it be?
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2011-12-22 04:14 pm

Very, very tangentally related to something Doc Lemming was talking about

What's the correct response for a superhero who discovers their crime-fighting name, selected in all innocence and without malice, happens to be an ethnic slur?

Come to think of it, this situation has come up before [1]; the late Mark Gruenwald decided to give the new Captain America's sidekick the same superhero name the original Cap's orginal side-kick used, Gruenwald being unaware that there could be anything problematic about calling an African American man "Bucky". I know they changed the name but I don't recall how it was handled in-story.

1: Note that Marvel also once named a superhero after a combination of cocaine hydrochloride mixed with morphine sulfate; presumably Speedball himself was unaware of the other meanings of his name. In his defense, he was just a teenager.