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comment by WanderingEng

Or serial killers? Hurricane Gein.

Or mass murderer dictators? Hurricane Pol Pot.





lil  ·  3311 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Or mass murderer dictators? Hurricane Pol Pot.
Now that's a great idea!

Edit My guess is that eventually they will be given gender-neutral names. I get that it is easier to track a hurricane if you give it a name rather than a number. The same is true of comets. There are things in outer space that we know only by number (right francopoli?) and without the personification of a name, they are largely forgettable.

user-inactivated  ·  3311 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There is a ton of stuff out there know only for its catalog number. Billions of galaxies and trillions of stars, you run out of names fast.

OftenBen  ·  3311 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hurricane Hitler sounds like skinhead-punk.