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NASA boffins tackle Nazi alien in space – with the help of Native American tribal elders

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I can't see why we should not use a name dating back to ancient Greek writers, used by many great writers in the past centuries to name a distant, hardly reachable land, just because some later dangerous idiot knew it and used it too somehow?

Should we destroy all those "nazi" symbols in Buddhist or Hindu temples too? For someone grown in Europe is at first very uncomfortable so see a wall full of swastikas - until you realize it has a full different meaning there, and it would be utterly wrong to condemn them.

Should the wrong thing be just the cultural appropriation attempts made by nazism, and never the original names and symbols? Could we please put things in the right context? We should never let neo-nazi rewrite our history at their will, and let them appropriate names far older and far greater than them.

I only think the name was wasted for such little object - it would be better used for some more interesting and larger object.

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