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Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 to Science [email protected]English • 1 year ago

Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff

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Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 to Science [email protected]English • 1 year ago
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    Counterpoint:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog_protein

    Or maybe that’s also backing up the claim… All a matter of perspective lol

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      Or they can just be boring and do “Huh, we have an array of telescopes, it’s very large.” OK, what do we call the small one?

      We’ve increase the frequency for radio, lets call it High Frequency. We’ve increased it further, what do we call it? Even further. Surely it can’t get faster than this. God dammit. Fuck it, just use numbers.

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