• Mr Fish@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I honestly don’t know which name is better: Uranus or George.

    Yes, the guy who discovered the planet wanted to name it after King George, but everyone said that was too political, so it was called Uranus.

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      11 months ago

      It would probably have been Georgia or some derivative of George.