Funny that you should mention that just now as there's currently a thread on the Minor Planet Mailing List about a similar feeling regarding naming minor planets. Personally I've no problem with naming things as long as it's done ethically. And oft times names are more descriptive, shorter and easier to remember than say, a serial number. Actually I rather like the way minor planets are handled. All of them that have been tracked long enough get a number and are then eligible to be named (the vast majority, BTW, have no names). patrick On 10 Apr 2009, at 20:02, Chuck Hards wrote:
Why do we have this predisposition to name individual modules at all?
What's next, naming pieces of furniture? Indvidual nuts and bolts?
Yet the ISS itself gets named for...nothing. Just a description. The station should have been named better, and the modules be known only by their functions.
Buncha crap.