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I dunno. That’s kinda neat. Maybe in like 20,000 years humans will be exploring the Mongostein system.
You missed the part where literally nobody else will look to those registries to see what random people named them.
Doesn’t NASA do it? I dunno. I always thought it was kind of neat, but ultimately pointless.
Nope. The names are entirely unofficial. No one uses them.
Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.
I've got a 50,000 dollar picture of your nephew