Seriously ?

[Davey-T]

So Galaxy Ronaldo, what next galaxy Boris ? 

Dave

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33185760

[emadmoussa]

I don't see why not! The galaxy looks totally shaved..and a bit pretentious!! 

[xtreemchaos]

thats crazy, galaxys should have names reflecting what thay are.thanks for sharing..charl.

[Moonshane]

I wonder if they eventually run out of top footballers they will start on something else? DFPT6 (Dave from Pub Team 6)

[xtreemchaos]

or big mac galaxy." othier snax are available".

[Moon-Watcher]

So Galaxy Ronaldo, what next galaxy Boris ? 

In the name of ALL thats Holy, please NO!

If we are to start naming Galaxies after people, instead of diving, unsportspanlike behaviour, only loyal to their contract sportsmen or buffoons, why not name them after DESERVING people.  How about; The Unkown Warrior Galaxy?  Martin Luther King Galaxy?  What about naming each new discovery after Iraq/Afghanistan veterans?

That way, the soldiers will be remebered forever, and not just for the few seconds politicians say "we won't forget them"

Cheers,

Mark

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Seems an appropriate name for an immature galaxy that isn't fully developed. 

[LukeSkywatcher]

or big mac galaxy." othier snax are available".

Yeah lets rename the LMC as the Great Southern Fried Galaxy.

[ghostdance]

I vote for introducing an 'SGL' classification catalogue. SGL101, SGL666 etc....

But I'm all for inclusivity: for non-members it can also stand for 'Special Galactic Lovely'...

[Mr Spock]

Good grief, whatever next.

[Paul M]

Glad it explains he's a footballer...ignorance is bliss.

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[Dave Lloyd]

I imagine the galaxies will remain regally aloof to anything we submicroscopic nonentities are calling them:-)

[LukeSkywatcher]

If the IAU (i assume its them doing this?) are now letting celestial objects been named after sports people......then i have lost all and any faith in them as an organisation and simply will ignore anything that they say or do. 

It all started to go down hill when Pluto was demoted. 

Oh..........heres an idea;

Lets name a big crater on the Moon after Jeremy Clarkson (something as big as his ego), because he seems to be the talk of the town and popular culture of late.

*sorry..........no crater on the moon is as big as his ego*.

LOL.

[bejay1957]

Surely scope to have corporate/commercial sponsorship of celestial objects - seems to be prevalent in just about everything else these days...

[LukeSkywatcher]

Surely scope to have corporate/commercial sponsorship of celestial objects - seems to be prevalent in just about everything else these days...

That is what is so annoying. You take most soccer grounds, rugby grounds and music concert venues. They have all been renamed after big corporate multi-nationals.

Lansdowne Road in Dublin (home of Irish soccer and rugby) is now "The Aviva Stadium".

It irks me to no end.......this sort of thing. I guess money talks............and forget the history of a venue.

Thank God that Croke Park in Dublin has not been bought out and renamed by such companies. There is too much history in that place for it to be renamed. It has been redeveloped into an 80,000 seater venue..............but the name remains and ALWAYS will.

Wembley stadium is still Wembley stadium. Thankfully. It has history.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Surely scope to have corporate/commercial sponsorship of celestial objects - seems to be prevalent in just about everything else these days...

I think one might already be sponsored by MilliWays, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

[L8-Nite]

As I travel through this world, I find most things and people in the media meaningless to me.  

[damnut]

Pass me my pangalactic gargle blaster - its the end of the world  as we know it....

[ghostdance]

Yeah, but the next line is "And I feel fine..."!

Great song btw - my pre-race ritual back when I used to race mtb.

[pevsfreedom]

or big mac galaxy." othier snax are available".

It's just a matter until marketing and advertising buy out every object in the heavens. 

The Pepsi Nebula

Bic Mac Cluster

Starbuck's Grande and Tall Galaxies (Large Magellanic Cloud, SMC)

[awestruck]

I imagine the galaxies will remain regally aloof to anything we submicroscopic nonentities are calling them:-)

[awestruck]

Dave from pub team 6 will know.

[Dave Lloyd]

What they're called won't change what they are.

[cotterless45]

Got to watch these advertisers, they'll be naming things,

"Mars", "Milky Way" and "Galaxy",

Old Nick.

[Scott]

That is what is so annoying. You take most soccer grounds, rugby grounds and music concert venues. They have all been renamed after big corporate multi-nationals.

Lansdowne Road in Dublin (home of Irish soccer and rugby) is now "The Aviva Stadium".

It irks me to no end.......this sort of thing. I guess money talks............and forget the history of a venue.

Thank God that Croke Park in Dublin has not been bought out and renamed by such companies. There is too much history in that place for it to be renamed. It has been redeveloped into an 80,000 seater venue..............but the name remains and ALWAYS will.

Wembley stadium is still Wembley stadium. Thankfully. It has history.

So Irish soccer  and rugby got a shedload of money from aviva, and exactly the same games are being played there. So remind me, whose the loser here? If silky sams hemeroid cream offered me a butt load of money to hang a sign off my house, it'd be there tomorrow and I'm guessing there might even be one at your house too if the price is right?

It's a name...thats all, a name