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Title: ESA finds new aurora-like phenomenon, calls it Steve.
Post by: SomeApe on April 30, 2017, 03:59:32 am
http://m.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Swarm/When_Swarm_met_Steve

http://news.googply.com/2017/04/24/introducing-steve-a-newly-discovered-astronomical-phenomenon/

Conspiracy theories in 3..,2...,1....
Title: Re: ESA finds new aurora-like phenomenon, calls it Steve.
Post by: Kanzenkankaku on May 08, 2017, 04:14:18 am
Why did they name it Steve?
Title: Re: ESA finds new aurora-like phenomenon, calls it Steve.
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 08, 2017, 06:24:23 am
Because the other choice was likely along the lines of Aurora McAuroraface.
Title: Re: ESA finds new aurora-like phenomenon, calls it Steve.
Post by: SomeApe on May 08, 2017, 07:25:18 am
Why did they name it Steve?

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Before you assume Steve is named after Professor Hawking or the theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg, the Facebook group Alberta Aurora Chasers were instead inspired by a scene in the animated movie Over the Hedge, in which one of the characters gives a hedge that name to make it seem less scary.
Title: Re: ESA finds new aurora-like phenomenon, calls it Steve.
Post by: TheContrarian on May 19, 2017, 05:57:42 pm
Why did they name it Steve?

Because before they discovered it, it had already blocked them on twitter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iqeKaEj92U
Title: Re: ESA finds new aurora-like phenomenon, calls it Steve.
Post by: Kanzenkankaku on May 26, 2017, 05:49:22 am
Why did they name it Steve?

Because before they discovered it, it had already blocked them on twitter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iqeKaEj92U

I legitimately chortled.

I never got Steve Shives, he seems really angry and prone to strawmanning (ie "all my opposition are nazis") and starting dumb youtube drama with other blowhards just because he disagrees on the things they get all blowhard-y over.

Also damn you Contrarian for getting me off-topic like this.