Need to do some quick research for terminology and naming for a future project (you can probably guess the general topic by my questions).
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I'm old enough to remember the Kessler Twins
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @sundogplanets There are non germans knowing the Kessler twins?
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Here's a different way of summarizing these (very unscientific, very biased, but still super interesting) poll results. Name recognition of selected environment-related terms:
Recognize "Kessler Syndrome"?
40% (over 30)
34% (under 30)Recognize "Exxon Valdez"?
86% (over 30)
25% (under 30)Recognize "Montreal Protocol"?
33% (over 30)
29% (under 30)Exxon Valdez is the "winner" for name recognition (at least among the older demographic). Interesting!!
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@sundogplanets Perhaps because Exxon Valdez was a news item twice: The catastrophe itself and then the proceedings against the captain. In the news for months.
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I still remember the Torrey Canyon… it was in 1967.
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@sundogplanets I'm over 30, know about Exxon Valdez because I worked as a journalist about ecology at that time. I know about the Kessler effect but thought that the syndrome would be a for me unknown disease.
For the protocol: We have so many protocols with names of towns. Looking at Wikipedia, I know it but the name was not in my mind. Problem with special names: people remember events/content, not names. A problem journalists often have with writing headlines. -
@GustavinoBevilacqua @guenterhack @sundogplanets Amoco Cadiz for me -- because I'm European.
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@ysegrim @guenterhack @sundogplanets
Not far from me we had the Haven.
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @guenterhack @sundogplanets (I just realized that "because I'm European" sounded a lot more chauvinistic than I intended -- apologies ... We all had our more "local" disasters, and if the name of "yours" doesn't tell me anything, that's because a different one with a different name had a bigger impact to "me" locally.
