I like "Carbondroppings"!


But "Home" is what it is! That's as good as anything!

You call it Moon.

We call it Luna.

We were speaking of our planet...not our satellite.
But since you mention it, who is "we" that calls the Moon--the Moon...in Latin.

From your own link:

You forget, MID, my impassioned post about the unfair treatment of the Moon and how it is more deserving of a better name than the Earth.

would i be going out on a limb if i said i like 'moon' for the moon and 'Earth' for the Earth ?

its a very modern thing to change what is accepted. but several thousand years of civilization cant be so wrong.

Can it ??

Minny xx

Who knows, maybe one day when we're watching the Intergalactic Champions League Cup, when Manchester United are playing the Pliedian Rovers, they might start changing it to The Planet Coca Cola, or Barclaycard World!

ffs manu would never make it to any interplanetary league. only Liverpool have the talent to make it to other planets.

edit : took out the profani ee ma boy

The Spanish-speakers. Luna, la Luna, that big white round thing in the nightsky...no, no that UFO. XD

I certainly agree with you Waspie Dwarf.

The word moon is a Germanic word, related to Latin mensis. In English, the word moon exclusively meant "the Moon" until 1665, when it was extended to refer to the recently-discovered natural satellites of other planets.

Our little moon deserves a much better name, since we have dicovered many other 'moons' orbiting other planets.

Hehe...Could you imagine the galactical controversy surrounding the missing gravitational propulsion system that'd been swiped from the Andromedans team spaceship, and the pictures in the newspaper showing the most advanced vehicle in the universe propped up on bricks?!

At least some scally in Toxteth would make a few bob to go on top of his giro!...

I agree other than the several thousand years comment. The word 'earth' was first used in the 1400s. Before that modern English was not around and it was called 'erthe' in Middle English. Maybe those two are the same but Old English 'eorthe' was still used up until around the 1200s.

As far as 'moon' it was other planet's satellites that borrowed the name of our 'moon' in 1655 when they began to get discovered.

Personally I do not call 'Earth' by that name often but rather 'The World'. It sounds nicer and is more common in usage so perhaps that should be the official name.

When looked at this way the name of the moon(The moon) seems appropriate. I like it now.

Yea, you did mention something about that didn't you?

Well...I still think, "THE MOON" is rather distinctive (it's kind of like "The Man", you know?). Kinda sets it apart in a way.
Besides, we've got some really great names for craters and features on her, eh?

Spanish, Italian, French, English, whatever...it's all actually Latin in derivation.

"The world" tends to be a description of what men have made of the planet...not of the planet itself...




Yep...me too!

If we wanted to change it from 'Earth', I'd vote for Sol Prime, or something similar, with the idea that eventually, there will be other habited worlds both within our solar system and in others, and a standard nomenclature would be benificial, (ie Sol Prime, Sol Second, Beta Leonid Prime, etc) where the Star itself is the landmark, the planet's name is denoted by it's colonization date

You could take it farther to name moons, as in Beta Leonid Prime II being the second moon of the first colonized planet around the second brightest star in the consetallation Leo

but that lacks emotion and imagination. u might as well call Earth 'One' and the next planet 'Two' etc. i think this is what ppl are trying to get away from with The Earth being called 'Earth'.

for me, the fact that it's The Earth and The Moon that set them apart from other earths and moons..

Min xx

"The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is the major body recognized by astronomers worldwide (formed in 1919), and perhaps by other scientists, as the naming authority for astronomical bodies. In response to the need for unambiguous names for astronomical objects, it has created a number of systematic naming systems for bodies of various sorts."*

"Our own planet is usually named the Earth, or the equivalent in the language being spoken (for instance, two astronomers speaking French would call it la Terre). However, it is only recently in human history that it has been thought of as a planet. The Earth, when viewed as a planet, is sometimes also called by its Latin name Terra."**

"The name Earth originated from the 8th century Anglo-Saxon word erda, which means ground or soil. In Old English the word became eorthe, then erthe in Middle English.[106] Earth was first used as the name of the planet around 1400.[107] It is the only planet whose name in English is not derived from greco-roman mythology."***


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At least they didn't go with "Soil"

That's how you say our planet's name in Spanish and other romance languages.

if there is life on other planets i wonder what name they use for our earth, and the other planets we have named.
probably, planet of the chimps.

Dude, it could be named Uranus. THAT would be a tough one to explain...I took college level astronomy courses and people still giggled when they heard the name of that planet; these were grown-ups...

Imagine that meeting..."Hi, I live on Uranus..." Excuse me???

we should name it like every other exo solar planet we have named, r13

But the Earth isn't an exo-solar planet. It's our planet...the only one we've ever known that harbors life of any form.
It deserves, from a human standpoint, a dignified name, one that will be forever associated with home..."The Earth" is that name...

Depends on how you pronounce it!!!!
Alot is ascertained from how the word is said (that little "a" in there being short or long can make a huge difference in connotation)!

Well, louie...

That would depend on whether they've actually noticed our solar system at all...if so, they'd probably designate what they discovered as some numerical classification in relation to whatever name they gave our star, I'd think.

I'm thinking they probably wouldn't use English names!

I vote we officially change the name to Planet Mongo!

Home perhaps?

I think calling us EARTHLINGS would really suck. why not Tarsonis(from starcraft) and we'd be called Tarsoneans.

I know the earth is also called for Gaia, and the moon for Selene.

how bout Aeolus?

i kinda like zemborliambisoclamidimorite (just made it up )

What about kosmos? The ancient Greek word for Earth.

Imagine the confusion.. eg "the spacecraft launched from kosmos for it's long mission through the cosmos."

I think you are right, but what we need is an International earth name. Because different culture call our world by a different name, Earth, Tierra, Terra, Erd. etc. I love the following Names

Cerdonia

Weeona.

but I don't really care. Good point. You are problably a very intelligent person, and you can think out of the box, or I should say out of Cerdonia????
CIAO

Terra and Gaia are two names it has been referred to in recent time. I prefer Gaia, as it stands for Mother Earth, or Earth Mother. Terra, also means Earth and Terraforming is used when scientists are trying to produce life on a dead world.

Marklar

In Doctor Who, Earth is sometimes referred to as 'Sol 3'. Although having a number after the name would suck.

I like Terra. No point calling it Amazonia. There's barely any of it left as it is.

In Ratchet & Clank, Ratchet's home planet is Planet Veldin. I like that.

i think it shoould have quite a funny name for when/if aliens come to live on our planet.
for example "ur-mum" its not that funny. but well let the funny people decide what to name it

If all our solar system's planets are named after roman gods, it wud be nice to see all the planets named after gods, a different type of gods for each solar system or something.

What about when there are too many planets for words? Will they have to start calling planets like 'spoon' or 'duvet' or something? haha lol.

Haha LOL.We have a funny man in our midst.The Universe would be a strange place if the planets that we find are given names of mundane objects like 'duvet'.Better be careful
Aliens might land in your backyard and be mad at you for giving there planet such a crazy name .

We should name our planet DODGEY 5000!!!

Mercury
Venus
Monova
Mars
Saturn
Jupiter
Uranus
Neptune

..sounds good to me.

E.T says "Home".

Call it "Terra Vitae" the planet of life. Or you could just stick with Earth, it does have a comfortable, homey feel.

I vote we name it Nikolas

we could call it POM

Planet
Of
Morrons

I conjecture that there might indeed be a few advanced alien races that might have assigned that appellation to our world...after a brief study of culture and attitudes....(before they high-tailed it outa here, that is!)...

The irony is not lost on me...

when do you think we started to think of things like ,
What planet am I on and what should I call it?