Poll: How should we Name Planets?

[photog212]

We take the first 100 hundred names posted by random people, add a monkey and a dart board, then...voila! The planet has a name.

 

[teh_gunslinger]

*pruning of the quote tree went on here*
*snippity di snip snip*

Uranus. heh heh heh

Sadly, I recently found out the backstory behind the name... Ouranos, the father of Kronos, grandfather of Zeus.
It ruined the joke for me.

Well, didn't you hear? They renamed it to Urectum in 2620 to end that joke once and for all.

Edit: I forgot what I wanted to say: in classical Greek Ouranos means sky or heaven. (Which does not negate what you said. I was just throwing in some etymology.)

 

[Taniquel]

I say go with the star they orbit + number. It is a simple and easy to understand system. When religion and the names of people start getting involved, that is when mass revamping of the naming scheme becomes necessary. Then it is just a PITA for everyone. It has happended in biology, it will happen in other fields too.

 

[Aptspire]

I think we should keep with the mythological names, but this time with Evil deities, like Cerberus or Belial

 

[Therumancer]

I didn't vote for the simple reason that my option "all of the above" was not there. Simply put no one naming system is going to work given the limited vocabulary compared to the number of planets.

I'm also a big fan of "he who discovers it, gets to name it".

This includes when a civilized people overcome an uncivilized one and start changing all the names.

At any rate, perhaps one day we will see a "Planet Therumancer".

>>>----Therumancer--->

 

[Crowghast]

I agree, planetary nomenclature should be the discoverer's decision.

If I ever discovered a planet, I will name it "[i\]Parke[/i]os", which resides in the "Richie" system.

Because i'm arrogant like that.

"Why do they call it the 'Richie' system daddy?"
"Well, son, that's because some prick a long time ago had an inflated ego."

 

[Mr0llivand3r]

hey i personally think it would be badass to live on a planets called Kashyyyk, Alderaan, and Geonosis

 

[ryai458]

They should be named after gods like they always have.

we are going to run out of gods oh wait hindus never mind

 

[Singularly Datarific]

did we run out of gods already?!

I don't think we will.

Religious names. And legendary creatures from myths and legends. It worked until now

Yep, they're planets, they deserve an awesome name. How about greek names for the next system? Planet Ares and Zeus would be awesome.

 

[Avida]

All options but the top and bottom, but good luck with trying to impliment that XD

 

[G1eet]

*pruning of the quote tree went on here*
*snippity di snip snip*

Uranus. heh heh heh

Sadly, I recently found out the backstory behind the name... Ouranos, the father of Kronos, grandfather of Zeus.
It ruined the joke for me.

Well, didn't you hear? They renamed it to Urectum in 2620 to end that joke once and for all.

Edit: I forgot what I wanted to say: in classical Greek Ouranos means sky or heaven. (Which does not negate what you said. I was just throwing in some etymology.)

HAH! Good Professor reference!
You don't see much of that nowadays... other than Onyx's Hypnotoad picture.

And the etymology bit was an added bonus.

 

[bookboy]

Name them in the same way they named 'Uranus', choose names that are faintly amusing because they sound dirty.

Uranus was named after one of the creators of the universe in Greek mythology, simply put, first there was chaos, then from that came Uranus (the sky) and Gaia (the earth) and then they had a lot of sex (I don't know how) and Gaia gave birth to the Titans, the ugly ones (cyclops, hundred handed ones, etc.etc.) and the greek/roman gods.

oh, and my choice would be to name them after religious figures, but that wouldn't be required, i.e. an atheist wouldn't be required to pick a religiously associated name as long as they could find a suitable alternative.

 

[Steve Dark]

I liked the feel of the names of some of the planets in Halo. Simple names like Reach and Harvest, they feel like they have more meaning than influential Science figures.
Either than or names similar to the ones in 40k. Nice Gothic sounding latin names, or religious... or ancient cities.

Really anything can be better than having them named after Corporations. Please just anything but that.

 

[Nouw]

Star Wars names XD

 

[LewsTherin]

For systematic reference it should go *star name**number out from star**Letter if more than one on orbital path* (common name)

Yup.

 

[Yoshi-Pop]

Gotta go with the one from Fight Club. Sell the name of the planet to the highest bidding corporation. Planet Wal-mart in the Coca-Cola Glaxy next to the McDonalds Nebula. Course, it'd prolly be the Microsoft system, and the Haliburton Dimension. LOL

 

[Yoshi-Pop]

*pruning of the quote tree went on here*
*snippity di snip snip*

Uranus. heh heh heh

Sadly, I recently found out the backstory behind the name... Ouranos, the father of Kronos, grandfather of Zeus.
It ruined the joke for me.

Well, didn't you hear? They renamed it to Urectum in 2620 to end that joke once and for all.

Edit: I forgot what I wanted to say: in classical Greek Ouranos means sky or heaven. (Which does not negate what you said. I was just throwing in some etymology.)

HAH! Good Professor reference!
You don't see much of that nowadays... other than Onyx's Hypnotoad picture.

And the etymology bit was an added bonus.

I must obey the Hypnotoad.

 

[Computer-Noob]

We should name them by walking out of our front door in the morning and naming them after the FIRST thing we see.

For example: My new planet will be named HotGirlWithReallyBigBoobsRunning

I want to move to where you live....Like right now.

 

[Datalord]

It should be: (Name of the star) followed by (Latin word denonting orbit)

So Earth would be Sol Tertius, while Mercury would be Sol Prime

The fifth world in the Romulus system (made it up) would be Romulus Pentus

 

[punkrockcrunk]

Welcome to planet McDonalds how may I help you.