Poll: Should the moon have a name?

[Lilani]

The man was asking for a personalized name, just like your personal name is not "child" or "human", there are billions of moons out there so what should our moon be called.

I say we name it Bob

if your name your child Child, than child is both a proper and improper noun for your child. we bin calling the moon Moon before there were other moons than our moon that we new of.

The purpose of a personal name is distinction and once we discovered more moons that name became a classification, thus the distinction was lost and a new one was called for in this thread.

You can't possibly argue that if someone said "Look how bright the moon is tonight!" you would be confused as to whether referring to our moon or one of the moons orbiting Saturn. You are forgetting one of the most important elements of conversation: context. Context is the difference between talking about the dog standing next to you and a dog stranded on a street somewhere in Indonesia.

But if you really are that confused about context and require that much distinction, just remember that there are "moons" and there is "our moon," also known as "the moon." When referring to our moon, we say just that. Our moon. But when discussing another planet's moons, we either say "the moons of Saturn" or we name their specific moons by their name. Otherwise, the moon is the name of our moon. It's our "base moon," considering we discovered it first. No further distinction is needed, as all of the other moons we know of already have distinctions. So by not having a distinction, the identity of our moon is actually distinct.

And to be on topic, no, I would not name the moon. It already has a name. And a perfectly good one, at that. And why fix what isn't broken? Why confuse people by talking about how round and gray Frieda looks when you can just call it the moon and avoid all of those awkward explanations?

 

[electric_warrior]

We should call it something nice and mundane, like Dave or Steve or something like that.

 

[Souplex]

It does. I call it...
The nightball!
The nightball constantly orbits the homeball, which orbits the dayball.

 

[crudus]

There's a lot more evidence supporting the great impact theory than any other hypothesis it's like saying *cough* theoretically whenever gravity is mentioned.

Mars doesn't have two moons, it has two natural satellites. Calling them moons isn't scientific.

Depends of what specifically you are talking about about gravity. Mass being attracted to other mass has been proven, so I don't know to what you are trying to refer.

Well the Earth has about 7 satellites bu only 1 moon.

 

[DefinitelyPsychotic]

Don't really know how this thread is still going on, since it was answered in the first response 0_o.

Hell, will add something. While the Sun is Sol, and the Moon is Luna, The Earth itself is called Terra, and we as a species are Terrans, which is what some believe we would call ourselves in the slim chance of us meeting other intelligent life.

It better, because Terran sounds much cooler than Human.

I thought Terran was any earth based life form though?

Anyway surely it has a name, that being "moon" the only reason the other moons are given names are because, our moon already has the name moon, and it would just get confusing to call them all moon, it would be like the marklar episode of south park.

As for the name, I'm not quite sure, but since us Americans were the first people to step foot on it, I think that we should have the honor of naming it, if it was ever required.

But it already has a name, plus I think the rest of the world may have something to say about that, especially the Greeks who studied it and its effect that it had on our planet way before America as we know it even existed.

It was just a thought. It still think that America, if people ever wanted to change the name, should be the one to do so.

It would have to be a global thing, otherwise I could forsee wars with china over the name of a rock, plus how many Americans would like it if the British decided to name America something else. Or the Russians decided to to give space a name. I am just say i do not want to cause offence, I understand your reasoning, just the implications of it would be huge.

Before you open your mouth, please know what you are talking about. America was derived from Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer. The British had nothing to do with its naming, or with the country itself, besides getting their asses kicked and thrown out in 1783.

 

[MazdaXR]

Don't really know how this thread is still going on, since it was answered in the first response 0_o.

Hell, will add something. While the Sun is Sol, and the Moon is Luna, The Earth itself is called Terra, and we as a species are Terrans, which is what some believe we would call ourselves in the slim chance of us meeting other intelligent life.

It better, because Terran sounds much cooler than Human.

I thought Terran was any earth based life form though?

Anyway surely it has a name, that being "moon" the only reason the other moons are given names are because, our moon already has the name moon, and it would just get confusing to call them all moon, it would be like the marklar episode of south park.

As for the name, I'm not quite sure, but since us Americans were the first people to step foot on it, I think that we should have the honor of naming it, if it was ever required.

But it already has a name, plus I think the rest of the world may have something to say about that, especially the Greeks who studied it and its effect that it had on our planet way before America as we know it even existed.

It was just a thought. It still think that America, if people ever wanted to change the name, should be the one to do so.

It would have to be a global thing, otherwise I could forsee wars with china over the name of a rock, plus how many Americans would like it if the British decided to name America something else. Or the Russians decided to to give space a name. I am just say i do not want to cause offence, I understand your reasoning, just the implications of it would be huge.

Before you open your mouth, please know what you are talking about. America was derived from Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer. The British had nothing to do with its naming, or with the country itself, besides getting their asses kicked and thrown out in 1783.

Like the Americans help originally named the moon?
Did I say that the British originally named it? so maybe you shouldn't be so presumptuous. oh and other than colonising it, I suppose the Spanish had nothing to do with the birth of America either? but good job of going out of your way to try and cause offence.

 

[SeaCalMaster]

Don't really know how this thread is still going on, since it was answered in the first response 0_o.

Hell, will add something. While the Sun is Sol, and the Moon is Luna, The Earth itself is called Terra, and we as a species are Terrans, which is what some believe we would call ourselves in the slim chance of us meeting other intelligent life.

It better, because Terran sounds much cooler than Human.

I thought Terran was any earth based life form though?

Anyway surely it has a name, that being "moon" the only reason the other moons are given names are because, our moon already has the name moon, and it would just get confusing to call them all moon, it would be like the marklar episode of south park.

As for the name, I'm not quite sure, but since us Americans were the first people to step foot on it, I think that we should have the honor of naming it, if it was ever required.

But it already has a name, plus I think the rest of the world may have something to say about that, especially the Greeks who studied it and its effect that it had on our planet way before America as we know it even existed.

It was just a thought. It still think that America, if people ever wanted to change the name, should be the one to do so.

It would have to be a global thing, otherwise I could forsee wars with china over the name of a rock, plus how many Americans would like it if the British decided to name America something else. Or the Russians decided to to give space a name. I am just say i do not want to cause offence, I understand your reasoning, just the implications of it would be huge.

Before you open your mouth, please know what you are talking about. America was derived from Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer. The British had nothing to do with its naming, or with the country itself, besides getting their asses kicked and thrown out in 1783.

Like the Americans help originally named the moon?
Did I say that the British originally named it? so maybe you shouldn't be so presumptuous. oh and other than colonising it, I suppose the Spanish had nothing to do with the birth of America either? but good job of going out of your way to try and cause offence.

Your attempts to keep this connected to the original topic are valiant, but I'm not sure it's really worth it. Sometimes, it's nicer to just revel in the chaos.

 

[Oskamunda]

Theia. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theia_(planet)#Theia]

This is all theoretical of course, but at least we could give the sucker a name.