Poll: Should the moon have a name?

[Snowy Rainbow]

Yes, our natural satellite does have name already, its 'Moon'. Just like Jupiters satellites are named Io, Europa, Ganymede and so on.

How could you leave out Callisto? Not cool...

 

[Snowy Rainbow]

That... isn't trolling. At all. Moon/Luna Sol/Sun are names for both of them. Official names aer obviously Moon and Sun, but... it wasn't completely wrong. I don't really get it.

Well, in the context of the thread, Luna is not the correct answer. Sure, you COULD call it Luna, but it's name (as defined by NASA and the IAU) is the Moon.

Also: I vote we rename the Sun and the Moon to Kroshlar and Zeepta.

 

[ZeroMachine]

That... isn't trolling. At all. Moon/Luna Sol/Sun are names for both of them. Official names aer obviously Moon and Sun, but... it wasn't completely wrong. I don't really get it.

Well, in the context of the thread, Luna is not the correct answer. Sure, you COULD call it Luna, but it's name (as defined by NASA and the IAU) is the Moon.

Also: I vote we rename the Sun and the Moon to Kroshlar and Zeepta.

I agree. Just in case the Netooplee-peep-klap Empire invades us.

 

[Xanadu84]

We could name the Moon Rana...

...

...That was a Minecraft joke, I'm not just giving a completely arbitrary opinion.

 

[somonels]

Luna and Sol are as viable as The Moon and The Sun, which are just translations. Those are their names, once people started figuring out that there are others they just called objects after them. That is why there are no The Moons and The Suns.

But hey, who cares that we have at least four other moons, and one with an actual name. Right?

 

[Hound174]

Lol, the more I read the word moon, the more ridiculous it sounds xD

 

[Kukakkau]

Luna = Moon
Sol = Sun

they already have names
/entire thread

Under a minute and someone's pretty much closed your thread

 

[ZeroMachine]

So an alien force wou

Luna = Moon
Sol = Sun

they already have names
/entire thread

And yet it goes on for five pages. Oh, the hilarity.

Mainly because that poster was wrong and later admitted to trolling "for the lulz".

That... isn't trolling. At all. Moon/Luna Sol/Sun are names for both of them. Official names aer obviously Moon and Sun, but... it wasn't completely wrong. I don't really get it.

If we call the moon "THE Moon", and our sun "THE Sun". Doesn't that just go to show how egocentric we are as a species because we're basically giving the giant proverbial finger to the galaxy saying "Our universe is better than yours". If so I think we're kinda screwed when aliens visit like in Mass Effect accept we don't actually win of escape that war in the beginning.

That is just hilarious bullshit logic there. Any alien species that encounters us won't understand our language, so they won't understand the terms "moon" and "sun" other than the fact that we've named our Kroshlar and Zeepta "Moon" and "Sun" respectively.

See what I did there? If you understood that language, you'd understand that they named EVERY moon and sun after their world leaders, a much more egocentric thing to do.





All joking aside, do you see my point? How do we know we aren't incredibly humble compared to other intelligent life forms in the galaxy?

To us they have meaning, but to an alien species, they're nothing but unintelligible words.

Really, so an alien civilization would have technology to travel millions of lightyears and survive but they would be too imcompentent to learn one of our planet's if not all languages.


And stop being a dumb troll snow rainbow. No one in everyday life uses those terms.

Completely ignoring my point, AND calling someone who has done literally nothing a dumb troll. You're on a roll.

 

[Snowy Rainbow]

And stop being a dumb troll snow rainbow. No one in everyday life uses those terms.

No one uses Sun and Moon? Okay...?

*can't tell if serious*

 

[Snowy Rainbow]

Completely ignoring my point, AND calling someone who has done literally nothing a dumb troll. You're on a roll.

Oh thank god. I thought I missed something really obvious, lol.

 

[ZeroMachine]

Completely ignoring my point, AND calling someone who has done literally nothing a dumb troll. You're on a roll.

Oh thank god. I thought I missed something really obvious, lol.

Pff, no. The guy is just looking in a mirror and thought he saw you for some Tnaplala unknown reason.

(Tnaplala- God of the Netooplee-peep-klap Empire. I'm totally gonna keep rolling with this.)

 

[Snowy Rainbow]

Completely ignoring my point, AND calling someone who has done literally nothing a dumb troll. You're on a roll.

Oh thank god. I thought I missed something really obvious, lol.

Pff, no. The guy is just looking in a mirror and thought he saw you for some Tnaplala unknown reason.

(Tnaplala- God of the Netooplee-peep-klap Empire. I'm totally gonna keep rolling with this.)

People will look back on this day in a few hundreds years and build statues of you, the great prophet Alex, seer of the Netoople-peep-klap coming.

 

[Genixma]

I call it "The Prince's Home".

(See Katamari Damacy for futher reference)

 

[DudeistBelieve]

M-O-O-N! That spells moon!

/The Stand

 

[Boba Frag]

Luna = Moon
Sol = Sun

they already have names
/entire thread

Yeah... there we go, really

Granted, the Latin terms mean 'moon' and 'sun' but they're still names.
I believe Earth is called Sol 3 (3rd planet from the Sun) but we still call it Earth or Holy Terra if you play 40k!

 

[ZeroMachine]

Completely ignoring my point, AND calling someone who has done literally nothing a dumb troll. You're on a roll.

Oh thank god. I thought I missed something really obvious, lol.

Pff, no. The guy is just looking in a mirror and thought he saw you for some Tnaplala unknown reason.

(Tnaplala- God of the Netooplee-peep-klap Empire. I'm totally gonna keep rolling with this.)

People will look back on this day in a few hundreds years and build statues of you, the great prophet Alex, seer of the Netoople-peep-klap coming.

I should start a religion. Has anyone else started a religion based on a science fiction thing? I can't think of any...

Spoiler: Oh...

And you were probably expecting a scientology joke.

And stop being a dumb troll snow rainbow. No one in everyday life uses those terms.

No one uses Sun and Moon? Okay...?

*can't tell if serious*

No, satellite and star to a lesser extent you dumbass. *face palm*

You need to stop insulting him (her?). Now. If you can't speak in a civil manner, don't speak at all. Read the forum rules.

 

[Eternaly Spyro]

it does have a name. its the Moon.

 

[Snowy Rainbow]

And stop being a dumb troll snow rainbow. No one in everyday life uses those terms.

No one uses Sun and Moon? Okay...?

*can't tell if serious*

No, satellite and star to a lesser extent you dumbass. *face palm*

Um... no one calls the stars... stars?

*still not sure if serious*

Luna = Moon
Sol = Sun

they already have names
/entire thread

Yeah... there we go, really

Granted, the Latin terms mean 'moon' and 'sun' but they're still names.
I believe Earth is called Sol 3 (3rd planet from the Sun) but we still call it Earth or Holy Terra if you play 40k!

I smell an Imperial dog...

 

[faceless chick]

i can't believe this thread is still going.

seriously people..you're almost as bad as these guys:

 

[SeaMonster1776]

And stop being a dumb troll snow rainbow. No one in everyday life uses those terms.

No one uses Sun and Moon? Okay...?

*can't tell if serious*

No, satellite and star to a lesser extent you dumbass. *face palm*

Um... no one calls the stars... stars?

*still not sure if serious*



No, the term star sometimes is used interchangeably with the word sun, to a lesser extent that the word moon is used in exchang for satellite.

*confounded at the lack of comprehension*

And shut it zeromachine you have no room to talk, just because you talk in a backhanded manner doesn't make it any better than me being blunt about what I'm thinking.