You Get To Name Our Next Planet

[Nannernade]

Pluto, they say it's not a planet, I say suck it, now it is.

 

[JoJo]

Maybe Hope or perhaps Liberty... not very original but meaningful all the same.

 

[Shockolate]

Ramrod!

Because it would amuse me.

 

[Shakomaru]

Skaia maybe. Cool name, cool planet.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Assuming that it is similar to Earth, I would name it Gerra (Grand Terra) because it will be grand to move to a new Earth and mess it up just as badly as the Earth we currently live on with more efficiency.

 

[bubba145]

Reach or Griffin.

 

[StormShaun]

Storm's Grace.

Why, because it would be awesome!
Also because it would surrounded by non deadly lightning.

 

[retyopy]

Whatever super racist slur is used against our nearest alien neighbors.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Pluto the second.

 

[Karlaxx]

As I am from the stock of a place with absolutely no places within it with names of original origin, I would name the new Earth.... New Earth.

 

[tseroff]

Edit: Hacked.
OT: Perelandra

 

[ascorbius]

Bob

Yay for Titan AE.. I would totally call the new planet Bob. (Also works if Rowan Atkinson was the president of planet Bob..)

 

[PerfectEnemy]

SecondTimesACharm?

StupidAstronautSaysWhat?

But I'd probably have to choose: AndYouAllSaidMyExtensiveKnowledgeOfScienceFictionWasWorthless!

 

[Guardian of Nekops]

Hmmm... how about Foothold in the Stars, or just Foothold for when people stop being formal and poetic about it. No planet will last long with the name "Foothold in the Stars" once they build a Burger King there.

I choose this name because, by the time we found this planet (even if we found it tomorrow) overpopulation will have begun to be a problem. The second planet we inhabit can never be allowed to be the last, because we will soon fill it and use enough of the resources so that we need to start making difficult choices again, whether they be about resource gathering or population control.

Once we are able to expand to other worlds, we will need to keep doing so. So that's why I would call it Foothold, because it's a new start but it is not, and can not, be the end.

 

[Arakasi]

Pluto.
There needs to be a planet called Pluto.

 

[Blobpie]

Soditall

 

[Arafiro]

Nova.

Because it's awesome, easy to pronounce and because it means new.

 

[Eldrig]

Trantor!

Edit: Not everyone may get my reference to Asimov, but i'm hoping people do.

 

[brutus3933]

Halcyon. It sounds awesome, and it means peace and tranquility.