Face it. Our planet has the worst name of all the planets in the solar system

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Think about it. Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter. They are all very euphonic and roll off the tongue. Even Uranus, all jokes on its pronunciation aside, comes off pleasant sounding, or at the least, humorous.

But "Earth"? Earth sounds like something grunted by a tennis player in the third set. Face it. Our planet's name sucks.

[MonkeyFunk]

1. I used to like "Terra"

'til Bush declared war on it.

We need a new name.

[meegbear]

2. You should have spoken up when we were naming it ...

I wanted to name it 'Bob', but I was outvoted.

[TommyO]

10. Hmmm, sounds like something from Titan A.E.

"So, what are you going to call it?"
"Hmmm. Bob"
"Planet Bob? You can't call a planet Bob!"
"Well, no one is making you live on Bob."

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. I agree - Earth is a one-syllable grunt. We need to call it Gaia.

[stuntcat]

6. Gaia :headbang:

:headbang: Gaia's much more poetic. I love "Earth" anyway though.

[CGowen]

9. Gaia is correct, Gaia even gave birth to Uranus a very heavy child. n/t

[unpossibles]

28. but what did Uranus give birth to?

sorry. I can't resist jokes like that. I'll try to behave though.

[CGowen]

29. I'm not sure what you mean, but like in a good old Greek mythology there is incest

and Uranus, Gaia's son is also the father of her children

In the Olympian creation myth, as Hesiod tells it in Theogony, Uranus came every single night to cover the earth and mate with Gaia, but he hated the children she bore him. Hesiod names the Titans, six sons and six daughters, the one-hundred-armed giants (Hecatonchires) and the one-eyed giants, the Cyclopes. Uranus imprisoned Gaia's youngest children in Tartarus, deep within Earth, where they caused pain to Gaia. She shaped a great flint-bladed sickle and asked her sons to castrate Uranus. Only Cronus, youngest of the Titans, was willing: he ambushed his father and castrated him, casting the severed testicles into the sea. For this fearful deed, Uranus called his sons Titanes Theoi, or "Straining Gods"<1>.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus_(mythology)

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/g/gaia.html

[unpossibles]

30. sorry. It was a play on words

you know...


never mind.

:)

[CGowen]

31. Ah the Beavis & Butthead line ........... n/t

[Squatch]

4. We should call it the "third oblate spheroid"

[LostInAnomie]

5. I agree. Our planet should have a name that sounds like the heavenly angels singing.

Something beautiful like "Lice-Shit Fat-Balls".

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Or Scrumgumptious cockwhacker

[trof]

7. I prefer 'Urth'.

Sounds so Ur-ish.

[quip]

8. I think Mother Earth likes her name

She seems to be warming up to it, anyway...

:rofl:

[kentauros]

18. "Mother Earth" or

"Tellus Mater" :)

What are the names for the planet by the other peoples of the world, historically or currently?

[snooper2]

12. Could be worse...

it could be called Peter :)

[deucemagnet]

13. Even the meanings of the other planets names are better.

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter -- all gods. What does the name of our planet mean? Dirt.

[Duer 157099]

14. No kidding. And how about the sucky name for our satellite

that sounds like a bovine grunt? "MoooooooooooN"

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. Shouldn't the moon have a non-generic name?

I mean, do we live on Planet?

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. And we should call the Sun just 'Star'

Planet, Moon, and Star.

And the Milky Way we'll just call Galaxy.

[Bucky]

27. I think it's also called Selene--a name that's been ruined by that Canadian chick

[kentauros]

20. Or call it

"Luna"

:)

[skygazer]

15. Sol III

On Star Trek, I always got a kick out of the fact that almost every alien planet was referred to by the people who lived on it as (name of sun) (number). Regula I, Rigel VII, Gamma Hydra IV, etc.

I would think that would be the name used by those unfamiliar with the place but that the natives would have their own name for it. I mean, unless the place was colonized, the original inhabitants wouldn't know their stellar cartography from a hole in the ground.

Or maybe I think too much.....

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. You mean....Ceti Alpha VI....right??? n/t

[skygazer]

21. Ceti Alpha VI exploded

Which shifted the orbit of Ceti Alpha V. Terrible tragedy. But it made for a smashing film. :hi:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

23. Capteen...he put creatures in our ears!!! n/t

[KamaAina]

22. Actually, I'm thinking "Uranus"

I mean, at least you'll never hear Beavis or Butt-head say, "Heh-heh, heh-heh, you said 'Earth', heh-heh-heh-heh-heh!"

[formerrepuke]

24. I say we rename it 'Mohammed'.

[XemaSab]

25. .

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. *ahem*

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=7220946



:bounce:

[Duer 157099]

32. Correlary: "Earthlings" is also pretty sucky

I mean, c'mon, Martians, Venusians... how'd we get to be "...lings"??

Lings. So undignified.

And if beings were to live on the Moon, no doubt they'd be Moonies.

Earth and Moon: laughing stocks of the galaxy.

[THUNDER HANDS]

33. does anyone know who named Earth, Earth?

like, who named the planet, and how did they name it?

was there a vote?