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Anon has seen it all before (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Varesti@lemmy.zip 150 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Sun is called Sol.

[–] Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works 55 points 4 days ago (4 children)

And Luna makes a ton of sense if you want to remove the ambiguity of a moon and the moon.

[–] Klear@piefed.world 26 points 4 days ago

Sol too, if you want to call the closest star the sun wherever you are.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Moon-like natural satellite.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

Not if you are Spanish.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Let's just settle on Moon™ as a compromise for our moon and just moon for all other moons.

[–] TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Right? I can't think of any scifi that refers to the sun as helios?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Any sci-fi that takes place in antiquity, I suppose.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Lucian's Secret History, perhaps?

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And moon is called Luna

That's why an orbit around the sun is "solar" and an orbit around the moon is 'lunar"

It seems like earth is just called earth for most spaceflight purposes (e.g. low-earth orbit), although the word for it in some Latin languages comes from "terra"

I think it'd be fun to call earth "Humus". We get words like posthumous, exhume, humility from it, and it's theorized that it may share an origin with the word Homo, from which we get "Human".

So if we called it Earth we'd be Earthlings, if we call it Terra we'd be Terrans, if we called it Tellus we'd be Tellurians, but if we called it Humus we could stay as Humans =D

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Isn't humus 'earth' more in the sense of literal soil on the ground, rather than the planet? More of a human scaled interpretation, at least.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Originally it was called Jimmy though.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Jimbo > Jimmy > Jim > Big Jim > James Sol > Big Gay Jim > Short Fat Jim > Little Gary > Jimothy > Jimward > Mothy Jim > Jimjim > Little Jim and finally Stankeye Jim

I'm no Astrologer, but I hear we're entering the age of Big Gay Jim.