Sun is called Sol.
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And Luna makes a ton of sense if you want to remove the ambiguity of a moon and the moon.
Sol too, if you want to call the closest star the sun wherever you are.
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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
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.
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It has been so funny to me reading Foundation by Isaac Asimov as it appears very tropy, but then you realize that those things are tropes because of the books.
Tropes exist because they work and who cares what the money is called
The money can’t be any real earth currency, and making up something like florbs would also make people roll their eyes. Credits is fine
Exactly. You've got limited time to tell your story in a movie, so establishing a fake currency that nobody except hardcore numistatics nerds will care about is kinda pointless when everyone already understands that credits = future money.
And as you say using a real currency doesn't make sense in most future movie contexts, and using the "wrong" one may even offend some people who may then boycott your movie - which is obviously not desirable when you're a studio trying to make money.
I image its the same reason for the Gold/Silver currency in many fantasy settings.
I image its the same reason for the Gold/Silver currency in many fantasy settings.
I think that's also because a couple hundred years ago practically every currency was just a certain weight of gold, silver or copper. Different coins were just an easy way to recognize the weight.
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Yeah, I like being thrown into a new world and still somehow understanding the basics of it so it's familiar. No need to name everything differently if that's not the focus of the game.
Credits will do fine
Credits are for future and guns, it's coins/pieces of gold/silver when swords.
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Helios and Luna? You're mixing Greek and Latin nomenclature! My immersion is ruined!
So does English.
Megafying glass? Suffering from cold = superformia? Do you prefer monoceros or Nasacorn?
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It’s “hard sci-fi”, so that means no lightspeed travel but also we’ve had cryo sleep since the 90s because obviously that’s so fucking easy to invent.
Also, lots of mixed culture names like Aleksander Ho because your genius prediction of the future is that people will intermarry.
To be fair, cryo sleep does not violate fundamental laws of physics like FTL anything does.
It works conceptually, but in Demolition Man they had it working supposedly in 1996, only three years after the movie came out. Of course lots of old sci-fi now has those laughably optimistic future timelines where the Mars colony is up and running in 2010.
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In real life, the sun is called "Sol" and we are in the "Solar system" as in, sol-ar. Others are called star systems, some are named; "Polaris" is usually just called that instead of the "Polaris system" or the like
Helios -> Helios system follows this same logic.
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Aliens are humanoid and sexually attractive.
Takes off space helmet on alien planet, "the air is fine!"
“Oh no! Some of the black liquid got on me. Better get back to the ship.”
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Would actually be fun to have an android character that tries to be less human. Like it's an unfortunate happenstance that someone designed him to be human-like, and its primary goal is to purge this aspect of itself. Like an Uncle Tom character with deep-rooted anxieties and a machine supremacy complex. Come to think of it, this has to exist already, it doesn't feel all that original, but I can't point to where I would've seen that.
Check out this recently published book: Ode to the Half-Broken by Suzanne Palmer
Main protagonist is a humanoid bot who strongly rejects the human trappings and designs given to it by its creator.
Marvin the paranoid android from Hitchhikers Guide.
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Broke: Memory units in optimistic numbers of megabytes and gigabytes.
Woke: Memory units in astronomically-high numbers of gigabytes and terabytes.
Bespoke: Memory units in totally incomprehensible units like kiloquads or exanodes.
Slaps the superships central computer "This here runs on 12 bits of memory! Our engineers really outdone themselves with optimisation this time."
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Or never specify. "That spacestation has massive computing power" "How big?" "Massive."
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Aliens land in the US.
Soldiers open fire on the Aliens
Why is there no movie where they land somewhere else and we all go "well thank fuck they didn't land in Texas"
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The warrior alien who solves problems through brute force, and struggles to understand Earth customs in comedic ways.
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