Comment on Anon has seen it all before

Varesti@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Klear@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Moon-like natural satellite.

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not if you are Spanish.

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• TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lucian’s Secret History, perhaps?

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• brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

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  • Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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