I could see an advanced civilization with lots of habitable planets having a naming convention of star name then planet number. So we'd be Sun-3. Or if we rename the sun to Earth, we'd be Earth-3, called "Earth" for short. In English, our planet name literally means dirt. 😞
Ideally, you’d organize it like the animal kingdom or something. Very detailed and perhaps giving at least a hint to its location. Then you’d have a colloquial name for it.
Just writing this for people who'd want to know: hoshi (星) is the daily, common word used to refer to stars and planets. This is the most common word that someone would use to refer to a star. However, for science, more precise terms do exist: wakusei (惑星) for "planets" and kousei (恒星) for "stars".
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abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 141 pts · 61d
Star != Planet
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works · 87 pts · 61d
Right? Shouldn't it be something like JESSICA'S THICC BOOTY 4?
Cypher@aussie.zone · 46 pts · 61d
A misunderstanding on the Aliens part, their planet being second from their star is actually Jessica’s swampy taint.
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 61d
JESSICA'S THICK BOOTY b or JESSICA'S THICK BOOTY c probably.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 60d
Jessica’s Thick Booty Prime
OpenStars@piefed.social · 3 pts · 60d
*THICC* :-)
CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de · 21 pts · 61d
I could see an advanced civilization with lots of habitable planets having a naming convention of star name then planet number. So we'd be Sun-3. Or if we rename the sun to Earth, we'd be Earth-3, called "Earth" for short. In English, our planet name literally means dirt. 😞
Benign@fedia.io · 16 pts · 61d
Dirt is great. Have you seen the other planets in our system?
Also one of them is called Uranus. Dirt is great.
brsrklf@jlai.lu · 12 pts · 61d
"An advanced civilization"?
Sure, try typing "Sol-3" and "Sol-3a" into wikipedia.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 61d
Ideally, you’d organize it like the animal kingdom or something. Very detailed and perhaps giving at least a hint to its location. Then you’d have a colloquial name for it.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 6 pts · 60d
That's all (?) indoeuropean languages I think
alanjaow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 61d
I love the cataloging aspect. Maybe official names like those, plus imaginative names from whoever lives on it, or whoever discovered it.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 19 pts · 60d
In Japanese, the common word for star, "hoshi" also refers to planets. So, clearly, this comic was translated from Japanese.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 60d
That seems like a poor choice on their part
randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · 4 pts · 60d
Just writing this for people who'd want to know: hoshi (星) is the daily, common word used to refer to stars and planets. This is the most common word that someone would use to refer to a star. However, for science, more precise terms do exist: wakusei (惑星) for "planets" and kousei (恒星) for "stars".
Illogicalbit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 60d
Exactly, they might be from the “booty” system now, but there’s no need to rename the planet. That would just be confusing.
devfuuu@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 61d
Ahah, go tell that to all the chinese cultivation manga folks.
cholesterol@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 60d
Very Rick and Morty.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 60d
Dr Who did this bit
Hupf@feddit.org · 2 pts · 60d
Wait until Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All hears about this
Maultasche@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 60d
Wasn't that a plot in the last series of Doctor Who?