Earth does have other names. In K-PAX the alien prot (pronouced proat) says that on his home planet of K-PAX the name for Earth is B-TIK.
earth isnt called earth
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Actually, we officially call it Sol 3 because planets are named after their sun and their relative position to it.
However, since we lived on it for quite a while and various cultures called it differently all the time, some of those names still stick around today in everyday use.
And why not? It is us who name things for our use. If some other entities call it differently but don't interact with us, how does it matter what they might call it?
However, since we lived on it for quite a while and various cultures called it differently all the time, some of those names still stick around today in everyday use.
And why not? It is us who name things for our use. If some other entities call it differently but don't interact with us, how does it matter what they might call it?
Psh. What do we have to worry about? The only thing that could concievably knock us off our perch is cats evolving opposable thumbs and organisation.TheGreenManalishi said:
'cos then we'd be fucked.
Which translated means...Saimdusan said:
I'm not a foreign language expert, but I'm fairly sure those all roughly translate into "Earth."
They're already taking over individual households!Amnestic said:
Just for the record Etats-Unis (there's an "s" at the end) is literally translated as "United States." At least for geography, I wouldn't say that names are given by the people that talk about it, rather by the people that live there.Monocle Man said:
Yeah, but if there was life on another planet, and we called it say...Suplam 4, which wasn't the name that they gave it, don't you think it's a bit stupid?NoMoreSanity said:
I think that is his point anyway. If an Alien race is coming to our planet for the first time, I wouldn't expect them to call it Earth, they'd probably have their own name for it. Until we corrected them.
Thats like calling england some unintelligable savage name on the basis that savages lived here then left. We name ourselves, we dont take the names of past.webbo619 said:
Well, in the Stargate universe it's called the Tauri homeworld, rather than actually having a name, the main species just marks it.
Actually Terra may be the Latin word for Earth but it didn't die out with Latin. Latin descendant languagues like Portuguese still use Terra.
It's nice that you're enjoying reading science fiction, but it's important to keep in mind what's actually true. I have nothing against thinking fantasy is true, but when it comes to fact, you should know what's actually true. It can cause problems. In the Lord of the Rings, trees rise up against Sarumon because he has been cutting down trees. But if everyone were to assume that deforestation was just fine becuase eventually the ents will come out and destroy all the chainsaws and things to cut down the forest with, that would NOT be fine. If you can't find a solution to a problem in your life, praying to God is NOT the solution. You need to think about the problem in a different way, you need to find other ways to solve it, you need consider if it's just you who has made a problem for yourself. If you believe fiction like the Bible literally, and hope that someday God will open the heavens and tell you what to do, you've got another thing coming. I don't mean to demean people's belief in God, but I spent several years of my life struggling with a problem I created for myself and prayed to God for help. If you thinks that's how the world works, you're taking fiction literally. I don't mean that fiction is wrong, just that non-fiction is a chronicling of current knowledge, and everything which isn't is considered non-fiction.
well likely other names for earth would probably Sol 3 (sol being the name for the sun), Tera (Latin for earth) or for aliens "the planet that keeps broadcasting all this reality TV crap"