Let's find a better name for our race,shall we?

[Captain Pancake]

Terrans is the obvious choice.

-m

That would apply to every species on the planet unfortunately. It works better when describing humanity as a cultural group (in the same way French or American works today).

Human is most probably the result of hominis (meaning man) and humus (earth) being combined in a word that most literally means "Earthly Beings". Given that this word was first coined during an era when people believed that divine beings often directly interacted in mortal affairs, it seems reasonable that they would come up with a word that distinguishes people from gods.

If one wanted a new word, it would have to represent humanity in a way that specificially encapsulates us as a species. At the moment I am at a loss as to what traits would be so general as to apply to nearly ever person who has lived in the last couple of millenia.

While true, in the context of defining our species in an inter-stellar capacity, "Terrans" as in "the intelligent species originating from Terra" makes reasonable sense, even if *technically* any life from Earth is Terran.

-m

I was working on something for a good ten minutes, but I can't think of anything better. Terrans is both scientifically accurate and pretty imposing too. Any other space faring civilisations referring to us as Terrans would make me feel pretty cool about myself, even though we'd be relatively weak and generally thought of as a race of cowardly leeches. But still, the point stands.

If we found an alien race that originated on a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, I'd probably call them "Centaurians," for example.

which also sounds freaking cool.

 

[CincoDeMayo]

I babelized "Humans" and got "Lavoro" as a result, think it means "work" in some language. I dig it!

 

[Russian_Assassin]

Douchebago Sapien. It describes our race pretty good, don't you agree?

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I could make a joke on how humanity has screwed up in the past... but instead, I'll just go with "Terrans", instead.

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

We are the Hurpadurpdurps. Because it is awesome. Or The Race of Awesomesauce Action Pants People. On a more serious note I'm sticking with Humans since I actually kind of like it.

 

[Mammon]

I say we stick to "humans". Short, easy to remember, and less to debate about. If we open that door, I think we would invite more chaos than reason. If people start wars over religious questions, I don't think they can be civil about this.

 

[Lexodus]

Well the Latin word for Earth is Tellus. So maybe Tellasians?

Tellus what?

 

[Klarinette]

Manimals or Terrans. I like those.

 

[reg42]

No thanks, human is a pretty good name IMO.

 

[Spiner909]

I think you are an idiot for even suggesting that.

 

[griever0311]

I'm going to cast my vote for "humans". We don't need to be "Terrans" unless we discover that there are only one or two other intelligent races in our galaxy.

 

[JoshGod]

homo idiotus

 

[Critical92]

Humanoid? :|

 

[The Bum]

homospaiens folishus

 

[xHipaboo420x]

Those Guys What Ruined The Planet.

 

[Lexodus]

The Lesser Hairless Douchebag.

homo not-very-sapiens

More like 'sapiens, no homo!'

 

[guardian001]

the Idiot race, since it's often accurate?

 

[Eric the Orange]

I personally don't like human,but I had no ideea what else we'd call ourselfs as a race.

I think you mean species not race.

 

[Nmil-ek]

Parasites, what do I win?