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Oh boy I had a few of those, too.
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I think I'll take mobius because it isn't copyrighted.
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Bernie wrote:i dont get why in science fiction they have planets with roman numerals after. couldn't they come up with a new name for a planet? instead of just giving planets the same name? seems pretty lazy.
Or instead of roman numerals, you could go the greek route:

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Alpha
Beta
Gamma
Delta
Epsilon
Zeta
Eta
(not sure that's the right order) like in Star Control 2.
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Bernie wrote:i dont get why in science fiction they have planets with roman numerals after. couldn't they come up with a new name for a planet? instead of just giving planets the same name? seems pretty lazy.
Actually, that's what we do now. Planets are named after the star they're found around plus some identifying number (Such as M26 or RW-2004 plus a number. Often *stars* are named this way.

Of course some get away with a simple letter such as Kepler-56a and Kepler-56b, the two planets detected around the star Kepler-56.
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The aliens on planet Kepler-56b must feel honored by the name we have given them.
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Actually, that's what we do now. Planets are named after the star they're found around plus some identifying number
yeah but isnt that more for far away planets that we dont really care about? I mean if we colonized that planet I'm sure we'd give it something more individual.
im really just thinking about the planets in our own solar system.
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Bernie wrote:
Actually, that's what we do now. Planets are named after the star they're found around plus some identifying number
yeah but isnt that more for far away planets that we dont really care about? I mean if we colonized that planet I'm sure we'd give it something more individual.
im really just thinking about the planets in our own solar system.
Yes, I'm sure the colonists of Uranus would like to rename their home planet. Something like Crotchicus or Gonadus, maybe? Unless by the time we man Uranus we're already past such childish things.

Oh and Mars should change its name to Snickers.
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When we're able to take care of our own planet, we'll be satisfied with it and have no need to colonize others.

So the titles of Kepler-56b and Uranus shall remain.
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also I think giving numbers and greek numbers to planets make it seem more 'techy', going along with the sci fi genre. they do the same thing with robot and spaceship names.
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Bernie wrote:
Actually, that's what we do now. Planets are named after the star they're found around plus some identifying number
yeah but isnt that more for far away planets that we dont really care about? I mean if we colonized that planet I'm sure we'd give it something more individual.
im really just thinking about the planets in our own solar system.
Humans always do that; people name their roombas. And dress them up. But most planets will keep their numbers. Especially if they were home to aliens we didn't know about, care about or pay much attention to. If any aliens know about earth you can bet it will have an equally complex and routine name. And if life is so wonderfully common as every human secretly hopes it is, you can expect humans themselves will have some boring classification in the universal guide.

VikingBoyBilly wrote:When we're able to take care of our own planet, we'll be satisfied with it and have no need to colonize others.

So the titles of Kepler-56b and Uranus shall remain.
I believe you mean 'When we're satisfied with our own planet and have no need to colonize others, we'll take care of it.'
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On the other hand, I hope colonisation of new worlds remains impossible. We're eventually forced, at least in order to survive, to take care of Earth and not trash it and move to another one like a bad lessee. I'm disappointed how people like Hawking have long ago given up on humanity :(
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I can understand that, given that a large portion of our population expects to be whisked away to fluffy cloud paradise within the next 50 years. Not conductive to long term planning that.
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