BS: New name for our planet?

Subject: BS: New name for our planet?
From: The Shambles
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 06:14 AM

As compared with the amount of water - there is actually very little earth - so perhaps a more accurate name for our planet would be The Sea?

Especially as all this blue water is what makes our wourld look so beautiful from a distance (cue for a song) and it is our oceans and fresh water which seems to set our planet aside from many others.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 06:19 AM

The water's just a thin skin on part of the surface. Underneath it's earth all the way. Or maybe rock.

"Home" might be the best name.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 07:48 AM

Well it's not rock for very far down, as thatt generally stops at the bottom of the lithosphere. Beyond that, the names get less snappy, as we tend to try and describe it in terms of what it's made of, and we have educated guesses at best for most of it...

as for a name, either 'complicated' or 'a right mess'

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 07:57 AM

Really it's like a giant paintball.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 08:53 AM

If you must, how about Sol 3? Or Terra? Or Gaia? Or "You-Know-Where!"?

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 08:53 AM

'3rd rock from the sun'? Enjoyable series.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 09:24 AM

Dirt?

Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 10:02 AM

Of course it's only "Earth" in English.

This page has the name for it in a few dozen others. (As well as the name of the other planets.)

I rather like the Indonesian - "Matahari". And the Irish "Grian" has a nice ring to it.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 10:25 AM

Shithole springs to mind.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Amos
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 10:27 AM

How do you say "home of the fuckups" in Galactic?


A

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 10:28 AM

Not to my mind. Great planet. Wouldn't live anywhere else.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Mooh
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 10:52 AM

Planet Mooh. I want to be your King!

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 10:55 AM

How about 'Pluto'? I think it's available.

I took a look at the different names and have a question. Do those names translate to 'Earth' or some other mutually agreed upon name?
For instance, we say that we moved some earth from one side of the house to the other. Would a Swede say he'd moved some Jorden?

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Amos
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 10:57 AM

Ebbie, is this on the inside of the house or the outside? If the inside the Swede would not discuss it in public.

A

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 01:19 PM

Ooooh- the earth moved!

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 01:22 PM

Here you can look up how aliens would name us

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 02:49 PM

Ebbie, yes (from Google pictures, which is my trick when I don't know the language).

It seems that for two very large language families Earth and earth are the same words.

(1) In the romanic languages (Latin, Italina, French, and possibly all the others like Spanish etc) Terra and terra use the same word.

(2) In all the Norse and German languages too both words are the same (and come from a God(ess?) for earth. The old Norse word is Jörd which can be found in all modern Norse languages and, of course, both Erde and Earth are just distant variants of "Jörd". The first vowel sound of "earth" is nearly identical with the first vowel in Jörd

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 03:19 PM

I guess that is true for a number of physical or at least geographical things. Like water and wasser. Don't know how agua came into being but I'm sure I could look it up.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 03:46 PM

That's from teh Latin family of languages (aqua etc) - but it's the same "wa" sound in either case. Sanskrit (which is a slightly more distant relative language) has "vaar"

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 03:52 PM

Dave. It's always seemed like a Dave to me......

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Peace
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 04:05 PM

Dave's not here!

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: jeffp
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 04:14 PM

The Planet of the Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 04:19 PM

Mudcat (for short).

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Joybell
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 05:29 PM

Please don't let us Aussies rename it - It will be
Didyabringagrogalong
or something.
Second thoughts about the Aus. connection - how about Gert as in "Our home is Gert by Sea"
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 05:32 PM

And the Aussies would probably want to turn it the other way up too...

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: John O'L
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 05:45 PM

Willabarrabac?

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Joybell
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 06:38 PM

It is up the other way, McGrath.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Mooh
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 08:29 PM

Okay, you didn't like Planet Mooh. How about Moohland? Moohworld? Or just Mooh?

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 08:33 PM

How about Bill? Yeah, I like that. Planet Bill. Or maybe Ed.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: bobad
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 09:07 PM

How about Janet "Janet Planet"?

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Mooh
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 12:25 AM

bobad...Please no, I knew a Janet once. Wasted two years of my life on her.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 02:23 AM

The World of the Wars.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 03:22 AM

Polluto?

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: The Shambles
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 04:50 AM

Any aliens would find so many life forms and systems in our oceans to study, that there must be some doubt if they would even get around to studying what is on the land.

Especially if these aliens had gills.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 05:16 AM

If aliens had gills, they'd be expected to sit in the lounge with them. Pints only in the bar.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: The Shambles
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 07:49 AM

Planet Fish?

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 09:45 AM

*sigh*...well, sadly, I vote for "Polluto".

nice one, Paul

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 01:21 PM

'Polluto' gets my vote too. Wish I'd thought of it.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: lady penelope
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 02:12 PM

I really like the idea of coming from the planet Janet...... possibly I need help.......

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Mooh
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 02:17 PM

Polluto is very good.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 02:32 PM

Chez Nous...?

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Joybell
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 04:41 PM

Yes! And yes - sadly. Polluto. Paul - what a mind.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Peace
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 05:31 PM

"We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth"

That is from one of my favourite short stories ever. Read it as a youth and love it to this day.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: The Shambles
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 06:18 PM

I like Chez Nous. It does seem to sum-up the rather parochial view we have of our wonderful would's very special element.

For as all life came from the sea and some like the whales have returned to it and we are mostly made up of water anyway - we would perhaps be wise to see and value our planet as strangers would.

Planet Aqua?

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 06:52 PM

Evangelicals would not go for the name Gaia

Terra has always had some popularity.

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Raedwulf
Date: 02 Nov 06 - 02:47 PM

I rather liked GS's "World of the Wars", actually, but "Polluto" does run it a very close second. Though I must say, when I saw the thread title the first word that popped into my head was...

"Buggered"*

*An accurate description, but probably not a very good name...

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Tom Hamilton frae Saltcoats Scotland
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 08:33 AM

dying?

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 09:02 AM

Titanic

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: The Shambles
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 09:29 AM

Vogon?

Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 01:42 PM

It could be named after you.