Humans Need To Name Stuff

one last item that has been knocking around in the back of my mind for many moons now...

us humans, if we can see it, we will give it a name. yet, no one over the last 1500 years or so, has bothered to give our solar system a name. there's only one universe that we know of, so "universe" is a good enough name. we named our galaxy the milky way, and we formed committees to give a name to every single space rock that we can spot. 'earth' is also a nice name for our planet. but, our home solar system, where we live, is not named anything.... those medieval popes missed out on a prime chance for immortality and trying to get a name resolution through those committees would be next to impossible now a days.

i don't even know why i care. i basically assume that when we are finally discovered by an alien race, we will just be conquered and colonized, and they will give our solar system some gawd awful name that we can not pronounce, and we will lose part of our identity as humans.

a local college radio show, that i used to listen to, called this week in science, was(is?) co-hosted by kirsten sanford, easy to listen to, and can explain complex subjects in such a fashion that even i can understand. as i was thinking about a good name for our solar system, kirsten sounded like a good name, so we could be from the planet earth, in the kirsten solar system, found in the milky way galaxy. that has a nice ring to it.

ok, ummm, nevermind
toodles

 

Great idea!
I'm thinking something to honour Nicolaus Copernicus.

But, to do that today will be an impossible mission.

 

In latin the name of our planet is Terra, and the name of the sun is Sol. In fact, the name Milky Way is also derived from the latin name "Via Lactea" . . . which means “The road of milk.” The English language leans heavily on Latin . . . I'd be surprised if other languages didn't have their own derived names for these things.

I find etymology and onomastics to be fascinating. There was a time in my misspent youth where I considered going into some form of linguistics.

 

lol you must have watched star trek.

 

Guilty as charged . . .

 

Me too. Every single episode. Some more than once. I even once, many eons ago, on my TRS-80, copied and ran the entire StarTrek game. Took forever to write all that out in BASIC on a disk.

 

"PITA"?

I thought you meant my favourite type of bread:
http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-pita-bread-at-home-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-90844
Upon re-reading, I understood your true meaning...quite different to what I initially thought
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Me too. (I must try that recipe!)​

Ah...Nope. Still trying to unravel my tongue after attempting to pronounce those medical terms you noted above...

Reckon "Medicalese" hands down is far worse than "Legalese"

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At a guess because it's a different country to the US?

 

I'd have to go with Sol or Terran System. Somehow the "Wacke System" would make some sense these days...

 

Hehehe...I'll try to remember never to wink with the left eye

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The one tablet I take is Bio-Atenolol.
Sounds like a biofuel.

 

I was simply considering social convention, but the weather is pretty crazy too.

 

LOL...so you must be feeling extra energised(?)

 

When talking about UK,I think you must remember at some time, our UK English sort of meandered over to the US,now usually referred to as American English when setting up an operating system.
So, we must have special licence to teach u lot proper Engish (purposely spelt that way)
How else would you know that sometimes B comes before O - like Bu...r Off, or, Blast Off-(going to the moon)
Just thought a little edumacation might be relevant here

 

Love this CNN commercial: This is an apple.