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There's something about the word "sol" that really doesn't work for me..
And what about "the moon?" And I suppose some would go as far as saying "the universe." with regards
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I don't think taking the name of our solar system from a book which says that the Earth was 2.5 biilion years ago only a tenth of its current size is a good idea... Quote:
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Selene in Greek means moon.
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But all in all, the feelings I have on the subject matter not, thats the way it is. We live on the third planet in the Sol system. Our moon is called THE moon or Luna for the simple reason that we only have one. If we had been fortunate to have two moons, we'd probably have a more distinctive name for each defining them away from what they are. Makes you wonder though, when we run into a different race of critters, will they name their system after their sun? The most prominent sun or the biggest, or after ear hair which although a real pain seems to be a growing constant in my personal universe. We return you now to sanity... |
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Ah! The semantical quagmire. "Solar System" is the name of our stellar system. Stellar system being the generic term. There are no other Solar systems; those are stellar systems. Specific names might be siriusian, Miran, betelgeussian...etc.
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It's sort of like the moon/satellite debate. Some people insist that our chunk o' cheese in the sky is the only one that should rightly be called a moon, everything else around other planets are merely natural satellites and don't deserve the name moon. |
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It's a shame we don't personify our celestial bodies anymore. I like the idea of the big guy Helios riding his chariot across the sky, and lovely Selene singing to Endymion as he lies in eternal sleep. Something rather impersonal and unpleasant happened to language when we added the definite article, when we gave ourselves THE Sun, THE Moon, and THE Earth; it makes them sound... dead. I have to say though, that there seems to be something of a double standard at work here; we never say "the Mars," or "the Jupiter," after all.
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we can call our solar system - "The Living Spot" since earth is a planet in our solar system which supports life.Earth can be considered superior and we can name the solar system after it - "Eartho Solar System"
Scientists are there to give more better names but i thought of this at the moment. http://www.space.invisionplus.net |
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I tend to capitalize Moon and Earth and sometimes even Sun. After all, they are places; those are their names. That makes them proper nouns. I think that helps remind me that they are still the places that have held such wonder for humanity for so long. Then again, I'm an English major, so I may just be pedantic.
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The Terran System. |