# Help me come up with a cool planet name **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 9, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897 "2010-03-09T20:26:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/21 "2010-03-09T23:38:06Z")
“Bullseye” “Doormat” “Lean-To” “Doghouse” “Bigsky” - because seeing the sky was the only thing the colonists cared about after years of travel. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/22 "2010-03-09T23:40:47Z")
How 'bout Pluto? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/23 "2010-03-09T23:55:31Z")
That’s the Planet Pluto! 🙂 How about StormPort? as in “any port in a storm” if it’s not such a great planet. I really like New Iceland! ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/24 "2010-03-10T00:10:06Z")
> [@Silver Tyger Girl](#): > > These aren’t bad… > > What I had in mind was something that implied ‘we finally get off this damn ship!’ but punchier… ‘Finally’ might have been my original idea, actually… or ‘About Time’… > > While I have people’s attention, anybody got a good idea for something to call a replicator that won’t get me sued by Paramount? Schlock Mercenary uses ‘fabbers’. Transmetropolitan uses ‘makers.’ Since I’m using it to make food, ‘recycler’ is completely out. Another one: This’ll do For your replicator, how about Rejiggerer, the Transmogrifier, or Recombiner? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/25 "2010-03-10T00:12:35Z")
**Uuaauu** , named for the what the keeper of the ship’s log wrote down when the leader of tghe expedition party first set foot on the world. The log keeper spoke a romance language, and that’s how they spell “wow.” Backstory, no extra charge! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/26 "2010-03-10T00:24:02Z")
Desperation ( because of how they felt when they reached it ) TooFar The End, short for End of the Line > [@Silver Tyger Girl](#): > > While I have people’s attention, anybody got a good idea for something to call a replicator that won’t get me sued by Paramount? Omnifac? A factory that makes everything. > [@Pushkin](#): > > How’s about giving the colony some sort of official title, not a name just a collection of letters, Colony-XP983.11, and then have a nickname based on what the colonists _really_ think of their home. > > Or is that just a cliche, so some sort of wet behind the ears traveller from Earth can ask where they are and some colonist or another can grumble and say “but we call it planet… poop.” The Matador series has a planet that has a long serial number as its official name, but the name that people use is what people generally say when they step out the airlock and see it: _Ohshit_. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/27 "2010-03-10T02:35:02Z")
Planet Ten! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/28 "2010-03-10T05:39:56Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Last Stop > Twinner or cloner? Twinner is kinda awesome. I’m glad people are enjoying this. =^\_^= Since people are being creative, anybody want to come up with alien names? I’m mostly using the type of aliens that look like anthro animals (what? they’re cute). I should probably design some more alien aliens. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/29 "2010-03-10T08:14:03Z")
_Spleep_… OK, not really, how about: This One This Time This ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/30 "2010-03-10T08:24:55Z")
> [@Silver Tyger Girl](#): > > While I have people’s attention, anybody got a good idea for something to call a replicator that won’t get me sued by Paramount? Schlock Mercenary uses ‘fabbers’. Transmetropolitan uses ‘makers.’ Since I’m using it to make food, ‘recycler’ is completely out. MOMMA Mostly Organic Manufactured Meal Allocator ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/31 "2010-03-10T08:32:40Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Pitstop. 🙂 Peeb Rak’h ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/32 "2010-03-10T09:11:20Z")
> [@Silver Tyger Girl](#): > > Since people are being creative, anybody want to come up with alien names? Aline: “I am Az-khan Devourer-Of-The-Weak.” Human: :eek: Alien: “What, you don’t have aggressive sounding family names…Mr Butcher?” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/33 "2010-03-10T10:06:39Z")
**Desti**. So it can be the _Desti Nation_. I’m probably not the first to think of this idea. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/34 "2010-03-10T13:17:47Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Another one: This’ll do Post 16. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/35 "2010-03-10T13:18:39Z")
**Cool** ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/36 "2010-03-10T14:20:56Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Aline: “I am Az-khan Devourer-Of-The-Weak.” > > Human: :eek: > > Alien: “What, you don’t have aggressive sounding family names…Mr Butcher?” heh. I actually meant alien species names, but yeah… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/37 "2010-03-10T17:46:30Z")
> [@Silver Tyger Girl](#): > > Twinner is kinda awesome. > > I’m glad people are enjoying this. =^\_^= > > Since people are being creative, anybody want to come up with alien names? I’m mostly using the type of aliens that look like anthro animals (what? they’re cute). I should probably design some more alien aliens. Gorp Prztrly Ralph (Due to a cosmic coincidence, this common name within that alien species spells and sounds exactly like it’s earth equivalent. Just more proof that god has a sense of humor) ---
**Author:** ![tiescore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@tiescore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiescore)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/38 "2010-03-10T20:21:53Z")
Whereheckowwe ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/39 "2010-03-10T20:28:29Z")
Tupak ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897/40 "2010-03-10T20:29:30Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > Planet Ten! …name duly recorded by Masao Ten, Ship’s Geographer. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-cool-planet-name/531897.md?page=3)