The movie, mrblue92 is Fight Club*.
Now, what’s wrong with “The Wild, Spunky, Chunky Planet of Mary-Lou Rhetton Clones”?
Blast!
A toss-up between “Not My” and “Someone Else’s.”
That way people can be star-gazing and point to it going, “Look, there’s Someone Else’s planet!” or “Oh, that one over there is Not My planet.”
Hmm, perhaps “Somewhere Else” would work, too. That way, people could ask “So, where are you from?” and you could simply say “Somewhere Else.”
We have a winner!
Perhaps we need to do the opposite as well… names you should never give your planet.
Like Planet Anthrax.
Dammit, Janet, name that planet!
(What, that’s not a line from Rocky Horror?)
There’s already a “Disney” world. Pluto.
Hm, what would I name a planet…I’d probably make a shift from Greek to Egyptian and name it Nut, after the godess of the sky.
There’s a place in my one-and-only sci-fi story called the Cafe Asteroid. It even has its own radio jingle.
Every boy, girl and droid
Is welcome at the Cafe Asteroid
For a snack or a square meal
Chef cooks up a real square deal
Open 29 hours a day
Conveniently located in the Milky Way
You haven’t lived 'til you’ve enjoyed
Dining at the Cafe Asteroid!
Aaaaaaah. Good old Opus, and Cutter John. My favorite of all time.
This one gets MY vote…
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But Bob is the Roman god of fellatio! (at least he is in the books I have)
I’d opt for Earth 2: Electric Boogaloo.
just plain earth[sub]2[/sub]
we can have burrowing sentient humanoids on there, and maybe even a bad sci-fi plot!
well, actually…
dionysius/ Pan gets my vote; wine and orgies…mmm.
actually, i’d prefer Planet Pan.
for why, think of how he’s different from dionysius, and then remember that i am a pervert…
yep, that’s (probably, you might be more of a sicko than i am) why.
Well it looks like everyone who’s going to post has done so. It was a pretty good thread. Some well thought out names, some very clever posts, and alas a few turkeys. (you know who you are) However, as good as some ideas were, no one has come close to the perfect name for a new planet. I hereby christen the next planet to be discovered…
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~ ASIMOV ~
Now how can anyone argue with that?
well, you could…
ahhhh…
welllll…
damn.
asimov it is.
[nitpick]If we’re talking Roman gods, you’d need to name the planet Bacchus, not Dionysius.[/nitpick]
Legomancer, Planet Claire? She said she came from there?
How about:
Planet Oid
Planet Erry
Planet Ation (Agricultural worlds only)
Wayne’s World
The Ghost Planet
Thinksnow, why not go all the way and call the planet Fuckyou? “So where are you from?” “Fuckyou.”
Hey! I used to be called bobevilsquid! I wouldn’t mind having a planet named after me… Lookit me sig!
<astronomer hat on>
You mean another planet in our solar system? We’d have to define what a planet is, I think, first. But assuming we do, and it’s a nice big one out there, it would probably be named Persephone. According to myth, she spends half a year in Hades with Pluto, who tricked her into eating 6 pomegranet seeds (yummy).
If it’s a planet in another solar system, it’s named after the star.
Not terribly exotic. I apologize on behalf of the astronomicla community.
<astronomer hat off>
Works for me. 