# we are earthlings, mars has martians...who are the rest? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 7, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092 "2010-01-07T23:26:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/21 "2010-01-08T17:06:52Z")
> [@Giltathriel](#): > > According to a paper by one of the guys on the MESSENGER team, things pertaining to Mercury are Hermitian. Shouldn’t that be Herm **e** tian? From the deity Hermes / Mercury. And those who live on the moon are called Clangers. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/22 "2010-01-08T17:14:32Z")
This is all nonsense. We Bolrack have the correct interpretation Nonrit – nonriti Rlorgus – Rloretta Klrack – Racklo (“Slime” is accept in informal contexts). Bol – Bolrak Potik – Portrzebie Veeble – Fetzers Hoar – Kriolmunchers Jutrick – Vetti Qink – Qinki ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/23 "2010-01-08T17:16:20Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Well, the name for a being from Europa would be kind of let down. Europains? Europians? Europans? Europanites? 2010ers? ---
**Author:** ![ez2slip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/779978/32.png) [@ez2slip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ez2slip)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/24 "2010-01-08T17:42:24Z")
Jupitorians. Damn fine people I hear. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/25 "2010-01-08T18:23:03Z")
Speak for yourselves, but I consider myself a Milky Way Galaxian. Milky Wayer? ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/26 "2010-01-08T19:17:47Z")
I thought you find Klingons on Uranus. . ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/27 "2010-01-08T19:19:46Z")
People from Mercury are called Freddies. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/28 "2010-01-08T19:25:17Z")
I’m preferential to Vulcans, myself. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/29 "2010-01-08T19:33:50Z")
> [@](#): > > ``` > I'm preferential to Vulcans, myself. > > ``` And for a time it appeared possible that there might actually be Vulcans in our own solar system: > **[Vulcan (hypothetical planet)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet))** > > Vulcan (/ˈvʌlkən/) was a proposed planet that some pre-20th century astronomers thought existed in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun. Speculation about, and even purported observations of, intermercurial bodies or planets date back to the beginning of the 17th century. > The case for their probable existence was bolstered by the support of the French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier, who had predicted the existence of Neptune using disturbances in the orbit of Uranus. By 1859, he had confirmed... ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/30 "2010-01-08T23:13:11Z")
Citizens of the Free Lunar Republic call themselves Loonies, or so sayth Heinlein. ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/31 "2010-01-09T02:28:16Z")
People from the kingdom of Id are Idiots??? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/32 "2010-01-09T03:50:23Z")
Colloquially know as idioms. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/33 "2010-01-09T05:11:47Z")
These responses are immoral and racist. We must use the native terms of inhabitants of those planets themselves, in the interest of political correctness. E.g., it is possible that inhabitants of Mars call us (translated from the Martian) Assholians. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/34 "2010-01-09T15:33:07Z")
Uranasians? ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/35 "2010-01-09T16:53:26Z")
Plutocrats! If Pluto is made of something rare and expensive, that is. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/36 "2010-01-09T21:11:24Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Uranus = Hemorrhoids Winner!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/37 "2010-01-09T21:38:02Z")
Of course the residents of Mars, have a completely different name for the rock they live on, as well as the one we live on. The same goes for al the other rocks in orbit around this sun (which they have a different name for as well) Will take much to straighten this all out in the future ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/38 "2010-01-09T22:57:21Z")
Sol–\>Extra-Crispians ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/39 "2010-01-09T23:19:11Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > I’ve heard Earthling, Earther, Earthian, Terran, and Tellurian for people from Earth. And Flatlander as an insult The Mysterons prefer to use Earthmen. And at least one science fiction reality has the inhabitants of other planets in the Solar System as visitors only, so Martians are… more correctly elsewhere-ians until further clarification is received. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092/40 "2010-01-10T00:14:15Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > The Mysterons prefer to use Earthmen. Wouldn’t “Earthlings” be more gender-neutral? Also, I’ve always seen it (from Those Who Know) that the first thing they say is “Earthlings, take me to your leader.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-earthlings-mars-has-martians-who-are-the-rest/524092.md?page=3)