Help Name the Moon

[TacoButt]

As a concerned citizen of the solar system, I have been familiarizing myself with the planet and their satellites. Many of the planets have moons with very cool and mysterious names:

Hyperion
Io
Titan
Rhea
Puck
Oberon

and so on. As exploration of the solar system is increasing with the wonderful imagery sent back by Cassini and the Huygens probes, our earth-centric perspective needs to catch up with the times.

What is earth's satellite called? Uh..."The Moon." (Buzzer!) Verrry imaginative, bro.

"The Moon?" Uh, yeah... That's like having a child and naming it, "The Child." And here is my dog, "The Dog."

Someone might say, "but it HAS a name! It's name is "Moon." That's not a name, it's a word that can apply to Titan or Enceleduls. Those moons have NAMES.

Someone else might pipe up smartly and say, "It already has a name, you Philistine. Its name is 'Luna.'"

(Buzzer! You FAIL)

"Luna" is latin for...uh....let's see....what was it again...oh yeah...

MOON!:yikes:

So let's end the era of earth-centric thinking and have a modern-day Copernican Revolution. Let's give our moon a name! Maybe something exotic and space opera-esque like "Centurian Prime" or "Leptar-Thegan."

The best name will be submitted to the international space naming committee thingy in Brussels or wherever.

After that, we can name our local star.

Whatcha got for moon names? :D

[The Atheist]

No, no, no!

You're getting it all wrong. It might seem like the least important name, but it's actually the name with the most import.

Other moons have to have names and nicknames to denote their existence. Our moon is easily the most important moon, so it is just "The Moon". If anyone says "the moon", you don't need to ask which one, it's The freakin' Moon.

My opinion on this is merely coincidental.

:D

[kasie]

As you say, it's already got a name - THE Moon.

I know there are other moons - I had my first glimpse of Jupiter's moons through a friend's telescope the other night - but for thousands of years, the only moon we knew about was our moon, THE Moon. Ditto our Sun, THE Sun. The names seem to work on an everyday/everynight basis for those members of the human race who aren't astronomers, ie most of us. :D

[Ancasta]

Aren't moons actually called satellites?? And if so wouldn't that mean that our satellite is called The Moon?

[TacoButt]

No, no, no!

You're getting it all wrong. It might seem like the least important name, but it's actually the name with the most import.

Other moons have to have names and nicknames to denote their existence. Our moon is easily the most important moon, so it is just "The Moon". If anyone says "the moon", you don't need to ask which one, it's The freakin' Moon.

My opinion on this is merely coincidental.

:D

Well, if we colonize Mars in the next decade or so, then it would be confusing to call earth's moon "THE MOON" because you might use that expression to mean Phoboes.

See it's like having two children with no names. If you say, "go get The Child" than you can't rely on which one will be brought back.

I propose we call the moon "Dieter.":arf:

[papayahed]

Well, if we colonize Mars in the next decade or so, then it would be confusing to call earth's moon "THE MOON" because you might use that expression to mean Phoboes.


Why wouldn't we refer to Phoboes as Phoboes? That's its name.

[Lulim]

(...) I propose we call the moon "Dieter.":arf:

Oh, come on. There are already too many Dieters running around. And imagine how stupid it would sound, saying: "I saw Dieter last night. He was just wonderful" :eek:

[TacoButt]

Why wouldn't we refer to Phoboes as Phoboes? That's its name.


Yes, the NAME! THE NAME! Like you have a daughter named Chloe, say. You could say, "This is the daughter I was telling you about,"

OR

You could use her NAME and say, "This is Chloe who I told you about."

So if I said THE MOON on Mars, I could be talking about earth's moon back home, OR Phoboes.

Confused?? You won't be after the next episode of NAME THE MOOOOOOOOOOOooooonnnnn....

[YesNo]

Many of the planets have moons with very cool and mysterious names:

Hyperion
Io
Titan
Rhea
Puck
Oberon


I didn't know there was a moon called "Puck", but apparently it belongs to Uranus.

These names are all a bit strange sounding.

I suggest we call our moon Joe or Sally. I guess we'll have to find out what gender it is first.

I also like Vincent or Cecilia.

[Lokasenna]

Personally, if we have to give it a name (and I'm with Atheist on the importance of preserving it as the definitive moon of the solar system), then I think Luna is perfectly functional - just because a name has an etymological meaning, it doesn't necessarily have to reflect it now. Does anyone who names a daughter Sarah, for example, seriously consider that they are, in effect, naming her 'Princess'?

Of course, another rather nice name that is etymologically linked to the moon is Selene - though I'm not sure that is suitable either...

[Paulclem]

What about Bob?

It would slip effortlessly into the language with:

Bob's full of himself today
Bob's up
Bob's down
Where's Bob?
No Bob tonight
Half a Bob
Bob's your quarter
Bobbing behind the trees/ mountains/ hills
The first man on Bob

[Patrick_Bateman]

Mesic or Mnemosyne

[papayahed]

What about Bob?



Great movie!!!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JVZ9KEK0L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

It's death therapy Bob.
:smilielol5:

[TacoButt]

I like Mesic...

When Mesic hits your eye,
Like a bigg-a pizza pie,
That's amore'!

Seriously, we're getting somewhere.

"The Moon..." Ha... The next person who says, "the moon" to me is going to get hit with a reply of, "which one do you mean? Puck?"

[papayahed]

So if I said THE MOON on Mars, I could be talking about earth's moon back home, OR Phoboes.



No, No, No. Mars has two moons, how could you possibly get your point across by just saying THE MOON in reference to either. You'd have to say their given names for clarity, Phobos or Deimos. If you said THE MOON on Mars EVERYBODY would know that you are referring to the earth's moon.

[Revolte]

Or we could start calling it "our moon" or "earths moon", "the" moon is a false statement.

[qimissung]

How about Billy? In Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin sometimes refers to himself as Billy Moon.

[TacoButt]

Or we could start calling it "our moon" or "earths moon", "the" moon is a false statement.

But why can't we have a nice NAME for our natural satelite?

Here are some other moon names from the solar system:

Callisto (isn't that a soaring and romantic name for a moon?)
Amathea (Sounds like a hot goth chick who has a tattoo on her eye lid)
Carme (named for Zeus lover)
Lysithea (Nice ancient Greek vibe to it)
Dione (sexy, no?)
Prometheus (legendary sounding moon...tragic and majestic)
Janus (could be a nice name for a financial company too)
Helene (flowing robes and golden hair, anyone?)
Paaliaq (didn't he skewer whales in Moby Dick?)
Tarvos (oooh...pagan-y...)
Umbriel (darn nice name for a rock)
Despina (musical sounding...like a stop on a great pipe organ)
Charon (more Greek legends, I think)

And the name of Earth's Moon? (drum roll................)

















da moon....:sleep:

We've got to do something about this.

[YesNo]

But why can't we have a nice NAME for our natural satelite?

Here are some other moon names from the solar system:

Callisto (isn't that a soaring and romantic name for a moon?)
Amathea (Sounds like a hot goth chick who has a tattoo on her eye lid)
Carme (named for Zeus lover)
Lysithea (Nice ancient Greek vibe to it)
Dione (sexy, no?)
Prometheus (legendary sounding moon...tragic and majestic)
Janus (could be a nice name for a financial company too)
Helene (flowing robes and golden hair, anyone?)
Paaliaq (didn't he skewer whales in Moby Dick?)
Tarvos (oooh...pagan-y...)
Umbriel (darn nice name for a rock)
Despina (musical sounding...like a stop on a great pipe organ)
Charon (more Greek legends, I think)


All these names come from Western mythology or worse.

Is there anything named after an Eastern mythological character?

How about calling the moon Guanyin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanyin

[qimissung]

How about Isis, then? She's an Egyptian goddess.

[MystyrMystyry]

Mr Roger Paracelsis Alloicius St Bartholde Ignatius von Rickenbacker III esq?

[papayahed]

If we have to change it's name then how about "Papayahed"?

[qimissung]

H-m-m-m. papayahed or Mr Roger Paracelsis Alloicius St Bartholde Ignatius von Rickenbacker III esq? No contest. :D

[Lokasenna]

No, No, No. Mars has two moons, how could you possibly get your point across by just saying THE MOON in reference to either. You'd have to say their given names for clarity, Phobos or Deimos. If you said THE MOON on Mars EVERYBODY would know that you are referring to the earth's moon.

But does the Earth only have one moon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1zuAQAhhMI

[TacoButt]

But does the Earth only have one moon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1zuAQAhhMI

If so, then our mission to name number1 is even more imperative.

[Big Dante]

"Centurian Prime" haha, that is gold.

I think we need to start thinking logical here.
Everyone knows that the moon is made of cheese.
Edam is a cheese.
It is also dutch.
It is safe to assume that the moon is Dutch.
It's surname therefore is nothing less than Van Dijk but you would already have worked that out. The first name is what we must find out.
You can see the moon at night.
Knight and night are homophones.
Martin Lawrence played the main character in The Black Knight.
Therefore the moon's real name is............

Martin Van Dijk

[SilentMute]

What about Bob?

I was going to suggest that too!

Of course, are we sure the moon is a boy? Has anyone looked?

If it is a girl...Bertha Butt...because she is always mooning us.:D

As far as never naming it--maybe it is because it is number one. Anytime something is consider the top of everything else--it gets the definite article "the" put before it. The Legend, The Man, The Boss, The Master, etc.

[MystyrMystyry]

Quite right The SilentMute, like The Earth - Moon's name is Moon - That Legendary Man, The Man in The Moon, is in The Moon, though he probably calls it Home, and we call it the Nice Place to Occasionally Visit but We Wouldn't Want to Live There nor even Visit Too Often

We call other moons moons because they behave similarly to Our Moon, satellite and moon becoming interchangeable except satellite has a distinct new meaning, but we know they'll never match the Original and Best because only Our Moon belongs to Our Home, Earth

[The Atheist]

Personally, if we have to give it a name (and I'm with Atheist on the importance of preserving it as the definitive moon of the solar system), then I think Luna is perfectly functional - just because a name has an etymological meaning, it doesn't necessarily have to reflect it now. Does anyone who names a daughter Sarah, for example, seriously consider that they are, in effect, naming her 'Princess'?

Bingo!

[Revolte]

lets name her 'sexy thang'. For the life of me I can't think of a name to give to a floating rock.

[TacoButt]

Here's my fear...if we enlightened folks don't come up with something, the corporations will get a hold of the name. Try this for horrors:

McMoon
Qualcomm Moon
MS Moon
Taco Bell Moonito
Exxon Satellite
iMoon
Pfizer Moonestra
Playboy Moonsion

Sorry about that last one, but you get the picture...:)

[Lokasenna]

Here's my fear...if we enlightened folks don't come up with something, the corporations will get a hold of the name. Try this for horrors:

McMoon
Qualcomm Moon
MS Moon
Taco Bell Moonito
Exxon Satellite
iMoon
Pfizer Moonestra
Playboy Moonsion

Sorry about that last one, but you get the picture...:)

Oh god, I can see it now. I'll be sitting out back with my telescope, and every time the lens passes over the moon, a little voice will be programmed to come out of it and say "The Moon, Earth's greatest satellite... brought to you by Diet Pepsi."

**shudders**

[Taliesin]

Tis saddens me to see that so many people still believe in that great hoax and even search new names for it while, in fact, there is no moon. (http://www.revisionism.nl/Moon/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm)
Wake up, sheeple! Don't believe the propaganda!

[TacoButt]

Oh god, I can see it now. I'll be sitting out back with my telescope, and every time the lens passes over the moon, a little voice will be programmed to come out of it and say "The Moon, Earth's greatest satellite... brought to you by Diet Pepsi."

**shudders**

Yes, and you KNOW that it will be painted with that red, white and blue swirl too.:yikes:

[Revolte]

Imoon sounds legit. You can charge your Iphone via moon rays! I have no Iproducts but, that would get me to get one, I would feel Iconnected with the Iuniverse.

[TacoButt]

Tis saddens me to see that so many people still believe in that great hoax and even search new names for it while, in fact, there is no moon. (http://www.revisionism.nl/Moon/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm)
Wake up, sheeple! Don't believe the propaganda!

The "Tidal Myth" from that site is very funny!

"The tide myth is one of the oldest and most absurd lies that the Lunar establishment has tried to push on a gullible world. Do they really expect us to believe that the moon - an object that allegedly resides at an average distance of 240,000 miles from the earth - has the power, from that distance, to lift how many billions of cubic meters of water?

"Do an experiment: take a rubber ball and suspend it above a bathtub full of water. Now slowly move the ball closer to the water. Does the level of the water change? Not even slightly. So much for the tides myth."

:nod: I tried it and it's true. A tennis ball will NOT suck water from a bathtub.

[YesNo]

So the moon doesn't exist after all. I thought there was something funny about it. It looks more like a UFO anyway.

[papayahed]

So the moon doesn't exist after all. I thought there was something funny about it. It looks more like a UFO anyway.

Since it's not there can we still name it Papayahed?

[misterreplicant]

I was thinking of such a thing earlier (talking about the 1st post). What about... Cain? For he was "banished" there... But, not everyone in the world is Christian so that may be a problem.

[JuniperWoolf]

I say we name the moon after the movement's origonal founder and re-christen it "TacoButt."

[TacoButt]

I say we name the moon after the movement's origonal founder and re-christen it "TacoButt."

I can support that idea.

Now, we have to change some songs...

TacoButt River
Wider than a mile...
:D

[YesNo]

Since it's not there can we still name it Papayahed?
:D

Papayahed sounds like a great name for an imaginary moon.

[The Atheist]

Here's my fear...if we enlightened folks don't come up with something, the corporations will get a hold of the name. Try this for horrors:

McMoon

I am waiting for the day when laser technology allows us to beam images onto the moon.

You know it's going to happen.

[MystyrMystyry]

And getting closer too! The U.S. military is working on a 100 kilowatt laser to burn the heads off of dictators and terrorists from ten miles away - currently they have 30 kilowatt prototypes
which would be enough to make a sickle moon look full on a cloudy night

[Revolte]

And getting closer too! The U.S. military is working on a 100 kilowatt laser to burn the heads off of dictators and terrorists from ten miles away - currently they have 30 kilowatt prototypes
which would be enough to make a sickle moon look full on a cloudy night

Please tell me your joking.

[TacoButt]

I am waiting for the day when laser technology allows us to beam images onto the moon.

You know it's going to happen.
:iagree:

[Paulclem]

I am waiting for the day when laser technology allows us to beam images onto the moon.

You know it's going to happen.

It'd be great for projecting sporting events like the World Cup!

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Hmmm...

Maybe we could borrow from Star Trek-
"Phaser"
"Kling on" (since it "clings" to the Earth}
"Tholia"
"Uhura" (man, what a pair of legs!)

Moody Blues inspired-

"Cho" - "Cold Hearted Orb" ...
(...that rules the night.
Removes the colors from our sight, etc., etc.)

.

[TacoButt]

Hmmm...

Maybe we could borrow from Star Trek-
"Phaser"
"Kling on" (since it "clings" to the Earth}
"Tholia"
"Uhura" (man, what a pair of legs!)

.

Or "Eden." Remember the episode with the space hippies? Spock jammed with them. :rolleyes5:

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Haha !!!
Yes I do, how could one forget that episode?

"We reach brother"

My son and I watch DVD's of the the original series and that is a particular favorite.
I'll sing some of the tunes from that episode just to get his goat!

.

[Paulclem]

I am waiting for the day when laser technology allows us to beam images onto the moon.

You know it's going to happen.

You could also have a fluid chart showing the number of wars occurring in realtime...

or the number of births

[The Atheist]

You could also have a fluid chart showing the number of wars occurring in realtime...

or the number of births

I've got one of those!

http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks/worldclock/

Can't see them bidding against Coke for the right to broadcast* onto the moon.

*Yes, I suppose technically, a laser would be narrowcasting...

[Lokasenna]

I've got one of those!

http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks/worldclock/


Good god, that's horrifying...

[TacoButt]

Good god, that's horrifying...

578 billion spam e-mails sent? Quite horrifying! ;)