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#315851 the Librarian Wed, 12th Dec '12 1:46:27 PM from his own little world

The only way a country could be considered planetary is if it was a worldwide Empire. Rome and Alexander gave it good tries but didn't even get close.

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#315852 Sereg Wed, 12th Dec '12 1:46:52 PM from South Africa

@Perpetual Lurker: Well, if that's what you mean, then fine. But I see nothing weird about that. I'm pretty sure that Sci-Fi does that.

@Sinclair: The results would be extremely skewed due to the fact that most cultures were only made aware of Earth's status as a planet after coming across another culture's term for the planet.

edited 12th Dec '12 1:47:39 PM by Sereg

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#315853 storyyeller Wed, 12th Dec '12 1:58:32 PM from Appleloosa

and when a pony greys out, it's because their magic has literally left them.

Except they could still use magic.

Life is simple: it has no nontrivial normal subgroups.

#315854 Applelight Limited Wed, 12th Dec '12 1:59:12 PM from Manehattan to Canterlot

@ story

I don't know then.

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#315855 Calnos Wed, 12th Dec '12 1:59:42 PM from Nowhere

We could just call the world Eqeustria exists in Terra. Do we need to pun it up?

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#315856 storyyeller Wed, 12th Dec '12 1:59:56 PM from Appleloosa

On the topic of Earth: I do in fact wonder how many human cultures have/had names in their native tongues to describe the planet being a variation of "earth", "dirt", and/or "world".

Well the Suppox do at least.

Life is simple: it has no nontrivial normal subgroups.

#315857 Pykrete Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:04:28 PM from Viridian Forest

Perhaps every civilization in the universe refers to their home planet as "Earth", since what else would it be but the ground you're standing on?

I totally forget which (it wasn't otherwise memorable or particularly good), but one of the "ponies connect to Earth Stargate style" fanfics had Celestia run into this problem with a human ambassador.

"Equestria's a country, not the planet."

"Oh. Well what do you call your planet?"

"Earth."

"...oh dear."

Clearly the answer was to refer to them as Earth-A and Earth-1.

A lot of sci-fi will circumvent this by having alien races call their planet something that translates to "home" or "cradle" or somesuch, often in a dead language of their own.

edited 12th Dec '12 2:09:31 PM by Pykrete

#315858 Sinclair Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:10:05 PM from Deep Space

Was the story any good?

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#315859 Pykrete Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:12:40 PM from Viridian Forest

Not really. It's in the brainfile of "dull enough that I don't remember its name", but even those have a decent moment every once in a while that you wish was in a better story.

edited 12th Dec '12 2:13:13 PM by Pykrete

#315860 Death Cloud Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:14:00 PM from Horsehead Nebula

For me solution is simple: Universal Translator use word alien planet from listener language or don't translate alien word for their homeworld name. Or maybe to avoid confusion old dead languge could be used for naming homewords, and humans would be using Terra for their world.

Because he know I'm going to go out in this plane and I'm going to remove one of His creations from His universe.

#315861 Pykrete Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:18:08 PM from Viridian Forest

That's usually a background justification for sci-fi that end up calling our planet Terra. Just in case other races did the same thing, using a dead language word keeps the faux pas out of the lingua franca.

edited 12th Dec '12 2:18:54 PM by Pykrete

#315862 Sereg Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:18:42 PM from South Africa

Earth-F(oot) and Earth-H(oof). How's that, humans of Earth-F?

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#315863 The Freeman Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:19:57 PM from Hialeah,FL.

F sucks. I want A.

#315864 Death Cloud Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:21:19 PM from Horsehead Nebula

I prefer Terra instead generic Earth.

And they never named their world in show anyway.

Because he know I'm going to go out in this plane and I'm going to remove one of His creations from His universe.

#315865 Purple Dalek Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:21:44 PM from Betelgeuse

We can be Earth-A. They can be crummy old Earth-1.

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#315866 Pykrete Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:25:55 PM from Viridian Forest

FOOL! You have activated my race card!

#315867 Sydxelia Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:27:43 PM

Thread Hop.

*Syd staggers out of bed at 4:30 in the afternoon*

Twelve hours of sleep? Wow, I knew I was tired, but I didn't know I was that tired. What the hay did you do to me, Luna? Get away from me!

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#315868 Calnos Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:28:17 PM from Nowhere

What about Third Earth?

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#315869 Purple Dalek Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:28:20 PM from Betelgeuse

One should never resist the chance to quote Futurama.

edited 12th Dec '12 2:28:34 PM by PurpleDalek

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#315870 Kyler Thatch Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:32:02 PM

Sleep? Who needs sleep? I certainly don't. Not when I have a truckload of re-installing to do.

...

I'm totally going to be sleep-deprived Applejack later, aren't I?

There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. My pencils are sharp enough.

Even the dull ones will leave a mark.

#315871 Seraphem Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:33:15 PM from Delamare

chapter 9 is up

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#315872 d Roy Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:35:53 PM from Buffalo, New York

Hey, folks.

Two new episodes. Over 300 pages.

Yup, just like the old time.

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#315873 crowlover Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:38:58 PM from Name & Address Withheld

GO BACK AND READ THEM ALL

edited 12th Dec '12 2:39:29 PM by crowlover

#315874 Purple Dalek Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:42:26 PM from Betelgeuse

There will be a test, young man.

"A toilet with the potentially dangerous arrangement of the seat being up" - Wikipedia

#315875 The Freeman Wed, 12th Dec '12 2:49:41 PM from Hialeah,FL.

Tests are for neeeeeerds.