• BillyClark@piefed.social
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      17 hours ago

      In Japanese, the common word for star, “hoshi” also refers to planets. So, clearly, this comic was translated from Japanese.

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          Just writing this for people who’d want to know: hoshi (星) is the daily, common word used to refer to stars and planets. This is the most common word that someone would use to refer to a star. However, for science, more precise terms do exist: wakusei (惑星) for “planets” and kousei (恒星) for “stars”.

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      I could see an advanced civilization with lots of habitable planets having a naming convention of star name then planet number. So we’d be Sun-3. Or if we rename the sun to Earth, we’d be Earth-3, called “Earth” for short. In English, our planet name literally means dirt. 😞

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        Dirt is great. Have you seen the other planets in our system?

        Also one of them is called Uranus. Dirt is great.

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        “An advanced civilization”?

        Sure, try typing “Sol-3” and “Sol-3a” into wikipedia.

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        Ideally, you’d organize it like the animal kingdom or something. Very detailed and perhaps giving at least a hint to its location. Then you’d have a colloquial name for it.

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        I love the cataloging aspect. Maybe official names like those, plus imaginative names from whoever lives on it, or whoever discovered it.

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      Exactly, they might be from the “booty” system now, but there’s no need to rename the planet. That would just be confusing.

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      Ahah, go tell that to all the chinese cultivation manga folks.

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    Wasn’t that a plot in the last series of Doctor Who?