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Offline dpareja

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Name a planet!
« on: July 10, 2014, 04:18:13 pm »
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/planet-naming-contest-launched-by-iau-1.2702303

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While the planets of our solar system are mostly named for gods and goddesses like Neptune and Venus, those orbiting other stars have unwieldy monikers like HD 108874 b and BD-17 63 b. Luckily for them, you'll soon get a chance to help give them names they deserve.

A contest to crowdsource common names for 305 planets discovered outside our solar system has been announced by the International Astronomical Union. Such planets are known as exoplanets.

http://nameexoworlds.org/
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Re: Name a planet!
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2014, 04:23:09 pm »
Interesting.
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Re: Name a planet!
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2014, 07:21:48 pm »
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Re: Name a planet!
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2014, 06:34:23 pm »
Don't forget planet "Bubba".
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Re: Name a planet!
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2014, 08:56:23 pm »
Planet Foofoosnugglypoops!
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Re: Name a planet!
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2014, 09:18:58 pm »
This will end in a planet named Cybertron.

I'd bet money on it.
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Re: Name a planet!
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2014, 09:28:14 pm »
Quote from: Second Coming of Madman on July 14, 2014, 09:18:58 pm
This will end in a planet named Cybertron.

I'd bet money on it.
What about Krypton?  Or Vegeta?  Or Vulcan?  Or Tatooine?
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Re: Name a planet!
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2014, 10:07:00 pm »
Quote from: Ultimate Paragon on July 14, 2014, 09:28:14 pm
Quote from: Second Coming of Madman on July 14, 2014, 09:18:58 pm
This will end in a planet named Cybertron.

I'd bet money on it.
What about Krypton?  Or Vegeta?  Or Vulcan?  Or Tatooine?

I want Brian Blessed to announce that one of the planets will be named Cygnus Alpha.
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It doesn't concern you, Sister, that kind of absolutist view of the universe? Right and wrong determined solely by a single all-knowing, all powerful being whose judgment cannot be questioned and in whose name the most horrendous acts can be sanctioned without appeal?

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Being required by someone else’s religious beliefs to behave contrary to one’s sexual identity is degrading and disrespectful.

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Re: Name a planet!
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2014, 11:31:05 pm »
Quote from: Ultimate Paragon on July 14, 2014, 09:28:14 pm
Quote from: Second Coming of Madman on July 14, 2014, 09:18:58 pm
This will end in a planet named Cybertron.

I'd bet money on it.
What about Krypton?  Or Vegeta?  Or Vulcan?  Or Tatooine?

There sort of was a planet Vulcan already. "Sort of " in that it doesn't exist, but people thought it did.
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Re: Name a planet!
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2014, 03:31:21 pm »
Gallifrey, dammit.  There's gotta be a Gallifrey. 
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Re: Name a planet!
« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2014, 03:48:10 pm »
I've always liked Louie.  It has a friendly ring to it.
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Re: Name a planet!
« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2014, 05:46:45 pm »
What, no Magrathea?
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Re: Name a planet!
« Reply #12 on: July 16, 2014, 08:34:56 am »
The Tau Ceti one would be named "Barbarella", of course!

How about........

PLANET PINKIE PIE!
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Re: Name a planet!
« Reply #13 on: July 16, 2014, 08:41:39 am »
How about no.
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Re: Name a planet!
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