Kepler may have found Earth-sized planets in habitable zone

She does deserve some recognition, both for being the first living being (okay, maybe some bacteria beat her, but you know what I mean here) to venture out into space, and for being the first to give their life for the cause of space exploration.

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This is a great achievement. Now all we need to do is violate the law of relativity and make FTL drives (Or discover how to fold space...) and we can start colonizing.

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Like said, we got that CERN experiment that kinda breaks laws already... now we jsut need to figure how to make lawqs of physic look away long enough for us to do it.

If I got to name a Planet it would have a Mythological name... But I would choose something other than latin...

For example... Amateratsu.

I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.

Why not call it Bob?

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."

Lets just get to a solar system with 2 inhabitable planets and name them acordingly

edited 6th Dec '11 5:54:37 PM by Baff

I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.

I heard somewhere that this planet is estimated to be around 2.5 times the size of Earth, and orbiting a dimmer, red star. Wait a minute...

We've found Krypton!

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I would say that the first colony on this new planet should be called Eden.

If we ever colonize the Moon, though—if only for minor purposes, rather than full-blown habitation—I would argue that the name should be Armstrong...

I am now known as Flyboy.

The fable has landed. Congratulations on being cliche!

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."

Science fiction is made of cliche. If you can pick it out of Western mythology, it's been used as the name of a colony.

I actually just like the name, though. What we call it doesn't really matter to me, as long as it's not something stupid sounding.

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You could always avoid being overtly cliche by referencing Eden without actually calling it Eden.

For instance, translate the Hebrew to English, and call the place "Delight" or "Lush".

Or translate from the Sumerian, and call the place "Wilderness".

The first names are going to be cliche. What Exploratory vehicle HASN'T been cliche. Opportunity, Spirit, Curiosity, The viking probes, Every last space shuttle.(Enterprise especially, even if it didn't go to space it was the first one.) It goes on and on!

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That's it, I'm inventing a spaceship with Faster-Than-Light Travel.

It shall be named Steve.

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."

We could go for the futurama approach to FTL. "2208 scientists changed the speed of light so that spaceships could achieve faster than light speeds"

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Why not give it a name fitting for a ship? Like Duchess? Or Grand Affair?

Or Enterprise.

Seriously, Their is no way the First FTL ship WON'T be named that. Unless China Takes Over the World. Then it'll be named serenity.

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If we had a long-range spaceship, I'm not sure what I'd want it to be named.

Perhaps Outreach. Seems a good—and straightforward—name as any.

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If it's a European Ship, I'd bet on the "Santa Maria". It's shuttles/landers would be the "Nina" and "Pinta".

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Or we could call it The Ark. Fitting since getting to another world would likely take a Generation Ship.

edited 6th Dec '11 7:24:57 PM by TheRichSheik

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I reckon we need to look at the [[Civilization]] games, the spaceship in them has cryogenic pods, even if we're all dead by the time it reaches New Terra, it would still be a major achievement...Or it'll fail spectacularly and we'll all look like idiots in front of our great-grandchildren.

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There should be two ships, so we can call one the FLC To Infinity and the other FLC And Beyond.

(FLC stands for Faster than Light Craft)

And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)

You mean that CERN experiment, yet to be verified, which would suggest that neutrinos can, in certain circumstances, travel slightly faster than light? I don't want to curb anyone's enthusiasm, but it might be just a little too early to start naming ships yet.

This said, I think that we should take a hint from The Culture. To hell with solemn names, let us call it something silly and longwinded and vaguely popculturish. Something that will give eventual aliens an inkling of understanding of what humankind is truly concerned about, beneath our many facades.

I suggest What Do You Mean, You Need a Potty Break?

edited 7th Dec '11 2:58:25 AM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

Hmm...

"God speed to those gallant pioneers, the bravest of all mankind, those who take our first great leap into the Heavens. God bless those men and women aboard that historic vessel, that tribute to the genius of the human race, the Sexboobieporn!"

I like it!

edited 7th Dec '11 3:00:01 AM by TheBatPencil

And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)

Why not name it Kepler?

The planet or the ship?

As for the planet, if it is possibly habitable then there is a small possibility that it is inhabited, and that the inhabitants have already a name for it — although that name may of course consist in a sequence of polarization angles accompanied by a weak smell of sawdust.

As for the ship, I dunno. I still think that we need poop jokes if we want to make a good impression to whatever galactic civilization is out there.

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.