Who named Earth?

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>>7661805
>Why is our world the only one within our solar system not to be named after a Roman or Greek god or goddess?
Because to the Greeks and Romans the planets WERE the gods. I guess if you want a god for the earth you could use Terra, that's Roman.

>I really want to see the surface of this dwarf world before I die
pic related

>>7661812
That was taken from space though, right?

I mean on the surface.

Can a rover even navigate there?

Isn't "Gaia" also a god or a goddess?

>>7661812
>I guess if you want a god for the earth

There already is one. His name is Iehovah.

>>7661812
This, basically. From my understanding of it, they saw that the skies were mostly static, but a few odd little dots wandered around. So they decided they were deities roaming around the heavens.
Though, all gods cant have been thought to be planets, given things they never saw like pluto and such. But I am pretty sure the planets they saw, they thought were deities.

>>7661822
Pluto was named by an 11 year old boy around the 1920's or 1930's.

He loved Roman mythology.

An incomplete answer, but the Ancient Greek model of the universe was geocentric, so the Earth was never a subject of astronomical writing (of which they have much and was frequently referenced especially among more Renaissance-era astronomers).

It should be noted that not only the Earth, but also the Sun and the Moon have different etymological origins. Undoubtedly because they play such a large part in our lives. And the fact that "Earth is a thing similar to the other planets in a way that the Sun and the Moon are not" is a very late-coming idea.

>>7661812
Terra just means soil even in latin.

Pretty much every language the word for Earth means soil or dirt.

>>7661805
Sorry, but you'll never see a rover on Pluto in your lifetime. We are just now getting half decent pictures from a probe which show things like look like volcanoes and other geological activity.

>>7661840
Doesn't it take a decade to get to Pluto? Why can't NASA just launch a mission in the next two years?

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>>7661839
sorry, my internet hiccupped

>>7661844
because there are a dozen more interesting places to send a rover than pluto
and money doesn't grow on trees faggot

>>7661844
because everything we launch there that gets there in a decade goes flying past at solar escape speed. In order to even get something in orbit around pluto we'd need more than twice the fuel to slow it down.

>>7661839
>>7661848
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_(mythology)
Terra means "mother earth"

>>7661848
Google translate also translates "terra" to "earth"

good job, ye fucknut

>>7661856
This, it's a waste of money, we need rovers on Titan,Europa and more on Mars

>>7661878
Mars is just a red dust ball not even worth the time.

>>7661879
>Mars is just a red dust ball
>not ded rust ball
are you even trying?

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>>7661879
>Only terrestrial world closest to Earth in terms of environment
>Only planet in the system other than Earth where a colony could work
>Waste of time

>>7661879
Mars is the only other planet in the Solar System that is worth the time desu

>>7661805
idk, but in my country it's named "Terra"

>>7661812
In spanish the earth is actually called "Tierra".

Also Gea is a much nicer name.

>>7661887
Colonizing Mercury would be possible, but it's harder to get there and less appealing.

If you include Moons there are plenty of places to colonize.

>>7661899
Colonizing the Sun would be possible, but it's harder to get there and less appealing.

>>7661899
I think your only basis for this is the magnetic field. It's really easy to tell you have no idea what you're talking about.

>>7661899
>Mercury and Venus
too fucking hot

>Jovian Moons
oh god the radiation! [spoiler]Callisto might be okay[/spoiler]

>Saturn Moons
maybe

>Uranus and Neptune Spheres
pfft

>>7661899
>If you include Moons there are plenty of places to colonize.

Everything past Mars is too cold and gay.
We want a planet with an atmosphere and solid rock to stand on, not a small moon made a frozen volatiles half way across the star system.

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>>7661822
>mfw you're older than 12
>mfw you're not an American
>mfw you you're not a troll

>>7661905
>too fucking hot
Mercury has no atmosphere to transfer heat. Keeping cool is really just a matter of installing sun shades around your settlement.

>>7661915
>instead of colonizing the closest Earthlike planet, we'll make it 100x harder and go to Mercury instead. But don't worry, keeping cool is really just a matter of installing sun shades around our settlement.

Meanwhile a summer day on Mars can get to around 70F

>>7661925
Summers on Mars sound fucking great, I wish 70F was the average around here

>>7661930
Yeah but at night the temp can go down to -100F +

>>7661899
>>7661915
>Mercury

wouldn't it be a bad idea, living on a planet that close to the Sun? wouldn't looking into the sky make you blind

>>7661932
That sounds more bearable than dealing with extreme heat desu

>>7661905
>too fucking hot
Venus is temperate at the altitudes a colony would be. Mars is worthless because of inadequate gravity.

>>7661963
We'd have a far easier time getting set up on the Martian surface compared to the necessary cloud habitats for Venus.

Lower gravity be damned.

>>7661934

>looking at the sun
>makes you blind
>unless you're on the dark side of the planet
>then the radiation will kill you instead

>>7661815
In germanic mythology, yes.

>>7661805
The greek name for earth is Gaia, the mother of the titans and chronos. The roman word is Terra.

Both are still acceptable names for earth, but just like how most of the populations wouldn't know that the sun's is named Sol, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about if you referred to earth as Terra, unless you are fortunate enough to surround yourself with brighter minds than most of us.

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>>7661805
I don't like the new pictures of earth, they look so hyper real that they appear fake. Composite images SUCK.

Gimme these ones any day, the realism is breathtaking.

>>7663280
>>7661815
>>7661805
Actually, Gaia was also a Greek "goddess". The quotations because she was to titans what titans were to gods and what gods are to men.

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>>7663456
>no stars in the sky
>the realism is breathtaking

>>7661812
>the planets WERE the gods

The planets were always the gods, til some faggots came along and all this jesus allah bullshit kicked off.

In some dead languages the word for "sun" or "moon" is the same as the word "god".

Allah means moon.

It's all bullshit.

>>7663612
If you would take a photo that would let you see stars, earth would just be a white blob without any detail.

>>7663638
this
>>7663626
Some people know fuck all about cameras and focus/exposure settings

>>7661886
>>7661887
>>7661888
Keked

>>7661879
Ebin

>>7661888
Venus would be easier to colonize and has objectively more harvestable resources.

>>7663713
>Venus would be easier to colonize
Not this shit again.