What is the Name our Moon? - Page 11

capnq · #**101** October 19th, 2007, 08:06 AM

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Renegade 13 said: The Moon's name is...The Moon, in the English language. As that's the word that the vast majority uses, it could be argued that The Moon is the proper name by virtue of popular usage.

By that metric, the proper name is Yue Liang.

I thought it was a nice touch in SEV that the Terran leader looks Asian.

Randallw · #**102** October 19th, 2007, 08:23 AM

Sol 3a, surely.

"Don't call me shirley"

Atrocities · #**103** October 19th, 2007, 11:08 AM

Actually Terra Luna I.

Ragnarok · #**104** October 19th, 2007, 01:57 PM

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Atrocities said:
I dare someone to give me the official name of that number.

Easy. That is 2 Quattuorquadragintillion.

So what do I win?

Edit: Just to prove I am being serious... Wiki List of Large Numbers.
Edit2: Your number has 135 zeros. That will make it easier to find in the list. Represented as 10(135)

Renegade 13 · #**105** October 19th, 2007, 05:11 PM

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capnq said:

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Renegade 13 said: The Moon's name is...The Moon, in the English language. As that's the word that the vast majority uses, it could be argued that The Moon is the proper name by virtue of popular usage.

By that metric, the proper name is Yue Liang.

I thought it was a nice touch in SEV that the Terran leader looks Asian.

Note that I said "The Moon's name is...The Moon, in the English language" thus the Chinese name is irrelevant.

capnq · #**106** October 20th, 2007, 02:36 PM

A majority of Terrans don't speak English; therefore I submit that it's the English name that's irrelevant.

Atrocities · #**107** October 20th, 2007, 03:00 PM

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Ragnarok said:

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Atrocities said:
I dare someone to give me the official name of that number.

Easy. That is 2 Quattuorquadragintillion.

So what do I win?

Edit: Just to prove I am being serious... Wiki List of Large Numbers.
Edit2: Your number has 135 zeros. That will make it easier to find in the list. Represented as 10(135)

Congrats, I believe you are correct. I wish I had something to give you but I do not.

Say what happens when Terrabyte hard drives are the norm and we need drives that go beyond the highest number threshold of the Terrabyte system? What would they be called?

1 Googlebyte or something equally offensive?

And since google(TM) is now a trade mark name, every time someone uses it, google(TM) do they have to pay google(TM) a user fee?

Atrocities · #**108** October 20th, 2007, 03:03 PM

Oops, answered my own Petabyte question.

Petabyte
Exabyte
zettabyte
yottabyte

Santiago · #**109** October 20th, 2007, 03:24 PM

While that may be true at the moment that english is not the majority language of the world. Research shows that nearly 380 million people speak english as their native language. But if you add in all the non-native speakers,it is probably the most common language spoken worldwide depending if you count the chinese languages as actual languages or dialects. It is the language of communication between people and businesses. The number of non-native to native speakers is around 3-1 by some estimates. Just go to any country that is not native english speaking and you will see a plethora of "learn english schools" and some countries actively teach english in their own school system.

I would submit that the english name of Moon is not irrelevant and is more in use than any other name.

Renegade 13 · #**110** October 20th, 2007, 05:40 PM

You read my mind Santiago.