Seinfeld is Unfunny

TVTropes is a cancer site now. Can't recommend anyone visit it.

Lesson: Never support a project unless it's open source.

In real life, the sun is called "Sol" and we are in the "Solar system" as in, sol-ar. Others are called star systems, some are named; "Polaris" is usually just called that instead of the "Polaris system" or the like

Helios -> Helios system follows this same logic.

Marvin the paranoid android from Hitchhikers Guide.

"I need a length of rope!"

[Puts down a gold coin worth a month's wages.]

"Woah! Don't open that! It's an alien planet! Is there air?! You don't know!"

Broke: Memory units in optimistic numbers of megabytes and gigabytes.

Woke: Memory units in astronomically-high numbers of gigabytes and terabytes.

Bespoke: Memory units in totally incomprehensible units like kiloquads or exanodes.

Farscape called currency... Currency...

Or never specify. "That spacestation has massive computing power" "How big?" "Massive."

Slaps the superships central computer "This here runs on 12 bits of memory! Our engineers really outdone themselves with optimisation this time."

...the same way it played out in the movie?

need skulgun for head

District 9 was set in South Africa.

EDIT: Oh, should'a scrolled down. Consider this a mirror comment.

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Eh, in my sci-fi universe the Sun is called "Sol-Centauri", but still just referred to as "the Sun" by most people.

Have never seen the show, but from a quick search, that seems pretty spot on for what I had in mind.

I mean, the word size — alone — on the Voyager space crafts seems to have gone further than anything today.

I'd imagine more agent orange.

"This baby has enough memory to make elephants look forgetful." "...what's an elephant?" "No clue."

Why, what happened?

It got enshittified. The owners wanted to make money, so it's crammed full of ads now. And apparently there's censorship?

But it looks like there's a fork here:

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/All_The_Tropes:Why_Fork_TV_Tropes

The owners wanted to make money, so it's crammed full of ads now.

Ublock should take care of that...

And apparently there's censorship?

...but that's a bit of a no-no

But it looks like there's a fork here:

Will check it out, thanks for linking <3

I did some more digging and came across a reddit post with more details: https://www.reddit.com/r/tvtropes/comments/4cpfrg/tv_tropes_and_censorship_they_changed_it_now_it/

TV Tropes and Censorship: They Changed it, Now it Sucks (YMMV)

And moon is called Luna

That's why an orbit around the sun is "solar" and an orbit around the moon is 'lunar"

It seems like earth is just called earth for most spaceflight purposes (e.g. low-earth orbit), although the word for it in some Latin languages comes from "terra"

I think it'd be fun to call earth "Humus". We get words like posthumous, exhume, humility from it, and it's theorized that it may share an origin with the word Homo, from which we get "Human".

So if we called it Earth we'd be Earthlings, if we call it Terra we'd be Terrans, if we called it Tellus we'd be Tellurians, but if we called it Humus we could stay as Humans =D

Helios and Luna? You're mixing Greek and Latin nomenclature! My immersion is ruined!

They would all have different coins, but the actual value of those coins was determined by their weight, so as long as you could verify that it didn't matter much. Scraping worked because not every salesperson would check the weight of the coins.

Are you spitballing like me or is this your field? Because you'd need to know the percentage of the metal present in the coin to weigh it; gold and silver are too soft be pure. That introduces problems of debasement, a coin from an earlier minting might have a higher content than a later printing, and multiply that by all the different city-states, and you have a potential headache.

The warrior alien who solves problems through brute force, and struggles to understand Earth customs in comedic ways.

That was kinda the point of the film, yes.

There’s just so many more interesting options. Like what if the worms are their dollars?

Biggest of oofs.

I could look for what I wanted and go without a second thought

Somehow, that hits me most on an emotional level. Rationally, the culling of mature content for ads' sake irritates me, and once the nostalgic shock wears off, it'll probably be my biggest issue with the whole deal, but right now, that's what gets me:

It's bad enough to have the entertainment marred by the bullshit. But if there's not even any entertainment left...

Thanks for digging it out!

I think that's super valid for a novel especially, as long as you don't mind that the movie adaptation decides it's not worth taking 10 minutes out of the runtime to explain vs something people will immediately understand

Or maybe there is nothing else interesting in the novel, and it won't matter anyway because no one reads or adapts it

My pet peeve one

Broke: measuring distance in millions / billions of kilometers

Woke: measuring distances in gigameters / terameters

"Oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere, suitable for humanoid life."

Originally it was called Jimmy though.

It’s “hard sci-fi”, so that means no lightspeed travel but also we’ve had cryo sleep since the 90s because obviously that’s so fucking easy to invent.

Also, lots of mixed culture names like Aleksander Ho because your genius prediction of the future is that people will intermarry.

Actually, our star's name is The Sun. We do call the system the Solar System, though.

It is not my field, so don't take it too serious. But I think I'm those times it was not doable for most people to test metals for purity, so that wouldn't have influenced it much unless it became noticable by eye (or biting)

crunch

"This baby makes the NASA computer seems like a V-Tech."

Meanwhile at NASA, they compute simulations on like 2 PlayStation 3s... With a high accuracy.

Yep. It’s Sol, not Helios.

Why did you post a picture of a random empty background?

Sunar System

It only has one memory cell, but we've fully implemented real computation

no no no the name will be Ho Skywalker because they'll be named after jobs and fiction

What if they were wrong about Selene, not Sol

Earther Systrem

Jimbo > Jimmy > Jim > Big Jim > James Sol > Big Gay Jim > Short Fat Jim > Little Gary > Jimothy > Jimward > Mothy Jim > Jimjim > Little Jim and finally Stankeye Jim

I'm no Astrologer, but I hear we're entering the age of Big Gay Jim.

i missed that. when i made a "dnd" (i forget which system) module, i named the money units "moneys". i mean we were all high except my wife, and she's contractually obligated to giggle at my jokes and the rest of us were high and giggly so it went over well. it's nice to know i thought up the same joke as farscape. we were probably inspired by the same thing, only i watched it like 30 years later because i'm me.

what if their dollars are worms?