Editing Talk:1253: Exoplanet Names

This comic is referenced in 1555: Exoplanet Names 2 (https://xkcd.com/1555/). [[Special:Contributions/199.27.133.177|199.27.133.177]] 04:54, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

One of the planets is similar to the child in Exploits of a Mom (http://xkcd.com/327/)
Robert Drop Tables
[[Special:Contributions/90.200.204.77|90.200.204.77]] 12:12, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
:Yes, they've seemed to have learned to sanitize their data inputs or just stick to parameters. [[Special:Contributions/69.14.148.254|69.14.148.254]] 12:33, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Hair covered planet might be a reference to the book The Carpet Makers {{unsigned ip|41.221.193.211}}

The Blogosphere and Blogodrome planets are cited as synonyms of "blog." I believe this is an error, in that blogosphere is synonymous with "the collection of all posted communication." I would change it myself, but I don't feel like I'm sufficiently expert to state with conviction. ~Anthingy {{unsigned ip|76.105.133.220}}

I'm still missing the ''New Netherlands''... Lorenz [[Special:Contributions/142.244.63.246|142.244.63.246]] 15:34, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Along with no ''New Netherlands'', I'm also disappointed to see ''Planet #14'' but no ''Planet 9 from Outer Space''. [[User:Ccurtis|Ccurtis]] ([[User talk:Ccurtis|talk]]) 16:04, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
:I'm sure my explain does cover this very well.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 23:04, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
::I don't understand your comment here. I was hoping for a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space Plan 9 From Outer Space], arguably one of the worst movies ever made and inspiration for the successor Unix operating system, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs Plan 9]. [[User:Ccurtis|Ccurtis]] ([[User talk:Ccurtis|talk]]) 14:09, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

If memory serves, Stampy is the name of Bart Simpson's elephant. [[Special:Contributions/99.108.140.97|99.108.140.97]] 17:59, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

A* ("a star") is also a pathfinding algorithm taught in introductory Artificial Intelligence classes. I don't see the connection to the planet yet. [[User:Lastorset|Lastorset]] ([[User talk:Lastorset|talk]]) 22:19, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
:For the first, I did remove the corrupt wiki link. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 23:23, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

I just wonder where New Jerseys II through V are .... [[User:JamesCurran|JamesCurran]] ([[User talk:JamesCurran|talk]]) 03:24, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

'''Skydot''' could as easily be equivalent to the "Pale blue dot" that is Earth, from afar.  '''New Jersey VI''' reminds me of the "New (New New New New .. New) New York" as visited in Doctor Who.  '''help@gmail.com''' is either another bad input (as in "How Do I Join the IAU") or something more insidious.  '''Moon Holder''' also reminds me of "Moon Watcher" from the (book of, at least) 2001: a Space Odyssey.  '''Blainsley''' sounds to me like one of those portmanteau-names applied to a couple ("Blair-and-Ainsley"?).  '''Unicorn Thresher''' could either be a random word string (I'd not have been surprisedto have seen "Correct Horse battery Staple" in the list) or ''perhaps'' something to do with the Invisible Pink Unicorn.  '''Liz''' sounds like someone trying to get a planet named after their girlfriend or daughter or perhaps mother. [[Special:Contributions/178.104.103.140|178.104.103.140]] 11:39, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

:Anyone want an exoplanet named xkcd? {{unsigned ip|173.14.129.9}}

I was personally expecting a planet named "Gallifrey" or "Too expensive to get there, who cares?" {{unsigned ip|170.215.90.160}}

Maybe New Jersey V is a reference to the Spaceship New Jersey from Bruce Covill's  young  adult "My Teacher Is An Alien" series?
-Jed [[Special:Contributions/70.208.76.161|70.208.76.161]] 00:47, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

I find it very meta that the line in the table explaining Cosmic Sands is formatted in Comic Sans, except for the reference to the Papyrus comic, which is written in Papyrus.  I refer anyone interested to the discussion there about the propriety of that kind of self-referential cleverness, and I recognize that it sort of undermines the purpose of a wiki to do things therein that themselves require explanation... but I kinda like it. --Benny [[Special:Contributions/68.199.58.41|68.199.58.41]] 15:50, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

'''How Do I Join the IAU''' - instead of a lost user it very much resembles whinning of noobs in forums or in chat - "How Do I Get An Op?", "Please Mail It To Me" etc. '''Ballderaan''' might be a pun (if it's not actually there) on the Space Balls movie. --Ed [[Special:Contributions/217.31.207.1|217.31.207.1]] 14:04, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

permadeath might also be a play on permafrost. [[User:Peter|Peter]] ([[User talk:Peter|talk]]) 17:01, 22 August 2013 (UTC)


Is Moonchild not an Aleister Crowley reference? {{unsigned ip|91.45.17.43}}

I think, that help@gmail.com is a pun for the fact, that you usaually don't get any help writing to that address or that it is usually hard to communicate with google [[Special:Contributions/87.168.177.1|87.168.177.1]] 12:32, 4 October 2013 (UTC) Christian

Since computer scientists often start at zero instead of one when numbering things, the 15th in the list would be '''Planet #14'''
[[User:W3steve|W3steve]] ([[User talk:W3steve|talk]]) 23:25, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Planet With Arms might also refer to the Birds With Arms thing on Reddit, where people humorously photoshop arms onto the bird pictures. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.5|108.162.246.5]] 21:10, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

I think the inclusion of Blue Ivy is a swipe at Beyonce and Jay-Z trademarking their daughter's name. Presumably, as well as being two words, it would be ineligible as a planet name for violating the guidelines on "avoiding commercial names, and being 'respectful of intellectual property'". [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.46|108.162.216.46]] 15:48, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

"A star" is a planet not a star. I thought that was the joke. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.162|173.245.50.162]] 06:46, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

With recent developments in British ocean research, should we add a reference to "Boaty McBoatface"? Like M.Splashy Pants and the Mountain Dew flavour, this led the polls when the parent organization put the name of their cutting-edge research vessel to internet vote.--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.242.134|108.162.242.134]] 22:18, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
:Do it. [[User:Jkshapiro|Jkshapiro]] ([[User talk:Jkshapiro|talk]]) 02:50, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Help@gmail.com seems like a Douglas Adams reference, where he describes the complaints department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation takes up several planets. Here's the [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/95859-share-and-enjoy-is-the-company-motto-of-the-hugely quote]. [[User:Yissachar1498|Yissachar1498]] ([[User talk:Yissachar1498|talk]]) 10:59, 24 November 2019 (UTC)


you all missed the point of "a star"

it suggests that the planet

'''is a star'''

you got nerdsniped and not one of you noticed [[Special:Contributions/172.68.143.82|172.68.143.82]] 20:50, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Isn't Ballderaan just an anagram of Aldebaran? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.92.28|162.158.92.28]] 17:29, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
:"Aldebaran" has only one "l", but close. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 05:08, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

I had assumed that "asshole Jupiter" was a reference to "hot Jupiter", the term for exoplanet gas giants with orbital periods of less than 10 days. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 05:08, 23 November 2021 (UTC)