[ SECRET POST #3134 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3134 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Proposed Charon place names ...

[(Anonymous)]

Listen, I'm sorry, but there's a qualitative difference between mythology and folklore on the one hand, and modern popular culture on the other. It's misleading and facile to equate them as "contemporary stories people tell".

Re: Proposed Charon place names ...

[kallanda_lee]

While I agree somewhat, we also live in a different world. Just by virtue of the speed of information and data, our contemporary stories have a far shorter shelf-life than in the time one believed (or at least actively told) myth. So, you might as well take something from popular culture.

Re: Proposed Charon place names ...

[(Anonymous)]

I guess my counterargument would be that I don't think the first one follows from the second. I think it's true what you say about the difference, but I don't see that as in itself a reason to take names from popular culture.

Re: Proposed Charon place names ...

[kallanda_lee]

I think some of it does. I think a lot of fantastical stories (so especially sci-fi and superhero stuff) is basically telling the stories of "demigods" under another guise.

But even if it wasn't...then the question would be, what does one name the regions?

I mean you could go for writers, or scientists etc...but they could be pretty irrelevant 100 years from now, too.

Re: Proposed Charon place names ...

[(Anonymous)]

But I think - and I'm sure this is somehow deeply problematic but fuck it I don't give a shit - but I think there's something on a basic level more meaningful appropriate about naming it after people we think are worthy of commemoration, rather than after pop cultural characters. There's just, to me, a fundamental separation there. Whether or not they're irrelevant 100 years from now, I think that is a better marker for whatever values one wants to project, and more meaningful in the present moment.

Re: Proposed Charon place names ...

[kallanda_lee]

Fair enough! While I think the fandom names are cool, I can totally understand the argument for not doing it. IIRC it hasn't been officially approved anyway.

Re: Proposed Charon place names ...

[cbrachyrhynchos]

The naming schemes for Pluto are:

1. Historic space missions and space craft
2. Scientists and engineers
3. Explorers
4. Underworld beings
5. Underworld places
6. Underworld travelers.

Re: Proposed Charon place names ...

[(Anonymous)]

Guys, we found the lit snob.

Re: Proposed Charon place names ...

[(Anonymous)]

No, I'm not objecting because of the characters chosen, I just think they should be named after real people and not characters from popular (or non-popular) culture.

Re: Proposed Charon place names ...

[(Anonymous)]

Too late. Titan already has features named after places in The Lord of the Rings and Dune. Has for a while.

There is a real Mount Doom, and it's on Titan.

Re: Proposed Charon place names ...

[(Anonymous)]

and i think that's stupid right now

Re: Proposed Charon place names ...

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I think it's really funny right now.

Re: Proposed Charon place names ...

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

The list of named mountains on Titan given on Wikipedia seem to all be Middle Earth names - Angmar, Dolmed, Mount Doom, Echoriath, Erebor, Gram, Irensaga, Merlock, Mindolluin, Misty Mountains, Mithrim, Rerir and Taniquetil (which I really hope is the tallest).

Re: Proposed Charon place names ...

[(Anonymous)]

You are being really, really white right now.

Re: Proposed Charon place names ...

[(Anonymous)]

ok