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Let's assume a new, habitable planet is discovered around Alpha Centauri B. What do we call it?

>> No.3105776

>What do we call it?
Steve.

>> No.3105779

Harold Campingiana

>> No.3105782

Alpha Centauri #number

>> No.3105797

Tellus Nova

>> No.3105800

probably something endearing and biblical/mythological

Eden is generally accepted as the first designation of "earth 2"

>> No.3105825

Wunderland

>> No.3105832

Battletoads
that, or gentoo

>> No.3105839

haven from the rapture....owait

>> No.3105843

earth's left nut

>> No.3105848

The only thing the International Astronomical Union would allow

Alpha Centauri B b
or possibly
Alpha Centauri c

>> No.3105851

Planet Planet

>> No.3105856

>>3105832
I love you

>> No.3105857

Earth 2: Electric Boogaloo

>> No.3105869

Martin Luther King

>> No.3105871

>>3105843
That would be the Moon.

I propose Earth's right nut.

>> No.3105877

Planet Hollywood

>> No.3105891

Elysium or pandora.
elysium: safe haven of wild life there, untouched by man
pandora: undiscovered shit, who knows what ull find there

>> No.3105970

What if someone is living there already, though? And what if they're hot furry bitches that just want alien SEX?

>> No.3105981

kanye west

>> No.3105994

BOB

>> No.3105999

>>3105970
>What if someone is living there already, though?
Are you implying it would stop humans from renaming it?

>American continent
>Australia
>Easter Island
>any other of a million places

>> No.3106059

New America

>> No.3106080

we name it after a game

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

>> No.3106107

>>3105776

If that's from what I think it is, you're awesome.

>> No.3106108
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3106108

>>3105851
Why has no else suggested this?

>> No.3106110

>The people of the 21st century had either a particularly strange sense of humour or no sense of cosmic significance whatsoever. In this exhibit we see the closest planet to Earth, outside our solar system, ever discovered, Earth's Left Nut. No, kids, follow me to the paleontology section.

>> No.3106113

>>3106110

now kids***

fuck's sake

>> No.3106114

Planet SpaceX

>> No.3106120

Gaia

>> No.3106130

>>3105771
mindworms

>> No.3106137

>>3105771
Planet Faggot