The Messy History Of Naming The Moon

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List Of Lunar Features: en.wikipedia.o...
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Who Invented The Telescope?: www.space.com/...
Who Put Names On The Moon?: thonyc.wordpre...
Lunar Mare: www.britannica...
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NASA Catalogue Of Lunar Nomenclature: planet4589.org...
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[@NameExplain]

What's your favourite thing you learnt from this video? I love the fact that Galileo made a telescope without ever seeing one. What a mad lad.

[@notquality3471]

i like cheese

[@hellomynameisjoenl]

NotNotQuality Nice.

[@lucasknox9694]

So Galileo was Boom Boom?

[@karatekickz]

Video idea: All the different names for the male organ. Follow up video: all the different names for lady bits.

[@bigmac1516]

Btw, I thought of something that doesn't have a name. The day after tomorrow.

[@12tone]

"I might name it this. Let me know if I did!" is a baller move, Patrick. I wish I'd thought of it first.

[@afk_is_ok]

Reply 3

[@mclains8362]

Reply why?

[@FatPigInTheHouse]

Dear Past Patrick, you did not name it The Race to the Moon

[@teun4767]

It's a shame isn't it

[@nicholas3354]

Now to deliver this message to past Patrick. I think past Patrick was asking too much.

[@jasmineannabelle]

Erreniu

[@jasmineannabelle]

M

[@heathenfire]

ಠ!! I'm from a state in South India called Karnataka. We speak Kannada here and have a script of our own. ಠ is one of our letters. I'm so happy that it has become this famous. I feel happy whenever I see it used as a meme. It represents the heavy 't' sound by the way. In case anyone was wondering

[@servantofaeie1569]

I knew that. I study different writing systems. I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice this ಠ_ಠ

[@Fae_van]

That's cool!, i didn't know until now

[@deekshas3936]

Hey fellow kannadiga! Namaskara

[@Kartik-yi5ki]

tt

[@heathenfire]

@@servantofaeie1569 wow that's interesting, can you read the Kannada script?

[@obilesk]

What about "Luna"? It's the one name mentioned more than once in literature and pop culture. Not official, but rather popular.

[@obilesk]

@@di-riso Yep.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

There are actually quite a lot of places, including islands, lakes, creeks, hills, and mountains that don't have names. Even some places you'd expect would, like the highest point in same places, don't have names. You should research the topic of unnamed places and do a video about it!

[@gracel9873]

I thought this was Memeulous video based on the thumbnail.

[@ctrlpea7058]

Grace L me too

[@ixalaz4536]

Same until I read the title 😂

[@jadew6795]

Same

[@saturnproductions1827]

Same

[@DarwinskiYT]

Same

[@fassbrause0076]

6:32 imagine the chaos if a country like Germany was called Germany on one map, Allemagne on another, Niemcy on yet another one, while being called Deutschland by the natives.

[@mng3941]

@Dominique Z You speak French? (I don't, but I'm a Hetalian…)

[@queerwizard]

You forgot Tyskland

[@vilukisu]

Finnish calls it Saksa

[@jaquelinegiarola]

Or alemanha

[@grandsome1]

@@mng3941 Yeah, French doesn't give a fuck about endonyms. Londres(London), Pékin(Beijing), Hollande, and Allemagne; the académie doesn't give a fuck.

[@nocontextwhatever]

Where do the words "deaf" and "blind" come from? I can't puzzle out any etymological links to expected words like: eyes, ears, seeing, hearing, or a lack of them. Big fan of the channel!! 👍

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

We need to storm the moon to get the cheese. We can use Wallace for assistance

[@el_rey_chipinque]

Avery The Cuban-American Wallace: “There’s no use In prevaricating about the bush 😬”

[@bodie6783]

Why do I see you everywhere

[@Fae_van]

Imagine if Germany had different names depending on the map. Germany: *laughs in deutschland* *laughs in Allemagne* And *Njemacka* also *germania*

[@wandaperi]

Spielst du in Fortnite !

[@TheGogeta222]

Not to forget laughs in Preißn

[@cakeisyummy5755]

*Croatian intensifies*

[@david82633]

Laughs in Tyskland

[@TheGogeta222]

@@Reichsritter Bayern d'Samma mir! Jawoi!

[@JonathanSilvaTX]

Do a Name Explain of Caesar/Tsar/Kaiser

[@williamsledge3151]

You should do a video of names of famous ships like the Titanic, or the many Enterprises.

[@MisterBrickFilms]

On a similar subject, something I've been quite interested in was how quickly people named the features of Pluto once we got the pictures of New Horizons in 2015!

[@shadepizza4217]

The vsauce video where he talks about the concept of nothing doesn't have a name

[@garret1930]

You just named it

[@MerkhVision]

@@garret1930 no they didn’t, they just referred to its content. Not the same as naming it at all

[@lisaa4446]

Some links that could be being referred to Names.: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmi3eX2lh750aMU Will we run out of names?: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGm6pIKVlL2Wf5I Misnomers: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp-ai5SKaKaapbc

[@tardigrade9493]

Delighted to hear that Mary Blagg finished her work and has historical credit for consolidating selenography.

[@dg-hughes]

From what I have read, recall it went: grapes > grape screw press > screw press used for type (books) > books show people how they had bad eyesight > eye glasses invented for reading > meanwhile fine lacework required a small magnifying glass / microscope > when two lenses were stacked that became the telescope. Old grapes started it all, we owe it all to grapes.

[@dingo588]

Let’s just go with Big Glowy and call it a day

[@threaruscamuwundra7417]

No, name it Small Glowy. Big Glowy is the sun

[@helloiamenergyman]

@@threaruscamuwundra7417 and then what will the stars be called? really small glowys

[@metametodo]

And there are its phases: Big Small Glowy Diminishing Glowy Hidden Glowy Growing Glowy

[@dingo588]

Guys I think we have this figured out!

[@jaquelinegiarola]

mat HJGBKakeya tiny glowies

[@mikaelmerilahti]

Ring finger doesn't have a name in finnish as it's called "nimetön" what translates to "nameless" :D

[@j3licat]

So it's name is "nameless"?

[@mikaelmerilahti]

@@j3licat Yes :D

[@j3licat]

@@mikaelmerilahti So it does have a name. U_U

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

Tolkien's Ring Lord, the Dark Lord was 'the Nameless One', he who shall not be named. BTW, Tolkien was an expert in Finnish mythology, for example, and admired it greatly.

[@invisiblelemons7633]

There is a subreddit called whatstheword for things people don't know the name of. So if you go to all the unsolved posts you can get a good idea of things that don't have names for them

[@magnus9618]

Nobody: Not a single soul: Germany: "My name is Jeff"

[@enriquegonzalez6265]

There must be Unknown fish species in deep waters that have no name yet.

[@mrsslibby6857]

Enrique Gonzalez he said things we know of. We’re still discovering new fish and plants and stuff but as soon as we discover them we give them names

[@enriquegonzalez6265]

@@mrsslibby6857 oh yes. We know there are new undiscovered species down there. We just cant name them.

[@jaquelinegiarola]

I officially declare all unnamed species of underwater fish named. They are all called bob

[@enriquegonzalez6265]

@@jaquelinegiarola 😂😂😂 ok. So I guess now everything has a name. Problem solved.

[@WaterShowsProd]

There's a current trend in palaeontology to name new fossil species after comic book and fantasy characters.

[@tinderbox4690]

You didnt name it "The race to name the Moon".

[@waynemarvin5661]

Uh, I think he knows that.

[@agreenblinker]

I like the line "Let me know if you think of something that doesn't have a name!" I would love to tell you, but...well...I don't know the name of it. :)

[@enthusia492]

Moon < Luna Change my mind

[@pyrrhocorax]

Selene triumphs all!

[@jaquelinegiarola]

Moon < lua

[@howtubeable]

Luna means Moon.

[@Thumbsupurbum]

Luna is just the Latin word for The Moon.

[@Jordan-subj]

@@Thumbsupurbum The general idea is that almost all the other stuff in the solar system are Latin named, so the Moon should be named "Luna" and the Sun is "Sol".

[@oggaming2988]

Another great video! Keep it up

[@juliankristiansenrundhaug1168]

I don't think that those pictures with the faces cut out of them so you can put your own head through and take pictures have a name, I can't find one at least.

[@MC3141592653589]

There is a Language in Hawai’i that is spoken by a few people. I believe it was started in the 1840’s by Norwegian settlers. My great-grandmother said that around the 1910s, the language started to be used to keep secrets, as the Americans were a bit harsh and totalitarian. So they started to take English words out of it. Then they tried to make it sound more Northern European due to the language bans. If there was a name for this language, it is lost now.

[@ColapsMental]

Gow do you convert names? I.E. From John in english to Ion in romanian. From Sandor in hungarian to Alexander in english

[@Luca-vb3xo]

Bung Hole with those names in particular I think it’s just how people in different places write them and then pronounce them. Like John->Johannes->Iohannes->Ion. I and J are often interchangeable and so are U and V. Other variants of John being Jan, Jean, Juan, Ivan. Sandor is probably a ‘romanianisation’ of Xander, being short Alexander.

[@wildstarfish3786]

Either by etymological cognates or use the bible for biblical names afaik

[@Yordleton]

What's the name for that feeling you get when you're trying to think of nameless things, but can't think of any?

[@derekwheeler4299]

Depressed

[@VoidHalo]

One thing I found out recently is that there's a name for that sort of fuzzy looking grey/white color you see in pitch blackness. It's called eigengrau. Which is German for own grey.

[@SteveJB]

9:30 hahahaha. Love the verb you gave to astronomers and their telescopes here :)

[@Sindraug25]

How about the name of the Moon itself? As far as I know, the Latin word Luna is the only name put forth for it, but I'd like to enter Mona into the contest. It's a proper name, it still sounds kind of like moon, and it comes from the Old English word for moon, so we'd be drawing from our own language instead of taking from others.

[@kitcutting]

I picked up this ant nearby. This ant doesn’t have a name. So I named it Anthony. DAMN IT, you’re right. It’s difficult to not name things.

[@hedleypanama]

#Objection.. I know two things named "nameless": 1-The innominate veins, also named "brachiocephalic veins" 2-The "Sin Nombre" virus...

[@trinalgalaxy5943]

there is a town in colorado that goes by No Name, and has resisted all attempts to name it!

[@hpsauce1078]

I was under the impression that the moons official name was Luna... it is just easier to say the Moon, a bit like how we don't call the queen elizabeth winsor.

[@sampo2949]

Something that doesnt havea a name: in many cultures and languages the ring finger is known as simply ”nameless” or the “nameless” finger

[@michellebetts8031]

I just got finished watching the video about Ishi, and even he who had a name, but couldn’t say it was given another name just so we could call him something!!!

[@kylehazachode]

In Star Trek and other sci-fi’s, they say “lunar surface” for moons in other solar systems. I wish there was a different name for that term. Lunar seems like it should refer to our moon not others.

[@dennyzavada407]

Thank you Patrick! Awesome job as always. What great research!

[@Quintinohthree]

Patrick, yoir mention of the committe for establishing names for lunar features reminded me of the various IUPAC committees for establishing nomenclature for chemical substances and the like. I think that could actually make for an interesting video, maybe compile interesting names, delve into how different compounds can be named in different ways and so on.

[@yall571]

For something with no name I know the answer The chance of my life not ending with me working in mcdonalds

[@The0Stroy]

It's called hopelessness

[@kungtyn5813]

Hopeless

[@Robin-jk6wz]

Undergraduate

[@checkmyplaylist6879]

Why is Memeulous on the moon?

[@NameExplain]

Have I accidentally gone a done a reference to something? I thought it was just one of those Japanese emoticons.

[@lemonder7116]

@@NameExplain there's this KZbinr named memeulous and that's his logo for his channel lol

[@deekshas3936]

They're not Japanese emoticons!!!! The letters belong to the Kannada script. ಠ_ಠ

[@servantofaeie1569]

Name Explain its Kannada not Japanese

[@thatonepersonyouknowtheone7781]

My pet rock doesn't have a name, I just call it whatever curse words I can think of.

[@waynemarvin5661]

Wow!!!! A comment from 1975!!!

[@TheCsel]

What about features on the dark side of the moon?

[@Perririri]

#PinkFloyd *has entered the chat*

[@soton4010]

Yet me know something lacking a name. This rock I found. I'm a gonna call it Peter... damn it

[@bigboaharthurmorgan2109]

Zaccari Jarman Lol

[@WaterShowsProd]

There ought to be an award for excellence in drollness.

[@clar1nettist204]

Even things without names have names They're called "unnamed things"

[@sorenmine7765]

"Let me know something that doesn't have a name." oh you cheeky bastard.

[@themediaangel7413]

Is there a name for those suction toys that you press down into the ground and then they pop back up after a couple seconds?

[@KendrickMan]

How did mushrooms get their names? Fly agaric, shiitake, portobello, oyster, chanterelle, honeys, hen of the woods, chicken of the woods, lobster mushrooms, enoki, cep, puffballs, lion's manes, hedgehogs, milk caps, artist's conks, wax caps, wine caps, gypsy mushrooms, deer mushrooms, earth tongues, morels, etc. Something tells me Patrick would love myco-nomenclature.

[@edvardskalva]

In latvian we dont call other moons moons but natural satellites so our moon isnt just called the moon its called the only moon although the name for a month is the same as for the moon

[@theshaggiest303]

What is this mysterious field of "Astromony" you keep mentioning?

[@azhadial7396]

6:33 Wow, I did not know some people called it "Bob" or "Harry". I have always heard people say "Jeff" in my home country of Jonathan when talking about this country...

[@JeremyWS]

I love the Moon. I can't wait for us to go back to it in 2024. It'll be awesome.

[@servantofaeie1569]

Those Kannada eyes tho ಠ_ಠ

[@Perririri]

Kaomoji normie

[@epg96]

Please make videos about this Why do Iranians name Poland as Lekhistan? Why do North Germanic peoples called Germany as Tyskland?

[@daisybrain9423]

Tyskland = Deutschland, they're cognates.

[@supremelordoftheauspicious2928]

Evan Pangaribuan The names for Eastern European countries entered the Persian language through Ottoman Turkish. So we have to look for the root in the Turkish language. Appearantly it comes from an eastern Slavic word for poles: Lyach. Which became Lechia in the Polish language and was rendered as Lehestan by the Ottomans and the term entered various middle eastern languages like Armenian, Kurdish, Persian and etc... through ottoman influence.

[@trendyboy1539]

Hungary is called Majaristan in Hindi,मजारिस्तान

[@frankbruder3097]

@@trendyboy1539 , sounds very straightforward as a translation of Magyarórszág. But how did it get to be called "Hungary" and variations of that in western Europe?

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

My German side of the family lives to this day in Tyrol which straddles the area between Bavaria Germany and Austria, deep in the mountains (they also make musical instruments there).

[@Diaramamond]

That was a really weird example at 6:23 because...that's exactly how it is...even with the paritcular country you picked out as an example...

[@777gpower]

For nameless things here on earth many river islands and second or third order islands go without names or are simply assigned a number which doesn’t seem like it should count

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

To think that we landed on the moon is a reality that my mind refuses to fully capture and embrace. And yet, my knowledge of the universe tells me that such is indeed possible, and i know not to trust my mind for it can decieve me.

[@fredred8371]

What a good suggestion. They should be named patron saints of the Moon... Not just of it's features. This was a great video man!

[@Knabberwasser_H2SO5]

Maybe we have, as humanity, for everything (we know of) a word, but not every word exists in every language.

[@nocontextwhatever]

Very cool point!

[@scronx]

I hoped this enjoyable show would be more about names of the moon in different languages and their etymology. Mebbe you'd like to do one like that sometime? Course lots are prolly cognates of 'moon' and 'luna'.

[@Kartik-yi5ki]

Something the doesn't have a name? Of course I know one.. It's a ...a... What is its name?

[@danadnauseam]

One of the far side maria is called Mare Muscovium. When that name was accepted by the IAU, t was reported that someone commented that Moscow was a state of mind.

[@bomba7197]

Sea on the moon? Imagine those ancient astronomers imagining there are seas, mountain, and thinking there might be other humans living up there... Sadly our moon is the reality.

[@Oldiesyoungies]

what do you call the filter and used coffee grounds after you brew a pot? throw away the "used coffee grounds?" i think there should be a name for that

[@grahamlive]

Does the Schrödinger crater only exist when you observe it?

[@swifteh1780]

Yeah I know. Imagine how confusing it would be if Deutschland was called Bob, Germany was called Jeff, and Allemagne was called Harry.

[@PabloEmanuel96]

I need help A teacher told us that "the end" at the end of movies meand "theatre end" like the end of the play or sm I don't think it's true but I couldn't find any prove online

[@snaaail]

I appreciate the Kerbal Space Program music

[@thuabb9717]

Please make a video on why we dont have a word for „not thirsty“. I always asked myself that

[@Knabberwasser_H2SO5]

In German there is a word, but no one uses it. It's "sitt" as opposed to "satt", which means "fed up". That made me wonder, do you have in English a word, you use for "satt"?

[@wildstarfish3786]

​@@Knabberwasser_H2SO5fed up? just because it's spelled with a space doesn't mean it's two separate words at least as far as definitions are concerned

[@ashcoates25]

The crew of Apollo 11 had craters named after them too near their landing site!

[@kaloarepo288]

There is a fascinating 1998 album by Welsh composer Carl Jenkins called "Imagined Oceans" which consists of the names in Latin of some of the seas or "maria' of the moon.

[@therongjr]

"A big issue for this committee was DEATH," he said, so nonchalantly. 😂

[@konq9779]

That that moment whe you hear hissing right behind you and total shock fills your body so you turn around and see creeper and all you can say is either "Creeper Aw Man" or scream. That moment doesn't have it's own name and should have one.

[@binaryglitch64]

I always thought the moon of Earth was named Luna... I think my mom told me that when I was very young.

[@benimo1233]

The things that don't have names The thing that makes the universe keep expanding Those huge things called planets that still don't have names And my personal favourite is ................

[@sxyph7358]

thousands of colors don't have names. Actually there's an entire website where you can select a random color without one and give it a name yourself.

[@NoMoneyHubby]

do those little sparkly things that look like they are falling down like snow when you look up at a bright blue clear sky have a name???? if so i have never heard it...

[@frankwu4747]

6:35 German is written differently in different languages. So this disparity exists today. Also South Americans consider all of North and South Americas as one large supercontinent, America.

[@tenpotkan7051]

10:46 when you realise that Denny's surname means "flaw" in Slovak... Could you make a video explaining his name?

[@VoidHalo]

There's no name for the sensation that makes someone with RLS want to move or flail about. Which is frustrating because it's a sensation that rivals pain in its unpleasantnes, but there is absolutely no language that can adequately describe it. There's also a visual phenomenon associated with HPPD or multiple sclerosis which causes an effect sort of like TV satic, but not really, which has no real name, though a lot of sufferers call it visual snow.

[@ericlanglois9194]

Everything has a name? I think you haven't looked at many of the lakes in the northern half of Canada.

[@georgirusev2931]

You do understand, Germany has different names, in different languages, right

[@eragonlindemann7236]

I think he meant in the same language like in Australia, Germany was called Jeff and in Britain it was Damn Jerries

[@mortified776]

@@eragonlindemann7236 Yeah that's the way I took it. Some people are blind to context though.

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

@@eragonlindemann7236 HAHAHA. And the Brits called the French 'Froggies'.

[@valentinbiehrer9704]

that thing that happens where two people are walking toward each other and they both try to avoid the other so that they block each other, before repeating that. That doesn't have a name, I think.

[@kabochaVA]

3:19 No, you did not... But I guess you already know that! ^^

[@r0bw00d]

The moon _does_ have a name: Luna.

[@ethanhayes7038]

They actually are seas in a loose sense. Just not ones made out of water. At some point in the moon's past molten lava flowed in those spots after some major collision. Now I suppose any solid ground could be described as cooled lava seas, but because the mare are relatively smooth and dark compared to the surrounding areas I think we can make the distinction.

[@TSPxEclipse]

The scientific name of the moon is "Luna," (origin: Latin, mainly used in Latin based languages like Italian and Spanish; literally means "moon," and is the name of the ancient Roman goddess of the moon) hence the reason why the type of eclipse where our moon enters the Earth's shadow is called a "Lunar" Eclipse. The moon's equivalent to geography would be Lunography (if we're still sticking to Latin and not Greek, whereas the Greek version of geography would be Gaiography).

[@EpreTroll]

dutch did it again whoo

[@yetinother]

How would we tell about a thing that is not named, even a lengthy description or gps coordinations are a name of sorts.

[@frroossst4267]

What's the meaning of the suffix ' tion ' I mean it's used in so many places, medication, differentiation, acceleration, appropriation, cantenation, liquidation etc. If not the meaning , the origin and other fun stuff about the suffix would be a great video

[@dandelionlys]

Google says “The action of (a verb)” or “the result of (a verb)”

[@johngreen4610]

Talk about interesting names? Craters on Mars are by convention named for people who contributed in some way to our understanding of Mars but craters less than 60 km in diameter are named for cities, towns and villages of less than 100,000 population. Unfortunately there was no requirement to supply any supplementary information along with the name suggested like for example the etymology of the name. Furthermore the official gazetteer was full of erroneous information e.g one crater was listed at 476 ° north latitude, the crater Faith was listed as being named for Faith SD, There is no place in South Dakota named Faith but there is a Faith ND. Another was named for Lowbury NZ there is no such place in New Zealand. Lowburn was probably intended. This is only a small sample of errors, in fact 4 named craters were not even craters and so had to be deleted. As one might guess literally hundreds of languages are involved making this an incredibly difficult task but has as far as can be completed though the IAU continues to add new names so it will probably never be complete. I continue to work with my contacts at USGS and the IAU to keep this information up to date. This could be an interesting subject for an upcoming video. You will find an interesting document at: archive.org/details/TheEtymologyOfMarsCraterNames_201803/mode/2up You can reach me at ulao (the nunber 10) at gmail (dot) com.

[@condorboss3339]

Actually, there are thousands of lakes in northern Canada that do not have names.

[@Disconnected554]

Actually the object is called Satellite. Our Satellite's name is The Moon. The other planets Satellites have their names, like Europa, Io and Phobos. But the people are just repeating the "calling the things by the brand."

[@Disconnected554]

same thing happens to the sun. The name of our star is The Sun/Sol and the system Solar System. But people keeo calling the other stars "sun".

[@hilariousbenjamin5614]

In Bologna there's a street called "Via senza nome", literally "Street without a name", so there XD

[@LARAUJO_0]

I like the use of Kerbal Space Program music here

[@LARAUJO_0]

Apparently it's actually a Kevin Macleod. My life is a misconception

[@201950201950]

This is one of my favorite videos

[@timomastosalo]

The lunar seas are not as far off as they 1st seem. Though there's no water, the lunar 'seas' would be where the massive waters would gather, if moon had, or would get oceans of water.