Sol too, if you want to call the closest star the sun wherever you are.

Moon-like natural satellite.

Not if you are Spanish.

Let's just settle on Moon™ as a compromise for our moon and just moon for all other moons.

Any sci-fi that takes place in antiquity, I suppose.

Isn't humus 'earth' more in the sense of literal soil on the ground, rather than the planet? More of a human scaled interpretation, at least.

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.

Seinfeld is Unfunny

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

need skulgun for head

Exactly. You've got limited time to tell your story in a movie, so establishing a fake currency that nobody except hardcore numistatics nerds will care about is kinda pointless when everyone already understands that credits = future money.

And as you say using a real currency doesn't make sense in most future movie contexts, and using the "wrong" one may even offend some people who may then boycott your movie - which is obviously not desirable when you're a studio trying to make money.

I image its the same reason for the Gold/Silver currency in many fantasy settings.

I think in Rick and Morty one of the fake currencies is called a schmeckle, which is Yiddish for penis (diminutive).

The money can’t be any real earth currency

no, now that you've said this i want to see a sci-fi movie where all trade is based on the Vietnamese Đồng

No, they won't.

Credits are for future and guns, it's coins/pieces of gold/silver when swords.

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

what if their dollars are worms?

What if they were wrong about Selene, not Sol

Raised by Wolves comes into the chat.

Nasacorn is delicacy in some places.

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

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

"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.

Yes, it was an experience watching Torchwood and thinking it so hilarious all this stuff was happening in Wales. Made me reflect on how I never gave a second thought to how aliens only ever landed in the United States in all the time I've been watching shows about aliens.

Though, to be fair, every once in a while, the (usually movie) wants us to know that the United States liberated THE ENTIRE WORLD so we'll see a montage of racially diverse people celebrating around recognizable global landmarks. Thank you America! Please continue to bomb us to spread your freedom!

Regional childrens tv show doesn't count.

But I did forget about Dr Who.

District 9 was excellent, but those were also refugee aliens.

You know how that'd play out over there...

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