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  • H HimanshuJoshi

    People will confuse Kali[^] with Ka:li:[^], better you name him by his full name "Kali Yuga"; which is basically the current age of Mankind and we are on the verge of it's start only. But if you want to go full science fictional why bother with taking names from religions? Invent some names that sounds like science fiction, not mythology.

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    dan sh
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    I wonder how many understand "Kali yug" as well. Maybe we can use something off the Garuda Puran. Maybe "kinkara".

    "Your code will never work, Luc's always will.", Richard MacCutchan[^]

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    • D Dalek Dave

      Shiva has been used as a Deadly Virus in 'Executive Orders'.

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      dan sh
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      That's basically a chimera virus named by IMHO some ignorant guy.

      "Your code will never work, Luc's always will.", Richard MacCutchan[^]

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      • D dan sh

        That's basically a chimera virus named by IMHO some ignorant guy.

        "Your code will never work, Luc's always will.", Richard MacCutchan[^]

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        Dalek Dave
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        Good book though.

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        • D dan sh

          You can probably name your asteroid as "Kaal Bhairav". I would suggest "Kaal" since people from West can go quite close to it's pronunciation. You also try "Yamaraj" or just "Yam" if the asteroid is like killing life. If you want to portrait it as a destroyer, use "Shiva" which basically is the destroyer from the trinity we have. Although this would offend a large amount of people since he is, well, a good destroyer.

          "Your code will never work, Luc's always will.", Richard MacCutchan[^]

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          Gregory Gadow
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          My understanding is that the chief target of Shiva is ignorance. Anyway, I don't so much want a being of destruction as one of chaos and evil, which Shiva is not.

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            My understanding is that the chief target of Shiva is ignorance. Anyway, I don't so much want a being of destruction as one of chaos and evil, which Shiva is not.

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            dan sh
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            Gregory.Gadow wrote:

            chaos and evil

            Try these[^] then.

            "Your code will never work, Luc's always will.", Richard MacCutchan[^]

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            • G Gregory Gadow

              My understanding is that Kali Yuga means "the time of Kali" and would be better used for the aftermath of the impact, not the asteroid itself. Regarding why religion, that's why I offered some of the backstory: to explain how the name came to be widely used around the planet. Anyway, religious names are commonly used for such things, and borrowings from Greek, Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions - Apophis, Nemesis and so on - have been pretty overused.

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              HimanshuJoshi
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              Gregory.Gadow wrote:

              My understanding is thath, i Yuga means "the time of Kali"

              And that started when Lord Krishna left earth around 5000 years ago according to Vishnu-purana. It means dark times when sins such as lying, cheating is more common. Kali represents the all the evil that is in earth.

              Gregory.Gadow wrote:

              Anyway, religious names are commonly used for such things, and borrowings from Greek, Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions - Apophis, Nemesis and so on - have been pretty overused.

              I know that these things have been borrowed from religions and traditions, but my point is that if you really don't want to piss any religion, then use made up words.

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              • G Gregory Gadow

                I will look into those, thanks for the suggestion.

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                HimanshuJoshi
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                Those won't be historically accurate, since they are daemons which affect Sun and Moon and cause Eclipses according to hindu mythology. So if you are going for something matching along the lines of hindu mythologic accuracy, I suggest you to stick to Kali or Kali yuga.

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                • H HimanshuJoshi

                  Gregory.Gadow wrote:

                  My understanding is thath, i Yuga means "the time of Kali"

                  And that started when Lord Krishna left earth around 5000 years ago according to Vishnu-purana. It means dark times when sins such as lying, cheating is more common. Kali represents the all the evil that is in earth.

                  Gregory.Gadow wrote:

                  Anyway, religious names are commonly used for such things, and borrowings from Greek, Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions - Apophis, Nemesis and so on - have been pretty overused.

                  I know that these things have been borrowed from religions and traditions, but my point is that if you really don't want to piss any religion, then use made up words.

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                  Or he could use Sutekh, Ancient Egyptian God of Deserts and Storms, very apt. And not too many ancient egyptians around these days.

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                  • D Dalek Dave

                    Or he could use Sutekh, Ancient Egyptian God of Deserts and Storms, very apt. And not too many ancient egyptians around these days.

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                    HimanshuJoshi
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                    yeah and if any of them are here all of them would be busy partying off their new found freedom.

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                    • H HimanshuJoshi

                      yeah and if any of them are here all of them would be busy partying off their new found freedom.

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                      Dalek Dave
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                      They couldn't afford to party, they all lost their money on an illegal pyramid scheme!

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                      • D dan sh

                        Gregory.Gadow wrote:

                        chaos and evil

                        Try these[^] then.

                        "Your code will never work, Luc's always will.", Richard MacCutchan[^]

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                        Gregory Gadow
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                        That will be helpful, thanks!

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                        • D Dalek Dave

                          I can't help with the names, but scientifically speaking, any bolide of significant size would cause such desruction as to be then end of civilisation. Impactor of 1km at the shallow angle would slam into the sea causing a megatsunami, plus uplift of many billions of tons of material, the larger stuff being ballistic and impacting over most of the hemisphere, and a resultant nuclear winter. A ten meter bolide has the energy of the Hiroshima bomb, so start scaling up from there. I would suggest your impactor should be several 'small scale impacts' (5 to 10 meters) over a wide area, and one larger one,(say 100 meters) with an oceanic landing, but on continental shelf, that way the damage, whilst spectacular, is not an extintion event. Barringer Crater was a 50 meter bolide, imagine that in New York, or, preferably, Paris. However, clever use of names. The Kaali Bolide hit Estonia about 2700 years ago.see here[^]. It was only a little one, but interesting, don't you think.

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                          Soulus83
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                          Remember what happened at Tunguska!!! ;P

                          "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--either way, you are right." — Henry Ford

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                            Remember what happened at Tunguska!!! ;P

                            "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--either way, you are right." — Henry Ford

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                            Dalek Dave
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                            Mulder nearly died!

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                            • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

                              Dalek Dave wrote:

                              Ur:anus was originally called Ge:orge

                              FTFY!

                              "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams "Let me get this straight. You know her. She knows you. But she wants to eat him. And everybody's okay with this?"

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                              Dalek Dave
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                              Why the colons?

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                              • D Dalek Dave

                                Why the colons?

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                                AspDotNetDev
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                                Because Ur:anus has a colon?

                                [WikiLeaks Cablegate Cables]

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                                  Because Ur:anus has a colon?

                                  [WikiLeaks Cablegate Cables]

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                                  Dalek Dave
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                                  Oh dear! 5!

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                                  • H HimanshuJoshi

                                    People will confuse Kali[^] with Ka:li:[^], better you name him by his full name "Kali Yuga"; which is basically the current age of Mankind and we are on the verge of it's start only. But if you want to go full science fictional why bother with taking names from religions? Invent some names that sounds like science fiction, not mythology.

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                                    HimanshuJoshi wrote:

                                    Invent some names that sounds like science fiction, not mythology.

                                    Better yet, have the UN hold a 50/50 lottery. $10 and you can put in your entry for the name. Then have the winning entry be something ridiculously inappropriate.

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                                    • G Gregory Gadow

                                      My understanding is that Kali Yuga means "the time of Kali" and would be better used for the aftermath of the impact, not the asteroid itself. Regarding why religion, that's why I offered some of the backstory: to explain how the name came to be widely used around the planet. Anyway, religious names are commonly used for such things, and borrowings from Greek, Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions - Apophis, Nemesis and so on - have been pretty overused.

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                                      Vikram A Punathambekar
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                                      Kali, with both syllables short is the demon, of Kali Yug infamy; Kali, phonetically Kaa-lee, is the name of the goddess. They are rendered differently in Devanagari, transliteration into English is a pain.

                                      Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:

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                                      • V Vikram A Punathambekar

                                        Kali, with both syllables short is the demon, of Kali Yug infamy; Kali, phonetically Kaa-lee, is the name of the goddess. They are rendered differently in Devanagari, transliteration into English is a pain.

                                        Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:

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                                        Gregory Gadow
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                                        Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                                        They are rendered differently in Devanagari, transliteration into English is a pain.

                                        Which is why I used Ka:li: for the goddess; I didn't think that the macrons would render properly :)

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                                        • G Gregory Gadow

                                          And I suspect there are quite a few of you. :-D Among other things, I am an aspiring science fiction writer. Right now I'm taking a break from my novel to flesh out my "future history" and I want to make sure my choice of names isn't too offensive. Towards the end of 2137, an asteroid is discovered on an impact trajectory with Earth. It is big - aproximately 13.8 km in diameter, bigger than the Chixulub meteor - and had been missed by reconnaisance projects because it had sling-shotted around the sun and was heading outwards, a direction we simply never bothered to watch. An article in the Times of India compares the asteroid to the demon Kali (not to be confused with the goddess Ka:li: ), a figure in Hinduism whose arrival marks the last age of existence before everything starts over again. An interplanetary freighter is fitted with several large missiles and named Kalki, the incarnation of Vishnu who will defeat Kali. Both the missiles and a later crash of the freighter itself into the asteroid fail either to shatter it or significantly alter its course. The asteroid impacts on Dec. 13 (which by an unplanned happy coincidence is a Friday) at a very oblique angle and breaks into three pieces. The two larger ones "bounce" off the atmosphere and sail safely away; the third makes a dramatic fireball over Brazil and Peru and lands in the Pacific about 90 km off the coast of Ecuador, slowed enough and sufficiently vaporized that the splash it not noticeable on Ecuador's beaches. This is a key part of my history, as it convinces Earth's governments to work together towards interstellar space travel. Before I commit myself to these names, I would appreciate some feedback.

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                                          coolestCoder
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                                          +5 for your history :)

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