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1413 points mooreds | 2 comments | 21 Oct 24 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.478s | source
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bikamonki ◴[21 Oct 24 23:55 UTC] No.41909790[source]▶
So many solar systems out there, life evolved in many planets for sure. No proof but no doubt.
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shiroiushi ◴[22 Oct 24 01:53 UTC] No.41910409[source]▶
No, there's only one solar system in the entire universe. There's countless star systems though, but only one of those stars is named Sol.

/pedant

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patrickmcnamara ◴[22 Oct 24 07:04 UTC] No.41911904[source]▶
Do people actually call the Sun "Sol"? I thought that was more of a video game thing.
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1. shiroiushi ◴[22 Oct 24 07:25 UTC] No.41911999[source]▶
The Romance languages use that name (or something very closely related). English uses "Sun", but just as it borrows a ton of stuff from Latin/French/etc., it also borrows "Sol" for its word "solar".

Also, Captain Archer in Enterprise used the name Sol when making contact with aliens.

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2. wongarsu ◴[22 Oct 24 14:44 UTC] No.41914820[source]▶
And in Germanic mythology the personification of the sun is Sól.

In PIE it's sunnōn. In some languages that evolved to some variation of sun or son, in some to became sol (notably Latin). And many use both variations in some capacity