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Originally Posted by JoeD
Another thought that just occurred whilst writing the above, with Terra, you get to call people who come from there Terrans, but Earthlings which I assume is the equivalent for Earth, sounds rather cheesy imo. Granted you could just say Humans, but then that's not identifying the place of origin if you assume we've spread out across the galaxy.
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If we actually met other races, they might not be interested in classifying us by our planet, but by our race.
Of course, if our history is any guide, aliens would probably wouldn't care what we call ourselves and would give us a name like:
1. "Greetings" - because that was the first thing we said to them; or
2. "Topekans" - because the first ship landed in Topeka and asked where they were, and were told they were in Topeka; or
3. "Rigellians" - because they thought they had found a shortcut to Rigel; or
4. "Two-eyes" - because the aliens have more or less than two eyes.
If we're lucky, we will avoid being called things like "cattle" or "food" or "slave population 10293b".