Curious Gal Net wording: Extra Terrestrial

[Monk]

ET...what does that even mean in the context of a pan galactic society?

Thargoids, the only non-human sentients I know of in game, yet, are probably terrestrial on whatever rock they come from. Isn't everyone not planet side an ET?

 

[willowfan]

For a space fairing civilisation "extra-terrestrial" is a pretty redundant term.

Xenomorph still means something.

 

[deathmagnet]

Language is a curious thing. Words are created during a time when the word makes sense but continues to persist through history, even after the original reason for the word being created no longer exists. The only example I can think of now is a phrase

"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth"

Extra Terrestrial could be a similar term in the future. Doesn't make literal sense but still used to describe alien.

 

[Temple604]

It means that they are out there

 

[Monk]

Are there any sentient non-humans included in the human nations?

 

[Tarman]

Language is a curious thing. Words are created during a time when the word makes sense but continues to persist through history, even after the original reason for the word being created no longer exists. The only example I can think of now is a phrase

"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth"

Extra Terrestrial could be a similar term in the future. Doesn't make literal sense but still used to describe alien.

Even the word alien fits that criteria, especially in SF. If I play a Starbound human character, with the Earth destroyed technically I'm the "alien invader" everywhere I go.