6th October 2003, 7:09 PM
And Sol is our sun's actual name. Of course, neither are used very often since people don't really need to specify that it's EARTH'S sun they are talking about in normal conversations.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)