Talk:Hearth's Warming Eve/@comment-24.29.64.218-20111217222427/@comment-99.89.240.166-20111218062329

The reason our planet is called "(the) Earth" is because we named it such, as it is made up out of the stuff that we call "earth". We know that they, too, refer to the ground as "earth" (as it'd be confusing for the audience if they didn't). So, it's easy to imagine that they live on a different planet from us, but that they followed the same simple line of thinking. It's like taking a bunch of putty, forming it into a ball, pointing to it and saying "The putty is round."