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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Solarians is the usual go-to for any sci-fi story that uses Sol as our star's name, and then extrapolates a race name from it.

The real problem is that, if you do that, you're working from a flawed assumption. Sure, we might call a race from the Vega system Vegans or Vegarans or something. But that's because we're basing our name for them on our name for their star.

If there are aliens out there who would name us after our star (as opposed to our planet, or some other defining trait), they'd be naming us that after their name for our star. Which almost certainly isn't "Sol".

Meanwhile, it doesn't make much sense for us to call ourselves after our sun, because a) most of us don't call it "Sol" either, and b) because it feels much more natural to call ourselves after our planet.

But maybe future time we live on more planets in our Sol system. So we'd name ourselves after our system.
Also based on our trajectory Earth will be destroyed