What do I care. I don't. Go for it. I fail to see what it would change. However putting him on currency would make a difference, but not to me.
I might like Bowie better than Mars. Planet Bowie. Planet Ziggy? IDK.
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/12101026/Petitions-launched-to-rename-Mars-after-David-Bowie-and-put-his-face-on-20-note.html
 
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People always do this kind of stuff after we lose an icon. They lose steam very quickly though and the hype goes down. Doubt anything will happen.

Yeah.. I think I would like Planet Bowie at least as much as a planet named after a god of war. Just saying... maybe they should change it to something that matters. Planet Sonar!
Then again, what if they find spiders on Mars or they find Martians that ventured to Mars from Saturn or Venus... or have MERCY!! ... Uranus?

Keep the planet name the way it is. Millions of schoolchildren went through the angst of losing Pluto just a few years ago, and teaching kids to name the planets in order is the most important goal of science education in the 21st century. The classics on the other hand hardly figure in the modern curriculum. So let's just rename the Roman god of War David Bowie. Hardly anyone will notice, and the children will not have to re-learn anything they already know or be further confused by changes in science. 

We definitely should change the name of "Mars" to "David". If hyper-intelligent life from a distance, advanced solar system makes contact with us, they will think we are way cool! What species would want to make war on, enslave or snatch the bodies of a people who named a whole planet after one of the great artists of our time?
 
Trouble is - we have a shortage of planets. But no end to regular stars in the heavens. Those who want to name things may need to be satisfied with that.
 
Also, I'm hoping that after the recent close pass by the New Horizons probe, we may see Pluto reinstated as a planet - It sure looks like a planet to me. I mean, it has a moon and everything! What more do they want?
 
Martians....Poor guys are the most stereotyped folks there are. Just because WE named their planet after our god of war. The name they use for themselves: "9uio***~{>?" means "We who chill all day on the red-sand Martian beaches drinking Space beer".

"We who chill all day on the red-sand Martian beaches drinking Space beer".
 
Heh. I did that back in 1970. I never got onboard with Pluto not being a planet. It was, is, and will be a planet I don't care what other people say. Just ignore them, they are just guessing. They are wrong. Pluto is still a planet.

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"We who chill all day on the red-sand Martian beaches drinking Space beer".
 
Heh. I did that back in 1970. I never got onboard with Pluto not being a planet. It was, is, and will be a planet I don't care what other people say. Just ignore them, they are just guessing. They are wrong. Pluto is still a planet.

Well, I was thinking that the "earth" does not have a name! So giving it "Ziggy" is actually quite OK with me, and such a good description of everything out there that we can't relate to and think it means more than it really is!
 
Sooooo a propos!

Yes, our planet is named after dirt right?

And our moon has no name.
 
So, if they DID rename Mars to Bowie, then where would the spiders he sang about come from? 

There was a period of time not that long ago when it was politically correct to pronounce it Your-an-Us (with a short a) so, any time I was in a conversation (it does happen more than you would think) about the planets in the solar system I would intentionally pronounce it Your-Anus.  Not only did the P.C'ness piss me off, it ruined one of my favorite childhood jokes:
 
Q. What do Star Trek and toilet paper have in common?
A. They both circle Uranus hunting for Klingons.
 
... and don't even get me started on Pluto.  I almost got into a fist fight with a barista at Caribou (it is like Starbucks) awhile back over a "$0.10 if you answer the trivia correctly" question.  The question couldn't have been any easier: name the planets in our solar system.
 
I think what I am getting at is that it bugs the hell out of me when people mess around with the names of the planets but, in this case, I would support a change to planet Bowie (although planet David has a nice ring to it).
 
"Life on Mars"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v--IqqusnNQ