[kadoban]

To me it does not seem like it would arise in similar enough contexts to be confusing.

"Martian" meaning the planet would come up in application code, not in the kernel. Why would the kernel even have that concept?

[gumby]

It’s an argument to sysctl, for example, which could confuse someone on earth trying to configure something far away.

> sudo sysctl net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians=1

[kadoban]

sysctl is kernel parameters though, right? I just can't imagine being confused by that, it's too divorced from anything that would care what planet it's on.