From: Kevin Tarr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is that what Speak was? I know he wasn't a dog or a rat, I
thought he was a pig of some sort.
Yup. I don't remember where I learned that. And that's the only
reason I know what a cabybara is!
- jmh
Some Day That Will Come In Handy Maru
At 03:13 PM 8/12/03 -0300, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
In the Tupi-Guarani mythology it's called Caminho
da Anta, which means Pathway of a
big-cousin-of-the-rat-with-the-
size-of-a-cow. Sorry for not getting the name in
Tupi but in Portuguese O:-)
Those sessions with
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From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: Irregulars question: Milky Way
At 11:23 PM 8/11/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 8/11/2003 8:01:20 PM US
From: Jean-Louis Couturier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 23:12 2003-08-07 -0700, Josh wrote:
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003. (Google it if you
Yup. I did an evaluation for our company. So, are you going to have an API
so that forms can be stored in XML databases?
Just so everything is on the up and up -
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From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: Irregulars question: Milky Way
Debbi wrote:
Here are a bunch of pix:
http://www.capybara.com/capybaras/Gallery/Gallery_1.html
Reggie, wanna have
In a message dated 8/11/2003 8:01:20 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robert Seeberger wrote:
xponent
And I Own 43 Cats Maru
rob
Don't move to Round Rock. They're considering a proposal that would
make it illegal to have more than 4 pets.
Steve Sloan II wrote:
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
[BTW, is it Milky Way or Milky-Way ?]
Milky Way. According to the web search I did, the
Way in Milky Way means road -- something I
didn't realize until now. Like that Roman road named
the Appian Way, it wouldn't have a hyphen.
And the
Erik wrote:
Semper ubi sub ubi
:-)
For the Latin-challenged on the list, that's Always where under where.
Reggie Bautista
Phonetic P(h)un Maru
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At 23:12 2003-08-07 -0700, Josh wrote:
I'm a manager @ MSFT now, with two people working for me. I think I
mentioned the product I'm pouring my life-blood into before, but it's
actually gotten news and a real name now so someone on the list may have
heard of it - Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003.
FWIW, I suspect that eating too many Milky Ways in a day would indeed lead
to irregularity.
--Ronn! :)
Bathroom humor is an American-Standard.
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From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Irregulars question: Milky Way
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 21:42:56 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And the Milky part of it comes from a myth that it's
Steve Sloan II wrote:
I also like the other name for the Milky Way that I learned
from Greg Benford, Great Sky River. That one makes a lot
of sense. Kudos to the American Indians for coming up with
it. :-)
There's also the very cool-sounding African Backbone of
Night, that I
Alberto wrote:
What is the width of a spiral arm?
Joshua replied:
Using http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/milkyway.html as a reference,
roughly 5500 ly
Not only does that page have nice pictures but it's got links to the data
to back it up.
How accurate is that map with regards to the naming
At 11:12 AM 8/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
From: Deborah Harrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here are a bunch of pix:
http://www.capybara.com/capybaras/Gallery/Gallery_1.html
And for you Tick fans out there:
It's Speak!!!
- jmh
Is that what Speak was? I know he wasn't a dog or a rat, I thought
--- Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Sloan II wrote:
I also like the other name for the Milky Way that
I learned
from Greg Benford, Great Sky River. That one
makes a lot
of sense. Kudos to the American Indians for coming
up with it. :-)
There's also the very
Re: http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/milkyway.html
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How accurate is that map with regards to the naming of the arms? If I'm
looking at it correctly, the Norma arm splits out to become the Cygnus and
Perseus arms, our own Orion arm vanishes into
Robert Seeberger wrote:
xponent
And I Own 43 Cats Maru
rob
Don't move to Round Rock. They're considering a proposal that would
make it illegal to have more than 4 pets. :P
Julia
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At 11:23 PM 8/11/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 8/11/2003 8:01:20 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robert Seeberger wrote:
xponent
And I Own 43 Cats Maru
rob
Don't move to Round Rock. They're considering a proposal that
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[BTW, is it Milky Way or Milky-Way ?]
Milky Way
What is the width of a spiral arm?
Using http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/milkyway.html as a reference,
roughly 5500 ly
Not only does that page have nice pictures but it's got links to the data to
back
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
[BTW, is it Milky Way or Milky-Way ?]
Milky Way. According to the web search I did, the
Way in Milky Way means road -- something I
didn't realize until now. Like that Roman road named
the Appian Way, it wouldn't have a hyphen.
What is the width of a spiral arm?
After
Steve Sloan II wrote:
[BTW, is it Milky Way or Milky-Way ?]
Milky Way. According to the web search I did, the
Way in Milky Way means road -- something I
didn't realize until now. Like that Roman road named
the Appian Way, it wouldn't have a hyphen.
No, the Roman road was named
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And the Milky part of it comes from a myth that it's the milk spilling
out of a goddess's breast into the sky.
Really? And I thought it was named after a candy bar...
No, you must be thinking of the *planet* named after a candy bar.
Julia
At 11:38 AM 8/8/03 -0500, Horn, John wrote:
From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, you must be thinking of the *planet* named after a candy bar.
Which one would that be? The planet Hershey's or Almond Joy?
Snickers. Which happens to be the name the rest of the cosmos knows Earth
From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, you must be thinking of the *planet* named after a candy bar.
Which one would that be? The planet Hershey's or Almond Joy?
- jmh
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Alberto wrote:
if I am Latin American then I speak Latin
At least according to Dan Quayle... ;-)
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Chad Cooper, aka Nerd from Hell, wrote:
Just read a bit of trivia (unknown source):
On a clear autumn night, one can see stars as far away as 2 million light
years.
So it occurs to me If I can only see 2 million LY, but Hubble can see
10
BILLION LY... I am seeing only 1/5000 of the distance
Julia Thompson wrote:
And the Milky part of it comes from a myth that it's
the milk spilling out of a goddess's breast into the sky.
Yup. I already knew about that one, so it wasn't surprising
enough to me to post about. ;-)
It's odd that I never really thought about why it's a Way
until today.
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:27:52AM -0300, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Alberto Monteiro if I am Latin American then I speak Latin
Semper ubi sub ubi
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And the Milky part of it comes from a myth that it's the milk spilling
out of a goddess's breast into the sky.
Really? And I thought it was named after a candy bar...
Tom Beck
www.prydonians.org
www.mercerjewishsingles.org
I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 12:45 AM 8/2/03 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote:
Doug Pensinger wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
However, there's at least one spiral galaxy which apparently rotates
backwards:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_33.html
Must be in the Southern
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
However, there's at least one spiral galaxy which apparently rotates
backwards:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_33.html
Must be in the Southern Hemisphere.
Doug
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At 11:06 PM 7/31/03 -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
However, there's at least one spiral galaxy which apparently rotates
backwards:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_33.html
Must be in the Southern Hemisphere.
It is, but don't quit your day job to become
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
The normal direction of rotation is in the sense that the spiral arms would
seem to be winding up tighter, e.g.:
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Doug Pensinger wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
However, there's at least one spiral galaxy which apparently rotates
backwards:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_33.html
Must be in the Southern Hemisphere.
Nah, only if it's upside-down.
Regards, Ray.
At 12:45 AM 8/2/03 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote:
Doug Pensinger wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
However, there's at least one spiral galaxy which apparently rotates
backwards:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_33.html
Must be in the Southern Hemisphere.
Nah, only if it's
At 01:28 PM 7/31/03 -0300, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
I've seen some maps of the Milky Way, and the mapmakers
usually don't bother to orient it. When we see it from
the Galactic North Pole, does it look like something
that is rotating clockwise or counterclockwise?
The normal direction of rotation
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