The OTHER Astronomy Cafe

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The OTHER Astronomy Cafe

Post by neufer » Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:01 pm

A fun game to play is to go to "the OTHER Astronomy Cafe" :

http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/qanda.html

Pick a topic.

And see if you can guess the "right" answer.
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Re: The OTHER Astronomy Cafe

Post by apodman » Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:10 pm

Nice, but it's promotional roulette.

Sometimes you get an answer, sometimes an ad for his book.

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Re: The OTHER Astronomy Cafe

Post by neufer » Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:28 pm

apodman wrote:Nice, but it's promotional roulette.
Sometimes you get an answer, sometimes an ad for his book.
Cafe: A small restaurant where drinks & snacks are sold.
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Re: The OTHER Astronomy Cafe

Post by apodman » Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:42 am

I see astronomysoupkitchen.com is not registered.

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Re: The OTHER Astronomy Cafe

Post by malcm » Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:49 pm

A late report, just in, indicates that spiral galaxies are really God's frisbees in a game She plays with some of Her favorite angels!

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Re: The OTHER Astronomy Cafe

Post by bystander » Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:17 am

malcm wrote:A late report, just in, indicates that spiral galaxies are really God's frisbees in a game She plays with some of Her favorite angels!
And I suppose giant ellipticals are just beach balls? :wink:

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Re: The OTHER Astronomy Cafe

Post by malcm » Sat Aug 08, 2009 5:30 pm

- - and comets? Just snowballs thrown from the ; "winter of (her) discontent".

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