Name the Apod Robot
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You have way too much time on your hands.
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Hello All,
I wish all of you well this Holiday season. May there be progress toward peace and good will toward each other on this planet so that, hopefully, if the time should ever come that we have to leave our fair Earth we will have accomplished a true treasure to offer other inhabitants of this Universe should there be any.
BTW, ASTRObot is the only answer to this one.
I wish all of you well this Holiday season. May there be progress toward peace and good will toward each other on this planet so that, hopefully, if the time should ever come that we have to leave our fair Earth we will have accomplished a true treasure to offer other inhabitants of this Universe should there be any.
BTW, ASTRObot is the only answer to this one.
"Everything matters.....So may the facts be with you"-astrolabe
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ASTRObot sounds good to me (in spite of the apparent nepotism/plagiarism).astrolabe wrote:I wish all of you well this Holiday season. May there be progress toward peace and good will toward each other on this planet so that, hopefully, if the time should ever come that we have to leave our fair Earth we will have accomplished a true treasure to offer other inhabitants of this Universe should there be any.
BTW, ASTRObot is the only answer to this one.
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Hello neufer,
"Apparent" is absolutely correct! I honestly had no idea. In retrospect the name was probably too obvious not to have been used already. I should've guessed as much.
"Apparent" is absolutely correct! I honestly had no idea. In retrospect the name was probably too obvious not to have been used already. I should've guessed as much.
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Could RAPOD work?
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DOPAR : dope, take drugs (Portuguese, Swedish)mesinik wrote:Could RAPOD work?
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Seeing as the Bot is Recopying APOD entries how about
REBOT
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I don't know about you guys, but I think I'm just going to go with Henry the Benevolent.
Just call me "geck" because "zilla" is like a last name.
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ENIMAPOD
I suggest the name: *ENIMAPOD*
*ENIM* : in fact, for, indeed, truly (Latin)
*ENIMAPOD* is *DOPAMINE* "ass backwords."
(Med.) "An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment."
*ENIM* : in fact, for, indeed, truly (Latin)
*ENIMAPOD* is *DOPAMINE* "ass backwords."
*ENEMA* , n. [L. *ENEMA* , Gr. , fr. to send in; in + to send.]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine wrote:
<< *DOPAMINE* is a neurotransmitter that occurs in a wide variety of animals.
Sociability is closely tied to *DOPAMINE* neurotransmission.>>
(Med.) "An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment."
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I think we should call it Poster. Do you really think It'll really get named?
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Since it will likely be the first poster of the APOD telated threads
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It's amazing how different connextions people have with astronomy in their minds.mesinik wrote:Could RAPOD work?
If talking about RAPOD; the starting point for it was BITOD, because it is "nice style", isn't it? I wanted to find a rhyme for it so if someone will write odes about APOD (and astronomy) then he might use it.
If compared to original "robot", RAPOD is quite similar: In many language groups, A/O does not make much difference at all. Then, if we just change B/P and T/D ... there we go ... a "robot" (short for Chech "robotnik", "worker" afaik) became easily RAPOD ... so, it might work ...
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From the wikipedia entry...mesinik wrote: ... a "robot" (short for Chech "robotnik", "worker" afaik) ...
"In its original Czech, robota means forced labour of the kind that serfs had to perform on their masters' lands."
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Working with Neufer's Hitchhiker's Guide reference, how about the "Paranoid Asterdroid"?
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The APOD robot is the "OLM" of each day's postings.rstevenson wrote:"In its original Czech, robota means forced labour of the kind that serfs had to perform on their masters' lands."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robota wrote:
<<Orpheus was the fourth planet in our solar system, it was also the sixth largest. Its orbit intersected Earth's orbital path every 50 years. Orpheus was visited centuries ago by a cybernetic race called the Olm. The Olm found the world [Orpheus] populated with humans possessed of a steam-age technology. The benevolent Olm made massive changes, seeding the world with their own kind, before they departed. A peaceful and productive alliance of robots and humans then reigned. And then... about 2.1 billion years ago, after avoiding proto-Earth for countless years, these two planets inevitably collided. Orpheus was obliterated and the Earth shattered. Eventually, Orpheus's fragments coalesced to form Earth's moon, which stabilized our planet's erratic rotation and allowed life to germinate. _Robota_ (2003) is the story of life before the collision and the conflict between animal life and the machines that sought to dominate them.>>
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At the beginning of each APOD, members are told the day's "secret word"
issued by APOD's Conky the Robot and are instructed to "scream real loud"
every time a member of the Asterisk posts that word.
issued by APOD's Conky the Robot and are instructed to "scream real loud"
every time a member of the Asterisk posts that word.
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
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Otto Posterman; since that's what he does.(autopost)
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Hah, I like that one a lot, orin. But I'm biased because my great-grandfather's name was Otto and even though I never knew him I have a bit of an affinity for him. He dug up native American graves as an anthropologist but is more well known for his nursery and work with crepe myrtles. I'm guessing the whole digging up graves thing didn't work out too well for him was (is?) pretty taboo. It's too bad I don't know more about him.
Just call me "geck" because "zilla" is like a last name.
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Ah! Love your grandpa anyway; I'm sure he believed that he was acting in the best interest of science.I never was real good at checking out my roots. My sister is into that; so I let her do the researching. Sometimes it's better not to know about such things. Anyway; I got the idea from what the robot does, and I like it a lot also. I think it would be great if they really did give the robot a name though. It would give it a little personality!geckzilla wrote:Hah, I like that one a lot, orin. But I'm biased because my great-grandfather's name was Otto and even though I never knew him I have a bit of an affinity for him. He dug up native American graves as an anthropologist but is more well known for his nursery and work with crepe myrtles. I'm guessing the whole digging up graves thing didn't work out too well for him was (is?) pretty taboo. It's too bad I don't know more about him.
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Resident Geezer! I like that; It suits me.
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You earned that one for sure.
Just call me "geck" because "zilla" is like a last name.