Starship Asterisk*

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090902.html

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  "And he had scaled that wondrous stair
  That soars from earth to upper air,
  Where rich and poor alike must climb,
  And walk the treadmill for a time"
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  - Lewis Carroll's first published work, The Lady of the Ladle,
  appeared in the Whitby Gazette in August, 1854.

neufer wrote: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090902.html

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  "And he had scaled that wondrous stair
  That soars from earth to upper air,
  Where rich and poor alike must climb,
  And walk the treadmill for a time"
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  - Lewis Carroll's first published work, The Lady of the Ladle,
  appeared in the Whitby Gazette in August, 1854.

I got a treadmill; but I don't use it as often as I should.

Orin

I realise that it may seem to be an insignificant thing to raise but I'm curious why the "Of course" was used in the "Of course, the equipment includes the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT).".

The apparently strange use "Of course" has been used in the explanation in some previous APODs. Of course there may be a simple reason why it gets used.

DavidLeodis wrote:I realise that it may seem to be an insignificant thing to raise but I'm curious why the "Of course" was used in the "Of course, the equipment includes the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT).".

The apparently strange use "Of course" has been used in the explanation in some previous APODs. Of course there may be a simple reason why it gets used.

I really don't know; but it's a must be a reassurance of some kind.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/of_course

Orin

DavidLeodis wrote:I realise that it may seem to be an insignificant thing to raise but I'm curious why the "Of course" was used in the "Of course, the equipment includes the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT).".

It's probably some off-hand reference to the hoopla in naming the Tranquility (node 3) module of the ISS. C.O.L.B.E.R.T. is a bone thrown to the Colbert Nation.

Thanks Orin and bystander for your replies.

bystander wrote:

DavidLeodis wrote:I realise that it may seem to be an insignificant thing to raise but I'm curious why the "Of course" was used in the "Of course, the equipment includes the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT).".

It's probably some off-hand reference to the hoopla in naming the Tranquility (node 3) module of the ISS. C.O.L.B.E.R.T. is a bone thrown to the Colbert Nation.

But everybody, and their grandmother, should already have known about C.O.L.B.E.R.T. "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness wrote:
<<Truthiness is a term first used in its recent satirical sense by American television comedian Stephen Colbert in 2005, to describe things that a person claims to know intuitively or "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.

Truthiness was named Word of the Year for 2005 by the American Dialect Society and for 2006 by Merriam-Webster.>>

neufer wrote:But everybody, and their grandmother, should already have known about C.O.L.B.E.R.T. "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts!

Of Course!!!

bystander wrote:

neufer wrote:But everybody, and their grandmother, should already have known about C.O.L.B.E.R.T. "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts!

Of Course!!!

I should also point out that while Chris Peterson
comes up with the right answers more often than I do
I am head & shoulders above him in truthiness!

neufer wrote:

bystander wrote:

neufer wrote:But everybody, and their grandmother, should already have known about C.O.L.B.E.R.T. "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts!

Of Course!!!

I should also point out that while Chris Peterson
comes up with the right answers more often than I do
I am head & shoulders above him in truthiness!

Of course we all knew that if truthiness be told.

neufer wrote:But everybody, and their grandmother, should already have known about C.O.L.B.E.R.T. "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts!

bystander wrote:Of Course!!!

neufer wrote:I should also point out that while Chris Peterson
comes up with the right answers more often than I do
I am head & shoulders above him in truthiness!

DavidLeodis wrote:Of course we all knew that if truthiness be told.

Yes Art, sometimes you are quite "long in the truth"