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What did you learn from APOD today?
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:26 pm
by owlice
I learned the word "collinear" and about Lagrange points and Trojan asteroids/moons. I love APOD!!
Re: What did you learn from APOD today?
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:00 am
by owlice
That there is an
internet encyclopedia of science. Rats. I may never sleep again!
Re: What did you learn from APOD today?
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:11 am
by neufer
If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard.
Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with! Is that right
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Re: What did you learn from APOD today?
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:52 pm
by owlice
Not in Kansas anymore, hmmm?
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Re: What did you learn from APOD today?
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:22 pm
by wonderboy
Me too!!!!!! I just learned that it exsists thanks to you. Although I thought of the most random space/science thing I could think of and checked the encyclopedia and it wasn't there. That random space/science thing I thought of was Hannys Vorwep. It should be more complete than that!
Re: What did you learn from APOD today?
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:48 pm
by rstevenson
Looks to me like it exists for the advertising revenue, not for its content. Wikipedia has much better and more complete content. And Wikipedia does contain an article on
Hanny's Voorwerp.
Rob
Re: What did you learn from APOD today?
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:29 pm
by wonderboy
Dang, I missed an R, i knew it was meant to be there, my fingers just didnt let me put it there. My bad.
Re: What did you learn from APOD today?
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 5:58 pm
by owlice
Among other things, I learned that speckles make an egg stronger (!), and that it's been so long since I've heard Holst's "The Planets," I didn't recognize
Venus when I heard it.
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Re: What did you learn from APOD today?
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:44 pm
by owlice
I learned the word "paraselene." I knew about sun- and moondogs and knew parhelion; if I ever knew paraselene, I'd forgotten it. I also learned of what may be a new vacation destination for me, Lake Ossiach. I haven't been in that part of Austria yet.
Re: What did you learn from APOD today?
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:48 pm
by owlice
I learned that
Lake Eppalock is a man-made lake on the
Campaspe River, and by extension was reminded of the word
catchment.