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APOD: Dad Quiets Omicron Ceti (2012 Apr 01)
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:06 am
by APOD Robot
Dad Quiets Omicron Ceti
Explanation: The Omicron Cetians have been silenced. After alien-like
monsters were reported to disturb his daughter's sleep for four nights in a row, this father took action. When last questioned, the daughter seemed to indicate that the
hullabaloo might have come from a planetary system possibly sounding like "Omicron Ceti". Getting to the root of the problem, the dad then took his daughter outside and used a powerful
laser to
blast the alien's home world. Humorously, the parent star
Omicron Ceti now shows itself to be unstable and is dramatically increasing its brightness. Happy
April Fool's Day from the folks at
APOD. In actuality, the star being pointed out is
Mira, a famous variable star expected to reach its maximum brightness again in late August. The father in question was actually pointing out, to his daughter,
the star that shares her name.
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Re: APOD: Dad Quiets Omicron Ceti (2012 Apr 01)
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 5:04 am
by ta152h0
After today's APOD, somewhere on this vast globe someone named " Eta Carinae " is born.....and that is a really cool name, I'd say.
Re: APOD: Dad Quiets Omicron Ceti (2012 Apr 01)
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:48 am
by neufer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira wrote:
<<Ultra-violet studies of
Mira by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (Galex) space telescope have revealed that it sheds a trail of material from the outer envelope, leaving a tail 13 light-years in length, formed over tens of thousands of years. It is thought that a hot bow-wave of compressed plasma/gas is the cause of the tail; the bow-wave is a result of the interaction of the stellar wind from Mira A with gas in interstellar space, through which Mira is moving at an extremely high speed of 130 kilometres/second. The tail consists of material stripped from the head of the bow-wave, which is also visible in ultra-violet observations. Mira's bow-shock will eventually evolve into a planetary nebula, the form of which will be considerably affected by the motion through the interstellar medium (ISM).>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru wrote:
<<Candiru or candirú, also known as cañero, toothpick fish, or vampire fish, are a number of genera of parasitic freshwater catfish in the family Trichomycteridae; all are native to the Amazon River. Although some candiru species have been known to grow to a size of 40 centimetres in length, others are considerably smaller. These smaller species are known for an alleged tendency to invade and parasitise the human urethra; however, despite ethnological reports dating back to the late 19th century, the first documented case of the removal of a candiru from a human urethra did not occur until 1997, and even that incident has remained a matter of controversy.>>
Re: APOD: Dad Quiets Omicron Ceti (2012 Apr 01)
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 12:32 pm
by Tszabeau
"These smaller species are known for an alleged tendency to invade and parasitise the human urethra;..."
I hope this does not mean that one of you will name their daughter Urethra.
Re: APOD: Dad Quiets Omicron Ceti (2012 Apr 01)
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:40 pm
by BMAONE23
Tszabeau wrote:"These smaller species are known for an alleged tendency to invade and parasitise the human urethra;..."
I hope this does not mean that one of you will name their daughter Urethra.
Perhaps so long as her last name isn't Franklin
Re: APOD: Dad Quiets Omicron Ceti (2012 Apr 01)
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 6:23 pm
by Beyond
IF her last name was Franklin, you'd have to drop an 'r' in Ureth(r)a, to give her the r-e-s-p-e-c-t that she would deserve
No foolin'.
Re: APOD: Dad Quiets Omicron Ceti (2012 Apr 01)
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:26 pm
by ta152h0
way " beyond " what I expected, kind of like ' far out "
Re: APOD: Dad Quiets Omicron Ceti (2012 Apr 01)
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:57 am
by Vincent Pinto
Way to go, Dad! Superb!
On a similar thread, I recall a movie in which Steve Martin responds to Daryl Hannah when she lets him know her name, "Roxanne! Now there's a name for a galaxy!"
Getting serious
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:59 pm
by Anthony Barreiro
I'm noticing a troubling tendency of people making April Fool jokes, as in this apod, to admit that it's a joke up front. That takes all the air out of the whoopie cushion. It would have been much more fun to read a few outraged or credulous messages here on starship asterisk about the true risks of an invasion from outer space, and/or the effective range of a green laser pointer.
That said, a picture of a father pointing out Mira to his daughter Mira is really sweet. An acquaintance's young son is named Garnet. My friend pointed out Herschel's garnet star in Cepheus to him, and now Garnet always wants to see his star.
Re: APOD: Dad Quiets Omicron Ceti (2012 Apr 01)
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:23 pm
by owlice
Were I to read "a few outraged or credulous messages here on starship asterisk about the true risks of an invasion from outer space, and/or the effective range of a green laser pointer," I'd think the posters had not read all the APOD text. It is not uncommon for people to post questions about an APOD that are answered in that very APOD's text, so more of that does not strike me as "fun." To each his own!
Re: APOD: Dad Quiets Omicron Ceti (2012 Apr 01)
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:54 pm
by Anthony Barreiro
owlice wrote:Were I to read "a few outraged or credulous messages here on starship asterisk about the true risks of an invasion from outer space, and/or the effective range of a green laser pointer," I'd think the posters had not read all the APOD text. It is not uncommon for people to post questions about an APOD that are answered in that very APOD's text, so more of that does not strike me as "fun." To each his own!
Fortunately April Fool's Day comes but once a year. The other 364.242199 days it's just everyday foolishness.
Re: APOD: Dad Quiets Omicron Ceti (2012 Apr 01)
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:37 pm
by mike_sharkey
And I thought the 'explanation' would run along the line of:
''In a scene from the upcoming Green Lantern movie, the aged Hal Jordan defends a very young Carol Ferris from an OA-an tree monster after he travels back in time to guide his young self and keep the time-stream safe from the machinations of the Red Lanterns.''
Or something to that effect....
Re: APOD: Dad Quiets Omicron Ceti (2012 Apr 01)
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:56 pm
by JCorza
there are so many things to discover in and out of our planet, I am sure that this website is a source for discovering more knowledge
