Starship Asterisk*

shaileshs wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:58 pm Sorry, what's today's APOD got to do with "A" in "APOD" ? It happens from time to time, I wonder what the person in-charge of posting APOD was drinking last night..

Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:00 pm

shaileshs wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:58 pm Sorry, what's today's APOD got to do with "A" in "APOD" ? It happens from time to time, I wonder what the person in-charge of posting APOD was drinking last night..

What does an image of Mars have to do with the "A" in "APOD"?

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=astronomy wrote:
astronomy (n.)
c. 1200, "astronomy, astrology, scientific or occult study of heavenly bodies," from Old French astrenomie "astronomy, astrology," from Latin astronomia, from Greek astronomia, abstract noun from astronomos, literally "star-regulating," from astron "star" (from PIE root *ster- (2) "star") + nomos "arranging, regulating; rule, law" (from PIE root *nem- "assign, allot; take"). Perhaps originally with reference to mapping the constellations or movements of planets.

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=planet wrote:
planet (n.)
late Old English planete, in old astronomy, "star other than a fixed star; star revolving in an orbit," from Old French planete (Modern French planète) and directly from Late Latin planeta, from Greek planētēs, from (asteres) planētai "wandering (stars)," from planasthai "to wander," a word of uncertain etymology.

Perhaps it is from a nasalized form of PIE root *pele- (2) "flat; to spread," on the notion of "spread out," "but the semantics are highly problematic," according to Beekes, who notes the similarity of meaning to Greek plazein "to make devious, repel, dissuade from the right path, bewilder," but adds, "it is hard to think of a formal connection."

So called because they have apparent motion, unlike the "fixed" stars. Originally including also the moon and sun but not the Earth; modern scientific sense of "world that orbits a star" is from 1630s in English. The Greek word is an enlarged form of planes, planetos "who wanders around, wanderer," also "wandering star, planet," in medicine "unstable temperature."

repeated snow storms like this help build lasting glaciers in snowy regions of our planet Earth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period wrote: The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known colloquially as the Last Ice Age or simply Ice Age,[1] occurred from the end of the Eemian to the end of the Younger Dryas, encompassing the period c. 115,000 – c. 11,700 years ago.]

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 6:48 pm

Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:00 pm

shaileshs wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:58 pm Sorry, what's today's APOD got to do with "A" in "APOD" ? It happens from time to time, I wonder what the person in-charge of posting APOD was drinking last night..

What does an image of Mars have to do with the "A" in "APOD"?

I assume you mean because Mars is not a "star", but a planet?

Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 6:53 pm

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 6:48 pm

Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:00 pm

What does an image of Mars have to do with the "A" in "APOD"?

I assume you mean because Mars is not a "star", but a planet?

You presume correctly.

Confused wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 2:14 am I missed seeing this one before now but in answer to the question, can another blizzard do this, I have seen other pictures like this of snow that high. And I have seen pictures of water that high, and snow contains less water than liquid water. Therefore even as a science story the picture is not very significant.

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 8:45 pm I have seen many pictures of the Moon, and can merely look up in the sky typically 15 days a month and see the Moon with my own eyes. That doesn't mean that APODs of the Moon aren't worth looking at.

Confused wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:15 pm

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 8:45 pm I have seen many pictures of the Moon, and can merely look up in the sky typically 15 days a month and see the Moon with my own eyes. That doesn't mean that APODs of the Moon aren't worth looking at.

I do not understand the relevance of that to what I said except I was commenting on the question can your blizzard do this that is in the first sentence of the original post.