Pluto's blushing complexion riddle solved by boffins Boffins using the new Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on the Hubble telescope have figured out what makes Pluto the colour it is. The South West Research Institute's eggheads discovered a strong ultraviolet-wavelength absorber on the dwarf planet's surface, which suggests that there are complex hydrocarbon and nitrile …
Dear Jupiter:
Oh, honey, let's don't start this again. We all know you're sensitive about your figure, and it can't be easy to make a life for yourself as a failed star. But it's no good putting yourself forward -- especially when it means getting in the way of looks like mine.
Love,
Saturn
You know COSTAR was made redundant, right? The original cameras and spectrographs have long since been replaced with new ones that corrected for the misaligned mirror. They're all sitting in various museums around the States.
The real question is why COSTAR was left in there for 7 years doing sweet FA - may as well have taken it out in 2002 when they took the last original camera out.
however happened to be looking at wiki page <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto#Appearance_and_surface>
"Current maps have been produced from images from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which offers the highest resolution currently available, and show considerably more detail,[69] resolving variations several hundred kilometres across, including polar regions and large bright spots.[70] The maps are produced by complex computer processing, which find the best-fit projected maps for the few pixels of the Hubble images"
So you're right, it is a synthetic image derived from almost negligable data, but not deliberate deceit.
cant they just use that software that CSI has - you know, the one where they can take a segment of an image no more than a few pixels big and resolve it into a sharp readable number plate or face or whatever just by pressing a few button?
And another thing: why is all CSI software keyboard driven rather than mouse - noone uses a mouse on that show, not even to marquee an image segment.
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Local Group, “Majoris” is a comparative adjective declined in the genitive case, so it doesn’t work for me. If you intended “Hippo” to be used in its original Greek sense, then I’d suggest “Caballa Magna” as a euphonic grammatical substitute. “Caballa Major” could be used only if there were also a “Caballa Minor” in the heavens to compare it against. (I am completely unacquainted with the appearance of this new star, and do not intend to search the skies to gaze upon it.)
So I went for the double entendre contained in 'Hippo.'
Hippo. "The hippopotamus is recognizable by its barrel-shaped torso, enormous mouth and teeth, nearly hairless body, stubby legs and tremendous size. It is the third largest land mammal by weight ." (Wikipedia)
Hippo. The area of female Homo sapien's torso below and contigious to the waist.
When referring to the Kardashians, the correct proper noun is Romany and not Romanes .
Local Group, I gladly bow to your superior knowledge of Kardashiana, and I wasn’t previously aware of that second definition of “hippo”, so your double entendre was lost on me. But please, for the sake of Johann Bayer, remember that “Majoris” is genitive; the constellation’s name is Canis Major (its nominative form). Proper use of both forms can be seen in a sentence like “Sirius is in Canis Major; in fact, Sirius is α Canis Majoris.”
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What dire Offence from gen’tive Cauſes ſprings,
What mighty Conteſts riſe from trivial Things,
I ſing — This Verſe to L― G―, Muſe! is due;
This, ev’n Miſs Hilton may vouchſafe to view:
Slight is the Subject, but not ſo the Praiſe,
If She inſpire, and He approve my Lays.
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Hither the Pedants and the Wits infeſt,
To taſte awhile the Pleaſures of a Jeſt;
In various Talk th’inſtructive hours they paſt,
Who ſaved the Day, or changed the Climate laſt:
One ſpeaks the Glory of Verity Stob,
And one deſcribes a charming BOFH* Job.
A third interprets Latin, Greek, and French;
At ev’ry Word a Reader’s Jaws will clench.
Beer, or the Dram, ſupply each Pauſe of Chat,
With whinging, laughing, ogling, and all that.
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* — Pronounc’d “boffitch” for Reaſon of Metre.
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