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 Oct 6 2009, 11:15 AM
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QUOTE (Vultur @ Oct 6 2009, 01:49 AM)  'Erriapus'? 'Suttungr'? What mythology are these even from? ... why break that tradition and make them ten times harder to remember? I would assume the scarcity of deities would be an issue. On the other hand, those rocks way out there... do you really think anyone cares enough about them to visit one? (Phoebe is exceptional, being rather large, and along Cassini's flight path). -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Oct 6 2009, 11:33 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14445 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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Oct 6 2009, 11:50 AM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Evil, evil, eeeeevil quiz...!
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Oct 6 2009, 12:55 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10255 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I did quite well until I got to Kltpzyxm, when I was suddenly yanked into another dimension.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Oct 6 2009, 02:31 PM
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 Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 57 Joined: 22-March 09 From: West Hartford, Connecicut Member No.: 4691 |
I only got 21, no one can say I cheated with that score. The spellings hurt a bit.
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Oct 6 2009, 04:16 PM
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 Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
QUOTE (Vultur @ Oct 6 2009, 12:49 AM) The great advantage of using classical sources for names is that they are easy to pronounce... I once saw a national news anchor (I now forget which one) delivering a 10-second report on the discovery of the Enceladus plumes, and he balked at even trying to pronounce Enceladus. Which is really stupid, because he would not have balked at learning how to pronounce "Ahmadinajad," a name many Americans stumble over. So just because they're classical doesn't mean they're easy, and just because they're not classical doesn't mean we can't learn to pronounce them properly.I think it's cool that there are these difficult-to-pronounce names out there as hooks for inspiring curiosity into the mythologies of other cultures. Learning that there are other ways and other points of view out there can only be a good thing  --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Oct 6 2009, 05:26 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
I very vividly recall a news anchor (I think it was Hal Fishman in Los Angeles) reporting on the discovery of volcanoes on one of Jupiter's moons. After reporting on how the discovery came about, he wrapped up the story by saying the moon they were discovered on was named "Ten."
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Oct 7 2009, 03:54 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 600 Joined: 26-August 05 Member No.: 476 |
QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Oct 6 2009, 04:55 AM) I did quite well until I got to Kltpzyxm, when I was suddenly yanked into another dimension. You had me going. I had to check the answers that there was no moon named after a Superman villain. |
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Oct 7 2009, 04:40 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 2-July 05 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 426 |
I managed to get 70, much to my surprise. Probably mostly due to having memorized ALL the known Solar System moons in the early 1980s when I was a kid.
Some of them I can't believe I remembered. In particular, "Bestla". It seems that, somewhere in my brain, there's a cell devoted to remembering that one. |
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Oct 8 2009, 05:51 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 202 Joined: 9-September 08 Member No.: 4334 |
QUOTE I think it's cool that there are these difficult-to-pronounce names out there as hooks for inspiring curiosity into the mythologies of other cultures. True. I certainly never would have heard of Haumea if they hadn't named a dwarf planet after her... QUOTE ( @ Oct 6 2009, 06:26 PM) he wrapped up the story by saying the moon they were discovered on was named "Ten." Wow. That's just ... incredible. Did they not talk about the program before they aired it? |
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Oct 8 2009, 05:58 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
QUOTE (Vultur @ Oct 7 2009, 10:51 PM) Did they not talk about the program before they aired it? It was a live evening news show. The stories are about 15 seconds long and handed to the anchor 10 minutes ahead of time by someone else who writes the story. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Dec 6 2009, 07:46 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1670 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
I got 37 - so I need some practice...
-------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Dec 6 2009, 08:11 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
QUOTE (volcanopele @ Oct 5 2009, 09:15 AM) I got 63... I only missed Anthe of the Saturnian moons we look at regularly. Of the random junk in the outer satellite systems, I got Kore, Neso, Phoebe, and all but Ananke of the pre-1974 outer Jovian system. I took it again to see if I did anybetter. Got 79. Mostly improved by getting all the inner neptune satellites and got a few more random Jupiter and Saturn outer sats (Fornjot is still my favorite moon name). Didn't realize though that Herse had been added to the quiz. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Dec 6 2009, 10:17 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
QUOTE (Patteroast @ Oct 5 2009, 07:57 PM) Glad people have liked it! I've gotten them all, so it is possible.  Takes some practice, though. Took a couple days trying the individual planet quizzes for Jupiter and Saturn before getting there.Did that about a month ago, tried again today without reviewing to see how many I remebered, was able to recall 137 |
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Dec 6 2009, 10:43 PM
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Anyone want to extend Blur's Far Out to cover them all?
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