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xkcd: Solar System Changes
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Lynn McGuire
2020-01-23 18:53:39 UTC
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xkcd: Solar System Changes
https://www.xkcd.com/2258/

Wow. Randall is living large today.

Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2258:_Solar_System_Changes

Lynn
P. Taine
2020-01-23 21:10:16 UTC
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Post by Lynn McGuire
xkcd: Solar System Changes
https://www.xkcd.com/2258/
Wow. Randall is living large today.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2258:_Solar_System_Changes
Lynn
Yeah, but I disagre about Uranus. Isn't a planet with its axis almost alined
with its plane of revolution interesting? I don't see what Neptune has to match
that.

P. Taine
Juho Julkunen
2020-01-23 21:53:18 UTC
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Post by Lynn McGuire
xkcd: Solar System Changes
https://www.xkcd.com/2258/
Wow. Randall is living large today.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2258:_Solar_System_Changes
Lynn
Yeah, but I disagre about Uranus. Isn't a planet with its axis almost alined
with its plane of revolution interesting? I don't see what Neptune has to match
that.
P. Taine
Apparently "Neptune" was one of the options when people argued (for
decades) on what to call the new planet. We could have had the best of
both worlds?
--
Juho Julkunen
John W Kennedy
2020-01-24 20:55:53 UTC
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Post by Lynn McGuire
xkcd: Solar System Changes
https://www.xkcd.com/2258/
Wow. Randall is living large today.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2258:_Solar_System_Changes
Lynn
Yeah, but I disagre about Uranus. Isn't a planet with its axis almost alined
with its plane of revolution interesting? I don't see what Neptune has to match
that.
There’s that shocking blue color, like artificial picnic ice.
--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
Paul S Person
2020-01-25 18:05:37 UTC
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On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:55:53 -0500, John W Kennedy
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Post by Lynn McGuire
xkcd: Solar System Changes
https://www.xkcd.com/2258/
Wow. Randall is living large today.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2258:_Solar_System_Changes
Lynn
Yeah, but I disagre about Uranus. Isn't a planet with its axis almost alined
with its plane of revolution interesting? I don't see what Neptune has to match
that.
There’s that shocking blue color, like artificial picnic ice.
And you can pronounce "Neptune" in Latin, rather than Greek, to avoid
... unseemly associations.
--
"I begin to envy Petronius."
"I have envied him long since."
Kevrob
2020-01-25 20:35:31 UTC
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Post by Paul S Person
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:55:53 -0500, John W Kennedy
Post by John W Kennedy
Post by P. Taine
Post by Lynn McGuire
xkcd: Solar System Changes
https://www.xkcd.com/2258/
Wow. Randall is living large today.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2258:_Solar_System_Changes
Lynn
Yeah, but I disagre about Uranus. Isn't a planet with its axis almost alined
with its plane of revolution interesting? I don't see what Neptune has to match
that.
There’s that shocking blue color, like artificial picnic ice.
And you can pronounce "Neptune" in Latin, rather than Greek, to avoid
... unseemly associations.
Uranus would correspond to "Caelus" in Latin.
Poseidon corresponds to Neptune. Those names might have
been saved for planets covered by ocean, even more than
ol' Mama Gaia/Terra.

Kevin R
J. Clarke
2020-01-26 00:12:23 UTC
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Post by Paul S Person
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:55:53 -0500, John W Kennedy
Post by John W Kennedy
Post by P. Taine
Post by Lynn McGuire
xkcd: Solar System Changes
https://www.xkcd.com/2258/
Wow. Randall is living large today.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2258:_Solar_System_Changes
Lynn
Yeah, but I disagre about Uranus. Isn't a planet with its axis almost alined
with its plane of revolution interesting? I don't see what Neptune has to match
that.
There’s that shocking blue color, like artificial picnic ice.
And you can pronounce "Neptune" in Latin, rather than Greek, to avoid
... unseemly associations.
Uranus would correspond to "Caelus" in Latin.
Did not know that. There is an NPC in Fallout New Vegas named
"Caelus" who is something of an anus--subtle humor but a nice touch.
Post by Kevrob
Poseidon corresponds to Neptune. Those names might have
been saved for planets covered by ocean, even more than
ol' Mama Gaia/Terra.
Kevin R
Paul S Person
2020-01-26 18:03:28 UTC
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On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 19:12:23 -0500, J. Clarke
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Post by Kevrob
Post by Paul S Person
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:55:53 -0500, John W Kennedy
Post by P. Taine
Post by Lynn McGuire
xkcd: Solar System Changes
https://www.xkcd.com/2258/
Wow. Randall is living large today.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2258:_Solar_System_Changes
Lynn
Yeah, but I disagre about Uranus. Isn't a planet with its axis almost alined
with its plane of revolution interesting? I don't see what Neptune has to match
that.
There’s that shocking blue color, like artificial picnic ice.
And you can pronounce "Neptune" in Latin, rather than Greek, to avoid
... unseemly associations.
Uranus would correspond to "Caelus" in Latin.
Did not know that. There is an NPC in Fallout New Vegas named
"Caelus" who is something of an anus--subtle humor but a nice touch.
And you don't know it now, either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caelus

Caelus is Latin for the god of the sky -- hence "celestial". It does
not "correspond" to anything in Latin -- it /is/ in Latin.

He also appears in Mithraism and some Latin writers identified him
with the God of Israel (ie, of the Jews). That, I would think, was
more an attempt to understand what the Jews were saying than anything
else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus

Uranus is Latin for the Greek god transcribed as Ouranos. The
pronounciation "you-ran-us", with a short "a", was used on the
national news when a satellite flew by the planet way back when. The
scatological version was used in /E.T.: The Extraterrestrial/ by
children as a taunt. Both are gods of the sky, and the article does
associate the /Latin/ name "Uranus" with the /Latin/ name "Caelus".
Post by J. Clarke
Post by Kevrob
Poseidon corresponds to Neptune. Those names might have
been saved for planets covered by ocean, even more than
ol' Mama Gaia/Terra.
Kevin R
--
"I begin to envy Petronius."
"I have envied him long since."
J. Clarke
2020-01-26 19:34:31 UTC
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On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 19:12:23 -0500, J. Clarke
Post by J. Clarke
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On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:55:53 -0500, John W Kennedy
Post by John W Kennedy
Post by P. Taine
Post by Lynn McGuire
xkcd: Solar System Changes
https://www.xkcd.com/2258/
Wow. Randall is living large today.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2258:_Solar_System_Changes
Lynn
Yeah, but I disagre about Uranus. Isn't a planet with its axis almost alined
with its plane of revolution interesting? I don't see what Neptune has to match
that.
There’s that shocking blue color, like artificial picnic ice.
And you can pronounce "Neptune" in Latin, rather than Greek, to avoid
... unseemly associations.
Uranus would correspond to "Caelus" in Latin.
Did not know that. There is an NPC in Fallout New Vegas named
"Caelus" who is something of an anus--subtle humor but a nice touch.
And you don't know it now, either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caelus
Caelus is Latin for the god of the sky -- hence "celestial". It does
not "correspond" to anything in Latin -- it /is/ in Latin.
Did you suffer from insufficient parental approval or something?
Nobody said that Caelus was not Latin,

But you just had to jump in with your correction, making yourself look
stupid in the process.
Post by Paul S Person
He also appears in Mithraism and some Latin writers identified him
with the God of Israel (ie, of the Jews). That, I would think, was
more an attempt to understand what the Jews were saying than anything
else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus
Uranus is Latin for the Greek god transcribed as Ouranos. The
pronounciation "you-ran-us", with a short "a", was used on the
national news when a satellite flew by the planet way back when. The
scatological version was used in /E.T.: The Extraterrestrial/ by
children as a taunt. Both are gods of the sky, and the article does
associate the /Latin/ name "Uranus" with the /Latin/ name "Caelus".
So after all of that it gets down to Caelus is Uranus.

So why did you waste our time with it?

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