OT: Rename a planet because kids will giggle?

[nightbat]

nightbat wrote

Fenrir Enterprises wrote:

"You’ll find that every heavenly body has its own particular scent."

"As long as you don’t make me smell ‘Uranus’! Ha! Ha!"

"I'm sorry Fry, But astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that
stupid joke."

"What's it called now?"

"Urectum."

nightbat

No, Officially now called " Ufunus " by the Captain nightbat
and Earth Science team Officers. Name was astronomy Officer voted and
Officer Double-A seconded June 25, 2005.

carry on,
the nightbat

 

[pete]

Rich The Newsgroup Wacko wrote:

How is "Urine-us" less dirty than "Yer anus"?

"Urinous"

It's not.

How is the Japanese term for "Harbor wave"
any better than the English "Tidal wave"?

--
pete

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 06:15:20 +0000, Guy Macon wrote:

Rename the body part instead of the planet. Problem solved.

"Spicy Chili? No thanks. It makes my aylward burn the next day."

"Fred Bloggs acts the way he does because his grise is so small."

'grise' == 'brain'?

;-)
Rich

 

[Rich The Newsgroup Wacko]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:18:41 +0000, pete wrote:

Rich The Newsgroup Wacko wrote:
How is "Urine-us" less dirty than "Yer anus"?

"Urinous"

news:alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.urine ?

It's not.

How is the Japanese term for "Harbor wave"
any better than the English "Tidal wave"?

It's more accurate, since they have nothing to do with the tides,
and "tsunami" sounds so very much more exotic. ;-) Heck, there's
at least three different words for "hurricane", maybe four or
five! 'Typhoon' and 'cyclone' spring to mind. Then there's
'tropical storm',... you get the idea. ;-)
--
Cheers!
Rich

 

[Rich The Newsgroup Wacko]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:52:57 -0700, mensanator@aol.com wrote:

Rich The Newsgroup Wacko wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:18:41 +0000, pete wrote:
Rich The Newsgroup Wacko wrote:
How is "Urine-us" less dirty than "Yer anus"?

"Urinous"

news:alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.urine ?

It's not.

How is the Japanese term for "Harbor wave"
any better than the English "Tidal wave"?

It's more accurate, since they have nothing to do with the tides,
and "tsunami" sounds so very much more exotic. ;-) Heck, there's
at least three different words for "hurricane", maybe four or
five! 'Typhoon' and 'cyclone' spring to mind.

All hurricanes are cyclones, but not all cyclones are hurricanes.

I "grew up"[1] in Minnesota, and the way I understand it, even
a tornado could be technically classified as a cyclone. But over
water, tornadoes are called "waterspouts".

In either case, you're right, and I appreciate the influx of
information.

But that skin diver in the forest fire ashes had been scooped up by
one of those firefighting aquiferous airplane things, the way I heard
it. (kind of surprising that they found him in one piece!)

Thanks!
Rich

[1] became older, albeit still working on that 'wiser' part.

 

[Keith Williams]

In article <pan.2005.06.30.20.19.59.724628@example.com>,
wacko@example.com says...

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:52:57 -0700, mensanator@aol.com wrote:
Rich The Newsgroup Wacko wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:18:41 +0000, pete wrote:
Rich The Newsgroup Wacko wrote:
How is "Urine-us" less dirty than "Yer anus"?

"Urinous"

news:alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.urine ?

It's not.

How is the Japanese term for "Harbor wave"
any better than the English "Tidal wave"?

It's more accurate, since they have nothing to do with the tides,
and "tsunami" sounds so very much more exotic. ;-) Heck, there's
at least three different words for "hurricane", maybe four or
five! 'Typhoon' and 'cyclone' spring to mind.

All hurricanes are cyclones, but not all cyclones are hurricanes.

I "grew up"[1] in Minnesota, and the way I understand it, even
a tornado could be technically classified as a cyclone. But over
water, tornadoes are called "waterspouts".

I'm not sure that's correct, wrt current thinking on tornadoes. IIRC
they're more of a wind-shear phenomena than cyclonic.

In either case, you're right, and I appreciate the influx of
information.

But that skin diver in the forest fire ashes had been scooped up by
one of those firefighting aquiferous airplane things, the way I heard
it. (kind of surprising that they found him in one piece!)

Urban legend: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/scuba.htm

--
Keith

 

[Don Klipstein]

In <MPG.1d2e2ff6772a6137989b18@news.individual.net>, Keith Williams wrote:

In article <pan.2005.06.30.20.19.59.724628@example.com>,
wacko@example.com says...
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:52:57 -0700, mensanator@aol.com wrote:

All hurricanes are cyclones, but not all cyclones are hurricanes.

I "grew up"[1] in Minnesota, and the way I understand it, even
a tornado could be technically classified as a cyclone. But over
water, tornadoes are called "waterspouts".

I'm not sure that's correct, wrt current thinking on tornadoes. IIRC
they're more of a wind-shear phenomena than cyclonic.

Depends on the tornado the way I hear things, although I do remember
seeing that nearly all tornadoes rotate in the same direction as "real"
cyclones.

Something like about half of tornadoes form in supercell thunderstorms.
These tornadoes account for most tornado damage and tornado deaths. The
part of a supercell that tornadoes form in is actually called a
mesocyclone.
I have heard of wind sheer (especially along a wram front) enhancing
rotation in some supercells, but also that supercells can have their
updraft regions start rotating much like the vortex in a draining bathtub
supposedly does from Earth's rotation.

Another cause of tornadoes is squall lines, and many tornadoes that form
in squall lines do so without any apparent mesocyclone. I have seen
an explanation for wind sheer leading to those.
Such tornadoes form mainly in convex-forward regions of squall lines,
and also tend to be small and short-lived.

I don't know so much about tornadoes that form in hurricanes and
tropical storms, as in whether or not there are mesocyclones in the
thunderstorm cells that these tornadoes form in.

Another rotating wind in severe thunderstorms is the gustnado,
apparently a larger "whirlwind" that forms near the edge of a "gust
front". These differ from tornadoes by tornadoes having a vortex
including a portion within the storm cloud, while gustnado vortices only
exist near the ground and have no connection to the storm cloud.

- Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)

 

[gerard46]

| Keith Williams wrote:
|> wacko wrote:
|>> mensanator wrote:
|>>> Rich wrote:
|>>>> Pete wrote:
|>>>> Rich wrote:
-----snipped-----

|>>>> How is the Japanese term for "Harbor wave"
|>>>> any better than the English "Tidal wave"?

|>>> It's more accurate, since they have nothing to do with the tides,
|>>> and "tsunami" sounds so very much more exotic. ;-) Heck, there's
|>>> at least three different words for "hurricane", maybe four or
|>>> five! 'Typhoon' and 'cyclone' spring to mind.

|>> All hurricanes are cyclones, but not all cyclones are hurricanes.

|> I "grew up"[1] in Minnesota, and the way I understand it, even
|> a tornado could be technically classified as a cyclone. But over
|> water, tornadoes are called "waterspouts".

Only if the tornadoe touches the water. ______________________Gerard S.

---snipped---

 

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:18:18 GMT, Rich The Newsgroup Wacko <wacko@example.com>
wroth:

I "grew up"[1] in Minnesota, .........

I spent a week in Minnesota one day. You have my most profound
sympathy.

Jim


James P. Meyer
http://home.att.net/~notjimbob

 

[keith]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:02:32 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 01:13:17 GMT, jmeyer@nowhere.net wrote:

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:18:18 GMT, Rich The Newsgroup Wacko <wacko@example.com
wroth:


I "grew up"[1] in Minnesota, .........

I spent a week in Minnesota one day. You have my most profound
sympathy.

Jim


James P. Meyer
http://home.att.net/~notjimbob

Better than Massachusetts, or just about any state on the East Coast
north of Virginia ;-)

You forgot Vermont. The home of Jumpin' Jim Jeffords, Bernie (the commie
Sanders), Patric Leahy (never met an honest Republican), and no one can
forget Howie (the screaming retard [*]) Dean.

[*] Howie had to be assured by a friend this week that CT was within the
"US and Canada".

Crap! I wanna move!

--
Keith

 

[keith]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:06:40 +0000, Don Klipstein wrote:

In <MPG.1d2e2ff6772a6137989b18@news.individual.net>, Keith Williams wrote:
In article <pan.2005.06.30.20.19.59.724628@example.com>,
wacko@example.com says...
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:52:57 -0700, mensanator@aol.com wrote:

All hurricanes are cyclones, but not all cyclones are hurricanes.

I "grew up"[1] in Minnesota, and the way I understand it, even
a tornado could be technically classified as a cyclone. But over
water, tornadoes are called "waterspouts".

I'm not sure that's correct, wrt current thinking on tornadoes. IIRC
they're more of a wind-shear phenomena than cyclonic.

Depends on the tornado the way I hear things, although I do remember
seeing that nearly all tornadoes rotate in the same direction as "real"
cyclones.

Perhaps, but the coriolis force on on such a small scale isn't
nearly significant enough to explain a tornado. The toilet may flush the
same direction as a cyclone too, but it's not cyclonic action at work.

Something like about half of tornadoes form in supercell
thunderstorms.
These tornadoes account for most tornado damage and tornado deaths. The
part of a supercell that tornadoes form in is actually called a
mesocyclone.
I have heard of wind sheer (especially along a wram front) enhancing
rotation in some supercells, but also that supercells can have their
updraft regions start rotating much like the vortex in a draining
bathtub supposedly does from Earth's rotation.

The coriolis force on such things is insignificant compared to any sort
of motion imparted to the water by the design of the tub. The toilets
flushing backwards down under (because of the coriolis force) is an urban
legend.

<snip>

--
Keith

 

[keith]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:22:52 -0700, mensanator@aol.com wrote:

Keith Williams wrote:
In article <pan.2005.06.30.20.19.59.724628@example.com>,
wacko@example.com says...
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:52:57 -0700, mensanator@aol.com wrote:
Rich The Newsgroup Wacko wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:18:41 +0000, pete wrote:
Rich The Newsgroup Wacko wrote:
How is "Urine-us" less dirty than "Yer anus"?

"Urinous"

news:alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.urine ?

It's not.

How is the Japanese term for "Harbor wave"
any better than the English "Tidal wave"?

It's more accurate, since they have nothing to do with the tides,
and "tsunami" sounds so very much more exotic. ;-) Heck, there's
at least three different words for "hurricane", maybe four or
five! 'Typhoon' and 'cyclone' spring to mind.

All hurricanes are cyclones, but not all cyclones are hurricanes.

I "grew up"[1] in Minnesota, and the way I understand it, even
a tornado could be technically classified as a cyclone. But over
water, tornadoes are called "waterspouts".

I'm not sure that's correct, wrt current thinking on tornadoes. IIRC
they're more of a wind-shear phenomena than cyclonic.

Tornadoes are called cylcones whether it is appropriate or not.
Technically, a cyclone is an air mass rotating about a low
pressure zone. When the eye of a hurricane passes over Chicago,
it is no longer a hurricane and neither is it a tornado, but it
is still a cyclone.

Of course a "hurricane" passing over chicago is a cyclone, as is any
large low pressure area. It's the coriolis force that causes the
cyclone. The coriolis force apparently isn't a factor in tornados.

In either case, you're right, and I appreciate the influx of
information.

But that skin diver in the forest fire ashes had been scooped up by
one of those firefighting aquiferous airplane things, the way I heard
it. (kind of surprising that they found him in one piece!)

Urban legend: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/scuba.htm

--

Keith

 

[Rich Grise]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:36:44 -0400, Keith Williams wrote:

I'm not sure that's correct, wrt current thinking on tornadoes. IIRC
they're more of a wind-shear phenomena than cyclonic.

Oh, come on! Haven't you ever seen a video of a tornado? Have you
ever seen the drain vortex in the tub?

A tornado is a vortex in the middle of a significant updraft. I've
even seen dust devils that you could walk right up to - they're
definitely cyclonic, as in "air going around and around in a circle".
Or a helix. Or a vortex. Dust devils are usually pretty harmless -
they're just a dirty column of air that you could put your hands
around, going straight up into the clear sky as far as you can
see. This was alongside the road between Beale AFB and Marysville,
CA.

And I think I know wherefrom I speak here - a few years ago, there
was a freak storm that passed through most of Minnesota, with
straight-line winds that were clocked at over 100 MPH. It broke
windows. It dropped about 24 inches of hail. I was standing on the
porch, watching the pretty cloud formations coming towards us -
generally, in Minnesota, thunderstorms are quite benign - they
drop some rain, they fixate nitrogen in the soil, they're fun to
watch. This one just went WHAM!. ("Oh, gee, this storm seems to be
coming kind of fast!" "Don't ya think you should come in?" "Yeah,
I think maybe this one's..." ****KABLOOSH!**** Straight-line winds
blew out three windows on the upwind side of the house. Some months later,
I was chauffering my Mom down to see the relatives in Mankato (MN). This
is about a hundred miles from Minneapolis, so typically we'd stop to
stretch our legs in St. Peter, about halfway. We were on the highway, and
just by the timing, it was about time to get to St. Peter, and I spotted a
huge stand of trees that were just snapped off, as if they'd been hit by a
tornado, but they were all lying the same direction! And Mom and I didn't
even recognize the town ("Aren't we supposed to be coming into St.
Peter about now?") because all of the trees were gone. And most of the
buildings were still being patched up - major constructional first aid!

My point here is, straight-line winds can be terribly destructive;
I think they call them "microbursts" - but there's _nothing_ like
a tornado! I've seen tornado damage, that's hard to believe if you
haven't seen it - a house almost totally gone, and right next door,
not a scratch.

But a tornado is _not_ wind shear, thank you very much.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 01:13:17 GMT, jmeyer@nowhere.net wrote:

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:18:18 GMT, Rich The Newsgroup Wacko <wacko@example.com
wroth:


I "grew up"[1] in Minnesota, .........

I spent a week in Minnesota one day. You have my most profound
sympathy.

Jim


James P. Meyer
http://home.att.net/~notjimbob

Better than Massachusetts, or just about any state on the East Coast
north of Virginia ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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[Mark Zenier]

In article <pan.2005.07.01.23.59.21.418247@example.net>,
Rich Grise <richgrise@example.net> wrote:

My point here is, straight-line winds can be terribly destructive;
I think they call them "microbursts" - but there's _nothing_ like
a tornado! I've seen tornado damage, that's hard to believe if you
haven't seen it - a house almost totally gone, and right next door,
not a scratch.

There's real microbursts, which are high speed gusts that come straight
down from a thunderstorm. Had one about a half a mile away here a couple
of years ago. Smashed up the trees in about a half a block radius.
The wind spatters in all directions when they hit the ground. So trees
can be laid flat in all directions, looking like a bomb went off in
the middle.

And then there's a Los Angeles "microburst", which is what the media
there call a tornado. Back in the boom times, they decided that LA
didn't have tornados, as that would hurt real estate sales to people
moving in from the Midwest. (see _Ecology of Fear_ by Mike Davis).

Mark Zenier mzenier@eskimo.com Washington State resident

 

[Rich Grise]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:06:40 +0000, Don Klipstein wrote:

In <MPG.1d2e2ff6772a6137989b18@news.individual.net>, Keith Williams wrote:
"Rich Grise" <wacko@example.com> says...
....
I "grew up"[1] in Minnesota, and the way I understand it, even
a tornado could be technically classified as a cyclone. But over
water, tornadoes are called "waterspouts".

I'm not sure that's correct, wrt current thinking on tornadoes. IIRC
they're more of a wind-shear phenomena than cyclonic.

Depends on the tornado the way I hear things, although I do remember
seeing that nearly all tornadoes rotate in the same direction as "real"
cyclones.

Something like about half of tornadoes form in supercell thunderstorms.
These tornadoes account for most tornado damage and tornado deaths. The
part of a supercell that tornadoes form in is actually called a
mesocyclone.

Thanks for this! I'd forgotten about "supercells", and it's the first
I've ever even heard the term "mesocyclone." It really seems to fit
the bill, here.

I have heard of wind sheer (especially along a wram front) enhancing
['shear' - Apostrophe/Grammar/Spelling Police ;-) ]
rotation in some supercells, but also that supercells can have their
updraft regions start rotating much like the vortex in a draining
bathtub supposedly does from Earth's rotation.

[1]
OK, I agree with everything you've said, except for one little teeny
tiny nitpick. Not the typo correction - the SACotAP just sneaks up on
me sometimes - wait a minute. I'm almost drunk already. (Yes, I still
spell this good, even when I can hardly walk, because I _know_ I'm
sloshed on alcohol. And then, when I toke a little dollop of resin
recovered from the pipe, well, I know I have to triple- and maybe
quadruple-check what I post - sometimes I rereread my own posts
three or four times, and find that I can make my own self laugh. ;-D

Aanyway, myu point was, you can make the swirl down the drain go
either direction you want. To make it really swirl in a direction
based on what hemisphere you're in, you'd have to leave it sit
undisturbec for a vary long time - maybe weeks! And, of course,
you'd have to cover t up so it doesn't all avaporate or bewcome a
mosquito breeding place.

And then you'd have to open the drain in a fashiop that adds
_verifiably_ zero pertubnerations to the movement of the water.

OItherwise, all it takes is a qujick swirl with a soup spoon, and
you've extablished your direction of vortical rotation. [did I
just make that up? ?8-\ ]

[1] whenn I got to about the thir d sentence of that paragraph that
I have labeled [1] above, I realized that this is the perfect
opportunity to demonstrate how fucked up I can type when I'm
fucked up. ;-=D <- leke that fro example.

So, I've, in an act that severly conflicts my inner homunculi,
hereby post this entire unproofread thing, just to show what
a frucking weirdo/wqa koi I can be.

But I _inow_ I'm fucked up! If I hadn'c notice d that the piece
was about frpofreading,, (and that the point of the post is
that I'm fucked up) , I'd have read this sucker three or
four times, correcting all my spelling errors, and at aboyut
the fifth oir sixth reading, realinzxing that -

QWhow inb the fuck wants to hear this drivel."?

Tell ya what, I'll read this tomorrow whan I'm sober and
have run out opf pipestem resin - I REFUSE TO BLAME RESIN
FOR ANY STU(IPIDITY I MAY EXHIBIT WHILE UNDER THE
AFFFLLUENC!!!!!!!

AAnd I don't blame alcohol for my stuipdity or foolishness,
merely for my clumsicity. ;-P ;-D

Any6wayts, the machinist is about to boot me out of te shop,
so I guess I'll sign off for the nonce - and Jeopardy's on
at 7"00 PM PDT, and I'll be going to amuse myself winning
the game from my couch. ?:-\ (I've gneerally, while watching
Jeopard with othe peopole, like relativix and rooommates,
got in trouble for blurting out the right answers. I don't
konw if this counts as "tyraumatic stress disorger," but
H really have to close this ribhy yhisd bvery moment, bevcause
I just heart dhe lathe shuty downn, and I hear his footprints....

Thanks!!!!!!
RTich

 

Gregory L. Hansen wrote:

I thought everyone had given up on it by now.

Oh, we haven't even started on it yet! Uranus is a gas giant. It has
a huge amount of methane (last I checked). Basically it's one giant
cosmic fart cloud.

 

[lionslair at consolidated]

markwh04@yahoo.com wrote:

Gregory L. Hansen wrote:

I thought everyone had given up on it by now.


Oh, we haven't even started on it yet! Uranus is a gas giant. It has
a huge amount of methane (last I checked). Basically it's one giant
cosmic fart cloud.

Just think of the LPG barges from it to various outposts in the solar system.

Martin

--
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@ home at Lion's Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH, NRA Life
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder

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