Thursday, September 14, 2006

erisian moment

My father passed this news along to me. I'm waiting for a source to cite.
The lonely rock at the edge of the solar system that caused Pluto's downfall has been dubbed Eris after the Greek goddess of strife, astronomers said on Thursday.

Eris caused strife and discord by causing quarrels among people and that's what this one has done too...

The astronomers' union accepted Eris on Wednesday. The group also accepted Brown's proposed name for Eris's moon, Dysnomia.

Dysnomia is Eris' daughter in Greek mythology, and the word means "lawlessness" in Greek.
See "Sacred Chao".

See also the "Law of Eristic Escalation".

I would also like to mention that my first Mac OS X computer was named Kallisti.

Fnord.
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1 Comments:

Tom Ender said...

And fnord to you too.

The light blue links read a whole lot easier against the black background than the dark blue did.

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