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* [9fans] astro: meeteeor shouwer?
@ 2021-07-28 23:32 Anthony Sorace
  2021-07-28 23:40 ` Marshall Conover
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Anthony Sorace @ 2021-07-28 23:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Speaking of astro, anyone know the story behind this?

:; astro | sed 2q
2021  7 28
Pisces australid  meeteeor shouwer
 :; agrep meeteeor /sys/src/cmd/astro/*.c
/sys/src/cmd/astro/search.c:61:                                         event("%s  meeteeor shouwer",

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* Re: [9fans] astro: meeteeor shouwer?
  2021-07-28 23:32 [9fans] astro: meeteeor shouwer? Anthony Sorace
@ 2021-07-28 23:40 ` Marshall Conover
  2021-07-29  0:18   ` Rob Pike
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From: Marshall Conover @ 2021-07-28 23:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

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Today's the peak of a seasonal meteor shower. I'm pretty excited, gonna be
out in the middle of nowhere this weekend, thinking of doing a timelapse.

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 7:34 PM Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net> wrote:

> Speaking of astro, anyone know the story behind this?
>
> :; astro | sed 2q
> 2021  7 28
> Pisces australid  meeteeor shouwer
>  :; agrep meeteeor /sys/src/cmd/astro/*.c
> /sys/src/cmd/astro/search.c:61:
>  event("%s  meeteeor shouwer",


-- 
Have a good day,

Marshall Conover

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* Re: [9fans] astro: meeteeor shouwer?
  2021-07-28 23:40 ` Marshall Conover
@ 2021-07-29  0:18   ` Rob Pike
  2021-07-29  1:07     ` Anthony Sorace
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Rob Pike @ 2021-07-29  0:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

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If you mean, why is it spelled like that? It's because the text was sent to
the voice synthesizer for the 5PM Unix room ephemeris announcement. Tweaked
spellings could improve pronunciation.

-rob


On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 9:42 AM Marshall Conover <marzhall.o@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Today's the peak of a seasonal meteor shower. I'm pretty excited, gonna be
> out in the middle of nowhere this weekend, thinking of doing a timelapse.
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 7:34 PM Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net> wrote:
>
>> Speaking of astro, anyone know the story behind this?
>>
>> :; astro | sed 2q
>> 2021  7 28
>> Pisces australid  meeteeor shouwer
>>  :; agrep meeteeor /sys/src/cmd/astro/*.c
>> /sys/src/cmd/astro/search.c:61:
>>  event("%s  meeteeor shouwer",
>
>
> --
> Have a good day,
>
> Marshall Conover
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* Re: [9fans] astro: meeteeor shouwer?
  2021-07-29  0:18   ` Rob Pike
@ 2021-07-29  1:07     ` Anthony Sorace
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From: Anthony Sorace @ 2021-07-29  1:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

On Jul 28, 2021, at 17:20, Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If you mean, why is it spelled like that?

Yes, exactly. Thinking about this on the drive home, I remembered “values of beeta“ and remembered these are listed in betatab, and figured it was something like that. Thank you for the response.

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