* [9fans] astro: meeteeor shouwer?
@ 2021-07-28 23:32 Anthony Sorace
2021-07-28 23:40 ` Marshall Conover
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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
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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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