From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Cc: dsg@world.std.com (David S. Goldberg),
The Gnus Mailing List <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: What's an Oort?
Date: 20 Dec 2000 10:59:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y9xbf5hv.fsf@megalith.bp.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vafpuinyudd.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Google is your friend. I thought it was a place in Scandinavia, and
> now I see that it's a cloud of celestial bodies.
>
> I think Lars used the words `far out' in connection with Oort, which
> kinda fits.
If I recall the original reasoning was something along the lines of 'it is
far out, pretty, and occasionally rains fairy destruction down upon the
earth'. :)
-bp
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-20 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-20 14:49 David S. Goldberg
2000-12-20 15:39 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-20 15:59 ` William M. Perry [this message]
2000-12-20 16:46 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-20 16:58 ` Didier Verna
2000-12-20 17:25 ` John Cooper
2000-12-20 17:47 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-20 18:01 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-20 16:51 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-20 17:03 ` Oyvind Moll
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