Re: What's an Oort?

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:

> 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'. :)

I thought it was the sound a male Gnu makes when sighting a female.