Starship Asterisk*

Like many Americans of the USA variety, I only speak English. I have great respect and admiration for people who are fluent in more than one language, and I'm humbly grateful when folks are willing to communicate with me in English.

superwillbee wrote:

Yup, my left-right confusion has struck again. I get left and right backwards all the time. If I'm giving you directions, look which way I'm pointing, never trust what I say.

Yeah, our minds are quite funny, at least every now and then... Things that seem very clear, quite often are not that clear at all. Especially regarding language and the meaning of words.
Being Dutch, English is my second language, and that's the reason i thought i missed something in class, long ago. But apparently it's 'just' the left/right confusion. What could just as easy be the east/west and starboard/port confusion. There seems to be no way out of this.
Isn't that right at least and last? (Ha, funny mind!)

Yup, my left-right confusion has struck again. I get left and right backwards all the time. If I'm giving you directions, look which way I'm pointing, never trust what I say.

Psnarf wrote:Does the fact that Earth plows through the debris trail Halley left behind suggest the possibility, however remote, that the two could meet? As the Earth moves (wasn't that a soap opera?) through the debris, how does that affect the nearby particles? Is there a small stream of particles now following us?

geckzilla wrote:I have that except with east-west confusion. Maybe they are the same thing, though. This is why I like astronomical orientation because east is left and west is right and that's just the way my brain wants things to be.

superwillbee wrote:Behind the right hand edge of the frame, and along the right hand side of the image ???? Whooo! Confusing time!
I take it you mean to say the left side of the picture? So the right hand side/edge of the frame/image means the part at my left hand?
Then you are completely right i think.
A little confusing i would say. Haven't heard it like this before.

superwillbee wrote:Saturn secretly peeking from behind the trees, centre on the right? [And also reflected in the water] Cute and quite natural looking image!

Psnarf wrote:Does the fact that Earth plows through the debris trail Halley left behind suggest the possibility, however remote, that the two could meet? As the Earth moves (wasn't that a soap opera?) through the debris, how does that affect the nearby particles? Is there a small stream of particles now following us?

rzn6jw wrote:I may be wrong about this picture, but isn't the central bulge of the Milky Way in the south if this picture was taken in the northern hemisphere? If this picture is correct wouldn't it make the 'sunrise' a 'sunset'? Was this picture reversed?