Starship Asterisk*

Posted: **Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:21 pm**

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Posted: **Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:32 pm**

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Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:03 pm**

Spammer!

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:29 pm**

geckzilla wrote:Spammer!

Oh, Judy, Judy, Judy!!!

On APOD days bereft of any real science (e.g., today)
The Asterisk would be a dull place indeed without bystanders infusion of science news.

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:13 pm**

what about our games? I haven't checked "find apod" for a while now, is it still going? if not, let's make another one. or, even whole forum for forum games, where posts will not count. you know, those "continue the story" or "count to 1000" kind of threads? works well for baut.

Posted: **Fri Aug 20, 2010 12:02 am**

BEYONDER LAND

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Posted: **Sun Sep 05, 2010 3:25 am**

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Posted: **Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:17 pm**

ouch, i'm outperformed.

Posted: **Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:40 pm**

mаk© wrote:ouch, i'm outperformed.

Look at me, I'm fifteenth from the top. I guess all the people that know something about space are just not posting very much if I'm that close to the top.

Ok, neufer, what's with this "wild blue beyonder land?" You trying to turn my place into a blue raspberry popsicle or something

Posted: **Wed Sep 15, 2010 2:44 am**

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Walrus wrote:
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<<Wally Walrus is an anthropomorphic walrus who, in most of his appearances, speaks with a pronounced Swedish accent (voiced by Hans Conried). Wally is rather slow-witted at times, and prone to anger when provoked. For many years, Wally was the primary foil for Woody Woodpecker, bearing roughly the same relationship to that character as Elmer Fudd had to Bugs Bunny in Warner Brothers' animated shorts from the same era. Wally is often heard humming or singing the popular song My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.>>

Posted: **Wed Sep 15, 2010 2:57 am**

Yes, I yoins de club, welcome to my! I likes it here! I understand not 4.61 ppd, but could mean I writes a lot. I coming to write not so much soon, many things in school, can't think many stars!

I sing welcome song to my!

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=sVaB7PZHqYA

Ann

Posted: **Wed Sep 15, 2010 3:05 am**

beyond the beast 666

Posted: **Wed Sep 15, 2010 3:19 am**

bystander wrote:beyond the beast 666

Oh man, i missed the occasion by two posts! Drat! And double DRAT!!

Posted: **Wed Sep 15, 2010 4:13 am**

bystander wrote:
beyond the beast 666

ART + BEYoND
BYsTANDER

BYSTANDER
BEAST RYND

<<A RYND is a cross-shaped iron support for the runner stone in
A PAIR OF MILLSTONES [ART + BEYoND]. The RYND is affixed to the top of the main shaft or spindle and supports the entire weight of the moving stone. The RYND is necessary because, unlike a cart wheel on an axle, the hole in the center of the stone must remain open enough for grain to pass through and thus fall between the grinding faces of the stones.

Posted: **Wed Sep 15, 2010 4:24 am**

I thought i just felt something -- Has something just Ground to a stop

Posted: **Wed Sep 15, 2010 4:36 am**

beyond wrote:
I thought i just felt something -- Has something just Ground to a stop

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Posted: **Wed Sep 15, 2010 5:00 pm**

neufer wrote:
beyond wrote:
I thought i just felt something -- Has something just Ground to a stop

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

I think I'm sorry i asked

Posted: **Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:19 pm**

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Posted: **Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:04 pm**

Congrats on your 4000 and first post, Art!

4000 and one post, a Quotidian Quotation. Far-out-idian nights! Sheherazade is not far behind!

4001: A Space Oddity!

Congrats!

Ann

Posted: **Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:13 pm**

Ann wrote:Congrats on your 4000 and first post, Art!

4000 and one post, a Quotidian Quotation.

Far-out-idian nights! Sheherazade is not far behind!

4001: A Space Oddity!

"[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred."

Whereas, ... Neufer just Googles everything.

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2010 2:31 am**

Rob & beyond now deserve a rank.

Can someone assign them a rank or tell them how they can designate their own rank.

(I never figured that out myself but I'm happy with my assigned one.)

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Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2010 2:56 am**

Ranks are bestowed, not chosen, so far as I know!

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:23 am**

owlice wrote:Ranks are bestowed, not chosen, so far as I know!

But one can request a specific rank I assume.

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:33 am**

You didn't request yours, I didn't request mine... so who knows?

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:52 am**

owlice wrote:You didn't request yours, I didn't request mine... so who knows?

The Shadow knows:

RJN wrote:
http://asterisk.apod.com/vie ... 1+#p114611

<<A person who posts on the Asterisk* board is immediately considered to be a (virtual) asternaut, as opposed to an astronaut. Asternaut is not misspelled -- it is the diminutive of the word astronaut. Although only a few are selected to become astronauts, anyone with a web browser can become an asternaut. After 10 posts, an asternaut is elevated to become (also) an Ensign, and after 100 posts, a Science Officer.

At 500 posts, an asternaut is judged to be legally insane, and is therefore allowed to choose their own rank (within reason).>>

Starship Asterisk*

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4001!!!

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wild blue beyonder land

the usual suspects

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yumpin yiminy, Ann (4.61 ppd) yoins the club

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4K

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Rob on board

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