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To: neverdem

You know... astronomers lately are nowhere near as creative as their ancestors. The Greeks could look at a set of stars and see a great hunter named Orion with a club in one hand and a shield in the other, with his faithful hunting dog at his side and a great bull, Taurus, charging at him, all the while running from the scorpion who bit his shoulder and turned it red.

Nowadays, we get Jupiter's "Great Red Spot"... then Neptune's "Great Dark Spot" and now Jupiter has "Red Spot, Jr." I guess it could've been worse... "Lesser Red Spot."

:-)


5 posted on 05/07/2006 11:17:54 AM PDT by mwyounce
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To: mwyounce

You crack me up. :))


9 posted on 05/07/2006 11:25:57 AM PDT by micha
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To: mwyounce

all the while running from the scorpion who bit his shoulder and turned it red.

Not sure, but I don't think scorpions bite. Sting you with their stinger, yes, but they don't bite. Of course, anything is possible with these imaginary starry characters.


10 posted on 05/07/2006 11:30:18 AM PDT by sasportas
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To: mwyounce

It's just another zit.


18 posted on 05/07/2006 12:43:50 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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