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Astrology has no effect on reality, so why should reality have any effect on astrology? – J.S. Stenzel, commenting on astrological planets that astrologers acknowledge don't really exist

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The official state rainbow flag of Russia (official in JAO since 1996) Do you think the liberals are using these school shootings to further their anti-tragedy agenda? — Col. Erran Morad, Who Is America?, s01e01 yod-dropper — (when you need something that sounds like an insult)[1] ALL keys matter — response to the scale-wandering rendition of the national anthem at CPAC 2021 The Lunatic-in-Charge becomes the Lunatic-at-Large Lame duck à l'orange (AKA canard à l'orange) It is a mortifying circumstance, which greatly perplexes many a painstaking philosopher, that nature often refuses to second his most profound and elaborate efforts; so that often after having invented one of the most ingenious and natural theories imaginable, she will have the perverseness to act directly in the teeth of his system, and flatly contradict his most favorite positions. This is a manifest and unmerited grievance, since it throws the censure of the vulgar and unlearned entirely upon the philosopher; whereas the fault is not to be ascribed to his theory, which is unquestionably correct, but to the waywardness of Dame Nature, who, with the proverbial fickleness of her sex, is continually indulging in coquetries and caprices, and seems really to take pleasure in violating all philosophic rules, and jilting the most learned and indefatigable of her adorers. [...] The philosophers took this in very ill part, and it is thought they would never have pardoned the slight and affront which they conceived put upon them by the world had not a good-natured professor kindly officiated as a mediator between the parties, and effected a reconciliation. Finding the world would not accommodate itself to the theory, he wisely determined to accommodate the theory to the world. — Washington Irving, Knickerbocker's History of New York Pela primeira vez na sua vida a morte soube o que era ter um cão no regaço. For the first time in her life, death knew what it felt like to have a dog in her lap. — José Saramago, Death with Interruptions / Death at Intervals It is now generally accepted that the megaliths that make up Stonehenge were moved by human effort. — as opposed to by what? Anybody who says you only have yourself to blame is just not very good at blaming other people. — It's Happy Bunny When poppies pull themselves up from their roots and start out, one after the other, toward the sunset – don't follow them. — Slavko Janevski, 'Silence' And the dough-headed took their acid fermentation for a soul, the stabbing of meat for history, the means of postponing their decay for civilization. — Stanislaw Lem, Return from the Stars The Church says that the Earth is Flat, but I know that it is Round, for I have seen its Shadow on the Moon, and I have more Faith in a Shadow than in the Church. — (commonly misattributed to Magellan) In the early years of the study there were more than 200 speakers of the dialect, including one parrot. — from the WP article Nancy Dorian Mikebrown is unusually eccentric and not very bright. [...] Astronomers have not noticed any outbursts by Mikebrown. — from the WP article 11714 Mikebrown Ecce Mono Keep Redskins White! "homosapiens are people, too!!" a sprig of spaghetti "I've always had a horror of husbands-in-law." awkwardnessful anti–zombie-fungus fungus "Only an evil person would eat baby soup." (said in all sincerity)

New paper on Eris and Makemake

Here. :) Double sharp (talk) 01:46, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Cool! Thanks. Been working w heavy water, so the use of deuterated methane is fun. — kwami (talk) 22:37, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

It also occurs to me that the title is a perfect example of what I mentioned a couple of sections above: in practice "H"/"hydrogen" can also mean "protium", when used in opposition to "D"/"deuterium". Perhaps worth a Wiktionary mention? Double sharp (talk) 17:24, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Is it, though? Or is it just deuterium as a fraction of total hydrogen? — kwami (talk) 19:06, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Well, the Oxford dictionary of earth sciences explicitly says H means ¹H in these constructions. As does the Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Double sharp (talk) 14:35, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for finding that. Shouldn't matter which def is used at normal concentrations, but would be important for nuclear engineering. — kwami (talk) 20:18, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Hm, looks like that phrase is only used for astro and geo stuff, so the difference wouldn't matter. — kwami (talk) 20:30, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, it doesn't really matter there. But I've seen "hydrogen" used to mean "protium" implicitly also in crystallography, e.g. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.165.1032 and the Arblaster handbook. Double sharp (talk) 06:41, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

H for protium in Otterson et al. (1969) "ABSORPTION OF HYDROGEN BY PALLADIUM AND ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY UP TO HYDROGEN-PALLADIUM ATOM RATIOS OF 0.97":

Hydrogen is generally considered to be electronically the same as deuterium. However, some differences in results for the two systems have been observed in the relation between resistivity and temperature and in neutron diffraction experiments. In both PdH_x and PdD_x where x is close to 0.6, a resistivity maximum is found near 50 K. However, PdD_0.6 required much more time for its resistivity to become constant than PdH_0.6 after cooling to a temperature near 50 K.

— kwami (talk) 18:38, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

IAU designated constellations

Hey, I was going through the page stats and saw your name as of the top editors in the page. Other two top editors aren't active and I was thinking to take it up for FL candidacy. It needs a little work but it's almost there. You wanna join? Thanks. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 10:52, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitation, but I'm quite busy right now. I don't have the time for any involved projects on WP. — kwami (talk) 21:16, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Category:Languages with Linglist code has been nominated for deletion

Category:Languages with Linglist code has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. PepperBeast (talk) 14:07, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you so much for uploading File:Rheasilvia and older basin, Vesta.jpg

JustAGooseGuy (talk) 10:15, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Mawa language (Nigeria)

The article Mawa language (Nigeria) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

It seems like this language never existed, the references to it are being removed from linguistic sources, see [2]

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Thanks. It should be a rd to spurious languages. — kwami (talk) 23:46, 13 April 2024 (UTC)