April 5, 2004

  • Anyone out there an exogeologist?


    "MER-A ratted Adirondack yestersol while solar groovy, even though it was high tau in Gusev."


    Rendered in plain English, the sentence would read:


    "Spirit, the first Mars exploration rover, used its rock abrasion tool to grind into a rock nicknamed for an Eastern mountain range one Mars day ago while receiving adequate power from its solar panels, even though there was a large amount of dust suspended in the martian atmosphere above its landing site, named after a 19th century Russian astronomer."
    —Andrew Bridges, "Mars mission spawns its own unworldly lingo," The Associated Press, February 22, 2004


    The key to the above passage is that a 'sol' is a Martian day, hence 'yestersol' is Martian yesterday.


    Now what if I were to maintain:


    "nfp shall hoof about dreamland for xtoolable content to make the blog sweet proppable." ?


    But, of course, you understand:  It is blog-English (xanga dialect)!

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