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Fantastically colorful! Though I wonder why the only color of the spectrum that appears to be missing is green... Anyone smarter than me have an answer?
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As the picture was originally taken in infrared, all the colors are "false colors", i.e. the infrared spectrum is mapped to the visible spectrum. I'm not an expert in this field, but I suspect that the absence of green is due to the human eye's high sensitivity to green - it would appear much brighter than other colors in the false color image.
If there are any real experts out there - please confirm / refute my suspicion.
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Nice, I over heard two guys at work discussing Orion and showed one them the Pic, I now have a friend! 
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Please go easy on me I am still a beginner : )
"First of all: no German chauffeur on his wet Dublinesque passage to execution is joined into concatenation by his old pointless alphabet." (8)
no German chauffeur: Driver
pointless alphabet: rune
wet passage execution joined into concatenation: riverrun Absent form our dictionary sure, but not from our knowledge.
"First of all" and "Dublinesque" of course alluding to the famous first word of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Methinx some of you clever folks already had it figured. What do I do to get off the hook? : )
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megaadam wrote: What do I do to get off the hook?
Post one we can answer?
I think you are trying too hard (I've never heard of "riverrun", and it isn't in Google except in reference to Game of Thrones). And nobody in history ever read all of Finnegans Wake. In fact I understand that starting with the second edition, all pages from the start fo Chapter Two onwards are blank to save on printing costs and nobody has noticed...
Perhaps if you start by picking a word and work back from that to get the clue?
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OriginalGriff wrote: And nobody in history ever read all of Finnegans Wake.
I hate to contradict someone as erudite as your good self, but many years ago I did read quite a lot of Joyce's work including the aformentioned. Hardly understood a word of it mind you.
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You probably had a bad day...It happens to everyone from time-to-time...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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May I suggest you this?
War and Peace[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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But that's not difficult, just long.
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But extremely boring - that can improve your mood on bad days!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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An other idea is that I will send you my special copy of 'The Caine Mutiny', from Herman Wouk...The whole book printed without a single whitespace!!! Hard to read it!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Thanks but I have my own collection of hard to read books.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: my own collection of hard to read books.
FTFY :p
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Quote: It is considered as Tolstoy's finest longest literary achievement
FTFY, ehm Fix that for them I should say
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I'm not surprised: he coined a 101 letter word "Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk" And used it on the first page of FW...that kind of thing tends to put people off...
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Isn't the translation "gargle"?
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Not sure, but the pronunciation is "bleep"!
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Heard of silent letters, but never silent words. 
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But some sources quote it hyphenated like this:
"Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-nuk"
No not kidding. : )
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Hardly understood a word of it mind you.
Oh, I understood all the words.
It was just the order he put them in that lost me.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Post one we can answer?
ME, ME, ME!!!
The first person sounds like a small slice of apple produce. (1)
(Actually, I got "guillotine", but "riverrun" is a complete novelty to me.)
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