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#97956 03/08/2003 12:02 AM
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noctilucent...I like that. The ability to see or be seen through darkness? (I didn't LIU)

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/package.jsp?name=news/edgeofspace/edgeofspace

So can you see these Upunder right now? sjm, Cap? hev? stales? doc c?


#97957 03/08/2003 1:17 AM
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It means night-shining. It tells you that in the article.

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#97958 03/08/2003 2:02 AM
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Yeah, Bingley, I saw that...but I was lookin' fpr something more mysterious-sounding...fits the word better.


#97959 03/08/2003 7:59 AM
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And a leap into absurdity: Ticulent whimsically suggests "the state of being tickled" or "that which tickles."

So a nocticulent, as opposed to a noctilucent, cloud would be one that tickles you in the middle of the night.

Please excuse the digression...



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