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#14305 01/01/01 03:14 PM
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Did everyone receive two different AWADs today? Has our Fearless Leader provided us all with a bonus new millennium gift? Or have I been given some special privelage?


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I received today's word, the newsletter and a much delayed word from last week, but nothing resembling an extra word.


#14307 01/01/01 10:41 PM
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Are you sure you didn't get a word from last week late. This has happened to me on a couple of occasions.


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Yep, love a well-travelled word. You could go round the world dunamany times electronically in a week!



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#14309 01/02/01 04:04 AM
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CapK joyously proclaimed Yep, love a well-travelled word. You could go round the world dunamany times electronically in a week!

Then think of the crew on the International Space Station - 150 sunrises/sets to see in the New Year!


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I didn't receive anything!
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Max:

I think the number of sunrises and sunsets for the station crew are likely to be in the neighborhood of 16 of each. The orbit of the station is circa 90 minutes. At work I have a web link that gives all kinds of fascinating details, including when you can see the major satellites, so I could be off a little bit on the 90 minutes. The minimum orbit time is a shade less than 90inutes otherwise the satellite enters the atmosphere. For 90 minute-orbits that's two orbits in three hours or 16 orbits in 24 hours.

I suspect you would then add in one more susnrise-sunset for the earth's rotation, since the 90 minutes is in relation to the earth itself.

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>>>word from last week late<<<

Nopers, it was definately not a word from last week. Both of the words I received yesterday had the same paragraph at the end to describe the new week's theme. "Why do we have so much negativity around us?..." Both were dated Jan. 1. My words were Sipid and Cantabrigian. I see from "yesterday's word" that sipid is the correct word. Maybe it was a belated birthday bonus.


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TEd, If you read what Max actually said, you'll see that he meant to calculate the number of sunrise/sunsets for a member of the crew to see in the New Year! Using this interpretation of the statement, there would be 16 sunrise/sets in one day times 365 days in the New Year for a total of 5840 sunrise/sets.


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xara>My words were Sipid and Cantabrigian.

the point of this week's theme is that these words are more commonly seen with a negative prefix; sipid vs. insipid, pervious vs. impervious, gruntle vs. disgruntle, etc. I don't think uncantabrigian is all that common, even if you can use it to refer to everyone not in Cambridge.


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