posted July 26, 2001 08:30 PM
Q1. In "The City on the Edge of Forever", Captain Kirk mentions the '...far left star of Orion's belt...". What is the name of this star? Q2. So, I don't have to ask these types of questions in the future, can I be directed to a good astronomical site that answers these questions? Thank you.
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posted July 27, 2001 12:08 AM
dont worry about that, it's Lee's time of the month again. The ends of Orions belt are easy to remember. Zeta Ori, which is named Alnitak and is the 'east' end, and Delta Ori is named Mintaka (sounds close to 'Chintaka') and is the 'west' end. "Left" would be one of those.
Here is a great refrence for star names, and may even include more stuff about orion:
posted July 27, 2001 01:32 AM
Damnit. I was gonna put "Now my bitch Lee will correct any errors I have made..." at the end of my post but figured you gave up on that.. damn
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posted July 27, 2001 09:02 AM
Vogon Poet, I have heard of search engines. Do you know how useful they are? Not very useful. I type in "Orion" and press search. I get everything other than the constellation of that name. Did you know that there are companies that have "Orion" in their name? I didn't until I did this search.
To everyone else, thank you. I am going to research Zeta Orionis.
posted July 27, 2001 09:42 AM
I went to google.com and searched for "Orion's belt", and this was among the first page of results...
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posted July 28, 2001 12:12 AM
If you're going to search by just typing in the word "Orion", what do you expect? That's like seaarching for information about DS9 by typing in "Deep".
Boolien functions are your friend.
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posted July 28, 2001 05:19 AM
Nope. Boolien (although I thought it was "boolian") is a logic function that is frequently used in mathematics, computer science, and philosophy. It involved equations for conditional statements that include the words "AND," "OR," "NOT," and "XOR" among others in an effort to generate a true or false or numeric response that can be used to select a proper course of action. The whole shebang was named for a mathematician named Julian Boole.
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