* See [unclear] Trans. for 1800 Page 49.

and that consequently, from such an object as we have pointed out in the paper referred to, a ray of light could not possibly have reached the telescope at the time we are looking into it, had it not begun its flight at least one million, and nine hundred & ten thousand years ago.

The proof of this rests upon the known velocity of light, by which we calculate that rays from the star Sirius for instance cannot be less that six years and nearly three months and a half coming to the earth;

and by viewing others less and less distant so have the same conviction of existing objects, in different periods, brought from that immense duration down to the present time.

respect to what is past. For by looking through it at one of the most distant nebula that was visible in it, we may be convinced, by actual inspection, that we see an object, which certainly was in the state we now perceive it, above nineteen hundred thousand years ago;

Appendix to the Paper on the power of penetrating into Space by telescopes*

After having shewn the extent of the power of my 40-foot telescope to penetrate into Space, I should have added page 84, that this instrument may be said to have also a power of penetrating into time: at least with

YouTube video by Robert Larsen Mitchell and Webb - Hospital Inuendo

Gotta bone up on my innuendo skills www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT2w...

It just occurred to me that in English you can tack on a vacuously _false_ disjunction as a rhetorical flourish showing your conviction: "... or I'm a monkey's uncle!"

Interesting! Reminds me of the similarly obscure origin of 'ciao'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciao?wp...

ChatGPT - Heaviest Basis in Laminar Matroids Shared via ChatGPT

From here (not mine): chatgpt.com/share/67c15e...

I see your explicitly and raise you several more:

They're real in the sense that wordle accepts them as guesses and possible answers, respectively.

Got a sudden hankering for a pomegranate

A perfectly cromulent word

The official wordle guess list has a few fives of the 'bells' format:
b*lls
b*nds
b*rks
b*tty
c*lls
d*cks
d*lly
f*nds
g*lly
h*cks
m*cks
m*lls
m*ngs
m*ssy
p*cks
p*lls
p*nts
p*ppy
r*cks

That was the official allowed *guesses* list, but the official allowed *answer* list is much more restrictive (a handful of fours and no fives):
4 bl*nd
4 ch*ck
4 cl*ck
4 fl*ck
4 st*ck

4 sl*sh
4 sn*ck
4 sn*gs
4 sp*rt
4 sp*ts
4 st*ck
4 st*ll
4 st*ng
4 st*nk
4 wh*ps
4 wr*ng
5 ch*ck
5 cl*ck
5 sn*bs
5 tr*ck

2/2

Here's what I detected in the official word list:

4 ch*mp
4 cl*nk
4 cr*ck
4 cr*ps
4 fl*ck
4 fl*sh
4 fr*gs
4 gl*ms
4 pl*nk
4 pr*ms
4 sh*ts
4 sk*gs
4 sl*bs

1/2

I used to visit this site a lot. So many great variations on elementary logic and arithmetic problem solving. www.grandmasterpuzzles.com/puzzles.htm

Gingko?