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Got the meta with ease - awaiting confirmationBob cruise director wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 2:49 pm Fought my way through the grid as I am on another planet from the constructor. Even when I had an answer I had to google it to find out what it meant.
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so ... well aged?Jeremy Smith wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 2:41 pm Beam me up! Like others have said, grid was challenging—but only because I’m 20A!
Hey @Bob cruise director , what planet is that in your avatar? Or is it the moon? What is the string of dots? Cabana Boy wants to know. He likes you a lot and he is naturally curious.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 2:49 pm Fought my way through the grid as I am on another planet from the constructor. Even when I had an answer I had to google it to find out what it meant.
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Not to answer for @Bob cruise director (though I willMeg wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 3:21 pmHey @Bob cruise director , what planet is that in your avatar? Or is it the moon? What is the string of dots? Cabana Boy wants to know. He likes you a lot and he is naturally curious.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 2:49 pm Fought my way through the grid as I am on another planet from the constructor. Even when I had an answer I had to google it to find out what it meant.
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), but I believe that is a time lapse of the International Space Station traversing the Sun. Very cool photograph!That is the International Space Station crossing in front of the sun. It crosses in under a second. The two dots in the lower left are sun spots.Meg wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 3:21 pmHey @Bob cruise director , what planet is that in your avatar? Or is it the moon? What is the string of dots? Cabana Boy wants to know. He likes you a lot and he is naturally curious.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 2:49 pm Fought my way through the grid as I am on another planet from the constructor. Even when I had an answer I had to google it to find out what it meant.
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Absolutely correct but since the transit takes less than a second, I take a movie at 50 frames/second and clip out frames, overlay them in Photoshop and voilaBrianMac wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 3:29 pmNot to answer for @Bob cruise director (though I willMeg wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 3:21 pmHey @Bob cruise director , what planet is that in your avatar? Or is it the moon? What is the string of dots? Cabana Boy wants to know. He likes you a lot and he is naturally curious.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 2:49 pm Fought my way through the grid as I am on another planet from the constructor. Even when I had an answer I had to google it to find out what it meant.
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I had an answer that even when I googled it, I still couldn’t figure out what it meant. Took some contortions to finally have it make sense.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 2:49 pm Fought my way through the grid as I am on another planet from the constructor. Even when I had an answer I had to google it to find out what it meant.
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