Comments on: New planet picture swims into our ken

By: deborahbyrd

deborahbyrd — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:05:08 +0000

Viviane, yes! I remember that song in the South of Music and that usage of the word “ken.”

When they were little, my daughters and I must have watched that movie about 20 times …

Thank you,

Deborah

By: Viviane

Viviane — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:52:46 +0000

totally on a tangent, but I have been using the word ken since I was a little girl and heard it in The Sound of Music!

Totally unprepared are you
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared are you
Of things beyond your ken

By: George

George — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:38:49 +0000

1. Sam’s comment is an exteemly interesting one and food for a great deal of thought.

2.The word ‘ken’ as you correctly say means knowledge and it is used for the English word ‘know’in Glasgow and the west of Scotland. I have heard it used very many times.
George

By: sam

sam — Tue, 15 May 2007 04:15:34 +0000

i just saw that video great link. i believe in (an as yet undisproved theory )that we live in an eternal universe and that in a universe with no beginning and no end, or even for that matter a multiverse, everything you can think of or anyone can think of ,has either happened long ago or is happening or will happen somewhere in the future. in an endless and beginningless universe you have been born an endless amount of times and every existance has played out in an endless number of ways. in fact if time is an illusion it is all happening at the same time…forever over and over. what a great idea. you could possibly even visit some of these other existances in your dreams. theoretical physics and cosmology show us that every day new ideas and possible things are true.or false but it is at least a step in our evolution of thought.hopefully also our evolution of society and intelligence.

By: deborahbyrd

deborahbyrd — Tue, 15 May 2007 00:55:07 +0000

I had to look it up before I used it! It means “one’s range of knowledge or sight.”

Perfect when talking about new planets …

By: George

George — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:53:44 +0000

I haven’t seen the word ‘ken’ in print before.
I believe it is quite commonly used in Scotland, though it is a long time since I actually heard it spoken.
I wonder is it used anywhere else?

George

By: deborahbyrd

deborahbyrd — Sun, 13 May 2007 13:56:11 +0000

Just saw a great video on youtube. It’s from News in Space, showing the solar system of the possibly habitable planet Gliese 581c.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 10 May 2007 18:51:03 +0000

awesome!

By: jorgesalazar

jorgesalazar — Thu, 10 May 2007 18:44:12 +0000

That “hot spot” you mention sounds a bit windy, with wind velocities estimated at 6,000 miles per hour(!) I’d need an extra-heavy duty wind shield to report from down there. And at 16 light years away, it could take a while get back.