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Ethel Duath
Half-elven

May 4 2015, 6:32pm

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Tolkien and BIlbo Laugh

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http://entertainment.slashdot.org/...shdot+%28Slashdot%29

And the original article: http://www.theatlantic.com/...of-the-rings/392216/

Bracegirdle
Valinor

May 4 2015, 7:25pm

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This is chock full of good stuff. Recommended! Thanks Ethel D. . . :) [In reply to]	Can't Post

A spectrograph used to study certain kinds of galaxies is called the Spectrographic Areal Unit for Research on Optical Nebulae (SAURON), which has an accompanying processing system called Palantir.

Ethel Duath
Half-elven

May 4 2015, 9:10pm

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That just couldn't get any better! [In reply to]	Can't Post

DisDwarfWoman
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May 6 2015, 6:03pm

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Thanks so much for posting.

I can also add that several papers in my field of science have used the "One ring to rule them all" joke in the title or section header of their paper when describing circular protein complexes. Too funny. Smile

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