tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post9182806346108989358..comments2023-10-21T01:24:38.665-07:00Comments on Uncle Bill's Canadian blog: Why Corbyn gets it rightBill Stickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05285528897339442436noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post-39540853339569671052011-03-23T09:59:32.935-07:002011-03-23T09:59:32.935-07:00'Goldilocks', 'Cinderella' it'...'Goldilocks', 'Cinderella' it's all the same. Pard, if you're going for yer puns on this one, you might have to Bear (Ouch!) up to the fact that it doesn't matter what we call it. It's a hypothetical region around a star that might support life, given all the other factors are in place (The right size of Lunar Mass for tides, no gas giants with big radiation fields anywhere close for example).<br /><br />'Some day my Prints will come' is also an old drawing office joke. Before the coming of CAD.<br /><br />Your coats on the rack.Bill Stickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05285528897339442436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post-25103413930571158052011-03-22T22:59:13.207-07:002011-03-22T22:59:13.207-07:00I was always with the concept of a star's habi...I was always with the concept of a star's habitable zone and what it was, and I understood instantly when I first heard it referred to as the Goldilocks zone years ago (might even have been in school). As I said, the idea of the zone being not too hot and not too cold but just right is clearly applicable and is such a repeating line in Goldilocks that it'd be the tagline if they ever made it into a movie. I'm just struggling slightly to relate the story of Cinderella and its themes to the same thing:<br /><br />"Habitable Zone, you shall go to the ball!" ... nah. Habitable Zone has two ugly sister zones which make her do all the work around the solar system... nah. Habitable Zone's fairy godmother turns the local group into a coach and horses... nah.<br /><br />I used to feel that the Cinderella story was most applicable to photography since you knew that one day your prints would come, but digital has stuffed up that joke forever.<br /><br />Sorry. I'll get me coat.Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post-49678951910761250352011-03-22T22:39:03.257-07:002011-03-22T22:39:03.257-07:00AE,
'MSS' is writers shorthand for 'M...AE,<br /><br />'MSS' is writers shorthand for 'Manuscript', which is what a book or screenplay is referred to before publication.<br /><br />'Cinderella', 'Goldilocks', or 'habitable' zones around any given star shift as the star uses up its supply of Hydrogen and its output alters. The term is just shorthand for an orbital range around a given star in which life might exist / develop providing a number of other factors are met. How deep / narrow it might be depends on the star such an orbit exists around.<br /><br />You with me on this one?Bill Stickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05285528897339442436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post-21887557671569870792011-03-21T21:22:11.450-07:002011-03-21T21:22:11.450-07:00Now you've got me. What's an MSS?
Back to...Now you've got me. What's an MSS?<br /><br />Back to the point, I take your word for it that the terms are used synonymously but as a layman while I get Goldilocks and the association with everything being just right I can't make the connection with the Cinderella story. Is it the isolation aspect of it? Or the unfavourable conditions that ultimately become very favourable? I'm just curious about what the thinking behind the term is.<br /><br />Of course, come back in two or three billion years and neither Goldilocks or Cinderella will be appropriate.<br /><br />(BTW, had an error posting this comment just now and I'm not sure if it went through or not. Sorry if this is a duplicate.)Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post-35636782766060921262011-03-21T20:20:08.913-07:002011-03-21T20:20:08.913-07:00Er, I'm currently in the final stages of a Nov...Er, I'm currently in the final stages of a Novel length MSS, where calculating the 'Cinderella' or 'Goldilocks' zone is key to the story. Which term you use seems to vary between Astrophysicists, but either is good.Bill Stickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05285528897339442436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post-42931746622318452652011-03-14T23:34:23.745-07:002011-03-14T23:34:23.745-07:00'Cinderella'. The browser spellcheck thoug...'Cinderella'. The browser spellcheck thought it was wrong when I typed it but I thought it was just having one of it's little problems with proper names. Turned out that I was. /facepalmAngry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post-68104765028998379872011-03-14T23:32:21.683-07:002011-03-14T23:32:21.683-07:00Cindarella zone? Goldilocks surely, in that here c...Cindarella zone? Goldilocks surely, in that here conditions are just right. I'd suggest Cindarella zone is probably more appropriate for where warble gloamists are coming from, in that it's mostly about balls.Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.com