Home Is Where The Wind Blows

An immortal fumble by Androcles (17-Dec-2004)

Androcles, the Linguist
>> "Uncle Al" <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> wrote in message
>> news:41C06D83.EE82ACBF@hate.spam.net...
>>
>> >  Incoming radiation is still smaller than radiated energy.
>> > It is more extreme in the Southern Hemisphere where winter is at
>> > Earth's apogee rather than perigee.
>>
>> Pronunciation: 'a-p&-(")jE
>> Function: noun
>> Etymology: French apogée, from New Latin apogaeum, from Greek 
>> apogaion,
>> from neuter of apogeios, apogaios far from the earth, from apo- + gE,
>> gaia earth
>> 1 : the point in the orbit of an object (as a satellite) orbiting the
>> earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth;
>> also : the point farthest from a planet or a satellite (as the moon)
>> reached by an object orbiting it -- compare PERIGEE
>>
The fucking imbecile thinks winter is a some sort of satellite, and
 Earth has a point that is closer to itself.
Androcles.
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