2863: Space Typography - Revision history

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172.71.219.104 at 02:57, 14 December 2024

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Megan: has lowercase text

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‎Explanation

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‎Explanation

Denver87 at 16:27, 19 December 2023

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172.69.194.226 at 10:12, 19 December 2023

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 {{comic discussion}}
 [[Category:Space]]
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 The title text appends the sentence with a section for identifying Saturn. It contains an ellipsis in brackets, which normally signifies that an indeterminate number of 'e's has been omitted from the sentence, seemingly to represent Saturn's large orbital radius as the next "i" in "is". The trick is that actually appending the sentence literally, brackets and all, after the original sentence (so that we get "<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'>Optimistic aliens measure space typographically. And over heeee[...]eeeere (i)s Saturn.</span>") actually puts the dot on the last "i" at Saturn's orbit. The extra dots and periods beside the six 'i's only serve as punctuation and spacing; the parentheses, besides spacing, call attention to the 'i' in the title text, where the black emphasis of the comic is not available. They're also reminiscent of {{w|Saturn's rings}}, although they are much too large and off-center.
-Similar sentences with varying numbers of "e"s could be used to continue out to any planet or other body which does not contain the letter "i" – which is all of the remaining planets and minor planets, with the exception of Eris.  However, the strings of "e"s would get longer and longer, to the point that it might be necessary to write down how many of them are to be used – about 59 "e"s for Saturn, starting from the Sun – which negates any mnemonic value the sentence may have had and might as well just be replaced with a table of orbital ephemerides.
+Similar sentences with varying numbers of "e"s could be used to continue out to any planet or other body which does not contain the letter "i" – which is all of the remaining planets and minor planets, with the exception of Eris.  However, the strings of "e"s would get longer and longer, to the point that it might be necessary to write down how many of them are to be used – about 59 "e"s for Saturn, starting from the Sun – which negates any mnemonic value the sentence may have had and might as well just be replaced with a table of orbital {{w|ephemerides}}.
 ==Accuracy==

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 ==Explanation==
-This is another one of [[Randall|Randall's]] [[:Category:Tips|Tips]], this time a space tip.
+This is another one of [[Randall|Randall's]] [[:Category:Tips|Tips]], this time a space tip, the first of two in a row, the second being [[2864: Compact Graphs]] with a design tip.
 Randall has created a sentence with the property wherein, when printed in {{w|Times New Roman}} font, the distances of the "i" letters from the first letter are proportional to the radii of the orbits of the innermost five planets in the {{w|Solar System}}. These are the only letters in the sentence that have a dot over the letter (there are no "j"s in the sentence) or elsewhere (there are no periods, colons, semicolons, or other dot-containing symbols). He suggests that if you get lost traveling among these planets, you can use the dots as a map.

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		+	This is another one of [[Randall\|Randall's]] [[:Category:Tips\|Tips]], this time a space tip.
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	Randall has created a sentence with the property wherein, when printed in {{w\|Times New Roman}} font, the distances of the "i" letters from the first letter are proportional to the radii of the orbits of the innermost five planets in the {{w\|Solar System}}. These are the only letters in the sentence that have a dot over the letter (there are no "j"s in the sentence) or elsewhere (there are no periods, colons, semicolons, or other dot-containing symbols). He suggests that if you get lost traveling among these planets, you can use the dots as a map.		Randall has created a sentence with the property wherein, when printed in {{w\|Times New Roman}} font, the distances of the "i" letters from the first letter are proportional to the radii of the orbits of the innermost five planets in the {{w\|Solar System}}. These are the only letters in the sentence that have a dot over the letter (there are no "j"s in the sentence) or elsewhere (there are no periods, colons, semicolons, or other dot-containing symbols). He suggests that if you get lost traveling among these planets, you can use the dots as a map.

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 {| class="wikitable" style="margin:auto"
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-! Planet !! Number of 'e's needed between the 'h' and the 'r' in "here"
+! Planet !! Number of middle 'e's needed in "here"
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 | Saturn || 13

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	==Explanation==		==Explanation==
−	~~{{incomplete\|Created by an OPTIMISTIC ALIEN WHO MEASURES SPACE TYPOGRAPHICALLY - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}~~
	Randall has created a sentence with the property wherein, when printed in {{w\|Times New Roman}} font, the distances of the "i" letters from the first letter are proportional to the radii of the orbits of the innermost five planets in the {{w\|Solar System}}. These are the only letters in the sentence that have a dot over the letter (there are no "j"s in the sentence) or elsewhere (there are no periods, colons, semicolons, or other dot-containing symbols). He suggests that if you get lost traveling among these planets, you can use the dots as a map.		Randall has created a sentence with the property wherein, when printed in {{w\|Times New Roman}} font, the distances of the "i" letters from the first letter are proportional to the radii of the orbits of the innermost five planets in the {{w\|Solar System}}. These are the only letters in the sentence that have a dot over the letter (there are no "j"s in the sentence) or elsewhere (there are no periods, colons, semicolons, or other dot-containing symbols). He suggests that if you get lost traveling among these planets, you can use the dots as a map.