Quiz.

[crystal ball]

A smack, in the fanny etc

I thought you were a regular visitor to Zim

 

[Justin Passing]

I thought you were a regular visitor to Zim

I heard the expression somewhere down there. Somewhere disreputable, probably. Vernacularity of the argot may account for a variation in interpretation. A different bit of anatomy would be highly likely...

 

[Justin Passing]

Mottie might know this one, in Southern Africa, what is a PK?

Was I right, or did I misunderemember?
I'm wondering if they adopted PK for a small kid - pickaninny.

If that's right,



What are there SEVEN of, left deliberately on the moon??

 

[Mottie]

Flags?

 

[Ihavenojob]

What are there SEVEN of, left deliberately on the moon??

Possibly the descent stage of the LEM, 6 were left, 1 may have crashed on the moon.

 

[crystal ball]

Was I right, or did I misunderemember?
I'm wondering if they adopted PK for a small kid - pickaninny.

If that's right,



What are there SEVEN of, left deliberately on the moon??

half right

 

[crystal ball]

half right

Laser reflectors

 

[Justin Passing]

half right

Whas the other half then?

 

[crystal ball]

Kaya meaning house where the servants lived in the garden, small house, ie outside loo.

 

[Justin Passing]

Laser reflectors

That is what I was thinking. Where did you get that info, though, because it appears to be wrong?
I heard it on a Sky At Night program, from the astronomer Maggie Aderin-Pockock.
She said 7.

She should be right, as she heads an optical instrumentation group at a co called Astrium.
The WIkipedia entry says there are 5 missions, but the first sentence could imply 7 if you read it quickly.
This article says there are FIVE, with one more on a llunar orbiter.

Laser Beams Reflected Between Earth and Moon Boost Science - NASA

Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel about 240,000 miles (385,000

www.nasa.gov

same as http://www.parabolicarc.com/2020/08/11/laser-beams-reflected-between-earth-and-moon-boost-science/

A may-be-interesting article here https://www.space.com/lunar-laser-bounce.html

So I was wrong, cos she was wrong, so you can have it.

(Also, I can't find 7 of anything else to pretend was the answer)

 

[Justin Passing]

Kaya meaning house where the servants lived in the garden, small house, ie outside loo.

So what was the whole meaning?

I thought there was some basis to my memory so I spent a while, and found this:

Urban Dictionary: PoesKlap

PoesKlap: A nasty and very effective smack upside the head. Afrikaans Origin and derived from Poes (vagina) Klap (smack)

www.urbandictionary.com

 

[crystal ball]

So what was the whole meaning?

I thought there was some basis to my memory so I spent a while, and found this:

Urban Dictionary: PoesKlap

PoesKlap: A nasty and very effective smack upside the head. Afrikaans Origin and derived from Poes (vagina) Klap (smack)

www.urbandictionary.com

Piccanninni Kaya - small house- outside privy

 

[crystal ball]

That is what I was thinking. Where did you get that info, though, because it appears to be wrong?
I heard it on a Sky At Night program, from the astronomer Maggie Aderin-Pockock.
She said 7.

She should be right, as she heads an optical instrumentation group at a co called Astrium.
The WIkipedia entry says there are 5 missions, but the first sentence could imply 7 if you read it quickly.
This article says there are FIVE, with one more on a llunar orbiter.

Laser Beams Reflected Between Earth and Moon Boost Science - NASA

Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel about 240,000 miles (385,000

www.nasa.gov

same as http://www.parabolicarc.com/2020/08/11/laser-beams-reflected-between-earth-and-moon-boost-science/

A may-be-interesting article here https://www.space.com/lunar-laser-bounce.html

So I was wrong, cos she was wrong, so you can have it.

(Also, I can't find 7 of anything else to pretend was the answer)

Not sure of the number, I first heard it on an interview with a moon landing denier being asked to explain how they got there

 

[crystal ball]

What is the world’s oldest island?

 

[Ihavenojob]

Madagascar