[Puzzle|WordSearch]STEM Saturday #25 Promoted Post Word Search
In continuing recognition of STEM Saturday on the Steem blockchain, here is another word search with 21 words from the post Hackers attacked the ALMA radio telescope and it had to stop observations by @sarahjay1. Words may be found in any of the following directions:
- left to right
- right to left
- top to bottom
- bottom to top
All words have five letters or more.
As before, no matter how many you find, please post just one word per person in the comments. You may also wish to report on how many you were able to find and how long it took.
As a reminder, some English words get included by chance when the word search is generated. If a word is not at least five letters long and contained in the post, Hackers attacked the ALMA radio telescope and it had to stop observations, then it's not a solution to the puzzle.
Enjoy!
Word search created with GNU licensed software from https://wordsearchcreator.org/.
I'll post the word list and locations next week. Puzzle name: PromotePromoterNo25.
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Brown dwarfs?! Never heard before :-))
I've heard of them, but had to look them up to remember what they were. I also didn't know that "dwarfs" is the correct spelling (as opposed to "dwarves").
I guess it’s just the difference between Oxford and American English:
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/american_english/dwarf_1
CC @moecki (das ist der englische „Duden“… )
Exciting! (but off-topic) A writer thinks up a new way of writing that gradually finds its way into everyday use.... So this obviously exists in every language...
Was there something like a "spelling reform" in English (like in German few years ago), where official rules are changed?
I'm not aware of any large scale effort like that. There are various "style guides" (MLA, APA, etc..) that get updated periodically, and of course the dictionaries change every year, but nothing that I would consider to be a "reform" effort.
It doesn't happen so often in German either, but some rules were fundamentally changed during the last reform. The intention was partly to simplify the rules or to adapt them to usage.
Whether the intentions were achieved in this way is another matter. In any case, the reform was very controversial.
I actually have some coworkers in Germany and one of them had mentioned a language reform effort where they were trying to make the language genderless. Not sure if that's the same one you're mentioning or not.
I'm struggling to learn the gendered version of the language in DuoLingo, so I really hope I don't go through all this effort just to have them throw some other version of the language at me. ;-)
This is a very sensitive issue. This development is controversial and does not concern spelling or grammar. But it's not the same one.
The German language is already difficult enough for foreign speakers. I think you only need the gendered version if it is considered necessary for the business relationship.
I don't think I'll ever be able to speak or write in German, but I'm hoping to get to the point where I can read the German language email threads that sometimes land my inbox, so hopefully it will be slow to change. ;-)
INTERFEROMETER
ALMA consists of 66 antennas located on the Chanjnator Plateau in Chile and operating in the interferometer mode in the millimeter and submillimeter wave bands.
Looks like you and @chriddi found the same word at just about the same time. ;-)
yes, yes there is a difference of only 1 minute, I noticed it)
hacked
In the early morning of October 29, the computers of the observatory were hacked by unknown agents.
I found 'dwarfs'.
I found the following word: "astronomy"!
I found..... Millimeter
i found "submillimeter" :)
I found “nebulae”!