h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Constellations: Indus 'the North American Indian' - A36596703
Author: Shagbark - U170775

another constellation for review-by shagbark

short but sweet. I like it

*leaves link to Pavo* A36869566

I'll be back

I'm back

<> do you mean "taken" ill?
I imagine struck as being "struck by lightning, or a ship's mast...

MYTHOLOGY header - why all caps?
DEEP SPACE - ditto
House style is capital letter, only.

In that system The planet
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In that system the planet

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The epsilon Indi system

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That should be one sentence so it makes sense.

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The Indies

<> - British English please, = honouring

Having checked my star atlas, I have to disagree with your borders, you missed Octans out.

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We use English letters today, or do you mean we still use the Greek letters when referring to the stars already catalogued?

Is this ready Shagbark?

It's not ready because Galaxy Babe suggested a few changes and Shagbark has neither done them nor explained why he is not doing them.

Shagbark, are you sure that Indus means "North American Indian"? I thought it meant "American Indian" which would apply to the natives of both North and South America. Given the appearance of Indus in the southern sky, I think it is more likely they were thinking of South American Indians.

The fact that the North American people had many myths is a complete red herring, as whether the constellation represents a north or south American, it is nothing to do with their culture. What is relevant and you don't say is that the people who invented the constellation have no myths about it because it is a modern constellation.

In your description of Epsilon Indi, you say "possibly other planets" and "more planets are thought to exist in the system", but you haven't mentioned it having any planets, so there can't be other planets or more planets. Unless brown dwarf stars are planets, in which case they can't be stars. So something needs to be sorted out here.

Your Star Table gives no names for any of the stars so the column should not have "Name" in the title.

Your Deep Space table has no names for any of the galaxies, so you shouldn't have a "Name" column.

You need to explain what an AU is.

I'm sure the sub-editor will be able to pick up on the grammar and punctuation mistakes in this.

an apology of sorts-
I shagbark am currently without internet except at public terminals.
that is why i seem to be ignoring chages on this entry. Would you like me to remove it from peer review until I have service restored or shall we just let it sit another 7-10 days?

It can sit, then others can review while we wait for you to return to normal services...

As long as the Scouts don't get too itchy on their button pressing

That's a shame puts away itchy pressing fingers

A fuller account of the delay:
shagbark had ben using a broadband company but decided the fifty dollars a month was to much for his pocketbook so he decided to go with a DSL system from American Telephone and Telegraph (A T & T)
the price was good but the self installation kit wouldn't work until a technician rewired a jack and the soonest they could get one there was 14 July.
today the tech showed up as scheduled worked five minutes and solved the problem.
so shagbark plugged in the equiptment follwed the steps on the enclosed CD-ROM and hit a snag. the modem would not configure.
Time to phone AT&T. The automated system soon put me through to tech support but the problem was in another department and it took ten minutes to get through to that department. finally shagbark was on the phone to the right person who casually informed him that due to construction in his areqa DSL would not be available until 29 July. So If you are happy with the changes I have made using public computers fine. If not it may be August before the scouts can push any buttons.

I'm confused
Are you Shagbark, or someone else posting for Shagbark?

did my use of the third person confuse you GB
I am the original shagbark, author of sixteen edited articles coming to you live from the Delta township library.
I would much rather be typing this on my home computer but you can see from the last post why that is not posible

It's really you?
Man, I need to re-tune my frequencies

it reminds me somehow of a friend of mine who struggled with a new answering machine and when he finally got it working I called to hear it say, "we the products of technology have taken over the parker household..."

I have this vague idea that computers are supposed to serve people, but instead they're always ordering us around with "please insert the installation CD - no not that one..." and "please reboot now" and "the printer is out of paper" and so on.

So anyway, Mr Shagbark, it did sound like something automated was reporting to us on your trials.

Best of luck

Yes Mr Shagbark do let us know how you're getting along, even if you have to use steampunk technology through the wires (didn't you utilise that old bike in your shed when the last struck your PC, paily?)

shagbark here, on another borrowed connection; with the latest installment of the AT&T chronicles.
When I last reported the ISP informed me (by phone) that the remote switching terminal needed maintenance and my modem would be useless until 29 July.
After being at three different tech support numbers. the rep said
"I'm reading through the engineers log...they did perform the maintenance but were short of cards to plug in and so your DSL will have a new start-up date 2 August. Attempting to use it before then probably will not work

I thought I already changed that subject header.

Let us know when you've done the changes and I'll have a look through it to suggest some more.

Is there anything else you could say about Indus that would make this more interesting, and not just a bare list?