Can I interest you in a dp?

Some astronomers argue that the “Star of Bethlehem” was a conjunction between Jupiter & Saturn.

 

Um, you might want to reconsider that term "dp." It has another meaning in the more scabrous reaches of the Internet (As a crime novelist, I have to keep up with these less than respectable corners of the Internet). Scout's honor. It's strictly professional.

 

Why...surely you don't mean...*gasp*...Dorfman Pacific!

 

He meant "Deliberate Plagiarism", which is indeed scabrous. As a crime novelist, it is not surprising that Inkstained is familiar with the concept and rightly guards against it and gives us warning. Thank you, Inky.

Regarding the Double Planet phenomenon, whats the old (biblical?) quote about omens in the heavens, or something like that?

 

DP? 5-4-3 or 6-4-3?

 

Nice photo. Unfortunately, where I live, we have been under a long-lasting blanket of gray clouds for (what seems like) several weeks. Ugh. I’d love some clear night sky to check this out.

 

I had read about this, and the night before they were supposed to form the "double planet" saw them in the night sky. The next night (i.e. the night of the main event) I had forgotten all about it and by the time I remembered they, and the moon, were long gone.

 

Ah, I must have misremembered the event schedule. Nice! Now all I have to do is stay awake.

 

Isn’t that the only rule anyway?

 

Depends on the circumstances.

 

Yes! I am not shocked that Inkstained is familiar with the concept and rightly guards against it and gives us warning. Thank you, Inky.

 

It's ok, this DP is obviously referring to the Discipline of Psionics. "In American science fiction of the 1950s and '60s, psionics was a proposed discipline that applied principles of engineering, especially electronics, to the study and employment of paranormal or psychic phenomena such as telepathy and psychokinesis."
No double entendre intended.