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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Illustrated example: the Jupiter AM-13 Rocket was DISCRETE, but Gordo "The Space Monkey" was DISCREET

By all means (necessary), please read:
List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Let's illustrate an example, with a maximum card.


"discreet and discrete
Discreet means "circumspect". 
Discrete means "having separate parts", as opposed to contiguous.'

The Jupiter AM-13 Rocket was DISCRETE, but Gordo "The Space Monkey" was DISCREET.
The poor "squirrel monkey" had no freakin' idea that SPACE TRAVEL is next.
So it was probably circumspect, in his own way...

"Gordo was one of the first monkeys to travel into space
As part of the NASA space program, Gordo, also known as "Old Reliable", was launched from Cape Canaveral on December 13, 1958 in the U.S. Jupiter AM-13 rocket. 
The rocket would travel over 1500 miles and reach a height of 310 miles (500 km) before returning to Earth and landing in the South Atlantic
A technical malfunction prevented the capsule's parachute from opening and, despite a short search, neither his body nor the vessel were ever recovered.[1]"

:(


Beautifully-designed maxicard from Romania.
See that blue planet in the vastness of space?
That's ours!
Until we screw-up...

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