Once again, it's not Annika's fault

[MAPNUT]

My very first post here was about an article using the term "supernova" to describe golfer Annika Sorenstam's sudden prominence:
http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/vi...nika+sorenstam

This year a writer must have Googled on "Annika Sorenstam Bad Astronomy" because he avoided the term, in an AP article that was in my Sunday paper in advance of the US Women's Open. This time he used the term "Meteoric rise"!?!

It seems to me I've heard that term before, but does a meteor ever go up?

Our friend Kilopi defended the use of "supernova". Will anyone defend "meteoric rise"?

[Nowhere Man]

Probably not.

Fred

[SeanF]

Our friend Kilopi defended the use of "supernova". Will anyone defend "meteoric rise"?

Why not?

Acccording to Dictionary.com, one definition of "meteoric" is:

Similar to a meteor in speed, brilliance, or brevity: a meteoric rise to fame

Works for me.

[ZaphodBeeblebrox]

Our friend Kilopi defended the use of "supernova". Will anyone defend "meteoric rise"?

Why not?

Acccording to Dictionary.com, one definition of "meteoric" is:

Similar to a meteor in speed, brilliance, or brevity: a meteoric rise to fame

Works for me.

Yeah, or as they put it on Comedy Central's Short-Lived Show, That's My Bush, what you want to Avoid is put as:

Less like a Rocketship, More like a Balloon.

[SeanF]

Yeah, or as they put it on Comedy Central's Short-Lived Show, That's My Bush, what you want to Avoid is put as:

Less like a Rocketship, More like a Balloon.

"One of these days, Laura, I'm gonna punch you in the face!"

[ZaphodBeeblebrox]

Yeah, or as they put it on Comedy Central's Short-Lived Show, That's My Bush, what you want to Avoid is put as:

Less like a Rocketship, More like a Balloon.

"One of these days, Laura, I'm gonna punch you in the face!"

And then The Stomach!

And then The Face, again!

[TrAI]

"meteoric rise"?
There are several possibilities...

The relative: It depends on where you are and what direction you think of as up.
The wrong word?: The rock just skipped off the atmosphere, and the reporter saw it come up in relation to the horizon, and just called it a meteor...
The conspiracy: It would rise if you were standing on the world where the launcher was. Those aliens are trying to hit us, you know...

or perhaps it is a secret desire to see the person's career burn and crash?

:P :wink: