According to Wikipedia, it originated in ancient Greece and has always meant the same thing as it does now.
According to Wikipedia, it originated in ancient Greece and has always meant the same thing as it does now.
I took it to be contrasting the “thrill of discovery” with doing math that would be boring and tedious to most people.
What does it mean to “smoke weed” in this context?
Can somebody explain this one?
“Fireballs and bolides are astronomical terms for exceptionally bright meteors that are spectacular enough to to be seen over a very wide area. … A fireball is an unusually bright meteor that reaches a visual magnitude of -3 or brighter when seen at the observer’s zenith. … Fireballs that explode in the atmosphere are technically referred to as bolides although the terms fireballs and bolides are often used interchangeably.”
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/intro.html