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I was born on planet Earth on Wednesday afternoon, under a very bright Sun. Therefore, I am also associated with the Sun and planet Mercury. Planet Mercury is brighter than any stars you can see on the sky; there are at least 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars on the sky, a normal human eyes usually can see and count up to 4,500 stars on the sky, if you try to count up to at least 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars on the sky one by one, then it will take 6,337,617,562,805,790 years to finish all your counts, The United Nations published a study in year 2019 that said the average global human life on planet Earth is just about 73 years, therefore to finish counting at least 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars on the sky one by one, you need to live and die and then live again, rise and come back again from your death for 8,681,667,894,2546 times; and planet Mercury is usually challenging to observe for normal human eyes.
Planet Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and planet Earth; the only times planet Mercury can be seen are at dusk or dawn, within 90 minutes of sunset or sunrise. The astrological sign of the planet Mercury, ☿, represents Wednesday—dies Mercurii to the Romans, that means "day of Mercury". Planet Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System, only slightly larger than Earth's Moon. Planet Mercury is the fastest planet in the solar system – travelling through space at nearly 29 miles (47 kilometres) per second.
Since Mercury is the fastest planet and has the shortest distance to travel around the Sun, it has the shortest year of all the planets in the Solar System – 88 days. The Romans named the planet after the swift-footed Roman messenger god, Mercury (in Latin language, Mercurius), which the Romans equated with the Greek Hermes, Ἑρμής, because it moves across the sky faster than any other planet. Planet Mercury moves so fast and challenging to observe that the ancient Greeks actually thought that the Mercury was two (2) planets, and they called it Apollo when it was visible in the morning sky, and Hermes when it was seen after sunset. But in the 4th century BCE, ancient astronomers realized that the two (2) objects were one and the same, and stuck with Hermes; becoming Mercury with the Romans.
In English, Wednesday word came from the Old English, wōdnesdæġ, from dialectal German, wodenstag, from Middle Low German, wôdenesdach, meaning "Woden's Day"; in German language "tag" means "day", the "t" in German, tag, became "d" in English word for day; when the "g" in the German language, like in the word "tag" in German language was first used to write Old English, it stood for four (4) different sounds: a hard g, a soft g, a "y" sound as in "yes" and a sort of soft gargle that the current English language speakers no longer use in their daily English communication and conversation; and the influence from the Dutch, Swedish languages who spelled "day" in English or "tag" in German as "dag", and the influence of Latin language who spelled and pronounced the English "day", the German "tag", the Dutch-Swedish "dag" as "dies" like the Latin word, dies Mercurii, that means "day of Mercury"; Woden is the English equivalent to the Norse god Odin, since the Roman god Mercury was identified by Woden in Northern Europe.
In Old Saxon language, wardōn, means "to watch", "to pay attention to", "to stand guard"; it then became the word, wardein, in Middle English, then into the word warden in current English language. Saxon language is one of the Germanic language, also known as Old Low German language. The ancient English and German people know that planet Mercury is extremely hard to watch and observe, so they need to pay attention to it, and to stand guard to watch closely its movement from their location on planet Earth.
An ancient knowledge about astronomy that was possessed by the Germans and passed from one generation to another generation by the Germans is what made the first known man-made object to reach space possible. The German's V-2 A4 rocket launched from Peenemünde, an island off Germany’s Baltic coast travels at the speed of 118 miles, around 189.903 kilometres on Saturday, 3 October 1942. Then the Operation Paperclip initiated by the United States of America intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the United States of America for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
The German innovator who successfully built that V-2 A4 rocket later became the Director of The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States of America. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was founded on Tuesday, 29 July 1958; NASA was specially founded to bring in the German expertise and knowledge in astronomy, the sky and celestial objects above the humans on planet Earth, and the also the knowledge about the whole universe. Then the new era of space exploration began, to fully unlock and to continuously discover as much knowledge and secret as possible of the heavens.
In July 1960, NASA announced the Apollo program to industry representatives at a series of Space Task Group conferences. At its peak, the Apollo program employed 400,000 people and required the support of over 20,000 industrial firms and universities. Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, United States of America on Wednesday, 16 July 1969 at 13:32 UTC, carrying Commander Neil Alden Armstrong and Module pilot Buzz Aldrin, also known as Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. when he was born on planet Earth. Commander Neil Alden Armstrong then became the first person to walk on the Moon on Monday, 21 July 1969 at 02:56 UTC. Apollo 11 effectively proved the United States of America victory in the Space Race to demonstrate spaceflight superiority, by fulfilling a national goal proposed in year 1961.
In most of the languages of India, the word for Wednesday is Budhavāra — vāra meaning "day" and Budha being the planet Mercury. In Hebrew language, Wednesday is called רביעי means "fourth", in the Hebrew Bible, in the Book of Genesis; Genesis is an account of the creation of the world, the early history of humanity; places the creation of the Sun, the Moon and the Stars on the sky on "the fourth day" (Genesis 1:14-19). It started by telling the story about different and many kinds of lights on the sky. In ancient times, planet Mercury was taught as being two (2) different objects in the sky: The Morning Star and The Evening Star.
In ancient China, planet Mercury was known as 辰星, "Chen-xing" that means "the Hour Star" – being associated with the direction of the North. A spacecraft built by humans must gain and maintain about 105,000 kilometres per hour to "catch" the speed of planet Mercury, to properly maintain a tight inner orbit around planet Mercury in the Solar System. In ayat 54, surah Al-A'raf, kitab Al-Quran tells the story that Allāh created the Heavens (also known as the sky above the human living on planet Earth) and the Earth in six (6) days, and Allah makes the night cover the day in swift pursuit, that means it moves extremely fast. The term “Evening Star” in this case planet Mercury is used to describe a planet which is visible right around dusk, typically when the sky is too light for the true stars to be seen; the term dusk is commonly used as another word for evening twilight—the period from sunset until nighttime. In ayat 54, surah Al-A'raf, kitab Al-Quran, the word used referring to the night is اللَّيۡلَ, "lailan". In ayat 187, surah Al-Baqarah, Allah defined "the night" starts from الۡفَجۡرِ, "fajr", in other similar meaning in Arabic word مَغْرِب , "maghrib", means the period from sunset until nighttime.
Humans born on Wednesday work extremely hard and relentlessly to become a better person, to ensure without any doubt that they are fully prepared and completely capable of giving birth to great success in the next following day, Thursday. Humans born on Wednesday do not believe that the future, the next following day, Thursday, is just simply "happened," but because they worked extremely hard in it to build the better future, the Thursday. The word Thursday is derived from Middle English Thuresday, from Old English þunresdæg, from influence of Old Norse Þórsdagr meaning "Thor's Day" or "day of the thunder god". It was named after the Norse god of Thunder, Thor. In most Romance languages, the day is named after the Roman god Jupiter, who was the god of sky and thunder. In Latin, the Thursday was known as Iovis Dies, "Jupiter's Day".
In the Latin language, the genitive or possessive case of Jupiter was Iovis or Jovis and thus in most Romance languages it became the word for Thursday. The astrological and astronomical sign of the planet Jupiter (♃ ) is used to represent Thursday. Since the Roman god Jupiter was identified with Thunor (Norse Thor in Northern Europe), most Germanic languages name the day after this god: Torsdag in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, Hósdagur and Tórsdagur in Faroese, Donnerstag in German, Donderdag in Dutch.
In Finnish and Northern Sami languages, both are non-Germanic languages, the Uralic languages; the human race that have a very deep root of their language that originated from the Ural Mountains, the mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan; uses the borrowing Torstai and Duorastat to represent the word Thursday, that originated from Old Norse, þórsdagr, that means "day of the thunder god".
In the extinct Polabian Slavic language, it was perundan, Perun being the Slavic equivalent of Thor. In most of the languages of India, the word for Thursday is Guruvāra – vāra meaning day and Guru being the style for Bṛhaspati, guru to the gods and regent of the planet Jupiter. The Polabian language was a West Slavic language that was spoken by the Polabian Slavs in present-day northeastern Germany around the Elbe (Łaba/Laba/Labe in Slavic language) river, from which derives its name ("po Labe" – unto Elbe or travelling on Elbe). Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, the name Berlin has its roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of today's Berlin and has the Old Polabian stem berl-/birl- ("swamp") in the Berlin name.
Indraja is the Lithuanian Goddess of the planet Jupiter. She is one of the daughters of Saule, Goddess of the sun. Indraja was originally a water spirit, and she was meant to marry Perkunas, God of thunder, on a Thursday, the day ruled by Jupiter. Of all historic records describing Slavic gods, those mentioning Perun are the most numerous. Perun is strongly correlated with the near-identical Perkūnas or Pērkons from Baltic mythology. The Lithuanian word "Perkūnas" has two meanings: "thunder" and the name of the god of thunder and lightning.
In Japanese language, Thursday is called Mokuyōbi, 木曜日 where 木 represents Jupiter, 木星, following East Asian tradition. In Japanese, the name for the planet Jupiter is Mokusei, 木星, the first kanji, 木 also means "wood" and the second kanji, 星 indicating a celestial object, positioned in, relating to the sky, outer space as observed in the ancient East Asian tradition and knowledge in astronomy. Kanji stands for kan (漢) means Han or China, and ji (字) means characters or writing, it were brought from China to Japan around the fifth century AD; before that, the Japanese language had no written form. Since Kanji is also the origin for the other two scripts (Hiragana and Katakana) used to write Japanese, it is no exaggeration to say that it has been the single most impactful development for the Japanese language.
In Korean language, Thursday is called Mogyoil, 목요일, where 목 represents Jupiter, 목 also means "wood" like in the Japanese language. In Korean language, the name for the planet Jupiter is Mokseong, 목성, the first Korean hangul, 목, means planet Jupiter and also "wood" like in Japanese language. One of the primary functions of East Asian tradition in the knowledge of astronomy was for timekeeping, as precise and as accurate as it could be, to be able to achieve the most efficient day-to-day human life activities. Astronomy is the study of the universe, the celestial objects that make up the universe, and the processes that govern the lifecycle of those objects. Astronomy is largely an observational science.
Fifth in line from the Sun, planet Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System – more than twice as massive as all the other planets in the Solar System combined. The Roman god Jupiter is the king of the gods in the Roman Empire. In both the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, Jupiter was named after the chief god of the divine pantheon: Zeus for the Greeks and Jupiter for the Romans.
A calendar is a system of organizing units of time for the purpose of reckoning time over extended periods. Many different calendars have been developed over the millennia to help people organize their lives. There are at least forty (40) calendars used in the world today, particularly for determining religious dates. Most modern countries use the Gregorian calendar for their official activities. These calendars replicate astronomical cycles according to fixed rules. The principal astronomical cycles are the day (based on the rotation of the Earth on its axis), the year (based on the revolution of the Earth around the Sun), and the month (based on the revolution of the Moon around the Earth). The complexity of calendars arises because the year does not comprise an integral number of days or an integral number of lunar months.
Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, cosmological, calendrical, and astrological beliefs and practices of prehistory: vestiges of these are still found in astrology, a discipline long interwoven with public and governmental astronomy. In some cultures, astronomical data was used for astrological prognostication. Early cultures identified celestial objects with gods and spirits. They related these objects (and their movements) to phenomena such as rain, drought, seasons, and tides. It is generally believed that the first astronomers were priests, and that they understood celestial objects and events to be manifestations of the divine, hence early astronomy's connection to what is now called astrology.
For the computer science related stories, I will use a combination of Substack + Medium + GitHub Gist functionalities. Currently using Medium for the purpose of problem solving, telling the stories and experiences related to problem solvings. The word story came from Middle English storie from Anglo-Norman estorie, from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”), from ἱστορέω (historéō, “to research, inquire and record”), from ἵστωρ (hístōr, “the knowing, wise one”).
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