Oh come on! SOMEBODY had to say it.

Gary 7

@ 37 Jack Hagerty : do we *always* have to use those silly smileys? Yes!

@ 33. Brock & 21. NewEngland Bob :

… it looks like tomato soup. Why so red? Yes, my monitor has accurate color.

I also see a definite reddishness there but more a sort of reddish brown colour not vividly red like tomato soup.

Actually, I said that as a joke (per the first few comments, do we *always* have to use those silly smileys?), but thanks for the update. I didn’t realize that “expresso” was a valid variation.

- Jack

It’s called “espresso” in the original Greek…

Not to be toothpicking your coffee too much, but it’s (apparently) complicated:

“”The words express, expres and espresso each have several meanings in English, French and Italian. The first meaning is to do with the idea of ‘expressing’ or squeezing the flavour from the coffee using the pressure of the steam. The second meaning is to do with speed, as in a train. Finally there is the notion of doing something ‘expressly’ for a person… The first Bezzera and Pavoni espresso machines in 1906 took forty-five seconds to make a cup of coffee, one at a time, expressly for you. (Bersten (cited below) p. 99) -”

Many latin based countries, such as France, Spain, and Portugal, use the expresso form. In the United States and Canada, both espresso and expresso are used.[1] Italy uses the term espresso, substituting most x letters in latin root words with s; x is not considered part of the standard Italian alphabet.”

OTOH, “The first espresso machines were introduced at the beginning of the 20th Century, with the first patent being filed by Luigi Bezzera of Milan, Italy, in 1901.” [Both quotes from Wikipedia, italics [sic] removed.]

Ouch! Now I don’t dare look up the etymology of ‘cup-of-chinos’. Any takers?

As noted, Ganymede is bigger than Titan. The confusion may stem from the fact that if you count Titan’s atmosphere in its diameter, it is larger than Ganymede. (Practically speaking, one must count the atmosphere is calculating its apparent angular size in a telescope.) And if you consult a pre-1980 source, it will list Titan as larger because it predates Voyager 2′s visit which revealed the thick Titanian (Titanic?) atmosphere.

As for the oversized moon, I just figured it was in the foreground of the image, obviously taken by the Caffeini…er, Cassini probe.

The Latin is ‘lactea’ (nominative neuter plural of ‘lacteus’, milky) ala ‘Via Lactea’, the Milky Way. English would probably have borrowed it as ‘lacteas’ or ‘lakties’. Luckily for us most Latin speakers used the Greek loan word ‘galaxias’. Both the Latin and Greek words derived from the same PIE root, ‘*glact-’.

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Ganymede is a bit bigger than Titan (roughly 110 km larger in diameter and about 8% more massive).

Source:
hypertext transfer protocol: www[dot]nineplanets[dot]org/datamax[dot]html

The article also contains a very beautiful myth about the origin of the name

Besides being great scientists (and the first who developed the scientific method for that matter), the ancient Greeks were great storytellers as well

I prefer a good cup of tea to coffee myself but still .. Good one!

I’ve just got one slight quibble – the large moon toSaturn’s right nera the handle is wa-aay too big inproportion to the planet -even if titan is one of the two largest moons inour solar system.

Incidentally – which is bigger – Titan or Ganymede? I seem to get different answers to this question each time its asked .. some saying one others t’other.

It’s called “espresso” in the original Greek…

Besides, those concoctions are to real espresso what “Manhattan” clam chowder is to real clam chowder (noting your name).

- Jack