Of course! A Great Beauty ... until you reach beneath her veil.
I was thinking of just Alpha and Beta.
Guys? The general understanding seems to be that Alpha and Beta are not burdened by gender at all, the composition of the Venusian surface feature population being 1(m)+2(n)+many(f).
Why Beta but not Alpha? Do you think Beta is Phoebe's brighter sister?

Now, throw another ball!

I guess I was thinking of the Alpha Male.

Perhaps a question that would produce responses that are less glib. I've been trying to think of one rather profound......but nuttin' has happened.

How many astronomers does it take to change a light bulb?

[Don't tell me this one has been asked? I suspect we have enough momentum that this question will not alter the true course and purpose of this thread. Note how I hoped for another to answer [the prior question]. I promise a "good" one next time. ]

Allow me to choose the best answer.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

I like: 23 Astronomers

1 to say I'm new to this: what bulb should I get?
1 to say it won't be a proper bulb unless you make it yourself
1 to buy a Chinese light bulb off ebay
1 to point out that Chinese lightbulb can't be collimated
1 to recommend buying a Dobsonian mounted lightbulb
1 to say try 2nd hand as puts the old bulb onto UKAstroAds
1 to buy a "proper" lightbulb from a specialist retailer
1 to collimate the overmantle mirror
1 to say that the infocus rings are oval
1 to say collimation is still impossible
1 to go off in a huff and buy a refractor
1 to say he's barmy and should have bought an SCT
1 to say there is no lightbulb - it's all a NASA hoax
1 to say I can't see the lightbulb because of the bloody Moon
1 to complain that the lightbulb does not have GoTo capability
1 to suggest that we should buy a bigger bulb
1 to suggest we should buy an even bigger bulb
1 to photograph the bulb with a camera
1 to photograph the bulb with an SBIG CCD device with RGB filters and combine a stack of 300 x 1 s exposures in Registax
1 to actually change the bulb
1 to complain that the bulb suffers from chromatic aberation
1 to shoot it with his airgun

Wow, a spirited response! I need help. Below, I have rated each (in brackets after letteration) and now request to know your favorite.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

None, they didn't know it was bad

6.66

I suppose some astronomers have minors in phsychology.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

No, no, they didn't know it was bad because they never tried to turn it on

wait, that can be taken two ways too...because they don't use light bulbs?

sigh

Two: one to change the bulb, and George to decide what color it is.

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Ah, yes, ok, my "bad".

I thought you were going after my actual favorite: "How many phychologists does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but first the bulb has to want to change."

So your answer is still none on the basis that astronomers don't use light bulbs. I like it!

Add a bonus of 1.11 to the prior "bad" score to make it good: 7.77.

Ah, recognizing the truly colorful and subjective nature of the question, you hit me at my weak spot. Nay, hmmmm, do you know the CRI of the replacement bulb?

To you both, for all we know the bulb was a red one. Oddly enough, then, the question is not color dependent. [How remiss of me. ]

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Hurray, Hurray, Hurray. Winner to be announced today!

Don't forget to enter and, also, cast your vote on your favorite.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

And, if we don't come up with one, the NASA hoax wins?

Yes and let's let it win. ozark1 deserves a little for his extensive list, anyway.

It is your, ozark1.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

OK.

Which elements share their names with planets, dwarf planets, minor planets or other celestial objects in the Solar System?

Beautiful! Probably not even yet the full anwer, but here goes. I take it with "share their names" you don't mean "...to the letter". Here's a list of those bodies and elements named after the same thing/person or named after each other (77)
2 Helium - Sol
22 Titanium - Titan
31 Gallium . Asteroid 148 Gallia
32 Germanium - Asteroid 241 Germania
34 Selenium - the Moon
36 Krypton - well, alright... would be outside the Solar System anyway.
41 Niobium - asteroid 71 Niobe
55 Caesium - Asteroid 18458 Caesar
61 Promethium - Asteroid 1906 Prometheus
63 Europium - Europa
64 Gadolinium - Asteroid 2638 Gadolin
67 Holmium - Asteroid 378 Holmia (Latin for Sweden, sensu strictu also for Stcokholm)
69 Thulium - Asteroid 279 Thule
71 Lutetium - Asteroid 21 Lutetia
75 Rhenium - Asteroid 6070 Rheinland (a bit far-fetched; Rhenium derives from Rhenus, the Rhine; Rheinland is the area around it; so no exact match)
77 Iridium - satellites of the same name
80 Mercury - Mercury
92 Uranium - Uranus
93 Neptunium - Neptune
94 Plutonium - Asteroid 134340 Pluto
95 Americium - Asteroid 916 America
96 Curium - Asteroid 7000 Curie
97 Berkelium - Asteroid 716 Berkeley
98 Californium - Asteroid 341 California
99 Einsteinium - Asteroid 2001 Einstein (apparently, Arthur C Clarke was just a tad annoyed about this one)
100 Fermium - Asteroid 8103 Fermi
101 Mendelevium - Asteroid 2769 Mendeleev
102 Nobelium - Asteroid 6032 Nobel
103 Lawrencium - Asteroid 4969 Lawrence
104 Rutherfordium - Asteroid 1249 Rutherfordia
106 Seaborgium - Ateroid 4856 Seaborg
107 Bohrium - Asteroid 3948 Bohr
108 Hassium - Asteroid 5846 Hessen (after the German state; "Hassia" is the latinized form).
109 Meitnerium - Asteroid 6999 Meitner
111 Roentgenium - Asteroid 6401 Roentgen

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Very impressive

I have a small quibble
That would be Minor Planet 134340, no? Or, drawf planet Pluto. I don't think minor planet is synonymous with "asteroid" yet.

Great list. Let's not have 36 - Krypton though shall we?!

There are at least 4 missing. Three of these were named directly for the planet or minor planet.

I knew this one would be where it gets controversial. But if NASA says so, it must be true, right?

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