Useful Memory Tools

[Emelee]

Do you know of any good memory tools to remember order of things etc? Mostly, it's acronyms that are useful, but anything goes as long as it helps you remember.

One of the most common is of course ROYGBIV to remember the color order of the rainbow.

• Red
• Orange
• Yellow
• Green
• Blue
• Indigo
• Violet

 

[Willie Oleson]

ROYGBIV

I would need a memory tool to remember that word. Hey, how about the first letters of all the colours of the rainbow!

 

[Emelee]

I would need a memory tool to remember that word. Hey, how about the first letters of all the colours of the rainbow!

Is Roy G. Biv easier?

You can maybe add a face to that name so it's even easier:

This is Mr. Roy G. Biv:

 

[Emelee]

My Very Easy Mother Just Scored Uncle Ned

What do you think that will make you remember?

 

[Daniel Avery]

---That I need to take mom to her appointment at the Free Clinic next Monday.

"King Phillip Cried Oh For Goodness Sake" helps biology students remember the Taxonomic Groupings (or whatever its called).
Kingdom
Phyllum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

 

[Willie Oleson]

Your password?

 

[Kevmac]

My Very Easy Mother Just Scored Uncle Ned

.... are these the planets of the solar system ?

Roy G.'s kinda chunky.....

 

[Daniel Avery]

I'm guessing mom's virtue was even more tainted when Pluto was considered a true planet.

 

[Willie Oleson]

.... are these the planets of the solar system ?

Mars, Venus, Uranus, Mercury (I think!) Jupiter...but I don't know the E, S and N

 

[Kevmac]

Earth, Saturn and Neptune ?

 

[Daniel Avery]

There's been a serious disturbance in the Force, apparently. Mars and Mercury have lurched out of their orbits, and I refuse to make the obvious joke about Uranus.

 

[Emelee]

Correct, it's the planets orbiting the sun, from closest to the sun and further away.

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune

My very easy mother just scored uncle Ned.

If you can't remember which M stands for Mercury and which M is for Mars, here are 2 helpers:
1. Freddie Mercury (Queen), is a Star - and a sun is of course a star.
2. Earth is between women & men -- "women are from Venus and men are from Mars" as that famous quote goes.

 

[Emelee]

How shall we remember the Roman numbers, you think?

I = 1
V = 5
X = 10
L = 50
C = 100
D = 500
M = 1000

IVXLCDM

Any suggestions?

 

[Mel O'Drama]

IVXLCDM

"I Vill Kiss Ladies" Count Dracula Muttered

 

[Emelee]

"I Vill Kiss Ladies" Count Dracula Muttered

Or to be even more precise with the letters v & x:

"I value xeroxed lyrics", Celine Dion muttered.

Not as fun though.

 

[Willie Oleson]

Earth

I never think of earth as a planet - just "earth". Otherwise it would make me feel like an alien.

and I refuse to make the obvious joke about Uranus

I agree, the jokes are corny. But we can still sing about Uranus.

D = 500

That's new to me.

 

[J. R.'s Piece]

I would need a memory tool to remember that word. Hey, how about the first letters of all the colours of the rainbow!

Well, it's the old Richard Of York Goes Battling In Vain! Over a decade ago, I spent time with a chap named Dominic, who got me into experimenting with stories and journeys, numbers and shapes, names/places, number/rhymes, numbers into characters, associations and mind maps. He also recommended that I have a gingko biloba tablet daily (which actually cured me of some other stuff). I spend lots of time in theta now. I expect he doesn't remember me now.

 

[Emelee]

I never think of earth as a planet - just "earth". Otherwise it would make me feel like an alien.

We are aliens. At least according to life on other planets. The exo-planets (that is, planets in other solar systems). I doubt there is life elsewhere in our solar system, but we can't be sure.

Earth's real name is Planet Tellus. So maybe we should replace the E for a T instead?
"My very trampy mother just scored uncle Ned"

 

[Willie Oleson]

Where are the other solar systems?

 

[Emelee]

Where are the other solar systems?

Somewhere in the Universe. Andromeda is the galaxy closest to ours (The Milky Way). Our solar system is packed with minor planets (those much smaller than Pluto). Many more than people in general are aware of. Scientists know of around 707.000 minor planets.

The stars you see in the sky are kinda like our sun - they have things orbiting them; planets, minor planets, asteroids etc. Our sun is, afterall, just a star itself.

There are I believe around 3500 known exoplanets that we humans are aware of. They are naturally very hard to discover, as they are so extremely far away from us. An exoplanet is a planet that orbits another star than our star (the sun). So knowing how difficult it is to take pictures of Neptune, one can realize how difficult it is to take pictures of exoplanets!

A quick little Google search: Among the estimated 1400 stars located within 50 light-years, 40 had been confirmed to have planetary systems with 14 other stars having unconfirmed exoplanet candidates.

The solar system closest to us is called Proxima Centauri. It's located about 4 light-years from us. It wasn't until August 2016 (!!) that scientists could confirm that Proxima Centauri has a planet that is now called Proxima b (why such a boring name?!)

But considering these discoveries are happening now and then in our time now, the number of discovered stars & planets are constantly increasing.

How do they find these planets, considering how far away they are, one asks? They observe the stars and if they find that a shadow is passing that star with even intervals, they can count how big it is and then determine if it's a planet or something else orbiting.