Canopus (/kəˈnoʊpəs/; α Car, α Carinae, Alpha Carinae) is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina, and the second brightest star in the night-time sky, after Sirius. Canopus's visual magnitude is −0.72, and it has an absolute magnitude of −5.65.
Canopus is a supergiant of spectral type F. Canopus is essentially white when seen with the naked eye (although F-type stars are sometimes listed as "yellowish-white"). It is located in the far southern sky, at a declination of −52° 42' (2000) and a right ascension of 06h24.0m.
Its name comes from the mythological Canopus, who was a navigator for Menelaus, king of Sparta.
In Indian Vedic literature, the star Canopus is associated with the sage Agastya, one of the ancient rishis (the others are associated with the stars of the Big Dipper). Agastya, the star, is said to be the 'cleanser of waters' and its rising coincides with the calming of the waters of the Indian Ocean. It is considered the son of Pulasthya, son of Brahma.
Canopus (also Opération Canopus in French) was the code name for France's first two-stage thermonuclear test, conducted on August 24, 1968 at Fangataufa atoll. The test made France the fifth country to test a thermonuclear device after the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and China.
In 1966, France was able to use fusion fuel to boost plutonium implosion devices with the Rigel shot. Roger Dautry, a nuclear physicist, was selected by the CEA to lead the development effort to construct a two-stage weapon. France did not have the ability to produce the materials needed for a two-stage thermonuclear device at the time, so 151 tons of heavy water was purchased from Norway and an additional 168 tons from the United States. This heavy water went into nuclear reactors in 1967 to produce tritium needed for the device .
France was to test the new device as part of a 5-shot series conducted at the nuclear testing grounds in French Polynesia. The device weighed three tons and used a lithium deuteride secondary stage with a highly enriched uranium jacket primary.
In Greek mythology, Canopus (or Canobus) was the pilot of the ship of King Menelaus of Sparta during the Trojan War. He is described as a young handsome man, who was loved by Theonoe, the Egyptian prophetess, but never answered her feelings. According to legend, while visiting the coasts of Egypt, he was bitten by a serpent and died. His master erected a monument to him at the mouth of the River Nile, around which the town of Canopus later developed.
Canopus, the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina took his name after him.
[Canibus]
Yo the artists come and go
So does the show
So does the dough
Nothin lasts forever you know
It's all about experience and what you take from it
What you learn in the process
What you make of it
Number two in the world at the top of the summit, I love it
Shoulda packed a parachute for the plummet
Now I'm opening these clips crawlin through mud pits
With guns and hundreds of clips
On uncle Sam's budget
Hundred rifles itself
Handcuff Bert Renolds to Jim Brown and escape with Raquel Welsh
Isn't my queen lovely
Feed her rum of rays and ice cream
Shower her with diamond rings and money
23 hours a day I study
Dreamin about beautiful women
I hate you gay teletubies
Dreams keep my alive
You can't take em from me
The battlefield is bloody
Me and a ugly
My adrenaline rushes when the enemy rushes
Tryin to bust me cuz I swore I'd defend my country
If I could choose between being lucky and having money
Nothing negative could ever touch me
What must be is ultimately not up to me
But I sacrifice my life for yours if you trust me
Pin my medals upon my chest
So I could left-right-left in a certain death
God's speed and God bless
In the end I hope God has progressed
If I'm put to rest
I did what I came to do
Nothin left
Say my name out the blue cuz I rhyme it the best
Mic club dot net see me live in the flesh
You could come and download every rhyme that I spit
You could pay homage to Rip
For one dollar a clip
None of those rhymes is on the album bitch
It's a storage facility where I keep my shit
For the students in class that wanna peep my shit
Break a bootlegger's leg if he leak my shit
You don't wanna sign him bitch then eat my shit
Drink my piss
You could never compete like this
I'mma give you an example of how deep I get
Technology not available for purchase
My brains collects, stores and converts million bar verses
At a stand-off distance of a thousand feet
I illuminate the target and pound em to sleep
To within one micro-inch if you out in the street
I could close my ears and still move my mouth to the beat
Dial-up to your network and make your files to leak
Count to three
Listen to your browser beat
Too late foot already stepped in the feces
Dr. Norton's too sick to help your PCs
Virtually I make virtual memory freeze
With a weapon of mass destruction to double your MD's
I'm a TMC trouble of MCs
Destroy callities for your CAVs
I send no less than 20 18s
Wipe you out before I even get to the beach
With my Trans atmospheric space based mirrors
Can you write that out without typographical errors?
Dumb fucks I'm the best ever whatever
Divide 18 by 6 you get the third letter
>From the lowest earth orbit up to the heavens
I bomb y'all lyrics of flesh shedder and petters forever
As a spitter I'm still tougher than leather
I had to go underground to get over the pressure
Battle rap from the renaissance multi-mega wide
Bury you beneath the bedrock on the bed of rocks
I could never get bored I write huggly versus verbal force
Fuck writing killer chorus
Cope and haven curriculum of metaphors
Everything from Bob Marley to Tevor's sall
The system of a down song number 14
I see aerials in the sky when I dream
The end is near I wish it would hurry up
I feel nano-bacteria burning me up
Before I explain in detail
You should examine the mars mineral samples under my nails
Sometimes I wonder who's listening
The auditory pavlovian conditioning so sickening
My attomy and guanine cyber scene and thiamine is really what makes my rhyme supreme
Soon as I hear the beat bada-bing
You gotta think, a hundred bars
Damn that's a lot of ink
Imagine all of my albums would be out of print
There would be a clone for every style I invent
For every line I rhyme intense
For all the time I spent
Every word I spit since nine six
If you could input at one hundred
I could output way above it
If we in public I double it
Put this on your study list and go study bitch
Basically quoting Hammer you can't touch this
I'm too assertive and alert for what its worth
My best piece of work is still yearning to be birthed
Class Dismissed