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It means it's late enough in the day to have a drink. It's an old sailing term: the yards on a ship are the horizontal timbers or spars mounted on the masts from which the square sails are hung; and the yardarm is the tapered end of the yard. In the Northern Hemisphere, the sun would reach the height of the end of the yard (the yardarm) at around 11 am - signaling the time for the morning tipple of grog (watered-down rum).
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The light of the sun.
Have probes gone past the sun?
??? 1) none past the solar system ... nothing has made it to the Ort cloud yet. 2) do you mean the other side of the sun? In that case yes.
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