i was reading The Universe of Discourse and virtue of its existence, it brought up a point i found interesting. Well-writen and insightful post aside, it brought to light a good example of what i like to read in posts.
Not simply linking to other posts or copying, but including the discourse that one would have in the comments on your own posts tends to make a good read for me. While it’s possibly true that this is due to the dirth of this type of post, i’d still love to see more posts like this.
My favourite portion is the question and response to “Why is the sky blue?” Similar to the “Airborne” disclosure, it was good to reveal his supposed b/sing on physics, and then to link and post to various discussions that had more info. How it’s different than Airborne, is by showing a weakness, and using for more than just the trickster’s distraction.
Update 1:: following the links and reading up more, two things happened. Plover posted some awesomeness there, http://blog.plover.com/physics/potassium.html, as he breaks down the radioactive decay energy generated from the K contained in a bag of rock salt over an hour. Mostly, he hands over a nice platter of awesome and insightful post.
The trickster’s distraction rears it’s ugly head once more, but going the other way this time : )
February 4th, 2007 | The Game of Lif
Obviously, you’ve heard of the term “airwaves…” Well, the sky is blue because now that the Smurfs have been taken off the air, there’s nowhere for them to go. Thus they fill the “airwaves” with their blueness, making the sky blue.
i don’t know what color the sky was before then, because in my earliest memories, Smurfs was still on the air.
NOTE: the sky is blue for the same reason sunset is red.
Comment by mkoperwas — February 19, 2007 @ 9:48 am