[MCH Team:Info] [Content] Fwd: (blogpost proposal) Submit a talk above and beyond the final frontier!

[Robin Edgar]

Hi Noor,

The thing with the roadster is that it was meant to go in a certain
direction bit.didn't, which is why I talk of a random direction.

Read ended also has a sexual connotation which I thought was funny. Not
really hugely laugh out loud but more.gentle snigger type funny....

On Mon, 6 Dec 2021, 00:57 Noor, <hernoor08 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Robin,
>
> I've heard of some of those events, but I think the wording of a couple
> was what threw me off (that and a lack of sleep all weekend).
>
> Others have made suggestions and I'm okay with "A car was launched into
> the asteroid belt", since it was only one roadster. And rather than say
> "rear-ended" (which kinda implies an accidental landing or crash, and also
> a road accident), can I just say "The Chinese made a landing on the dark
> side of the moon"?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Noor
>
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 9:43 AM Robin Edgar <robinedgar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Noor,
>> I saw that Walter explained the two events you didn't know about. That
>> whole paragraph is full of events, some of which you may and some of which
>> you may not know about (eg that the ISS has a drilled leak in it which was
>> reported to the police by the Russians is a story that didn't gain much
>> traction with the general public but is pretty spectacular if you're
>> interested in that kind  of thing). If you start adding links to this
>> blogpost then I'm pretty sure you'd either need to add around 10 links in
>> the text or below it as a bibliography. And in this case, if you don't know
>> the story, you are not the audience of this post anyway :)
>> Cheers and enjoy your weekend!
>> Robin
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 4 Dec 2021 at 22:44, Noor via Content <content at lists.ifcat.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I've had those two sentences explained to me now, it's confusing if you
>>> haven't recently heard the exact events. I could leave the phrases the way
>>> they are, and just include a link to the news story they refer.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 8:56 PM Noor <hernoor08 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Also, what does "the moon was rear-ended by the Chinese" mean?
>>>>
>>>> Noor
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 8:47 PM Noor <hernoor08 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Looks good, but what does "cars have been fired" mean? I've never
>>>>> heard that expression, maybe "shots have been fired"?
>>>>>
>>>>> Noor
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 6:16 PM Walter van Holst <
>>>>> walter.van.holst at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Team Info,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Attached a mail with a blogpost by Team:Content member Robin Edgar.
>>>>>> We're comfortable with it as a team, but are also sure you may have
>>>>>> some
>>>>>> ideas too. Do your magic and hash it out with Robin.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Walter
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