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

Tue Dec 7 11:39:43 CET 2021

Sure that's fine!
Very curious if you get the Image previews working, good luck!

On Mon, 6 Dec 2021, 23:11 Noor, <hernoor08 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I like images as well, though currently they don't show up on social
> media previews (see last one:
> https://twitter.com/MCH2022Camp/status/1461060663275622407 ). I'm looking
> into that, and if setting that up doesn't take too long, I'd like to wait
> to publish until that's dealt with. The tweets about the blog posts get
> hardly any few likes/RTs.
>
> Robin: What do you think of "A car was fired into space" as it was a
> singular car?
>
> Noor
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 6:22 PM Robin Edgar <robinedgar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks!
>> I didn't really think about images tbh but maybe
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Happy_Trails_CTIO.jpg
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S4-space-junk-045.jpg
>>
>> https://pixabay.com/illustrations/space-junk-space-debris-earth-orbits-11644/
>> https://pixabay.com/photos/junkyard-campfire-moon-homeless-5337048/
>>
>> whichever has your preference or if you have any ideas then welcome!
>> PS just noticed all the spelling mistakes in my last email - that's what
>> you get when trying to walk around in the snow at -14oC :D
>>
>> On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 15:44, boekenwuurm <boekenwuurm at boekenwuurm.nl>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> it is a nice nerdy and fun post, I would keep the references in, as
>>> Robin said, if you knew about the events is is a nice nod to the space
>>> nerds and if you don't, the context makes it clear it is a space thing.
>>>
>>> Robin: Blogs with images do better in general, also because they appear
>>> nicer in social media (most of the time). It is not strictly necessary, but
>>> do you have an idea for a CC-BY-SA licensed image?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Christel
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/6/21 2:14 PM, Robin Edgar wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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