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Why write 5 paragraphs poorly explaining something that can be understood in 5 seconds with a gif? https://blog.matthen.com/post/112212054651 https://blog.matt
by ElongatedMusket 3y ago
Why write 5 paragraphs poorly explaining something that can be understood in 5 seconds with a gif?
https://blog.matthen.com/post/112212054651 https://blog.matthen.com/post/112212054651
Edit: referring to the author struggling to explain the orbit pattern when it could be shown instead.
- hed 3y agoThank you. That article was begging for a TLDR. The cooking blog effect but for science.
- drivers99 3y agoThe GIF doesn't explain anything the article is about except that Venus orbits closer and faster than Earth. But that's just a little background for the article.
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- karmakaze 3y agoHere are relative orbital positions by month: https://www.theplanetstoday.com/ https://www.theplanetstoday.com/
- denton-scratch 3y agoIndeed. I found all that guff about race-tracks and flags awfully confusing. Don't use metaphors, if a simple statement of the facts would do the trick. I used to have a subscription to SciAm, but I cancelled it 30 years ago (partly because Martin Gardner stopped writing for them).