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> What to Submit > If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.

> What to Submit > If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

DanBC 12y ago
> Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.
- ColinWright 12y ago
  Yes, although I thought the site I submitted actually had an interesting comment. The IO9 site less so, and hence in my judgement, on this occasion, the link I submitted was in some sense "better" than the raw youtube link. I think the guidelines are mis-guided in this sense. Sometimes the original, raw content is somewhere else, but a page that points to it can sometimes add context, or otherwise enhance that original post/material. But this is meta, and getting off-topic. To go meta-meta, I do wish there were somewhere sensible to discuss these sorts of issues.
  - DanBC 12y ago
    for people who can't load the linked article: ---begin quote--- …though in this case, “the hammer” is a bowling ball. In this [excellent clip]{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs} from the BBC’s [Human Universe: Episode 4]{http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0276q28 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0276q28}, Professor Brian Cox visits NASA’s Space Power Facility in Ohio, home of the [world’s biggest vacuum chamber]{http://facilities.grc.nasa.gov/spf/# http://facilities.grc.nasa.gov/spf/#}, to test Galileo Galilei‘s Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment, circa 1589: [If you drop a brick and a feather at the same time]{http://www.planetseed.com/laboratory/galileo-drops-ball-virtual-experiment http://www.planetseed.com/laboratory/galileo-drops-ball-virt...} the brick will probably hit the ground first. But this is because of differences in the amount of friction between these objects and the air around them, not because their masses are different. If there were no air… What happens? How does a hammer, brick, or bowling ball move in comparison to the feathers when you remove any air resistance? Watch. Then watch this next: Apollo 15 Commander David Scott famously conducts this [same experiment in 1971… on the moon]{http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/31056368331 http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/31056368331}. ---end quote---
  - Xurinos 12y ago
    Perhaps something like a Talk page on a MediaWiki platform? It would be out of the way but directly connected to the page you are on, a second set of comments accessible by a MetaTalk filter.

DanBC 12y ago

> Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.

ColinWright 12y ago
Yes, although I thought the site I submitted actually had an interesting comment. The IO9 site less so, and hence in my judgement, on this occasion, the link I submitted was in some sense "better" than the raw youtube link. I think the guidelines are mis-guided in this sense. Sometimes the original, raw content is somewhere else, but a page that points to it can sometimes add context, or otherwise enhance that original post/material. But this is meta, and getting off-topic. To go meta-meta, I do wish there were somewhere sensible to discuss these sorts of issues.
- DanBC 12y ago
  for people who can't load the linked article: ---begin quote--- …though in this case, “the hammer” is a bowling ball. In this [excellent clip]{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs} from the BBC’s [Human Universe: Episode 4]{http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0276q28 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0276q28}, Professor Brian Cox visits NASA’s Space Power Facility in Ohio, home of the [world’s biggest vacuum chamber]{http://facilities.grc.nasa.gov/spf/# http://facilities.grc.nasa.gov/spf/#}, to test Galileo Galilei‘s Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment, circa 1589: [If you drop a brick and a feather at the same time]{http://www.planetseed.com/laboratory/galileo-drops-ball-virtual-experiment http://www.planetseed.com/laboratory/galileo-drops-ball-virt...} the brick will probably hit the ground first. But this is because of differences in the amount of friction between these objects and the air around them, not because their masses are different. If there were no air… What happens? How does a hammer, brick, or bowling ball move in comparison to the feathers when you remove any air resistance? Watch. Then watch this next: Apollo 15 Commander David Scott famously conducts this [same experiment in 1971… on the moon]{http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/31056368331 http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/31056368331}. ---end quote---
- Xurinos 12y ago
  Perhaps something like a Talk page on a MediaWiki platform? It would be out of the way but directly connected to the page you are on, a second set of comments accessible by a MetaTalk filter.