Junkk.com promotes fun, reward-based e-practices, sharing oodles of info in objective, balanced ways. But we do have personal opinions, too! Hence this slightly ‘off of site, top of mind' blog by Junkk Male Peter. Hopefully still more ‘concerned mates’ than 'do this... or else' nannies, with critiques seen as constructive or of a more eyebrow-twitching ‘Oh, really?!' variety. Little that’s green can be viewed only in black and white.
Monday, July 28, 2008
The bigger picture
Views of Jupiter
Having had a gander such things are most certainly worth sharing, not just for the visual joy they bring, but to also help us position ourselves more humbly in the great scheme of things.
I noticed some bloggers replying that they wished they could live there. Can you imagine? How long before our race had to move on again, having...
Addendum:
As we are of a naturally poetic bent today, and I am feeling naughty but NASA:
Trendwatcher: northern-lights-explained-nasa
Newsnight - worth it for all sorts of related reasons... unanswered questions on helping posters add functions, despite promises, and unanswered questions on pay deals because, well, what goes up stays up. Some live on different planets, I guess.
3 comments:
I believe in freedom of speech. But I also don't like bullies on blogs, even verbal ones, as they can drive away those with something valid to say... or offer.
Subjective is fine, but well argued and substantiated is even better. Calm and polite tops. Anything that crosses my personal line will not go up. There may be reasons given, but not guaranteed.
I'm not too keen on 'Anon' as a handle (and the content usually explains why), so if that's what you opt for it may not make it. Sorry.
"having..."
ReplyDelete... destroyed this one? Hmmm, let me see, might we manage to wipe ourselves out before then?
Here are some links to the original story:
NY Times-Battle of the Red Spots
Cosmic Log-Bye bye Baby Red Spot
Peter, sorry but your NN link's broken - the URL should be
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(the 'th_july.html' is missing)
Never be sorry. Ta for letting me know.
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