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True Blue Door

(2,969 posts)
Sat Nov 2, 2013, 06:53 PM Nov 2013

Would this be a good place to continue some of my science series?

I had run a popular science blog elsewhere called "Getting to Know Your Solar System," structured like a guided tour of the regions and major bodies of the solar system, with lots of beautiful probe images and my own explanatory narrations and diagrams. What remains of them is only partly salvageable, but it was my proudest work, and I'm hoping to eventually resurrect the series here. Basically its' like this:

Each entry shows lots of beautiful images of a celestial object in the solar system, while also describing the science behind it, its environments, its orbit and other behavior, how humans discovered it, and what we might some day do with respect to it.

It can get quite involved, and some of the entries have run many pages long. When they get too long, I've had to break it up into multiple entries. For instance, I broke up my discussion of Earth into six different postings to at least superficially cover the vast amount of knowledge we have about it.

What do you say, folks? Some of you might have seen my Getting to Know Your Solar System series in its original home, so now that it can't continue there anymore, would you like to see it resurrected and brought to completion? And is this the right folder for that? Let me just whet your appetite:

[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/106981058@N06/10634450526/][img][/img][/url]
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/106981058@N06/10634450526/]Saturn Clouds 3[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/106981058@N06/]brianswiderski[/url], on Flickr

[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/106981058@N06/10634428915/][img][/img][/url]
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/106981058@N06/10634428915/]rainbow[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/106981058@N06/]brianswiderski[/url], on Flickr


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Would this be a good place to continue some of my science series? (Original Post) True Blue Door Nov 2013 OP
Do it, We can never have too many people offering valuable content. Vincardog Nov 2013 #1
Welcome to DU, TBD! Look forward to reading/seeing more from you. Mnemosyne Nov 2013 #2
I'd just like to know wth is going on on this planet... n/t PoliticAverse Nov 2013 #3
More please....YES!! haikugal Nov 2013 #4
Sounds great to me! Yes, please! idwiyo Nov 2013 #5
Have at it! The Science Group is my favorite. Sounds brilliant! Surya Gayatri Nov 2013 #6
Be sure to include biographies... Callmecrazy Nov 2013 #7
Yes, please! frogmarch Nov 2013 #8
1. Please do continue... Wounded Bear Nov 2013 #9
I'd live to see it here. TxDemChem Nov 2013 #10
Yes, Thank you, yes! RGinNJ Nov 2013 #11
Sounds like a great idea! bearssoapbox Nov 2013 #12
It would secondvariety Nov 2013 #13
You will have a very receptive audience here. gtar100 Nov 2013 #14
Science? Isn't that some sort of anti-Republican conspiracy? tclambert Nov 2013 #15
Yes Please !!! WillyT Nov 2013 #16
Bring it on. Soon. marble falls Nov 2013 #17

Callmecrazy

(3,065 posts)
7. Be sure to include biographies...
Sat Nov 2, 2013, 08:49 PM
Nov 2013

of the people in the science throughout history.
I like learning about them too.

Wounded Bear

(58,648 posts)
9. 1. Please do continue...
Sat Nov 2, 2013, 09:03 PM
Nov 2013

2. You're in the right place.

(I have it subscribed, so when you post up, I'll know.)

TxDemChem

(1,918 posts)
10. I'd live to see it here.
Sat Nov 2, 2013, 10:04 PM
Nov 2013

I have always been a big fan of astro physics and any information on our cosmos. Makes me miss C.S.

bearssoapbox

(1,408 posts)
12. Sounds like a great idea!
Sun Nov 3, 2013, 09:07 AM
Nov 2013

Love pics and info about planets, stars and space.

One of my favorite pictures and quote;



Talk about perspective.

gtar100

(4,192 posts)
14. You will have a very receptive audience here.
Sun Nov 3, 2013, 09:56 AM
Nov 2013

Thank you for offering and I look forward to seeing your articles.

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