Concerning the article on left-wing sensitivity censorship- the publishers are prioritizing profit over the inherent value of a piece of artwork/ literature. They could ignore the "sensitivity readers" and let the artwork stand on its own. It might, or might not threaten sales. Thinking that a single person's "lived experience" represents a whole identity group is ridiculous. Huckleberry Finn would never have gotten published and a whole host other great literature which is set in a time and a place, and from a perspective, but resonates with a diversity of readers all over the world a hundred years later. You read books because that person and/or characters have their own perspective, and so you widen your own perspective perhaps, or you see the world from other minds. What craziness my fellow progressives have wrought!
Projections are for navigational purposes not political purposes. Colours on maps serve political purposes. Let Africa make its own projections - they should not forget however it might for some african countries bring the real sizes and scales of their corruption and oppression into very stark focus.
I live at the southern tip of Africa. When Obama was elected in 2008, we optimistically thought that the US neglect of our continent would end. Although remapping is primarily a vanity project, increased attention might help to put the brakes on that corruption you mentioned. Heck, even the Russian oligarchs who looted that country's wealth in the 1990s send people here to find out how it's done.
Coincidentally I have a genuine globe right next to my desk. Did you know that from a point in space above Flint Island in the Pacific, it's almost all ocean and very little land?
Yes :D. When one shows that view, folks tend not to recognize earth, even though that is one half of the world. Something similar happens when you show a compass point other than north on top.
Juno: The costs of maintaining the mission could be drastically cut by handing it over to amateur astronomers. I somehow doubt that Juno has a Mission Control with engineers sitting 24/7 at terminals. Apart from when the fertilizer hits the fan, it might need one hour paid technician's time a day.
Hardening the electronics is one of the biggest challenges of interplanetary spaceflight. Perhaps some amateur who has been working on something completely different like drone electronics, might have a solution ready to go. That's what a lot of discovery is about today: someone looking for a solution finds a technology that wasn't originally intended for that problem.
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Concerning the article on left-wing sensitivity censorship- the publishers are prioritizing profit over the inherent value of a piece of artwork/ literature. They could ignore the "sensitivity readers" and let the artwork stand on its own. It might, or might not threaten sales. Thinking that a single person's "lived experience" represents a whole identity group is ridiculous. Huckleberry Finn would never have gotten published and a whole host other great literature which is set in a time and a place, and from a perspective, but resonates with a diversity of readers all over the world a hundred years later. You read books because that person and/or characters have their own perspective, and so you widen your own perspective perhaps, or you see the world from other minds. What craziness my fellow progressives have wrought!
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Projections are for navigational purposes not political purposes. Colours on maps serve political purposes. Let Africa make its own projections - they should not forget however it might for some african countries bring the real sizes and scales of their corruption and oppression into very stark focus.
I live at the southern tip of Africa. When Obama was elected in 2008, we optimistically thought that the US neglect of our continent would end. Although remapping is primarily a vanity project, increased attention might help to put the brakes on that corruption you mentioned. Heck, even the Russian oligarchs who looted that country's wealth in the 1990s send people here to find out how it's done.
Why not use a globe, a mapa mundi? Most persons are on screens where a globe is easy to spin to see realistic projections.
Coincidentally I have a genuine globe right next to my desk. Did you know that from a point in space above Flint Island in the Pacific, it's almost all ocean and very little land?
Yes :D. When one shows that view, folks tend not to recognize earth, even though that is one half of the world. Something similar happens when you show a compass point other than north on top.
Juno: The costs of maintaining the mission could be drastically cut by handing it over to amateur astronomers. I somehow doubt that Juno has a Mission Control with engineers sitting 24/7 at terminals. Apart from when the fertilizer hits the fan, it might need one hour paid technician's time a day.
Hardening the electronics is one of the biggest challenges of interplanetary spaceflight. Perhaps some amateur who has been working on something completely different like drone electronics, might have a solution ready to go. That's what a lot of discovery is about today: someone looking for a solution finds a technology that wasn't originally intended for that problem.