Science Poetry

[firstfrost]

I finally realized what xkcd is doing with strips like today's:

http://xkcd.com/1133/

It's science poetry. Okay, things like xkcd loves the discovery channel were obvious - that was lyrics, it even rhymed. But this is like a sestina - sending a message while laboring under such heavy restrictions that the restrictions are transformative and not just arbitrary and difficult. Like coal into diamonds, so pressurized by what you can't do.

Comments

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

I don't disagree. But today's also seemed to me the outcome of an argument about how complicated the Apollo 5 actually was. I've sat through that argument, or ones very similar, often enough to recognize an obsessive "IS TO!"

Science poetry

[merastra.livejournal.com]

What a poetic way to put it. :-)

[jofish22.livejournal.com]

nice. yes.