Re: What if the Earth were Hollow?

From	Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain>
Newsgroups	sci.physics
Subject	Re: What if the Earth were Hollow?
Date	2015-11-01 17:40 +0000
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On Sun, 01 Nov 2015 04:11:33 -0800, nuny@bid.nes wrote:

> 
>   I haven't looked at Sam's video because I can read faster than they can talk.
>

That is the ultimate critique and condemnation of the video medium.
For conveying information, it is inefficiency in the extreme.

Consider a 1 hour long video.  At current technology this represents
about 500 megabytes of encoding.

The same information contained in a text-based source would be only
10-20 kilobytes (uncompressed), but if we include ample graphics the
total would increase to the still paltry 5-10 megabytes.  Furthermore,
it wouldn't take 1 solid hour to digest the same material but more like
5-10 minutes.

As an instructional tool, video is a joke.

There are times when the video medium is desirable, such as viewing
historical footage or animated digital graphics, but such material
can never actually stand alone and must only be a supplement to
a text-based source.

But regarding text, the world still fails to realize the possibilities.
Unicode characters for mathematics, for example, are rarely encountered
and MathML in web sites is scarce as well.  These methods have been
present for many years but, for some reason, remain largely unknown.

In conclusion, video should be entirely abandoned in favor of rich
text sources, that is, text formats that utilize modern character
encodings and that contain embedded multimedia material as a supplement.

Instead of YouTube there should be YouRichText (trite, but one gets
the idea).

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What if the Earth were Hollow? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 20:32 -0500
  Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-10-30 21:01 -0500
    Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-31 02:39 +0000
      Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-10-30 22:11 -0500
        Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-31 03:21 +0000
          Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 09:01 -0700
            Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 13:40 -0400
            Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-31 18:10 +0000
              Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 11:38 -0700
                Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-31 19:40 +0000
          Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? xxein1@att.net - 2015-10-31 09:52 -0700
            Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-10-31 12:39 -0500
            Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 04:11 -0800
              Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-01 17:40 +0000
  Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-31 02:24 +0000
  Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 12:16 -0700
  Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? Lofty Goat <rlwatkins@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 18:17 -0500
    Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 19:32 -0500
  Re: What if the Earth were Hollow? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 14:56 -0800

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