China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid
China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid

China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid

China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid
China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid
{天问|Tiānwèn} is a cool name for a space science mission
It really is! I knew "Tian" so i could tell it would be appropriate but this prompted me to actually look up a translation. That's so good!
("Heavenly questions" for anyone wondering)
I also just learned it's named for a 2300 year old poem which asks questions like "who witnessed the creation of the universe, in order to write it down?" and "how far does the sun travel in a day?"
hell yeah
Holy shit, Unicode can do that script over the characters thing?
Rather than Unicode, it uses the HTML <ruby>
tag
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/ruby
You can use the view source button to see how formatting works on hexbear.
The text over text thing is done with bottom texttop text appearing like {bottom text|top text}
{Big news.|Latest fad.}
{I cannot lie|I like big butts}