Member Questions to Administrators, Matters related to the Forum |
Member Questions to Administrators, Matters related to the Forum |
May 31 2014, 03:51 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 105 Joined: 27-August 05 Member No.: 479 |
Cool I look foreword to your thoughts on the restructuring of the mars 2020 thread and the next 4 years of MEPAg mars lander committee reports.................... possibly in future the members here with your great skills could create our own landing sight candidate and submit to the landing site committee, that would be a fantatsist citizen science contribution................... so i am working on a post for the conference site here but i will wait for mods to guide me or or some day the conference site post I may make could be migrated to an active mission? I am working on a general mars landing site post and three other posts one is a landing site in the 4 original mars 2012 lander sites the other is paleo river and lake sites the third is Landing Sites in and Near the Chasmata posts beyond these are UMS created new landing sites ? or you folks are so creative with imagining of future MRO imaging of the landing site committee candidates? I sleep now and dream of mars 2020 as seen through the eyes thereof MEPAG decadel survey landing site committee........... its 5 years from now but join me |
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Jun 27 2014, 06:27 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 9-June 14 From: Fresh Meadows, NY Member No.: 7197 |
Starship Asterisk is mentioned in the rules as a place to go to discuss the topics banned at this forum. While it may be true for some things like astrobiology or some casual talk about Pluto's planethood, it's not a good place to send people regarding pseudoscience, aliens, politics, religion, etc. I'm one of the three admins there and while we want to be very open to anyone who is curious about astronomy and science in general, we've tried very hard to turn the forum around in the past few years. It's still not a place where serious discussions happen often but it is slowly changing. We aggressively moderate crackpots and anti-science and try to keep it informative and stick to mainstream science.
I think Asterisk was added to that list when there were no rules and the crackpots were running rampant. I don't know if it is even necessary to change the wording of the rules, but I do want to say that I don't want the garbage flowing over to my forum any more than it already does! Anyway, from one admin to another, I admire the work and passion you guys put into your forum. |
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Jun 27 2014, 06:35 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Noted, Judy! But I think the same is true of some other forums mentioned there as well (notably NASASpaceflight). I think Starship Asterisk and NASASpaceflight both represent good locations to discuss human spaceflight and astrobiology, both of which are banned topics here, for instance. How about we add the following sentence to that list: "Each of these forums has its own unique rules of conduct and allowable content."
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Jun 27 2014, 07:20 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 9-June 14 From: Fresh Meadows, NY Member No.: 7197 |
Nod. I'm sure the other forums don't want people ignoring their rules, either. It's hard to keep up with them but I would guess that a lot of them have gone through similar processes restructuring to cut the chaff out. There's probably not a lot of legitimate places to go have an argument about aliens these days. Asterisk was one of the last.
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Jun 28 2014, 07:46 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 106 Joined: 26-September 05 Member No.: 508 |
Is it possible to change my username?
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Jun 28 2014, 08:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
I don't believe that the Change Display Name option is enabled on the Forum.
If you can send me a PM with the change you'd like to make, I will get the backroom team to amend it. |
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Sep 15 2014, 11:35 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627 |
Ok admins...
Feel stupid bringing this up this way... but then... here goes. This detail of vents on 67P/C-G was displayed and discussed during todays ROSETTA PHILAE Landing site briefing at around 17:10 into the briefing. No one on this forum has brought this up. I find it fascinating and jaw dropping. Thanks to the OSIRIS image team for showing this... Should we stay mum because we do not want to dry up any golden nuggets like this from being released given ROSETTA mission image policy? Or am I being paranoid? Craig |
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Sep 16 2014, 07:08 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Maybe nobody else noticed it; good eye!
There's an ESA logo on that slide, so my assumption would be that it was intentionally released by them. Don't see any reason not to discuss it. (Disclaimer: I'm just a mod, not an admin.) -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Sep 16 2014, 07:32 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
Why would the Rosetta team not want images it presents at a press briefing discussed, and published? They pointed out that in landing at site J, the chosen landing site, Philae would be within sight of those vents and hopefully see them in action. Hopefully there will be no "hole in one" as with Opportunity!
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Sep 16 2014, 11:34 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627 |
Was just surprised I did not see these among the released images published in the ROSETTA blog. Do not want to rock a boat and have them clamp down even more.
Images really are cool..... Not a people person and sometimes I do not have much sense! Will still wait for am admin to reply here... |
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Sep 16 2014, 01:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627 |
Well BBC News release has imbedded video where Imaging Lead Holger Sierks outlines these vent zones.. so will post to our ROSETTA
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Sep 17 2014, 01:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
If ESA has released it then it's open for discussion.
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Jul 13 2015, 11:33 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 447 Joined: 1-July 05 From: New York City Member No.: 424 |
Is there a way to send PMs to multiple recipients, or do you have to create a separate PM for each one?
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Jul 14 2015, 12:55 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Not an admin, but I know this one. If you go to the 'compose message' option you'll see a box where you can CC up to six other members, Tom.
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Jul 14 2015, 01:11 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 447 Joined: 1-July 05 From: New York City Member No.: 424 |
Thanks Nick, but I don't see a cc field when I click on "compose new message."
There's a field for "recipient," and next to it is a drop-down menu that says "other," with one item in the menu. Choosing "other" doesn't do anything, and the one item in the menu is the name of a user who has posted 4 times (I might have a dim recollection of sending him a PM about something 8 or 9 years ago). I tried putting multiple usernames in the "recipient" field, separated by commas, but the system rejected it. Sorry to be bringing this up on the eve of Pluto closest approach; I'll understand if there's a delay in responding. |
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