Politics and Manned Space-flight |
Politics and Manned Space-flight |
Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Sep 6 2008, 08:36 PM
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Sep 6 2008, 09:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 809 Joined: 11-March 04 Member No.: 56 |
I did a search of my own past posts to find out what Doug could be talking about, and I think I found it: a post that's one year and four months old. It starts "Doug, feel free to delete this if it's improper or misplaced".
I think that might evince an intention on my part to stay within the rules. If it was a "spectacular rule break", I'm surprised to find that it wasn't deleted. I have no problem if it's deleted now, of course, any more than I did at the time. Most of my recent posts have been about planetary nomenclature in various threads. Before that, it appears my biggest burst of postings was on the occasion of Cassini's near flyby of Iapetus. As far as my posts on other issues go, as far as I can tell they were inoffensive, few, and within UMSF rules as they existed at the time. At this point I think I may be taking too seriously what started as a humorous observation of a quirky fact. I'm just a little baffled to find myself charged with crimes against UMSF at this late date. |
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Sep 6 2008, 09:25 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Hey, my friend Welcome back I was missing you. I'm here...for the despair of many...to make things worst I'm in a mood for wrestling...candidates? -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Sep 6 2008, 09:48 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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Sep 6 2008, 10:10 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
you're not a person who's posting I 'recognise' on the forum. Shaka, Centsworth, Ustrax, Stu - I know what I'm going to get when I see their name. Sometimes it makes me cringe, sometimes it makes me laugh. Cringe? -------------------- |
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Sep 6 2008, 10:22 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
In a good way.
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Sep 6 2008, 10:41 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Ah, gotcha. One of those many ways there are of cringing pleasantly.
I feel much better now. -------------------- |
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Sep 7 2008, 03:47 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 753 Joined: 23-October 04 From: Greensboro, NC USA Member No.: 103 |
I wanted to apologize to everyone if I got out of line. I was only trying to get clarity. I certainly apologize if my ham-handed attempts to do so resulted in the pulling of the Manned Spaceflight thread; that was inexcusable behavior on my part. I ask your forgiveness, and you can be assured that I will post nothing controversial from here forward.
I should have remembered Will Rogers' wise words: If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. -------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Sep 7 2008, 11:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1018 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
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Sep 8 2008, 05:23 PM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
I, for one, welcome again our old dictatorial overlords! Some day, we'll have to write a book "Doug's Rules of (Totalitarian) Order" for feeding and care of forums. I imagine they would be pretty relevant for other things too, like Astronomy clubs, that descend into parliamentary madness..
-------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Sep 8 2008, 05:26 PM
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UMSF.com is about Unmanned spaceflight... period!
There's only only "problem" with that, 75% of my Internet searches point to the forum Seriously, wish we had UMSF around in 1976 |
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Oct 7 2008, 07:29 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Despite quite clear rules, despite this very clear thread, despite very very direct and unquestionable instructions within the very thread in question, including
"If you can't discuss something without wandering into the fringes of politics - then don't discuss it here. " and "no politics means no politics" Someone posted "NASA is essentially operating under a 6 month continuing resolution to spring of next year (continuing at FY08 budget levels) until the new President submits a new budget, which may need to be approved through the legislative process. So this Friday's decision, if it is for continuation, may still be subject to political review." For those that can not figure it out for themselves - that post contains politics. Do you get it now? This member has had that post deleted, and is now serving a 7 day suspension. I'm not sure what it is going to take to get people to follow the rules - let this serve as an example to that member, and everybody - that no politics means no politics. If you're left thinking "But how can we talk about such-and-such without mentioning politics at all?" - the answer is that you shouldn't be talking about whatever it is that you somehow require politics to discuss. I will repeat this once again No politics, means no politics. No exceptions. Deletions, suspension, and bans will follow for those determined to ignore that rule and direct instructions from the admin/mod team. |
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Oct 8 2008, 07:29 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Totally unnecessary over-analysis of what is or isn't politics deleted (David - seriously - step away from the keyboard )
99.9% of the people here understand and follow this very very simple rule. That one or two people feel unable is down to them, and nothing else. If anyone really can not figure it out - if they have to resort to a dictionary to figure out what a ban on political discussion is - then sorry, UMSF is not for them. |
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Oct 8 2008, 06:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
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Oct 9 2008, 05:07 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1018 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
I've always thought of this place as 'planetary & solar spaceflight' rather than just umsf. The discussions are very heavily skewed that way. I'd claim the central thrust is even narrower than that; it's about amateur space/computer buffs sharing clever new visualizations of publicly-available raw data that data space probes have collected from other worlds. All on-topic discussion supports this one way or another. For example, the Falcon launches are intensely interesting because they're our best hope for all kinds of future missions. The rule I'm trying to make myself follow is: if you're not showing off a picture you made, talking about a picture someone else made, or providing information that'll eventually be useful (or at least interesting) to someone making a picture, then you're probably off-topic. --Greg |
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