How Did You Find Us? Options

[jamescanvin]

After some recent posts in another thread about not advertising this place too much for fear of loons, I wondered just how people had come across this place.

I joined up on the very first day after AlexBlackwell posted an advert in one of the premier kook hangouts: sci.space.history. Luckly it must have pretty much slipped under the radar being new and all, I wouldn't recomend doing that again!

Just curious...

James

[elakdawalla]

I found it through the list of links on volcanopele's now-defunct Titan Today blog. --Emily

[tasp]

I originally found this site by googling "iapetus, equatorial, ridge, cassini" or some variation on that, last January.

I have lurked here very sporadically, and have lost track of this site repeatedly due to some computer problems at my end. I have posted quite a bit else where, under a different handle. In the unlikely event anyone cares, it would not be hard to figure out my interests, outer solar system objects and their histories, and space probes.

Have felt constrained at other sites (S/N thing) so am checking in here more often.

Impressive site. Hopefully I wont drive you all crazy.



Better animatroids here, too.

[TheChemist]

Someone put a link to the mer.rlproject.com down at space.com, a long time ago

[dilo]

I was looking for Huygens images better than just released official ones... starting from a italian astronomy forum and going through an amateur/forum-member site (I do not rimember who ).
I'm worried too for a trolls invasion (the mentioned forum now has this problem) but on the other hand we are probably missing important contribute from many people who do not knows this place!

[odave]

I was langushing in the Usenet desert, gulping down the few drops of real info that occasionally dripped into alt.sci.planetary, when dvandorn posted a message about Spirit imaging a dust devil back in March. He was very careful not to mention the rlproject URL, as to avoid a flood of Usenet crazies, but someone else posted it anyway. This place was exactly what I was looking for - thanks for the rescue

[dvandorn]

If I recall properly, I got an e-mail from Alex Blackwell, letting me know there was a new forum that could be an alternative for those of us who were tired of the signal-to-noise ratio out on Usenet.

I think I joined in the first few days the forum was in existence. I made a few posts, then got distracted... and ran across the bookmark again some months later. I've been pretty steadily active ever since.

-the other Doug

[deglr6328]

one word: Slashdot.

[alan]

I heard about it over at Mark Carey's forum. People would mention it 'the other mars forum' without giving the url. It took some googling to find it.

[Redstone]

Someone put a link to the mer.rlproject.com down at space.com, a long time ago

Funny, I just did a search for "rlproject" on space.com and the oldest post to mentioning the site there was one of yours. Hmmm...

(Actually, the MER forum was probably first mentioned there in the lost days before the Great Space.com Database Disaster of July 2004.)

I migrated here from space.com as well. The outstanding image analysis, high level of knowledge and most of all, friendly atmosphere, have kept me coming back.

[CosmicRocker]

I first learned of this foum on the #space channel on IRC. Actually, I think it was on one of its precursor channels, probably #maestro, which is now defunct. Links to the forum were/are sometimes posted there, since some similar topics are discussed.

[David]

I was looking for information about the MERs, more than I could get from the news, and with more commentary and interpretation than I could get from the JPL website. I saw a notice about what was then mer.rlproject.com posted in one of the sci.space groups on Usenet; when I checked it out, I was immediately hooked. I think I have checked for the latest news from Mars, and later from Saturn, almost every day since some time in February 2004. My Life On Mars.

[Harder]

Via Mark Carey. When I noted that Bruce Moomaw was actively participating here I stopped looking any further.

Peter

[MichaelT]

I found it through the list of links on volcanopele's now-defunct Titan Today blog.  --Emily

That's how I found it, too. Since that day in March 2005 I had a look almost daily and wouldn't want to miss it

Michael

[lyford]

I stumbled upon mer.rplproject ways back when.... I think it had something to do with Bad Astronomy's bulletin board (r.i.p.), though my memories are overshadowed by the wealth of imagery this forum has yielded.....

I now visit here daily... it's got the prime real estate position on my Safari Bookmarks Bar... right next to APOD.