Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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I'm taking a leave of absence from moderating
Update 1/20/2020: called2voyage has resumed moderation, more info here.
I’ve wrestled for some time with how to approach this issue, but I’ve finally come to a decision. The bottom-line is that it ...
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Resources and references on the topic of space exploration
Which books, journals, articles, or electronic resources are considered a must-read by scientists, engineers, etc., involved in development and design of space missions?
I'm looking for the so-called ...
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Space.SE moderator resignation
Due to a highly turbulent situation, the moderator status network wide is very chaotic.
Main meta post:
Firing mods and forced relicensing: is Stack Exchange still interested in cooperating with the ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Returning to moderation
I've been giving a lot of thought to the question of resignation over the weekend, and one thing that kept going through my head was Jon Ericson's blog post. Despite what he had to say about ...
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Moderator Nominations
If your meta site does not have a post to nominate Moderators, start one now! Pro Tem appointments will begin about two weeks after the site is created. The more guidance we receive, the more informed ...
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Winter Bash 2016: Do we want hats?
It's that time of year again!
The year is rapidly coming to a close, which means even though we typically hate it, it’s time to have some fun...with hats! That’s right - it’s time for Winter Bash ...
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Rules for “Science Fiction” questions
Are there any rules we want to establish for science fiction-style questions (like this one)?
I know Physics.SE doesn't allow any Sci-Fi style questions in any form.
Do we want to adopt a policy ...
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Collection of space exploration related infographics
Infographics can be quite convenient sometimes, collating information from multiple sources and/or describing complex concepts in easy to understand and often visually pleasing way. Problem is, there ...
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What are ways that we can show 3D orbits and other 3D things in posts?
I probably spent half a day figuring out how to make each of the GIFs shown below. It was gratifying as is all of my procrastinatory behavior here in Stack Exchange, but the reason it was done like ...
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Regarding moderating the new Code of Conduct
To hopefully alleviate concerns regarding the new Code of Conduct, I want to explain how I intend to moderate regarding pronoun use.
When speaking generically, posts should use gender neutral ...
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Sponsorship proposal - the Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group
This meeting is held every year by LEAG, a division of NASA that oversees lunar exploration objectives. It is attended by the best in the area of lunar science and exploration.
This year I am going ...
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Where is our demarcation line between Space Exploration and Physics?
There are quite a number of question topics that could fit on either. Do we have thoughts on what will make a question better fit here or on Physics?
If it asks for mathematics, does that make it a ...
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How many Space Exploration Members are active in the space industry?
This question really has very little relevance, and truly is only being asked from my own curiosity but;
How many Space Exploration Stack Exchange members are active in the space industry?
To ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election Results
Space Exploration's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for ...
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Software tools for space exploration available online
There are a lot of calculators, simulators, plotters, visualizers, and libraries of bits of code and models and such online. Many of us are aware of a bunch of them, and they are great learning tools ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore Moderator election
Note: The election date was pushed back a month, due to some ongoing back-end work on the election mechanics, in order to automate some steps.
Summary: Space Exploration Stack Exchange will begin the ...
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What shall our canonical question and answer regarding moon hoax conspiracy theories be?
Official community answer regarding the reality of the Apollo moon landings here:
How do we know the Apollo Moon landings are real?
Overall voting, on both our questions here in Meta on how to handle ...
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How can we work to include more professional questions in this site?
So far, I've seen some great questions, mostly on the theoretical level. As Robert Cartaino mentioned on this question, we are lacking in questions in general that are "Real World" problems, the types ...
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Are we downvoting enough?
Stack Exchange has a built in system that blocks a user from asking more questions if their others have been low quality. From this Help Center page:
Stack Exchange has automatic filters in place ...
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This site has accessibility problems
In my opinion, too many questions and too many answers rely on images and videos. To be accessible to the visually impaired, authors who use images in their questions and answers should write ...
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What celestial mechanics questions are on topic here?
On our site we have the celestial-mechanics tag, which has 37 questions. We also have at least a few more questions beyond that that are also about celestial mechanics but have not been tagged.
I ...
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Worldbuilding's writing a blog post about TRAPPIST-1. What should we include in it?
From user HDE 226868,
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Yes, this meta question is on the right site. Trust me.
Worldbuilding Stack Exchange has a blog, and it was suggested that we put together a post about the recent ...
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What should our chat room's name be?
"Space Exploration" is the default name for our chat room, but that's a little on the bland side. What would be a fitting name for the default SpaceEx room?
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January 2020 Moderator Election — Community Interest Check
This community last had moderators appointed in 2017, so it's been a while... In addition to that, you may have noticed that one of the current mods — Hohmannfan — has stepped down from their ...
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Is it Starman or is it the Roadster?
After the test flight of the Falcon Heavy, we've gotten a flood of questions related to its wonderfully quirky payload. Before the launch, this payload was known as 'the Roadster', and we created a ...
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Do we want to touch the “moon hoax”?
There was recently a question from someone new who came just to ask about the 'obvious moon hoax'. I wouldn't be surprised if this has come up a bunch of other times. @Mark Bailey tried to save the ...
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Science in / vs space exploration - is there a boundary?
There is at least one question, which really bugs me: How hard is the Lunar surface?
Yes, this is science. Yes, it is planetary science. Yes, it is about space instruments, landings, engineering, ...
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Why edit other people's posts and undo their use of in-line links?
A new user performed a substantial suggested edit to another user's answer post, changing all the in-line links to numbered links with the urls themselves moved to the bottom of the post. I rejected ...
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Space.SE resolution: 1000+ questions by year end
I would like all of us to make one rather reasonable resolution, to ask at least 1000 questions by New Year's Day 2014. This is a perfectly reasonable number to target, and should be close to our ...
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What question concerning KSP are on topic?
Give the comments in this question Will Kerbal Space Program 2 have Lagrange points, halo orbits, and other 3-body goodies?, I wander what questions related to KSP are on topic.
I propose the ...
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Adding online capability to draw orbits within posts
This is a long-shot question:
User Experience SE users can draw Balsamiq mockups in their questions and answers.
Electrical Engineering SE users can draw schematics.
Maths and physics sites can use ...
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1,099 Unanswered Questions - What should we do, if anything?
I filtered by unanswered recently (no not just no accepted answer, not answered at all):
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=MostVotes&filters=NoAnswers&edited=true
It seems we ...
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Keeping out of censorship, politics, sex, and religion?
Should users with editorial powers go around and "fix" the following items:
an original poster's (frivolous or not) mention of the Lord (this);
personal pronouns (replacing "he" for s/he or she or ...
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Are we downvoting too much?
I've noticed a few questions lately where the question was downvoted because the questioner didn't understand the physics behind his question.
This one for example: a question about exceeding light ...
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Haaaaaaaaaaaaaats!
Stack Exchange last year did an end of the year party featuring special hats. They want to know if we want to do the same thing this year to our site. So, do we want hats?
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Is military use of space on topic? Is weaponry testing on topic?
There are military aspects of space exploration.
The space technology is hugely impacted by the military needs and applications on the levels of spacecraft designs, available technologies, ...
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Using the diaeresis ( ¨ ) in questions and answers?
Before this blows up in edit and comment wars (it is already happening), I want to get meta consensus on what to do.
One particular user prefers to use an uncommon variant spelling for certain words: ...
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When are questions regarding Python on topic here?
I only realized we have a python tag the other day when someone added the tag to several questions containing Python code, and then someone else disputed the validity of the tag. But now we have 17 ...
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Let's try and answer the unanswered questions!
Let's see what we can do to answer the unanswered questions. I was able to answer one about cryogenic propulsion recently, and I'm suspecting more can be answered. I'm going to place a few bounties on ...
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Should we have an [up-goer-five] tag?
A recent question included the following line:
Note that this question was translated into English by my father, who is the one typing it. I'm eight years old and I don't use SE unsupervised.
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Is this alright as a Community Ad? Any other proposals?
For a while we posted Community Ads on other Stack Exchange sites to boost our traffic a bit. The original ones, from this post can no longer be used because the size has changed, and for the most ...
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Do we need the [technology] tag?
I just noticed we have a technology tag. It's excerpt states this:
Questions relating to the use of technology to further space exploration.
I'm wondering what the community's opinion is on this ...
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Summer of Space
There are 3 large potentially helpful sources of questions that are going on right now. I suggest we take as much advantage of them as possible, to see if we can get this site promoted to the next ...
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What term should be used for *naut?
While I do not object to the use of astronaut as inclusive of cosmonauts, taikonauts (which Wikipedia indicates is a media term with limited use), astronauts "proper", and any other 'naut, even within ...
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What is the status of Space SE's beta rating?
What is the status of Space SE's beta rating as of January 2016, and when will we become a fully graduated site?
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How could us moderators improve?
I'm a freshman in all this moderation business, at least as far as Stack Exchange moderation goes. If you look at the date when us pro tempore moderators were selected by the community managers, it ...
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Should we have a canonical response for folks intent on blowing themselves up?
Inspired by this question and others I've seen like it. Do we want to steer clear of advising people who are asking questions about performing experiments that are clearly dangerous beyond their ...
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Winter Bash 2014 Hat Dash Yay or Nay?
Remember last year's Haaaaaaaaaaaaaats!? Stack Exchange is going to repeat it this year, and asked us if we want it on Space Exploration, too.
What is it?
Winter Bash is an annual event that can run ...
