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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What shall our canonical question and answer regarding moon hoax conspiracy theories be?
Overall voting, on both our questions here in Meta on how to handle our steady trickle of questions regarding supposed evidence we never went to the Moon, seem to show that as a community we'd prefer ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Is there a way to tell how much the Apollo 11 50th anniversary bumped traffic to the site?
It seems to me that there was an uptick, but I don't know how to tell.
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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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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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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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Rename the [bfr] tag
We've have the enigmatic spacex project that was tentatively called the BFR, or Big F[alcon] Rocket. Elon Musk likes to shoot from the hip and the F means something else. Unsurprisingly, they didn't ...
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Did the editing of this post go way overboard, like “six-sigma” overboard?
A recent question has gone through an aggressive and almost continuous revision process even though:
An answer was posted soon after the question was posted
OP was reminded several times on this ...
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Is this apparently recurring problem with links just a coincidence? Anyone else seen it?
This proposed edit to repair a few spaces in front of a link (shown there as "http://%20%20http//library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf" is the third time in the last week I've seen ...
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Let's get critical: Oct 2013 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Space Exploration Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google,...
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Topic of the Week H2/2013 [duplicate]
This was the Topic of the Week thread for 2013. The current thread is here. Please post new suggestions there!
One of the things that Stack Exchange in general has found effective is to devote a week ...
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Ideas for off-site Space Exploration community promotion ads
This is not a thread for community ads that would rotate on our own main site, those banner rotations are reserved for already graduated Stack Exchange webistes. However, nobody is stopping us from ...
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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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Why doesn't Space.SE have an icon?
Some SE sites have icons and emblems while others do not. At first glance the SE sites with icons seem more established. Why doesn't Space.SE use icons yet? What would make a good icon?
What creative ...
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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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Are enthusiasts being discouraged?
So far we have questions such as getting more professional questions and a few others that i could link to here on meta.
Whilst I am in agreement that getting a higher quantity of professional ...
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Is extraterrestrial planetary exploration (eg. Mars, Europa, Enceladus, Titan) on-topic in Space Exploration?
"Space" in space exploration could mean many different things to many different people here.
For example, I would say that almost everything that the NASA JPL does with government or corporate ...
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Policy on recycling example questions from Area 51
I've not followed a proposal all the way though beta before. We have example questions that are submitted in the definition phase.
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/43283/space-exploration?...
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Are stratospheric balloons on-topic?
NASA, ESA, DLR, CNES all have stratospheric balloon programmes. Technically, they don't reach space, only the stratosphere. However, they're commonly used to test space equipment, and the view from ...
