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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Why is this question about science on Venus off-topic?
Why is the question With no acid cloud deck surrounding Venus, would the poles be much colder than the equator ? put on hold as off-topic?
Isn't the question about planetary science and as such on-...
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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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What is the reason for the absence of 40 minute delay to ask questions?
In some other StackExchange networks, I am currently in, for example in Mathematics and Chemistry, I am able to post questions successively only after a delay of 40 minutes. But here on Space ...
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What's best to do about questions that might not be answerable for a few months?
Two recent questions have comments suggesting that there might be something wrong about posting questions that some users feel are not immediately answerable:
Why can't the VIPER lunar rover recharge ...
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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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Why do we have so many posts in the chat room written for computer programmers?
In the last five hours the Pod Bay has
Stack Overflow Podcast #126 – The Pros and Cons of Programming with ADHD
My Most Embarrassing Mistakes as a Programmer (so far)
and about 24 hours ago:
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“[shuttle]” tag appeared, seems redundant to “[space-shuttle]”
This month a couple of questions have used the shuttle tag. Both were clearly asking about STS which is covered by [space-shuttle]. I've edited both questions and replaced the tag; can [shuttle] be ...
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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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Should [dragon-v2] and [crew-dragon] be merged?
SpaceX really likes to rename things and the crewed Dragon capsule is no exception
The problem is we have dragon-v2
SpaceX's second version of the Dragon spacecraft, also called "Crew Dragon". It ...
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How to best support the reduced moderation team
given the current disruption to the moderation team, how can users best support the volunteers in their site activity. My guesses are:
be less vigilant - the working members of the team are likely to ...
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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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Why was this question so quickly put on hold, and without comments, guidance, or suggestions?
What does this NASA administrator's tweeted statement mean? What is the context?
Question: Would a similar statement about taxpayer money used in SLS/Boeing or the JWST (delays and cost overruns ...
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How did we end up with a hypothetical tag? Should we keep it, or not?
Lo and behold, we have a hypothetical tag! I spotted it on this hypothetical question but it's on three questions total.
Hypothetical questions can sometimes be asked here if the answer can be based ...
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What would be proper site hygiene for large image hot linking?
I saw that this answer now has a single hot linked 8 MB GIF.
If I understand correctly, anyone viewing this page will have their device sent to Wikipedia to download the image promptly.
8M isn't a ...
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Could a 'puzzler' or 'quiz' type tag prevent kneejerk downvoting?
(This question does not apply to questions where the question-asker asks and answers their own question, that's clearly OK and even encouraged)
There have been some questions, for example
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What's up with the [tag:structure]?
Just saw [structure] was used the other day and had 5 entries, anyone have objections if I remove this tag and add more specific ones to the entries in question? Mainly:
Why aren't rockets built ...
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Can the tag [specfications] be spelt correctly
There are 7 questions in this tag, but it is not spelt correctly. It looks a bit illiterate at the moment. It should be spelt specifications, and probably does not need to be pluralised.
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Why was my flagging a Dunning-Kruger effect comment declined?
I flagged the comment:
"Most of the things are done." No they're not. Not even close. You are so far from being done that it is impossible to know just how incredibly far from being done ...
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Do we need the ORBITAL tag?
I think almost all (if not all) of the 18 instances of the orbital tag could be replaced with orbital-mechanics or just be removed. There's only one question where it is the only tag currently present....
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planetary science: overlap with Astronomy SE
The help pages for both this site and the astronomy site say that "planetary science" is on topic. Could we refine our help page to guide new users to one site or the other?
For instance, here we ...
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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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Is Sci-Hub a stolen data site and does this pose a problem for recommending a Sci-Hub link?
In a discussion in comments below this answer I said things to the effect that if you want recommend someone click on a Sci-Hub link you should also mention that Sci-Hub is based (in part) on stealing ...
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Are meaningless link titles like “Source” sub-optimal, leaving the answer unrepairable if a link rots/breaks?
Consider the three options:
Source
Source: NASA TM X-2525
Source: NASA TM X-2525: Atlas-Centaur AC-17 Performance for Applications Technology Satellite ATS-D Mission
I tend to use option #3 because ...
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When the real answer may only be in links within comments below the answer, what to do or say?
This answer to What radio frequencies were used by the Soviet space program circa 1961? (“Lost Cosmonaut” recording) contains a lot of relevant perspective, and is authored by a user who regularly ...
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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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FYI - Beta Graduation
I just posted Will the recent flush of Beta graduations impact sites that meet criteria? on meta.stackexchange and specifilly pointed out that Space Exploration has been meeting the graduation ...
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Three-body versus CR3BP tags; combine them?
The three-body tag (5 questions) has the best name, but the tag info is written like a full tag Wiki rather than an excerpt. I think it can be shortened.
The cr3bp tag (7 questions) has an admittedly ...
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Should one of these be closed as a duplicate of the other? If so, which one?
Two well written, well received questions each with several well written, well received answers. Each now has one close vote as a duplicate of the other.
January 2019 Why are probes that tend to ...
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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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Okay if I re-ask this Space Exploration-related question from Astronomy SE here?
The well-received question in Astronomy SE What is the maximum transmission distance of the radio signal in the outer space which could still be understood? was asked in November of 2013 and so is way ...
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Are second-person edits supposed to push a question to the main page?
A new user asked "When do rockets push back on matter?", which as originally written seemed to push a particular point of view, rather than pose a genuine question. It subsequently garnered a large ...
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Does Space Exploration worth its price? Community wiki suggestion
We have here a question with the title
How much did all the space agencies spent on rockets launching and space exploration? Does it worth it? What are the benefits for me and you?
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asked Jul 20 '19 at 23:58
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How to ask a question which has exclusively opinionated answers?
I'd like to get the opinions of members valued here on a specific topic and want to ask an opinionated question which cannot have a correct answer. This is usually not a good idea due to this site's ...
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Example of dysfunctional question closing and answering?
There are good, thorough answers that can not be posted to the question Time taken for moon landing because the question is currently closed.
This is because @JanDoggen voted to close as duplicate ...
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can we do away with the 'trajectories' tag and just keep 'trajectory'?
According to this answer there can be issues when there are two tags which are singular and plural form of the same term.
However it seems we have both trajectory and trajectories.
It looks like the ...
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Are these questions good candidates for merging?
There are two overlapping questions, each with one or more good quality and well-received answer.
Are there any CubeSats that have been launched into Geostationary (GEO/GSO) or Geostationary Transfer ...
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Is “unclear what you're asking” close reason just a catch-all for your own close reason, or does it mean what it says?
I object to closing how to find the value of a? for "unclear what you are asking" because the question is obviously perfectly clear.
I think that definition creep is dangerous because once users see ...
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Were the moderators flagged by this user's “minor” edits? Did they find it irritating?
The question Who did I irritate enough for someone to mass downvote some of my answers? has a few answers, and discussion in comments under one of them suggest that the user's edits could be "...
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Are questions about Operation Fishbowl on-topic here?
Operation Fishbowl was a 1962 series of nuclear-weapon tests involving the launching of nuclear warheads into space using rockets and detonating them there, basically to see what would happen.
Given ...
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Who did I irritate enough for someone to mass downvote some of my answers?
I've been recently editing a few questions & answers on this StackExchange project again, as per my mantra of there's only one space in SpaceX.
I clearly must have irritated someone with these ...
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Synonym [accident] to [failure]
I ran across accident today. It has 23 questions and no excerpt or wiki. But we already have failure (87 questions, 1 overlap), which is already the synonym for [launch-failure], [failed-mission] and [...
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Created “reduced-gravity-manufacturing” tag but then noticed “manufacture” tag exists, what to do?
I just created a reduced-gravity-manufacturing tag to go along with the reduced-gravity-sports and reduced-gravity-cooking tags and then enthusiastically added it to eight questions.
On the last one ...
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Is this question truly off-topic? Or are people just (over) reacting to the “may be better suited” comment?
The author of the comment addressed to me
This may be better suited to a geology or physics site.
says they didn't vote to close, but the comment seems to have none-the-less triggered some ...
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Is my answer being sabotaged?
I propose the following:
The block quoted text in the question Can someone help Scott Manley explain this capture maneuver? is inarticulate and pretty much meaningless in terms of explaining ...
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Best use of the 'separation' and 'stage-separation' tags
separation 11 questions
stage-separation 14 questions
both tags: no questions at the moment
The meaning of stage-separation is probably straightforward, but what ...
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Identify-this-object tag potentially misapplied? Should it be slightly broadened in scope?
It was called to my attention in since-deleted comments below this answer that I might have mis-applied the identify-this-object tag a few times.
Current definition:
Questions which ask for an ...
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Can we merge [falcon9-r] into [falcon-9]?
There's currently both a falcon-9 and a falcon9-r tag. As far as I can see, falcon-9 is the generic tag for the Falcon 9 rocket, and falcon9-r is specifically for the reusable version (and was ...
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Is voting to close of this question warranted or at least defensible, or was this a bit reckless?
The question What were some of the first two stage rockets flown? has just been put on hold as duplicate to When did the concept of “stages” enter rocketry?.
I feel this was a bit of reckless voting,...
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Best way to ask this potentially broad question?
I am pondering asking a question on main which could turn out to be overly broad in scope. Below is the question for reference:
Title:
Human-rating the Saturn V using modern standards
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Would ...
