Questions tagged [specific-question]
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Should nonsensical question titles be edited?
Recently this question was posted: Is the ISS a tennis racket?
I think the question itself is good, but the question title by itself does not make any sense without context. This makes it useless in ...
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Do I police this site as if it were my own?
This comment says:
@uhoh: That's good for you. It is very unclear to me, because your interpretation doesn't make sense, as other comments have pointed out. Not objective indeed, maybe you should ...
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How many variants of the “Was Karman wrong?” question is enough for one user?
In addition to my answer there, I've just added the comment
-1 "If von Kármán is right with his description of the Kármán line..." That sentence misrepresents ...
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Am I really “wasting people's time” by posting a KSP-related question, then answering it when there were 4 close votes?
Are Jool's moons' orbits stable? has had some focused attention; that the bodies are fictitious rather than hypothetical is the reason that the question needed to be closed if I understand ...
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Is this question really, truly off-topic while all of these other physics questions are on-topic?
The question Two 1000 kg gold spheres orbit their CM in near-contact, great way to measure G or limited by spaceflight issues? was put on hold for being off topic. It seems that using a spacecraft to ...
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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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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 voting to close a question for “primarily opinion-based answers” while answering with fact exercising faulty logic, or even gamesmanship?
The question Will Scotland require a space agency? Is there one in the works? was insta-closed, but not before one of the closers also wrote a well-received, fact-based answer to it.
I find the logic ...
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ICBM and space-related weapons questions have been on-topic, why change now?
The following few examples demonstrate that the topics of ICBMs and space-related weapons can be well-received on this site:
How to decide if the rocket most recently tested by North Korean is ...
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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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Plain language and clear and helpful explanation of what if anything is wrong with this April 2019 question
Most challenging aspects of a reusable satellite scheme like this? was posted in April 2019. There is now a collection of evolving complaints below it in comments that to me feel as though they are ...
