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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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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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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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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Are these two similar questions ripe for merging?
Answers to my recent question How hard does atmospheric drag push on the ISS? Is it more than one pound? and the 2015 question What is the ISS drag? both provide numbers for the drag force that the ...
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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 ...