Meme: Canonical Time Zone
Originator: Unknown
Cultural Height: Early 2011
Background: American hubris on the part of our East cost users resulted in blanket declarations that EDT/EST (UTC-4/5) would be considered the de facto timezone of The DMZ. This was brought upon by inconsistent time of d...
@ManishEarth I think it's still fairly visible (not too many topics on meta) so maybe later when more people join and have a chance of adding suggestions?
I have heard about people paying lots of money, to become Russian astronauts, essentially space tourists. In 2013 is still possible to buy your way into space. If so, who can someone sign up with?
I wrote a first program that simulates a solar system. I was able to calculate the locations for every planet on its elliptical route for any given time.
In a second program i managed to simulate newtonian gravitational behavior (n-body problem, time-step approach).
But i'm wondering how it is...
I have heard about people paying lots of money to become Russian cosmonauts, essentially space tourists. Is it still possible to buy your way into space? What sort of training would be required for a "space tourist"?
i was going to suggest not making it about specifically that instance, and more about how to keep any object orbiting around an unstable point, but then it blurs the line between this and physics, perhaps having a specific example related solely to exploration keeps it more stable for being on here
I think we all know that James Webb Space telescope is planned to be launched in 2018. It has been decided that the orbit of JWST will be elliptically around the Lagrange point L2, which has been declared as one of the unstable points (L1, L2, L3).
So, why should it orbit the point then?
I've g...
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It seems that some maintain the existence of a "planet X" is all but science fiction, while others claim that its existence is a possibility, even if that's a relatively remote one. Others take this further and make the argument that its existence is likely. Is there a compelling case that such a...
Yup, i was surprised, most people been keeping it down all day
perhaps i just missed them while i was travelling from work
I think we are going to have a hard time convincing people this is a site about space exploration, and just because someone has a question about something that happens to be in space, it doesnt mean its on topic here
the fact that we are space.stackexchange doesnt help us prove this point either
'How big was the ship' bad, 'Was the size of ship X paramount to its maneouverability and exploration capabilities' is more likely to be ontopic however
i will probably put myself up for nomination in a year or so in one of the elections, will have atleast finished my self taught class from an open university on planets and other parts of space by then
until then im just another guy who 'likes space' :P
though you dont need to know alot to be a moderator, you just need to know whats on and off topic, whats rude and making sure to deal with thigns raised by the community, being a mod doesnt mean 'i know everythig there is to know and can answer any and all questions'
I just put in a tag wiki edit request for humans because the current questions are all human physiology. I then saw a question tagged health that is also about human physiology.
I am wondering which tag to use for questions specifically relating to the physical capabilities of humans in space.
Please collect your tag synonym requests here, to keep it all in one nice convenient spot. Basically, if you see two tags that are identical or nearly so, please let us know here so it can be fixed.
Upvote if you agree it should be done as suggested, comment otherwise.
Once we get out of the private beta and have our own mods we will need to think about the custom close reasons that each site has.
This might be a good time to throw some ideas out there as to what we think should be our custom ones.
Try to keep each suggestion to one post, to allow voting on ...
We don't need to have an answer to this now. It's just a good thing to start thinking about soon.
What should our FAQ contain?
For example and inspiration, here's Super User's FAQ:
Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users.
If you have a question about …
computer...
plus if you wait a bit after hitting cap it invites other people to have a crack at answering, and other people investing their time into the site i find to be much more rewarding when they stick around than just a few extra numbers!
Meme: Canonical Time Zone
Originator: Unknown
Cultural Height: Early 2011
Background: American hubris on the part of our East cost users resulted in blanket declarations that EDT/EST (UTC-4/5) would be considered the de facto timezone of The DMZ. This was brought upon by inconsistent time of d...
I have heard about people paying lots of money, to become Russian astronauts, essentially space tourists. In 2013 is still possible to buy your way into space. If so, who can someone sign up with?
I wrote a first program that simulates a solar system. I was able to calculate the locations for every planet on its elliptical route for any given time.
In a second program i managed to simulate newtonian gravitational behavior (n-body problem, time-step approach).
But i'm wondering how it is...
I think we all know that James Webb Space telescope is planned to be launched in 2018. It has been decided that the orbit of JWST will be elliptically around the Lagrange point L2, which has been declared as one of the unstable points (L1, L2, L3).
So, why should it orbit the point then?
I've g...
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 our choice. Moderator Pro Tempore
Each nomination should be a separate answer. Link the na...
I just put in a tag wiki edit request for humans because the current questions are all human physiology. I then saw a question tagged health that is also about human physiology.
I am wondering which tag to use for questions specifically relating to the physical capabilities of humans in space.
Once we get out of the private beta and have our own mods we will need to think about the custom close reasons that each site has.
This might be a good time to throw some ideas out there as to what we think should be our custom ones.
Try to keep each suggestion to one post, to allow voting on ...
We don't need to have an answer to this now. It's just a good thing to start thinking about soon.
What should our FAQ contain?
For example and inspiration, here's Super User's FAQ:
Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users.
If you have a question about …
computer...
