@Undo I didn't really get the impression that we're being ignored, actually far from it, but I believe it was mentioned (by Anna Lear IIRC) that Robert wasn't available for some time, or something like that? Could be that's the reason for some "delays"?
But I didn't notice any pressing issues with the Q&A, and it's probably quite normal that we're still struggling a bit with our definition, it's just a young website... You had anything specific in mind?
@Tildal The request for Manish to merge one of the questions from Physics over to here, only to find we don't have mods to do it here, having to have the community team handle any moderation-y thing, etc. have been getting to me :)
Oh... I see, yes I remember that. And I have a few questions / suggestions for the next time one of the SE community mods will be around, but I'm in no hurry... if it won't happen this week, then I'll ask a new question on our meta or mSO
@JonEricson Actually, you can probably multitask :) I have a few questions... 1st - is that @StackSpaceExp our "official" Twitter address?
2nd - Would it be too early to create a community ads post on meta, but - while in beta - limit it to promoting our own features better (Twitter page, Weekly Newsletter, Blog (??),...)?
@TildalWave We are inboarding several new hires ("Hi there!") and it's taking a little longer than normal to get tasks done. (Hopefully, the trade will be that future tasks will be a lot quicker. ;)
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@JonEricson Cheers! Tho, I guess, that'd only serve to promote Space Exploration (if upvoted enough)... how about our newsletter and twitter page? Should I just post some meta question as a reminder to all, that we do have them?
But external participation is going to be more important. Short of inviting rocket scientists to answer some questions, asking questions for Google to discover (and making sure they get answered somehow) is probably the best thing y'all can do.
@JonEricson meh, just look up for 2 minutes, assume at least one of the Perseid meteors burnt in the upper atmosphere and make a wish anyway... half of the stuff I get with my cam are moths and airplanes also LOL
Tonight (Aug 12 2013) is the annual peak of the Perseid meteor shower.
Since meteors are chunks of rock flying through the atmosphere at crazy high speeds, I'm wondering if there are any considerations for the launching of space flights on and around this time, as it is generally detrimental to...
@JonEricson This might be a terrible thing to ask, but I'm working on an iOS SE app and was wondering if anyone at SE would like to help test it - I completely understand if no one wants to, but just wanted to throw that out there...
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Please, if the question needs to be (down voted and) closed, can you find a valid reason for closure as this is not a duplicate question? One asks for the mass launched into Space. My question asks how much mass was required to make those launchs possible. Granted, it may not be the best question...
@JohnB Me neither ... they add some value to making answers easier to find, and is essentially two differently worded questions pointing to same, or sometimes even a few more answers.
@JohnB There was a lot of confusion with that question, and dare I say OP didn't get up on the right side of the bed that day either... or I was completely misunderstood for some other reasons, whichever the case. But it was later edited by others to read almost exactly as the one it's marked a duplicate of, so in that narrow frame of time, the close votes were possibly spot on.
@JohnB I tried suggesting on mSO that we should get a chance to review our close vote reasons even before the questions are closed (but edited in the meantime), but I obviously wasn't heard :(
I honestly hope the second point will only be a factor on the same revision. If the post was edited in the meantime, that really shouldn't prevent you from acting according to it's new contents. Some Stack Exchange websites don't have as many reviewers for this not to cause a problem or needlessly add to their respective moderators' workload. — TildalWaveJun 11 at 14:55
That was before the new changes to review system were in effect. And I still think it would make sense... someone also commented that we should be notified if the post was in the meantime edited, so we could review our own votes, which is also a good suggestion IMO
Thinking of which, that could be a question - How often has it occurred that a meteor hit an orbiting satellite, space station or a laboratory, and what are estimates such can happen for satellites in LEO, GSO,... Would anyone care to ask it, if you think it's any good? I'm off to bed so you can all breathe a little bit easier without me hijacking the chat with my tosh :)
@RhysW I'm trying to help out guys in the DMZ with that user ramjet... talking in Belarus now LOL, I think he's now appreciating what we were trying to say better., but I do hope my translations make a bit more sense than his English
@RhysW No luck, only moths, bats and airplanes :( I didn't have a good position either, and I wasn't bothered to place the tripod outside. The Perseids were coming from close to zenith, and I couldn't get a clear view of the whole sky. But frankly, I didn't see that many either, I think it was a bit too early and Americans will get the best shots
Tell you what, last night was awesome for shooting stars. We sat out with all the kids and neighbours until midnight. Saw an incredible number of shooting stars, the ISS and eight satellites (think two were Iridium)
The literary canon question was migrated from the main site to meta.
On the main site, the answer that I started is CW.
On the meta site, the answer that I started is not CW.
Why does my answer lose CW status upon the question being migrated?
We have two tags, space-sickness and motion-sickness on the main site, in the context of Space Exploration both describing same range of symptoms known as space adaptation syndrome a.k.a. space motion sickness.
Any objections to making these two tag synonyms? I felt I had to reject one suggested...
I saw this question:
Mostly this question (and some earlier knowledge about food & drink behaviour in space) made me think that which are those foods that would mean a serious threat for people in space?
My two ideas are: foods that make a lot of crumbs (like chips) since those are float...
We have two tags, space-sickness and motion-sickness on the main site, in the context of Space Exploration both describing same range of symptoms known as space adaptation syndrome a.k.a. space motion sickness.
Any objections to making these two tag synonyms? I felt I had to reject one suggested...
I saw this question:
Mostly this question (and some earlier knowledge about food & drink behaviour in space) made me think that which are those foods that would mean a serious threat for people in space?
My two ideas are: foods that make a lot of crumbs (like chips) since those are float...
I like that the site looks much more alive today :) You're all pushing those share buttons, right? :P
@ManishEarth Is it possible to include in chat room feeds a twitter page? I think that'd make feed management a lot simpler, at least for stuff on twitter.
I.e. make a new twitter account, follow with it anything of interest here, add it to the room feeds
@ManishEarth Dunno, I'm not often there TBH... I use widgets :P
@ManishEarth No no... I mean one of the room owners (@RhysW in our case) creates a new Twitter account, then add its RSS/Atom feed to the feeds here, and use the Twitter account to add future feeds instead (by simply "following" other feeds)
Two parts to this: Figure out how to get an RSS feed for a given twitter handle, and figure out how to pipe feeds to a twitter account. They seem doable. I can't say how to do them though :P
@ManishEarth hmmm no. I meant to manage feeds in our chatroom easier... some feeds we have don't make much sense, as we get updates for February next year, and are not reminded of upcoming stuff... I thought that by reusing Twitter feeds instead, this could be made simpler?
oh... this has already been addressed, sorry I was distracted by my cat LOL
@ManishEarth but they come in here as they are posted in feeds... which is sometimes completely off with their dates of events... I thought if we use twitter following instead, feeds might be more time relevant?
of course, we'd need to make sure that it wouldn't needlessly spam our chat room, so only follow highly relevant targets
@ManishEarth That worldwide launch schedule, for example... the feed was updated to include launch in February next year just a few minutes ago, but we didn't get any update on the launch that's due in next week, short of having it fed to us "en gross" when @RhysW added the feed
@ManishEarth Not so easily pleased myself... now you have to got to IT Security and ask, if writing 42's to your entire disk makes it safe-erase unallocated sectors and if 54's instead woul make any difference!
So anyway I'm analysing the overlap of non-sinusoidal waveforms (that contain strong harmonics) with themselves at varying frequencies. I'm getting some strange results, and it seems to be like chaotic behavior with the fixed points as a subset of the notes
Well it's really interesting pet project IMO. I've always wondered how did our forefathers build flutes so much time ago... was it trial and error after having an initial inspiration from nature (bones, bamboo sticks,...), or a genuine insight into things we wouldn't normally attribute to "cavemen"
@TildalWave Even the FluteAn function is an integral of an idealized Flute waveform I created by data pulled off the Net. After this analysis I'll take the fourier transform of actual waveforms (me playing a flute, singing, a friend playing a violin, etc)
@Undo Technically the explanation only works well if you take the Indian or Chinese octaves/chromatic scales. The reason Western music sounds good is that its notes are approximately equal to the notes of the other two
@Undo Basically, what happens is that musical instuments play notes that contain harmonics too. So a note of frequency f also contains 2f and 3f and all
As it is December 2012, we are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.
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Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting pro...
Tonight (Aug 12 2013) is the annual peak of the Perseid meteor shower.
Since meteors are chunks of rock flying through the atmosphere at crazy high speeds, I'm wondering if there are any considerations for the launching of space flights on and around this time, as it is generally detrimental to...
