The Pod Bay

TildalWave

00:07

@JonEricson hmmm I think it would then simply be better to keep "dust" and have it as another synonym to the other two "space-dust" and "cosmic-dust" because they would pop-up as suggestions to use instead of, and the other two prefixes hopefully suggest there are other "dust" possible related tags. Maybe we could edit their descriptions such that it's even more clear, mention "regolith" in the description of the others. Another option is of course we simply don't complicate and retag ourselves.

@Undo I agree with both. The question needs some rephrasing and reflect space application in the title, but it is an important aspect of current tech we're sending up there and conditions to rechargeable batteries are a lot different than at normal atmospheric pressure

Undo

@TildalWave OK, thanks!

I'm leaning on the not-here side, but that's just me

TildalWave

But it does read almost like spam for the moment... I know, it's just awkward wording and we probably all do it - well, not mods obviously, we're infallible :P

I guess @Pearson wasn't wearing his hat at the moment of writing it :)

Jon Ericson

@TildalWave If dust is a synonym for regolith, it will be suggested if you start to type "dust". So will space-dust (or cosmic-dust if that's the canonical tag). Try asking a "Cascading Style Sheets" question on SO, to see what I mean.

Undo

Oh - I forgot that the diamond is the pinnacle of perfection. Now that I look at it, the battery question is the best question on the site and everything else is rubbish :D

TildalWave

@JonEricson Ah yes you're right. OK, then as you said. :)

@Undo hehehe yes it's the "ask not what your country can do for you..." paradigm ;)

Undo

00:23

@TildalWave Input needed: What Meta.SO memes could I use on a loading screen for my app?

TildalWave

so you should be asking how can you improve the question so you can then feel confident in upvoting it :=)

Undo

Other than the obvious waffles and unicorns, of course.

TildalWave

@Undo I'm not the best one to ask this, I didn't even know about the waffles one until you used it in mod nominations... and I still laugh every now and then when getting 404's

but I'm fairly familiar with Sec.SE memes

Undo

@TildalWave Well, what are some Sec.SE memes? I'll take anything I can get!

TildalWave

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Q: The Memes of IT Security

There are memes common to whole Stack Exchange. But after spending some time in The DMZ it becomes evident that IT Security has it's own memes (e.g. rory). I therefore propose that this space be used to document the memes endemic to IT Security's culture. One meme per answer please.

discussion

Undo

00:43

@TildalWave Thanks!

TildalWave

02:21

I have problem finding how would artificial satellite based interplanetary communications relay orbits be called? Double-synchronous orbit? Fully synchronous orbit? What I mean is you have 2 satellites, each in orbit around different planets, and they have such orbits that they always face each other, so probably both Sun locked and their perihelion and aphelion adjusting for planetary orbital position and radial velocity. I'm not sure this is even possible, but would like to get an overview.

Stack Exchange

04:38

Stack Exchange

06:20

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Q: Could we possibly have a site glossary?

This is my reply to How should abbreviations be handled?. It is here posted as a dedicated question for the site community to discuss, and hopefully (+: approve. If the Stackexchange framework supports the process the site glossary may be a blog-post, or even simply a specific question with the ...

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Hash

07:08

@TildalWave i think i have an answer to your question on ariene 6

Hash

10:16

@TildalWave i added a tag wiki now :)

Hash

11:25

@PearsonArtPhoto hi its a great pleasure to talk to you :)

PearsonArtPhoto

How's it going?

Hash

@PearsonArtPhoto its great

@PearsonArtPhoto there are still many tags without tag wiki

PearsonArtPhoto

There are quite a few.

Hash

@PearsonArtPhoto but there are many in last pages

PearsonArtPhoto

11:41

Honestly, I just don't care that much about tag wikis. The short blurbs, I care a bit, the main body, not really at all...

Rory Alsop

13:38

@Hash - if you want to write tag wikis, there is a badge for it, I think

Hash

@RoryAlsop i don't know about that :D

Recently AlenSE accepted my answer to a bounty question as correct but i have not received the bounty point is there anything behind this ?

Undo

@Hash Bounties are independent of acceptance.

Is Deer Hunter back?

CAIB Volume 1 page 41. — Deer Hunter 58 secs ago

Hash

13:57

@Undo that sounds great

:-(

Undo

@Hash What?

Hash

14:28

@Undo will there be any other separate option to offer the bounty points ?

Undo

@Hash The bounty will get awarded to whoever the bounty-er chooses. If they don't choose someone, then the highest-voted answer will get half of it.

@Hash See this:

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Q: How does the bounty system work?

What is a bounty? What is the "Featured" tab on the homepage? How can I search for questions that have a bounty attached? How do I start a bounty? When can I start a bounty? How long is the bounty period? How do I award a bounty? Can I award a bounty to my own answer? Can I award a bounty to an ...

support faq bounty

Hash

14:47

@Undo thanks that helpped me a lot :)

TildalWave

15:46

@PearsonArtPhoto Yup, we should worry more about the Q&A, and tag wikis can be answers on their own. We'll deal with that after graduation, it'd be IMO an awful waste of our human resources if we tried to make a Space Exploration bible in those tag wikis. Excerpts should do for the time being ;)

Crazy Buddy

16:57

So, y'all planning to earn the research assistant badge... Eh? Mmmm...

Rory Alsop

17:08

So anyway:

►

what a lovely sight

Jon Ericson

@RoryAlsop Indeed.

In other news, Deep Impact may be in trouble.

Undo

Question: How did Pearson figure out that this edit was plagarization? Google it? Are weird line breaks a giveaway?

Or: what is the recommended procedure for finding plagarization?

Rory Alsop

@Undo the usual route is to google for the exact text, if it looks unlike that users normal language usage

Undo

Seems like something that should be built into the system - a little warning that says something like a search for this exact text yeilded x results

Tag excerpts should be long enough to be unique in the interwebs, right? Googled with quotes, it shouldn't turn up anything.

Undo

@Hash Could I have a word with you?

JohnB

17:21

@Undo I think he always checks, I've seen him reject for that reason before

not sure if it was here on another site

Undo

@JohnB I can see global review history, and yes, it appears he always checks.

@JohnB Think it would be good to mention it to Hash?

Just kind of a heads-up thing

JohnB

@Undo probably, since I don't think you are notified if your suggestion gets rejected. He probably doesn't know what he is doing is wrong

Undo

@Hash Looking through your suggestion history, it seems that many of your recent edits have been rejected for plagarization - copying content that other people wrote, and not giving them credit.

For example, your edit to the cosmic-radiation tag excerpt says this:

> Questions regarding cosmic radiation which is a very high-
> energy particles mainly
> originating outside the Solar
> System

A Google search for that text in quotes turns up this:

> Cosmic rays are very high-energy particles, mainly originating outside the Solar System.[1]

from this Wikipedia page

From this, it appears that you copied most of the excerpt suggestion straight from Wikipedia.

It's not a terribly huge thing, but it really should stop - you/we could conceivably get in legal trouble if the original authors of the content found out.

JohnB

~

I am hungry

Undo

Thanks - it's nice having a mod around to nuke things.

@JohnB I recommend cookies.

JohnB

17:31

I have no cookies

Undo

D:

How about bananas?

JohnB

I'm at work, so there's water and coffee

Undo

You should bring some cookies ~~tomorrow~~ monday.

No strikethrough in chat?

JohnB

revisionist history!

um, three hyphens surrounding ~~I think~~

Undo

There.

Undo

17:50

50 helpful flags!

TildalWave

@Undo re that last flag. The procedure is to simply flag it as low quality, and it will then enter the low quality review queue for others to review it. When they'd be reviewing it, they have an option to add comments from the selection of templates, one of which very similar to the one I just posted a comment on that answer. ;)

> While this link may answer the question, it is better to include the essential parts of the answer here and provide the link for reference. Link-only answers can become invalid if the linked page changes.

This is one template... and the system checks that others haven't already posted this comment, so it doesn't duplicate.

Of course, you can always just add the comment on your own :P

Undo

18:20

@Tildal 1. Probably not a good idea to publicize people's flags (I'm fine with it, but others may not be) 2. The very low quality flag option doesn't show on positively voted posts. 3. Comments bear more weight coming from mods - I'm a lowly user.

But yes, I probably should have at least left a comment :)

TildalWave

@Undo 1. don't worry about it, raising a flag is not a declaration of hostility towards the post 2. oh 3. you might be right there

@Undo there's no such thing as "lowly users" on SEx.SE... unless of course you meant "lovely users", then I'd have to agree

BTW don't forget we have the LADEE launch tonight (well, early tomorrow morning for the other side of The Pond)

JohnB

18:40

@TildalWave which side of the Pond are you on?

TildalWave

@JohnB the right one

JohnB

as in the correct one or the right side?

TildalWave

both :P

JohnB

how dare you!!

TildalWave

hehe

@JohnB you're west coast, right?

JohnB

18:45

@TildalWave East, it's currently 14:44 here

TildalWave

@JohnB if you're anywhere at least semi-close to Virginia then you might be able to see it launch on your night skies... night launches are pretty cool because of that IMO

JohnB

@TildalWave few hours north unfortunately!

TildalWave

then you'll have to settle with watching a live stream... anyway, it won't be Saturn V, but since it's NASA's mission, it's still getting a lot of press

BTW that JAXA's Epsilon launch... the countdown was aborted because of the timestamp discrepancy of 0.07 seconds between the onboard flight computer and the control center receiving telemetry data

Stack Exchange

19:04

Blog - Stack Exchange: Community Management by Popular Demand: Kevin Chang Joins The Team

Shog9 on September 06, 2013

I’ve been posting rather a lot of these announcements lately, as we’ve worked to increase the size of our team to where we can actually do our jobs and still occasionally sleep. So I’m gonna cut right to the chase: we hired Kevin “Lord Popular Demand Torgamus” Chang!

Kevin lives on the east coast of the US, not too far from where he grew up. He’s been working as a software developer until now, starting out on the network on Stack Overflow until he found MSO. He liked MSO because it was kind of like SE sites for psychology, UX, communication, HCI and programmi …

TildalWave

21:12

PearsonArtPhoto ♦, Ashburn, VA

6k 12 47

launch orbital-mechanics mars rockets the-moon propulsion orbit

@PearsonArtPhoto Nice round number, 6000 rep points (this one box doesn't really do it justice LOL)!

there we go, much better ;)

Stack Exchange

22:38

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Q: No sense of humor when people ask obviously classified questions?

I'm a little disappointed my awesome answer to a question about deorbiting classified satellites was deleted. I agree with the moderator comment that it wasn't a serious attempt to answer the question (for those who can't see it, it had a lot of redacted text). But it was an attempt to use humo...

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TildalWave

23:27

The Minotaur countdown has begun, with clocks ticking toward launch at 11:27 pm EDT (0327 GMT) from Virginia. #LADEE http://www.spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/ladee/status.html

Tweeted by SpaceflightNow on September 6, 2013 at 10:51 PM

Undo

@Tildal Oooh! Wish I could be here - but I have a piano recital to go to. No, I'm not reciting - it wouldn't be a recital then.

TildalWave

@Undo How's it called? "A series of unfortunate events or how my Friday was hijacked from me?"

I also have a conundrum ... stay and watch the launch, or go with my folks to the mountains for a day. But I'll certainly stay here at least long enough to start this event off, with links to streams and such. In about 2 hours time.

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