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#126 Re: Meta New Mars » NEW MARS RULES » 2011-12-14 11:36:14
Rule 4: Read rule 2 and take it at heart!! Or GTFO
Greetings, a very frustrated former moderator.
#127 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Reusable Rockets to Orbit » 2011-12-14 11:32:57
Oh Great,
we have 5 active users and already managed to alienate one. 
Nice show.
And me thinking this place would be a breath of fresh air...
#128 Water on Mars » Mars Rover Finds Mineral Vein Deposited by Water » 2011-12-08 02:44:43
- Rxke
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?r … l&rst=3220
"This tells a slam-dunk story that water flowed through underground fractures in the rock," said Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., principal investigator for Opportunity. "This stuff is a fairly pure chemical deposit that formed in place right where we see it. That can't be said for other gypsum seen on Mars or for other water-related minerals Opportunity has found. It's not uncommon on Earth, but on Mars, it's the kind of thing that makes geologists jump out of their chairs."
#129 Re: Meta New Mars » Spammer » 2011-12-07 06:07:43
Oh, and if a crawler (Google, Bing, Yahoo) catches those spammy posts, we'll pay dearly with ranking I'm afraid. Or am I mistaken?
#130 Re: Meta New Mars » Spammer » 2011-12-07 06:05:56
... Who's spamming all over. and you can only flag one post per minute, so we WILL get flooded 
#131 Re: Meta New Mars » Spammer » 2011-11-30 03:52:19
that 'find the kitty' captcha thing was a cool idea. Kittenauth, IIRC
Square of 3X3 images, animals,, spot the cat(s).
yep:
#132 Re: Meta New Mars » Rebirth of New Mars; Establishment of New Mars Editorial Board » 2011-11-28 11:54:53
though it was a rare day when I was in complete agreement with him, he was a very valuable contributor.
You're a wise man, Josh. Being able to see the value of someone who you don't agree with. My hat off to you.
#133 Re: Meta New Mars » Spammer » 2011-11-28 04:11:48
:oops: Sorry Glandu, I did *not* try to make fun of you, your English is *not* crappy, I'd even say it is better than a lot of native speakers on the internet!
I'm Dutch speaking myself, French being my second language. 
#134 Re: Meta New Mars » Rebirth of New Mars; Establishment of New Mars Editorial Board » 2011-11-28 03:16:42
I don't like an intelligent aliens forum. That is just asking for trouble. We don't want the woo-woos coming here.
Past experience confirms this. We got maybe one in 1000 posts that was sane in that subforum. If that.
#135 Re: Unmanned probes » Official MSL / Curiosity Rover Thread | Aug 5, 2012 10:31 p.m. PT » 2011-11-26 14:02:56
Jolly good show! 
570 million kilometers, what a ride!
#136 Re: Meta New Mars » Spammer » 2011-11-26 03:17:00
You're clearly a spambot. A human and grammar nazi would reply: 'WHICH member' 
#137 Re: Mars Society International » How's the Society doing right now? » 2011-11-24 01:09:22
Membership is already up from last year.....
......there was a huge backlog of work which we are still getting through. Restoring the New Mars Forums was one of those items that I am happy to be able to check off the list.
Thanks,
-James
Now *that* is good news There's a lot of Mars talk in the media, of course, people might be looking around.
I fully understand there was/is a huuge load of work to be done, and kudos for doing it 8)
re: screenshot: it was on another computer than the one I'm using now, I'll see if I can resurrect that page through the history when I'm back. The only problem with it was one doesn't get something that explicitly says the transfer went all right. Pretty robust redirect system, though.
#138 Re: Meta New Mars » Rebirth of New Mars; Establishment of New Mars Editorial Board » 2011-11-23 13:10:48
Being lenient about political discussions, I guess. Some boards have an 100% moratorium on it, but it's sometimes very very hard to discuss something w/o mentioning it.
+edit+ I tend to agree with Grypd, but we know some people start foaming at the mouth the moment you mention the 'wrong' political party or country
... And that leads to quarrels. So moderating is mandatory.
#139 Mars Society International » How's the Society doing right now? » 2011-11-23 12:44:13
- Rxke
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I'm a bit concerned, the site is only half-functional, some pages direct to placeholders or worse...
Won't that have very detrimental effects on membership-numbers?
For instance, the member pages seem to be offline, I finally splurged on a 3 years membership to celebrate the return of the forums (yes I was *that* happy )
But... after paying, I didn't even get redirected to a valid page... So for all I know, that money might now be somewhere bouncing around in the intertubes...
#140 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » Compound parabolic reflectors - earth based zmp solar concentrator » 2011-11-22 07:46:17
50kw?? That's.... quite a lot! 
You're going to use those for yourself or upgrade them by using parabolas to re-sell or something?
In any case, you have to make sure they don't get too hot or your efficiency goes down dramatically, even before they get damaged... Some places on earth parabolas+solar cells don't mix too well
#141 Re: Meta New Mars » Spammer » 2011-11-21 08:34:15
Getting rusty; checked that david (hawhaw!) but saw he didn't yet post or had a sig or website, so I didn't bother checking further....
So... Do we flag pro-actively from now on? (remembers discussion with clark)
#142 Re: Meta New Mars » Spammer » 2011-11-21 02:58:02
http://www.newmars.com/forums/profile.php?id=3037
Breerabains is a confirmed linkspammer
Didn't take long for the first spammer to show its ugly face, grrrr!
#143 Re: Meta New Mars » Rebirth of New Mars; Establishment of New Mars Editorial Board » 2011-11-21 00:59:04
Bare with me as we work
Josh!
There are minors reading this forum! 
#144 Re: Liberum Olympia » Will the WIKI come back too? » 2011-11-20 13:06:35
Interesting!
since the content was GPL, I guess it won't give too much trouble.
#145 Liberum Olympia » Will the WIKI come back too? » 2011-11-20 02:47:07
- Rxke
- Replies: 10
Or is that asking too much?
There is a new WIKI that has been started :http://newmars.wikispaces.com/
which has seen a lot of good work!
#146 Re: Meta New Mars » Rebirth of New Mars; Establishment of New Mars Editorial Board » 2011-11-20 02:29:40
Yessss! Yessss! Yesssss!!! 
Thanks for all the hard work, girls and boys!
Great to see it's back! 8)
#147 Re: Meta New Mars » new here » 2008-05-28 00:11:41
Hi Tony, welcome to New Mars!
#148 Re: Unmanned probes » Phoenix - North Pole Region Lander (PHX) » 2008-05-26 06:09:31
Wow good show!
(I can't believe I wasn't able to log in before now, a job w/o computeraccess sometimes sucks, heehee!)
#149 Re: Not So Free Chat » Current Gasoline/Petrol Price$ » 2008-05-21 00:00:46
Wow, Tom, for once I agree with you!
You nailed it.
#150 Re: Intelligent Alien Life » Candor Chasma » 2008-05-01 05:40:40
Would someone please clarify the difference between the two topic headings, and what kind of material is expected to be posted under "Life on Mars". Surely, if I post something relating to the actions of intelligent alien life, then that post should be suitable and should qualify to be placed under the topic heading of "Life on Mars".
Zydar
When we're talking about things like artificial structures, it gets moved to intelligent alien life. It's that simple.
life on mars is about primitive life.