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cassioli

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2004-02-23

Posts: 218

Re: Forum is dying?

This forum is dying, passing to a http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewf … ?f=12]more populated one... 

Luca

Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Forum is dying?

*Well, you're entitled to your opinion of course.   

But why start -this- thread in the "Unmanned Probes" folder?  A bit out of context, don't you think?  There's always the "Free Chat" folder. 

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

GraemeSkinner

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From: Eden Hall, Cumbria

Registered: 2004-02-20

Posts: 563

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Re: Forum is dying?

I don' see this forum dying any time soon    like all forums there are quiet weeks and there are busy ones. You only get what you put in.

And yes cindy it is rather out of context for this thread to be in unmanned probes.

Graeme

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She set out one day
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And returned on the previous night.
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No life on Mars

Banned

From: Newyork

Registered: 2004-02-25

Posts: 50

Re: Forum is dying?

I think you right cassioli. To prevent forum of dying you need to post  minimum 10 animations and 25 pics of blue mars per day. :band:
I think that is normal that people after 3-4 months of intenisive debate take a rest.

cassioli

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2004-02-23

Posts: 218

Re: Forum is dying?

*Well, you're entitled to your opinion of course.   

But why start -this- thread in the "Unmanned Probes" folder?  A bit out of context, don't you think?  There's always the "Free Chat" folder. 

--Cindy

I posted it here just to encourage you to continue discussing about Mars... but maybe the interest is now getting low, due to over-extending mission.    It's a pity, I think the MER missions are getting more interesting day by day!.

Luca

cassioli

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2004-02-23

Posts: 218

Re: Forum is dying?

I think you right cassioli. To prevent forum of dying you need to post  minimum 10 animations and 25 pics of blue mars per day. :band:
I think that is normal that people after 3-4 months of intenisive debate take a rest.

Indeed, it's going to become my own blog about Mars...  ??? Maybe I should add a counter here, to know how mane people is visiting  "my site about Spirit and Opportunity".
Mmmmh... maybe I could start posting some banners... 

Luca

Stu

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From: Kendal, Cumbria, England

Registered: 2001-09-04

Posts: 318

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Re: Forum is dying?

This forum is dying, passing to a http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewf … ?f=12]more populated one... 

Luca

Very disappointed in you saying that Luca, after you were given such tremendous personal support recently. I frequent BadAstronomy's "Martian Chronicles" forum too, and yes there's some very good discussion on there, but - with no disrespect meant to that forum - I don't think "more populated" equals "better".

Just because your postings don't generate dozens of replies doesn't mean it's "dying" - maybe it just means that people are content to read and learn, rather than feel obliged to hit the keyboard to reply to everything they see...

In my opinion, with its tens of thousands of posts, articles, interviews and conscientious admin, NewMars is going from strength to strength.

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Skywatching Blog: [url]http://journals.aol.com/stuartatk/Cumbrian-Sky[/url]

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cassioli

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2004-02-23

Posts: 218

Re: Forum is dying?

This forum is dying, passing to a http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewf … ?f=12]more populated one... 

Luca

Very disappointed in you saying that Luca, after you were given such tremendous personal support recently. I frequent BadAstronomy's "Martian Chronicles" forum too, and yes there's some very good discussion on there, but - with no disrespect meant to that forum - I don't think "more populated" equals "better".

Just because your postings don't generate dozens of replies

I don't want replies, I just would like to read something new in this forum... ???

doesn't mean it's "dying" - maybe it just means that people are content to read and learn,

You lurkers... :;):
Anyway, I'm going to actually build my own web page with links to all animations/images I posted here, and I'll continue posting them there rather than here.
If you want to see further images from me, you will have to keep alive this forum...   Else I'll understand that "No life on Mars" is, unfortunately, right. ???

Luca

Rxke

Member

From: Belgium

Registered: 2003-11-03

Posts: 3,669

Re: Forum is dying?

i tend to lurk more, recently, got exams coming up, papers to give in, thesis-proposal this week... So not much time to post...

Josh Cryer

Moderator

Registered: 2001-09-29

Posts: 3,830

Re: Forum is dying?

I tend to lurk too. Daily, in fact. I cannot post regularly because of my job, and other reasons. The primary one actually being that if I invest myself in a discussion, it could wind up draining me to continue it (say I started talking about robots and someone debated the feasiblity; I would be hard pressed to convince them of my own ideas!).

Anyway, it seems everyone got their comments out, so I'm going to lock this thread. No hard feelings or anything, but let's end it while it's still civil. After all, New Mars is thriving really well (the hits, the number of users, and the number of daily posts proves this), just because people don't post in certain forums at certain intervals doesn't necessarily mean a thing.

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Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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The amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth totals some 3.9 million exajoules a year.