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#1 2004-05-11 02:57:50

cassioli
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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...  sad

Luca

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#2 2004-05-11 05:28:32

Palomar
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Re: Forum is dying?

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

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.  smile

--Cindy


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)

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#3 2004-05-11 08:16:42

GraemeSkinner
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Re: Forum is dying?

I don' see this forum dying any time soon  big_smile  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


There was a young lady named Bright.
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day
in a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
--Arthur Buller--

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#4 2004-05-11 08:57:37

No life on Mars
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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.

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#5 2004-05-11 09:38:20

cassioli
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Re: Forum is dying?

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

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.  smile

--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.  sad  It's a pity, I think the MER missions are getting more interesting day by day!.

Luca

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#6 2004-05-11 09:41:19

cassioli
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From: Italy
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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...  tongue

Luca

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#7 2004-05-11 10:31:03

Stu
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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...  sad

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.

smile


Stuart Atkinson

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Astronomical poetry, including mars rover poems: [url]http://journals.aol.com/stuartatk/TheVerse[/url]

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#8 2004-05-11 10:59:14

cassioli
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Posts: 218

Re: Forum is dying?

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

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... tongue  Else I'll understand that "No life on Mars" is, unfortunately, right. ???

Luca

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#9 2004-05-11 11:27:43

Rxke
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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...

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#10 2004-05-11 19:38:22

Josh Cryer
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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. smile


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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