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I'm reposting Adrian's original post here, and going to add a few of my own comments. I just want to get some fresh attention by reposting this, sometimes we all need reminders.
There has been a significant number of postings on politics and war that are completely unrelated to Mars in this forum lately. I fully understand that Free Chat is supposed to be about topics that are not necessarily related to Mars, but it is *not* supposed to be about politics or war exclusively. Please bear in mind that there are plenty of other weblogs, discussion sites and newsgroups on the Internet that are much more appropriate places to discuss politics and war; I'm sure that readers here can recommend some.
I am not about to ban discussion on politics and war because I do think that there can be worthwhile discussion here that has a special Mars or space related perspective. But consider the fact that most people do not come here for politics or war discussion, and that there are many better places to do that.
I think this should go for all forums. There has been a lot of off-topic political discussion going on in threads all over the place here (being off topic is bad enough, it's even worse when it's not even related to Mars or space). It's pretty frustrating, and I think it does a disservice to the community. I'm not going to ban anyone, or delete posts or even call anyone out directly, but just think about what you're doing.
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.
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