Now when BO has gone public with its plans, we'll have to carefully monitor if/when there is enough BO threads (launch site dev + NSF "spies", testing, launches) to make it a section of its own.
I like to suggest to introduce a own subforum for suborbital launches.Clustering them all in a single thread (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=11281) inside the "Other Launchers (Korean, Brazilian etc.)"-subforum is rather confusing and makes discussions on a individual mission or sounding rocket really hard to follow. And there are a lot of interesting suborbital missions and vehicles to discuss.I would suggest to place it inside the "International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others)" section, so that suborbital launches of all countries can be discussed there together.
Quote from: Skyrocket on 12/14/2015 10:17 amI like to suggest to introduce a own subforum for suborbital launches.Clustering them all in a single thread (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=11281) inside the "Other Launchers (Korean, Brazilian etc.)"-subforum is rather confusing and makes discussions on a individual mission or sounding rocket really hard to follow. And there are a lot of interesting suborbital missions and vehicles to discuss.I would suggest to place it inside the "International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others)" section, so that suborbital launches of all countries can be discussed there together.Copy that.So a good idea to would be to start some suborbital standalone mission threads from now onwards, so we have a collection to move into the standalone section.
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 12/14/2015 01:26 pmQuote from: Skyrocket on 12/14/2015 10:17 amI like to suggest to introduce a own subforum for suborbital launches.Clustering them all in a single thread (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=11281) inside the "Other Launchers (Korean, Brazilian etc.)"-subforum is rather confusing and makes discussions on a individual mission or sounding rocket really hard to follow. And there are a lot of interesting suborbital missions and vehicles to discuss.I would suggest to place it inside the "International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others)" section, so that suborbital launches of all countries can be discussed there together.Copy that.So a good idea to would be to start some suborbital standalone mission threads from now onwards, so we have a collection to move into the standalone section. Thanks! Perhaps it would be a good idea, to leave an official note at the end of the generic Suborbital thread, that now suborbital mission threads should be started as stand alone threads and not to be added to the generic suborbital thread.
Quote from: Skyrocket on 12/14/2015 01:39 pmQuote from: Chris Bergin on 12/14/2015 01:26 pmQuote from: Skyrocket on 12/14/2015 10:17 amI like to suggest to introduce a own subforum for suborbital launches.Clustering them all in a single thread (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=11281) inside the "Other Launchers (Korean, Brazilian etc.)"-subforum is rather confusing and makes discussions on a individual mission or sounding rocket really hard to follow. And there are a lot of interesting suborbital missions and vehicles to discuss.I would suggest to place it inside the "International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others)" section, so that suborbital launches of all countries can be discussed there together.Copy that.So a good idea to would be to start some suborbital standalone mission threads from now onwards, so we have a collection to move into the standalone section. Thanks! Perhaps it would be a good idea, to leave an official note at the end of the generic Suborbital thread, that now suborbital mission threads should be started as stand alone threads and not to be added to the generic suborbital thread.Are you going to differentiate military suborbital flights from civilian ones.
Quote from: Star One on 12/14/2015 03:18 pmQuote from: Skyrocket on 12/14/2015 01:39 pmQuote from: Chris Bergin on 12/14/2015 01:26 pmQuote from: Skyrocket on 12/14/2015 10:17 amI like to suggest to introduce a own subforum for suborbital launches.Clustering them all in a single thread (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=11281) inside the "Other Launchers (Korean, Brazilian etc.)"-subforum is rather confusing and makes discussions on a individual mission or sounding rocket really hard to follow. And there are a lot of interesting suborbital missions and vehicles to discuss.I would suggest to place it inside the "International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others)" section, so that suborbital launches of all countries can be discussed there together.Copy that.So a good idea to would be to start some suborbital standalone mission threads from now onwards, so we have a collection to move into the standalone section. Thanks! Perhaps it would be a good idea, to leave an official note at the end of the generic Suborbital thread, that now suborbital mission threads should be started as stand alone threads and not to be added to the generic suborbital thread.Are you going to differentiate military suborbital flights from civilian ones.Might be useful, as the purpose of military missile flights and scientific sounding rockets is quite different.
We're getting a new flood of amateur, non-physicists coming in and posting their own refutations to General Relativity, along with pages and pages of cut-and-paste illustrations that would do any second-grader proud. And that have all of the basis in actual physics and mathematics that you would expect of most second-graders.Or worse, we're getting people with some physics backgrounds who have gone off into the hinterlands and can't get their theories taken seriously by other members of their field, so they come here, presenting line after line of dense math equations that are meaningless to all but three or four people who read this forum, and then demand that we either accept their theory or tell them why it's wrong -- when, again, the amateurs (and even the professional engineers) on this forum are in no way capable of even following their equations, much less discussing or refuting them.
Recently I've been wondering if the special forum section for MSL is really still needed. There are only sporadic posts in there on the update thread and they get even rarer as you go to the other threads. Maybe it would be better to just have all the posts there moved into the Space Science forum. Or maybe a reorganization of the robotic spaceflight section in general. "Robotic exploration of the moon" "Robotic exploration of mars" "Robotic exploration of the outer planets", and so on. May be getting too detailed, but just a thought.