DG Site Updates: Grass Roots Forum Request: Astronomy!, 1 by milkmood

milkmood wrote:
Hi all!

There is a section of forums here at DG called Leisurely Pursuits. Within that section are forums that relate to non-garden topics such as Antiques, Cars, Hiking/Camping, Photography, and so on. I am making a push to get an Astronomy forum added to this section, and would like to find out if you all would help me out to get this thing off the ground (pun intended).

In an Astronomy forum (not astrology) we can discuss things like the International Space Station, Space Shuttle launches/sightings/landings, the upcoming Indian mission to the moon future missions to Mars, comets (there's one out now), meteor showers (there's one this weekend), telescopes (I'm going to start building a 12"), equinox, eclipses, other planetary, lunar and solar events, and other celestial stuff.

This would prevent us from having to OT in other forums with Astronomy related topics.

After all, we all need something to do while we're standing in our gardens in the dark of night, right?

Show an overwhelming bunch of replies and let's get this thing off the ground!

Questions to answer in your reply:

WOULD YOU USE AN ASTRONOMY FORUM?
WHAT WOULD YOU DISCUSS?
SCALE OF 1-10 HOW INTERESTED ARE YOU IN ASTRONOMY? (10 being most interested)
SCALE OF 1-10 HOW KNOWLEDGEABLE ARE YOU IN THE SUBJECT OF ASTRONOMY? (10 being a rocket scientist)

Thanks!
CP

This message was edited Nov 13, 2007 7:07 AM