Welcome to the Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Bulletin Board!

Here it is, what will certainly be one of the biggest and best astronomy and space discussion boards on the web. Technically, this board is new, but as the merger of two well-established and quite large bulletin boards, it already has a long and rich history. There is already a built-in community, and we're sure it'll grow and get even better.

Since the board is new, and we knew our posters would be chomping at the bit, we have decided to go live with the basic set up in place. There are some bells and whistles like avatars and image uploading, but not everything in place just yet. We'll be adding features as time goes on. This will include pre-made avatars, a reputation setting for posters, and lots of other fun stuff.

We have not put up the FAQ yet, so there is, for now, one simple rule: be polite. If you're not sure if your post is polite, then it probably isn't. :-)

There are three admins here: The Bad Astronomer (Phil Plait from the Bad Astronomy board), Fraser (from Universe Today), and Philser, a chimera of both of us. If you see a post by one of those three, we suggest you pay attention.

We expect there will be lots of questions; if you have any, post them to this forum, About BAUT.

About usernames: if you came here from BA or UT, then your username and password should still work. If you had accounts on both boards, and used the same email adress for both, then your accounts were merged. If you had accounts on both, but different emails addresses, we have to merge them by hand. We'll be happy to do this, but please hold off a week or so while we get more important issues under control. We'll let everyone know when we can take care of that.

So there you have it! Again, welcome! The Universe is now at your disposal.

Congratulations!!!!

BTW, I had to add something else in as it has a min 25 char limit on posts......

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MrObvious

Congratulations for getting this new board online. I bet many people are as excited about this as I am.

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Fahad Sulehria,
Astronomical Artist,
Administrator of Nova Celestia.

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All words, phrases, definitions and theories provided in the above post are, unless otherwise stated, the property of Champion Munch © 2005.

Sign up to sue the Sun

Thanks for all the work, and the speedy setup, Philser :-)

It'll be one wonderful time!

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Non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem.

I'm glad the transition went smoothly. Well done. Congratuadulations!

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T. Anderson

Wow. It worked and I got here without any problem. Well done!

It's "kinda" funny. I went to sleep early last night (a little after 7PM pacific time, as I usually do) and when I awoke early this morning, the board was "up and running".

So I "suffered" absolutely no "down time"...

A painless change-over thanks to Fraser and Phil...

Great job, guys!!!

Hi,
I go on holliday for two weeks and everything changes! (maybe I should do it more often!) Looks good so far, I will have a better look around when the jet-lag wares off!

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The meek will inherit the earth ... the rest of us will go to the stars.

This is weird. But no more than the original BABB when I first arrived. I'll get oriented before long.

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Freedom For Fission A breath of fresh Iodine-131

Well done guys for the speedy move, I like the look of the new board already.
I logged on today not really expecting the new board to be up yet (I work in IT... so I'm a pessimist!) and was pleasantly surprised.

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"We need rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"

Yep. Sooner than I expected - but better! Job well done, Admin and mods!

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- Forming ideas as we speak

- When you find the blue rose, you'll know you're in the Garden...
- Humans have had but a taste of the fig, and have yet to smell the pomegranate

- We need not just to know, but to know better; knowing what your saying's better than saying what you know

Congrats on getting the board up so quickly... Now to look around..

Brenda

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Suffering from wrackspurt.......

I'm sitting here smiling.

I've been Internet forum-ing since January of 2000, and this is by far the hands-down coolest thing that has ever happened to me. WTG, both of y'all.

This is neat. I get to use my avatars I make! Whee!

I like this almost better than PhpBB! It's really easy to use, and similar to PhpBB. Good job.

--hippie

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Visit Mutated Genes, my X-men fanart site.

I heart Ducky. I stalk Ducky. His hair is quite fluffy, and he makes good cookies. (And now he's my prom date...)

Bah! Whoa! Talk about a surprise! I come back to th BABB after a few days away and it isn't there any more. Mind you, that isn't bad. Look at this place!

Well done!

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Quaeso quousque humi defixa tua mens erit? Nonne aspicis, quae in templa veneris?

I delurk for a few days, and look what happens.

Congrats on the merger, gentlemen.

Congrats Fraser and Phil! This is going to be great for both forums!

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Climate Change Australia

I like, I like.
Now I've gotta ask: how did you agree on "Philser" and not, say, "Frasil" and other such variants?

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Yes, I have a life. It's quite different from yours.

Congrats again, Phil and Fraser. VBulletin seems to be far better than phpBB. It´s a giant leap.

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"As truth is gathered, I rearrange,
Inside out, outside in - Perpetual change." - A British rock band

Yes, congrats, and thanks!

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"It's time to receive our missions from The Head."

Congrats, this is an nice move.

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