[Skywise]

(01-29-2014, 11:56 PM)EQF Wrote: Two problems would be that the "New Posts" resource is only available to people who are members from what I can see. And, even then only a few posts are listed.

I believe that site visitors would really like to see perhaps the last 30 or so posts even if they had read some of them before.

There is probably an option with that software that allows for the creation of a forum that displays a certain number of posts like that from all of the forums combined. And even though they might not be nicely organized in threads it would still probably be more of greater use to many people.

So in other words, you're arguing to make the new software look exactly like the old software. But then what's the point?

OK. Let's just take it as read that you don't like the new software and move on. Harping on me repeatedly isn't going to do much other than irritate me.

(01-29-2014, 11:56 PM)EQF Wrote: On another topic,

Roger and I are involved with an effort to create an "Earthquake Triggering" research Web page that would have data and computer software related to that area of science.

Some of the background work is presently being done. I need to find out what distance between the sun and Earth researchers use for calculating the "average" gravitational pull of the sun on the Earth.

One or two notes to one of the astronomy Newsgroups should get that question answered.

This is easy. Calculate the pull at periapsis and at apoapsis, add them together, divide by two. There's your average.

These kinds of calcs are easy. I've done them many times. I've written programs that use them. It's just Newton's law of Universal Gravitation. High school physics stuff. Just gotta be careful to use the right units and get the conversions right.

They can be done on paper, they're that easy, although a calculator helps with large exponents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_...ravitation

Brian