[ale] OT

[Cornelis van Dijk]

I found the stackexchange quite impressive and got some useful
information out of it. They are quit picky as far as the questions are
concerned. In their biology section I tried to post the following
question' "What environmental pressures would trigger the evolution of
intelligence? Scarce resources, competition, underdog status?" The
question was rejected as not up to their standards. What did I do
wrong? I know that this question haunts evolutionary biologists, and I
tried to start a dialog, rather than have a pertinent answer.

Cor

On 6/8/11, Pat Regan <thehead at patshead.com> wrote:
> astronomy.stackexchange.com is now available!
>
> Pat
>
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:13:49 -0400
> Cornelis van Dijk <cor.angela0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks guys. I have not checked all of the suggestions, but at least
>> one of them (http://physics.stackexchange.com/) seems right o target.
>> Cor van Dijk
>>
>> On 6/4/11, William Bagwell <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:
>> > On Thursday 02 June 2011, Ed Cashin wrote:
>> >> Maybe usenet is not quite dead yet?  I always preferred nntp to
>> >> mailing lists, etc., for online expert discussions.
>> >
>> > Not dead, but only groups that were very healthy and thriving ~five
>> > years ago still have much traffic. Almost all of the marginal niche
>> > topic groups appear quite dead. A few will wake up for an
>> > intersting question but many are as dead as they look.
>> >
>> >> In your shoes I'd check whether "sci.astro" or "sci.physics"
>> >> newsgroups are still available, but in attempting to find out
>> >> those names, I noticed this page:
>> >
>> > Both are still viable groups receiving traffic.
>> >
>> >>   http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_newsgroup.html
>> >>
>> >> ... which might be interesting to you.
>> >
>> > Another potentially usefull tool is here.
>> > http://groupsearch.alt-config.net/engine.html
>> >
>> > Shows that "sci.astro" and "sci.physics" are both very well
>> > propagated (the tools original function) and on almost all
>> > servers.  Also by using the partial match option, one can see there
>> > are no real groups with "cosmology" in the name. Handfull of joke
>> > groups but none on enough servers to be usefull.
>> > --
>> > William
>> >
>> >
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