New Toy: Rep Archive

[DaFace]

People have asked for it for a while, and I finally found a mod that could do it. If you check your rep page, you'll notice a few things.

• You'll now only see the last 25 reps instead of 300.
• HOWEVER, you'll also see that you can now view reps you have GIVEN in addition to those that you have RECEIVED.
• AND, near the top, you'll notice a link to the rep archive. In there, you can view ALL of your reps - right back to the very first one you ever got.
• AND, you can filter the archive, so if you want to see all the reps you got from a particular user or all of the negs you've received, you can.

A couple caveats, though:

• This wasn't designed for the version of vBulletin we're on. If it starts causing any issues, I might have to remove it.
• I'm having to add this to usergroups one by one, so you might not be able to get to everything right now. If not, you should in the next half hour or so.

Enjoy your new toy, you crazy rep people, you.

[Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan]

I've given out 96 positive reps and 6 negative reps (4 of them to spammers)

[Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan]

Originally Posted by Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan

Dave, speaking of Rep . . . ok, lousy segue but I didn't want to start a whole new thread . . . did you see the discovery of the Saturn-sized planet that's orbiting twin suns? I caught the blub in the WSJ, haven't been to the NASA site yet to check it out.

Looks like a paired orange - red combo. Planet is supposed to have a 227-day orbit.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Double-Sun Planet Discovered, à la 'Star Wars' .

By ROBERT LEE HOTZ
Astronomers announced Thursday the discovery of a rare planet that orbits two stars, like Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films, adding to a growing inventory of alien worlds in the curiosity shop of the cosmos.

Detected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's $600 million Kepler space telescope, it is the first confirmed solar system of its kind, turning a Hollywood fantasy into an astronomical fact. Called Kepler-16b, the Saturn-size planet circles its twin stars in the constellation Cygnus about every 229 days, the researchers reported in Science.

"The reality goes beyond the imagination of the most creative theorist in astronomy or science fiction writer," said astrophysicist Fred Rasio at Northwestern University, who wasn't involved in the work. "Just about anything you could think of as a planetary system is actually out there."

The discovery capped a week of new findings about worlds beyond our own solar system. All told, four research teams in Europe and the U.S. reported finding 74 previously unknown exoplanets, as worlds orbiting other stars are called, including 16 that appear to be only slightly larger than Earth and with gravity favorable to life as we know it.

One of them, with about 3.5 times Earth's mass, may be orbiting near its parent star's so-called habitable zone, in which water may be liquid and conditions possibly ripe for life, said astronomers at the European Southern Observatory, who announced the find earlier this week.

It was among a trove of 50 exoplanets they detected around nearby stars using a spectrograph called the High Accuracy Radial-velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), based at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.

So far, for reasons ranging from toxicity to temperature extremes, none of the 683 confirmed exoplanets seem capable of harboring life. No one can say with certainty whether any habitable planets exist outside our solar system.

Even so, the cascade of finds offers growing evidence that alien worlds may outnumber the stars themselves.

The Saturn-size planet circles its twin stars in the constellation Cygnus about every 229 days. (Artist's rendering.)
.The HARPS team, led by Michel Mayor from the University of Geneva in Switzerland, estimated that about 40% of all stars like the Sun have at least one planet of Saturn's size or smaller. So far, the Kepler mission scientists have found more than 170 star systems in which two, three, four, five or even six planets all orbit one star.

"The universe is teeming with planetary systems of multiple planets, many of which are nearly the size of Earth," said plant-hunting pioneer Geoffrey Marcy at the University of California in Berkeley.

Among the other unearthly wonders discovered in recent months are an exoplanet blacker than coal and a world stripped to a diamond-like core. A third newly found exoplanet is blasted by its parent star with X-ray bursts so fierce that the radiation is eroding the planet's surface at a rate of five million tons a second.

Stranger still, a star survey of the Milky Way by astronomers in Japan and New Zealand earlier this year discovered a new class of Jupiter-size planets that float free of any star at all, swimming about on their own in the dark. They estimated that there may be twice as many of these orphan planets as stars.

Earlier this week, British astronomers in the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) project announced they had found 23 giant, hot exoplanets, each about the size of Jupiter and, no doubt, with crushing gravity. These exotic worlds circle their stars so closely that they complete an entire obit about every five to eight days, the researchers said.

The WASP group monitors 10 million stars for signs of exoplanets by taking images of the night sky every 10 minutes with an array of cameras in South Africa and in the Canary islands. Their research, which hasn't yet been published, was discussed at the Extreme Solar Systems conference this week in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

"We are finding planetary systems which are very different from our own," said astrophysicist Coel Heiler at the U.K.'s Keele University, whose group runs the WASP search in the Southern Hemisphere.

Write to Robert Lee Hotz at sciencejournal@wsj.com

[Radar Chief]

Originally Posted by 4th and Long

We are?

Who's a hateful bastard now, Mr. almost 3:1 ratio?

Get off my lawn!

[4th and Long]

Originally Posted by Radar Chief

Get off my lawn!

[Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan]

Originally Posted by Radar Chief

Get off my lawn!

Doesn't count. You didn't wave your (walker, cane, shotgun) at him.

Improper use of cliche. 10 yard penalty from the spot of the foul.

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan

Dave, speaking of Rep . . . ok, lousy segue but I didn't want to start a whole new thread . . . did you see the discovery of the Saturn-sized planet that's orbiting twin suns? I caught the blub in the WSJ, haven't been to the NASA site yet to check it out.

Looks like a paired orange - red combo. Planet is supposed to have a 227-day orbit.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Awesome hadn't seen it yet. Thanks for the info and oh by the way Rep