l3p3r wrote:I don't really understand why these two threads were merged since they are two entirely different conversations...
Good question!
This forum, including the Night Sky Live sections and
the Asterisk Cafe, is undergoing a few changes ... you might have noticed a great deal less spam, for example (and all the old spam has now been removed ... I hope).
One of the changes is to return this, Discuss an APOD, section to what it was intended for - discussion of a particular APOD. Other (astronomy) discussions should be in the Café (you may have noticed that several threads with such discussions have already been moved).
If you'd like, I can split out the 'death' posts, into a separate thread, and move it to the Café.
Sorry for the inconvenience.