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what is this on astropulse?
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Racer Send message Joined: 2 Sep 09 Posts: 1 Credit: 221 RAC: 0 |
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Johnney Guinness Send message Joined: 11 Sep 06 Posts: 3093 Credit: 2,652,287 RAC: 0 |
Scott, The graphical screensaver display is designed to look good but you should not read into it too much. It was never designed as a science tool to help you find signals. But it does show interesting stuff, its enjoyable to watch the screensaver. The data displayed by the screensaver is indeed real telescope data Its only when thousands of people all send back results that the scientists can actually make some sense out of the results. The BOINC software does this automatically. John. |
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