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Geek@Play Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 31 Jul 01 Posts: 2414 Credit: 79,016,596 RAC: 0	Message 1130574 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 17:48:32 UTC
	Make up your own story of what caused the Seti to go down and post it here. Since we don't get information from the project these will be the official story line. I have noted that there are many California Ground Squirrels around the SSL facility. Probably the underground optical cable passed through the squirrel burrow. They knawed on the cable and were able to open it up sufficiently to light up the burrow. Since more light is needed the squirrels redesigned the burrow to make maximum use of the light from the optical cable. Of course this would introduce unexplained random failures of the project and nobody would know why. This is why why the project goes up and down and could also explain why some of our fellow crunchers cannot reach the project for work. ____________ Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....
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Nemesis Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 129 Credit: 29,158,161 RAC: 16,038	Message 1130580 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 17:56:08 UTC
	The alien invasion fleet is about to enter the outer solar system, Seti will be able to detect their transmissions and trigger the alarm so the little green guys have begun bombarding the worlds radio telescopes with...elevator music! It`s way more efficient and cheaper than firing rocks at us from the Oort cloud. We are truly doomed now!
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CLYDE Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Aug 99 Posts: 132 Credit: 9,804,714 RAC: 21,874	Message 1130583 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 18:06:56 UTC
	After reading all the other threads regarding the present/past/future problems: It is refreshing to read this sane, and probably true, explanation. THANK YOU!!!! ____________
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Twisted Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 81 Credit: 1,497,879 RAC: 3,128	Message 1130592 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 18:22:00 UTC - in response to Message 1130580.
	The alien invasion fleet is about to enter the outer solar system, Seti will be able to detect their transmissions and trigger the alarm so the little green guys have begun bombarding the worlds radio telescopes with...elevator music! It`s way more efficient and cheaper than firing rocks at us from the Oort cloud. We are truly doomed now! This actually makes sense...Rockets would certainly draw retaliation, whereas, elevator music we simply tune it out or change the channel! Once upon a time, it's been rumored that good ol' "Uncle Ted" - Ted Nuggent had made an offer to buy out Musak (source of elevator music) for $7 million... just so he could shut it down. They got wind of his reason and refused his offer. Had this come to pass, "The Nug(Noog)" would have been responsible for single handedly saving the Earth from this onslaught and most imminent attack! Good try Ted! Kevin ____________ "Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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rob smith Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 5424 Credit: 20,274,180 RAC: 124,093	Message 1130632 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 19:23:14 UTC
	The intergalactic mice went on strike for more cheese.... ____________ Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?
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Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 10313 Credit: 5,068,017 RAC: 6,144	Message 1130638 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 19:27:48 UTC Last modified: 22 Jul 2011, 19:28:01 UTC
	A birdy told me someone was feeding Carolyn Marmite and she froze up. A big thanks to Jeff for fixing her. ____________
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msattler Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 34124 Credit: 342,424,356 RAC: 539,371	Message 1130639 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 19:28:17 UTC
	Eric forgot to shut down the Pacman game he was playing before he left on walkabout, and it's playing havoc with the database. ____________ ****** "Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty." As it is kitten, so shall it be done.
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DJStarfox Send message Joined: 23 May 01 Posts: 1040 Credit: 485,117 RAC: 157	Message 1130652 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 20:14:01 UTC
	Each spike in the AP database is a power pellet! :chomp:
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Larry Ballas Send message Joined: 1 Aug 00 Posts: 5 Credit: 2,105,934 RAC: 4,163	Message 1130659 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 20:32:08 UTC
	They increased the debt limit and it is sucking everything down into the void.
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clive G1FYE Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 4 Nov 04 Posts: 1284 Credit: 14,937,552 RAC: 2,981	Message 1130662 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 20:57:48 UTC
	Sorry folks but its all my fault :¬) The AMD approved psu that i bought in 2002 finaly boiled its capacitators and the resulting blast of trashed work units that was sent back up the wire took out the servers. But it may have been the mice. My mouse works ok, atm . . . Do they have mouse in Cal ?
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Chris S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 22639 Credit: 4,500,610 RAC: 5,947	Message 1130667 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 21:04:24 UTC
	Angela let a couple of Raccoons loose in the Space Lab .... ____________ Damsel Rescuer, Kitty Patron, Raccoon Friend, Uli Fan, Julie Supporter, ES99 Admirer, Dishonourable Mentions **
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msattler Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 34124 Credit: 342,424,356 RAC: 539,371	Message 1130668 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 21:05:32 UTC - in response to Message 1130667.
	Angela let a couple of Raccoons loose in the Space Lab .... Ooooohhhh noooooooooooooo. Not raccoons in the lab....... ____________ ****** "Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty." As it is kitten, so shall it be done.
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Zapped Sparky Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 2208 Credit: 626,157 RAC: 955	Message 1130678 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 21:25:07 UTC
	I had a little dance to a tune on the radio, didn't think it would have such terrible consequences. I promise never to do it again :).
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msattler Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 34124 Credit: 342,424,356 RAC: 539,371	Message 1130682 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 21:28:22 UTC - in response to Message 1130678. Last modified: 22 Jul 2011, 21:29:46 UTC
	I had a little dance to a tune on the radio, didn't think it would have such terrible consequences. I promise never to do it again :). LOL.....Maybe the whole SSL crew did a little Tae-bo dance.... Apparently the infomercials didn’t really let on how powerful Tae-bo is. It seems the Tae-bo fitness program, available on DVD from late-night TV commercials in the U.S. and popular in health clubs around the world, can actually make tall buildings shake. Two weeks ago, the upper floors of the 39-story TechnoMart, a shopping mall/office tower on Seoul’s east side, started shaking for about 10 minutes, leading to an evacuation, temporary closure and lots of theories about what happened. On Tuesday, some professors and the building’s owner tried to demonstrate that it was vibrations emanating from people who were working out in a health club on the building’s 12th floor. And, according to Korean media and one of the professors involved in the experiment, they did. At 3:30 in the afternoon, with reporters watching the health club and the upper floors of the building, about 17 people (the same number who were working out the building shook on July 5) started a Tae-bo workout. Tae-bo, conceived by American fitness instructor Billy Blanks, mixes taekwondo and aerobic moves in a high-intensity workout. Lee Dong-guen, architectural professor at Sungkyunkwan University who helped direct the experiment, said in an interview that monitoring equipment on the upper floors of the building showed that the building vibrated at ten times the normal level while the exercise class was going on. Some of the workers on the upper floors said the vibrations felt just like they did on July 5, Mr. Lee said. The phenomenon is known as vibration resonance and building engineers said they would keep trying to figure out how the jumping around of the exercisers on the 12th floor could be felt on the higher floors of the TechnoMart, which opened in 1998. “I can say that there is a very strong possibility that Tae-bo was the reason for the vibration,” Mr. Lee said. “I can assume with high confidence that Tae-bo affected the shaking. But we will have a thorough examination in order to calm the controversy. The result of today’s demonstration brings us much closer to an end to the question.” ____________ ****** "Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty." As it is kitten, so shall it be done.
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jason_gee Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 24 Nov 06 Posts: 4037 Credit: 60,148,097 RAC: 59,290	Message 1130685 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 21:32:02 UTC Last modified: 22 Jul 2011, 21:32:30 UTC
	Still much better than when the Connecticut guy broke the whole internet in 2007(link to external site video news story ) ____________ "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change." Charles Darwin
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msattler Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 34124 Credit: 342,424,356 RAC: 539,371	Message 1130691 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 21:40:03 UTC - in response to Message 1130685.
	Still much better than when the Connecticut guy broke the whole internet in 2007(link to external site video news story ) ROFLMAO.... Ya just gotta luv The Onion.... ____________ ****** "Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty." As it is kitten, so shall it be done.
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Ham Todd Send message Joined: 25 Apr 03 Posts: 11 Credit: 10,111,233 RAC: 7,418	Message 1130699 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 21:48:09 UTC
	Still much better than when the Connecticut guy broke the whole internet in 2007(link to external site video news story ) Ok, that's priceless!! ____________
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CLYDE Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Aug 99 Posts: 132 Credit: 9,804,714 RAC: 21,874	Message 1130701 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 21:51:00 UTC - in response to Message 1130580.
	I LOVE THIS THREAD :-)) ____________
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Zapped Sparky Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 2208 Credit: 626,157 RAC: 955	Message 1130718 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 22:11:14 UTC - in response to Message 1130685.
	Still much better than when the Connecticut guy broke the whole internet in 2007(link to external site video news story ) Hahahaha, brilliant.
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Slavac Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,120 RAC: 15	Message 1130735 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 22:31:00 UTC - in response to Message 1130718.
	I recently sent the team a bit of money specifically for b33r. Being frugal as always, the team managed to buy a small truck load of unlabeled b33r in dented and generally rather questionable cans. At 1700 Wednesday, their shipment arrived. After receiving their shipment, the men of SETI at Home realized that they only had a mini-fridge in the corner that was held together with duct tape and unicorn tears. Upon this realization, they set to work drinking each and every beer they had ordered in glimmering respect for the "Waste not, want not" creed. 6 men, 32,001 beers. 8 hours. It is well known that the men of SETI at Home resemble Yukon lumberjacks who have two hobbies; wooden model ducks and weight lifting. To say they were up to the task is a vast understatement as each man gripped their frosty beer in a well calloused hand and raised it to their lips. 45 minutes and 3.4 beers later, each and every man was roaring drunk. The downtime was a direct result of the Team waking up on Thursday morning with a hangover that could kill a cantankerous yak from 1000 meters away. Have you ever had a hangover while sitting in a room filled with blinking lights, roaring fans, oppressive heat and questionable beer sitting quietly on a pallet in the corner? Eric summoned the last of his strength and tossed a solitary can of beer over his head like a hand grenade ala Saving Private Ryan which struck the wall mounted 'OFF' switch with grace and precision. Thus the office took Thursday off. The only sounds emanating from the lab on Thursday was the occasional moan and muffled belch that could be faintly heard over the Plop Plop Fizz Fizz of round after round of Alka-Seltzer. Fin. ____________ Executive Director GPU Users Group Inc. - brad@gpuug.org
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