Why am I processing work units from 2008 and 2009. Also why an ASTROPULSE that has been gong for 500 hours and is only 65% done. Is this a useful, legitimate endeavor ??

Why am I processing work units from 2008 and 2009. Also why an ASTROPULSE that has been gong for 500 hours and is only 65% done. Is this a useful, legitimate endeavor ??

Why not 2008 and 2009? Any idea how long some of those signals might have taken to reach planet Earth? 4 or 5 years delay in processing them might be a miniscule fraction of that time, so processing them now is completely valid.
And, the project has discussed revisiting some older work using the newer processing than was being done when first run through the system.

As to the AP going for 500 hours? Reboot your computer. Something is wrong on your end. It's probably stuck.

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Why am I processing work units from 2008 and 2009. Also why an ASTROPULSE that has been gong for 500 hours and is only 65% done. Is this a useful, legitimate endeavor ??

The signals your processing may have started a thousand
years ago. Were you looking forward to having a conversation
with the little green men?

Your AP work unit is stuck. Do a cold reboot. If that does
sent help just abort it or ask for more assistance.

"Is this a useful, legitimate endeavor ??"

Some people think so; others just came in for the free soup.

Also why an ASTROPULSE that has been gong for 500 hours and is only 65% done. Is this a useful, legitimate endeavor ??

You're only got one Astropulse task against your host at the moment, it completed in 220,063 seconds, that is 61 hours, not 500 hours, the 500 hours an initial Estimation of how long it might take,

looking at your app version page for your host, you haven't completed any tasks (of less than 5% Blanking) on either the AstroPulse v6 6.02 i686-apple-darwin or the AstroPulse v6 6.02 powerpc-apple-darwin apps,
once you're completed 10 validations of less than 10% Blanking, the Estimations will match reality:

Application details for host 2816676

Claggy

Thanks for the replies.

I was concerned that we weren't keeping up with current data acquisition or that old data was re-hashed since there wasn't anything new coming in.

Of course SETI is worthwhile if we are doing it properly-the fact that we appear to be behind prompted my query.

Reminds me of the time before I started reading the boards when I first got an AP. It was on my old P4 and its was going to take like 7 days to crunch. Like a dolt I thought it was a bad work unit and aborted it. I aborted a few others untill I woke up and read what they were.

Mark is right one of the lab guys said that they will be revisiting old tapes. I just cant find the link right off the bat.

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