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Message 1395676 - Posted: 27 Jul 2013, 20:04:28 UTC

It is probably something non-ET, but still... What is it? I was talking with a friend who is also running SETI@home currently and I saw this and screenshotted it. Does this happen often or what? It's crazy. It could be a glitch or interference of some time. Excuse me if this is a common thing, I just started using SETI@home again.




You can't even see the text! Here's my current tasks and whatnot as well.



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Message 1395679 - Posted: 27 Jul 2013, 20:16:54 UTC

Should I upload the workunit file here? I have it. Am I even allowed to do that?
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Message 1395685 - Posted: 27 Jul 2013, 20:24:27 UTC

What the snap shot is showing is the progress on ploughing through the calculation, the thin vertical line are indicators of the relative strength of the signal at the various time/frequency combinations. They don't mean anything on their own, but when correlated with other signals from the same place in the sky a picture is slowly developed of the potential for there being a "radio intelligent" life form at that location.
When your computer has finished its calculation the results will be uploaded automatically, compared with those for the same work unit returned by someone else and credit awarded appropriately. The result will then be filled away and eventually used in the big correlation exercise that is plodding on in the background (and that's where the "real" science is being done)
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Message 1395686 - Posted: 27 Jul 2013, 20:24:55 UTC - in response to Message 1395681.  
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What do you need? The .vlar, or .vlar_0_0 or what?
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Message 1395691 - Posted: 27 Jul 2013, 20:31:16 UTC - in response to Message 1395688.  

@Michael

Does that look normal, or does his output show signs of the same thing as mine?
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Message 1395699 - Posted: 27 Jul 2013, 20:36:15 UTC - in response to Message 1395696.  

Michael has the vlar file now.
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Message 1395705 - Posted: 27 Jul 2013, 20:45:15 UTC

On another note, it happened for only a short period of time during the thing. It was normal, did this, and went back to normal just as quickly.
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Message 1395711 - Posted: 27 Jul 2013, 20:55:28 UTC - in response to Message 1395707.  

k, and it s around 20%


Yep. Just did a little brightening with Paint.Net and I can see it is 20.374%

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Message 1396068 - Posted: 29 Jul 2013, 5:51:58 UTC

Please email me the task, I'd like a look with some visualisation ideas I'm experimenting with. ( contact at jgopt dot org )
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