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Message 1706823 - Posted: 30 Jul 2015, 22:59:31 UTC
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The second video clip was a little longer than I initially thought.

Also a very interesting one and definitely worth seeing.

Also starting up the evening here by finding a quite large prime factor when factorizing those numbers.

A C450 is having a P19 and a PRP432 as its two only factors.

Only a couple of minutes ago and not reported yet.
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Message 1706937 - Posted: 31 Jul 2015, 10:25:32 UTC
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Message 1706942 - Posted: 31 Jul 2015, 10:45:06 UTC

Blue eyes, brown eyes.

Guess you did not know.

At least it is part of your personality.
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Message 1706963 - Posted: 31 Jul 2015, 12:52:05 UTC

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Message 1707440 - Posted: 1 Aug 2015, 21:46:49 UTC
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http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=73157

I leave this thread for you to write in.

But walking in this thread at the beginning just for reading, you are supposed to be explaining both macrocosmos as well as our own world by means of understanding microcosmos, which in practice means creating or detecting new particles by means of smashing known particles towards each other using a particle accelerator.

Therefore, many subjects related to physics and its corresponding physical laws are better explained by the use of applied physics and mathematics. The sad thing is that this field is not for everyone to read and at least understand.

As mentioned, one such giant accelerator is being located underground, near Geneve, Switzerland.

Most likely making two particles collide are supposed to annihilate each particle through radiation. There is a question about whether or not anti-matter can be created in such a way, but fusion of two particles are supposed to release energy through radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter

One such particle is supposed to be the positron. This is a particle like the electron, but having a positive rather than a negative charge which supposedly is an electrical one.

The amount of energy which can be created by a certain amount of mass is being limited to the speed of light, c.

Because of this fact, the way in which anti-matter is being created is as a result of other, different physical processes being used for this principle instead.
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Message 1707479 - Posted: 2 Aug 2015, 0:22:22 UTC
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Should better read as follows

The amount of energy which can be created by a certain amount of mass is being limited BY the speed of light, c.

In the middle of the day and having my dinner at the same time.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=77337

You know, science is supposed to be about validity. There are many different areas of science, or at least fields which are supposed to be related to the subject of science.

Whether or not it is about Egyptian hieroglyphs, orbs and rods visible in the sky, or perhaps something even more at times, it is all about validity of such observations when they are happening.

The problem is that when you start questioning things which to some people may appear to be obvious, but not so for many others, you may perhaps appear to be not up to the subject whether or not you are supposed to be a believer of such phenomena or not.

There are stories around which may be hard to believe to most people, but perhaps not to every scientist. A respected UFO researcher which has carried out quite much analysis of videotape and audio recordings was able to come to the conclusion that some recordings were in fact showing what people were claiming those things to be.

Definitely video recordings are hampered by either being out of focus, shaking because of hand-helding and lack of sharpness and the like, but being able to copy video frames from my own video camera and having a look at those frames using IrfanView, it may be possible to make a separation between a possible bird and what may at times be something else.

This was something that eventually happened here and over a quite long period of time as well. Unfortunately I have not seen a return of the same, but in the same way I have not been watching for it either.

Edit: A little more to add to add to this.

Our current knowledge of physics is trying to explain the laws governing the universe with the discovery of new particles and eventually classifying these particles into separate or individual categories based on their individual properties.

Whether or not the universe is about microcosmos or macrocosmos, we are observing individual particles and measuring them not only because of the mass or charge they are representing, but also because of their energy properties.

We definitely know about particles at least classified as baryons, leptons, hadrons and the like. Right now scientists are trying to come up with a Grand Unified Theory (GUT), combining all known forces of nature, including gravity.

In order to be able to do such a thing, Quantum Theory is being used for this purpose. Everyone knows that one famous scientist was not too fond about this theory, but instead he was rather able to explain the notion of time.

Quantum Theory is best explained by understanding particles related to microcosmos. Still there may be things around in our own world which better could be explained by applying our current understanding of the particles belonging to microcosmos.

Even cosmic strings and quarks may have an explanation when applying Quantum Theory for such particles. Because this is still only a theory, there apparently are not yet any laws or constants available in order to better explain certain elements related to it, but again we probably are back at better listening in to what the particle physicists are having to say about these things.
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Message 1707581 - Posted: 2 Aug 2015, 4:32:40 UTC
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Oh, if you don't mind.

Just received a PM about whether or not I would like to join the Seti@home Germany WOW event 2015.

No link provided with the PM, so I needed to carry out a search.

First of all, one of the main purposes when it comes to the possible gains of a projects is the possible debunking of results or maybe possible intentions or expectations instead.

If you happen to be a debunker of a project, is that supposed to be a better thing than rather being a skeptic instead?

Or is it rather the opposite way around?

A project is supposed to be about results and accomplishments. Is it still time to make a couple of doubts regarding certain things which may be around?

If you happen to become old or experienced, like myself, you certainly know that boldness or eagerness does not always come cheap, but rather with a price.

Despite Seti@home being a distributed project, having users all around the world, I still have the feeling that the project as a whole is best handled by means of the resources which are close to the project, meaning the University of California, at Berkeley.

It may be partly a language problem, partly something else.

Those of you who happen to be German or the like for the most part are not speaking my language, unfortunately.

Those of you who happen to be British are doing the same thing slightly better, in my opinion.

At least one of those never threw the towel at me.

Thanks, Richard!

My experience tells me that the only way of detecting a possible intelligent signal coming from extraterrestrials is by means of certain gaussian scores which might be available. Neither a spike, a pulse, or a triplet will be enough to give a comprehensive or satisfactory result when it comes to our current analysis of the available data.

From history there may be some QNAN or Q.N.A.N results available. Most likely our interpretation of the meaning of any signal being detected is still by means of the gaussian score, which because of this way of interpreting things is assumed to be the way in which information is supposed to be transmitted through space.

Interpreting such a transmission or message is yet another thing, however. Most likely we are not supposed to be able to interpret the intended meaning of such a signal, whether or not it is asssumed to be intelligent in nature.

Therefore, if I am asked to join a certain event for some reason, I am not supposed to be joining a discussion club of sorts.

I happen to be quite good when it comes to the subject of astronomy, but even this subject field is not supposed to be able to explain everything relating to, or pertaining to the subject of possible extraterrestrial intelligence being around.

If you happen to be a skeptic or a debunker, are you supposed to believe in Doomsday, perhaps?

Never mind.

Please invite someone else instead and give newcomers an introduction and welcome to the show currently in progress.

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Quantum Theory is best explained by understanding particles related to microcosmos. Still there may be things around in our own world which better could be explained by applying our current understanding of the particles belonging to "this world".

Thanks for reading!
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Message 1707603 - Posted: 2 Aug 2015, 6:09:49 UTC

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Message 1707763 - Posted: 2 Aug 2015, 17:38:49 UTC - in response to Message 1707603.  

That was my late night post, Uli.

Probably it became a little too much at once.

Sorry about that.

Have a look at these web-links instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_interaction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_interaction

My order of lookup became 2, 1, 3. Therefore you may perhaps relate or associate the separate articles in order of importance or relevance.

Understanding these concepts is one part of science. Seti@home science is yet another subject area, but in the end it all is about understanding nature.

One way of trying to understand things are by means of looking at the physical and material part of our world. Another way of trying to interpret certain things is by means of the philosopical, or possibly metaphysical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics

You definitely know that the earth is not flat because you take such a thing for granted. Still it has to be proven in order to be regarded to be not so and we certainly know that this is true as well.

For other things that may be around and there is no easy explanation for, you may possibly be able to understand a little more by reading the links.
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Message 1707805 - Posted: 2 Aug 2015, 19:26:11 UTC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf

Yes. I already know that you are supposed to throw me out on the first of these two web links.

But this is only to illustrate what I already have pointed out, namely the fact that science is supposed to be carried out on different subject fields, each one having a specific approach when it comes to the given subject, as well as any results that may come back from any science being carried out in their respective fields.

You definitely know that I am not an expert when it comes to Parapsychology, but brown dwarfs are objects which are known to be existing in space. Despite that fact, not too much are known about such objects either, but they are likely to be even fainter than red dwarfs like Barnards star or Wolf 359.
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Message 1707875 - Posted: 2 Aug 2015, 22:10:24 UTC

Perhaps I should have mentioned Pseudoscience as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience

It is being linked to from the article about Parapsychology and is a quite good one.

The name of the title could be somewhat misleading, however.

Also I happened to look up Cosmology as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology

This article definitely should be rewritten to something much better.
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Message 1708053 - Posted: 3 Aug 2015, 13:52:48 UTC
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Again, sorry for the previous posting which was a little too much perhaps.

But the fact is that males are better than females when it comes to visualize and looking at things in 3-D, including measuring and estimating distances.

This most likely because it always has been the responsbility of both hunting and fishing for survival, which are depending on such skills.

Females are better than males when it comes to several other things.

One such example is cosmology and the place we are located. We happen to be living on a planet orbiting an ordinary star and this star is only one of perhaps 200 billion stars making up the Milky Way, which is our galaxy.

Therefore, even though I happen to know about the general concept of such things, I always want to think about it in a greater perspective and therefore need to make such a visualization in order to better know these things.

Even though we only have visited the Moon and just had a probe passing by the most distant planet in the solar system, we are still not able to make a difference between our Milky Way and other galaxies and clusters of galaxies that may be around in space.

So, if you may be able of thinking about the great walls and filaments which are supposed to be making up the visual structure of the universe, where is the proof?

For now we probably are left with sources like Sky-map, which of course is an excellent source for reference and a place to return back at in a suitable moment, but the definitive answer may not be found there either.

Apparently much of our current information about clusters of galaxies are now becoming available by means of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

For now we probably are left with the Hubble Deep Field and Very Deep Field pictures of cosmos in order to make a guess about how the rest of it would look like.

In comparison, we still think that our current limit when it comes to distance when it comes to detecting a possible intelligent signal is some 1500 light years. Because of this fact, cosmology is likely to end up in the shadows and out of interest to most people.
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Message 1708055 - Posted: 3 Aug 2015, 13:59:21 UTC

males are better than females

Females are better than males


See here young Setizen, the only thing that
I definitely do better than LSM is grow
a 'stash'. Please try not to judge all
people when you only know about a few....


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Message 1708069 - Posted: 3 Aug 2015, 14:52:45 UTC - in response to Message 1708055.  

LSM?

Anyway, what I said is a fact, celttooth.

If I happen to say to women are sometimes better to harass than men, you would probably do not agree in such a thing either.
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Message 1708075 - Posted: 3 Aug 2015, 15:07:03 UTC

Let's get back to the topic of thread, please.
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Message 1708645 - Posted: 4 Aug 2015, 23:14:10 UTC
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Would like to tell that before signing off last night, there were polar stratospheric clouds or nocturnal clouds visible high in the sky here.

Towards the horizon in the north, there was still a tint of green straight above the mountains and the sight was quite pleasant to watch, if not beautiful.

We typically are having mostly cloudy nights this summer and a lack of high temperature in the air which should be associated with the summer.

Checking in with a couple of other threads, a couple of interesting things may be found by looking up thermodynamics in the Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamics

As usual, most of these subject fields need a better knowledge about mathematics and physics. Still it may be a fact that you should be able to understand the Strong Nuclear Force or the like by means of having a knowledge about thermodynamics and not assuming that it rather is the opposite way around.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76721&postid=1708473

Some more information there by means of a link regarding the question about physics whether or not the universe began with singularity.

All of this in the context of our current knowledge of the UFO phenomenon. Probably several well documented stories being available right now, but apparently still premature to relate such phenomena with the possible presence of E.T.
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Message 1709618 - Posted: 7 Aug 2015, 5:47:27 UTC
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BOINC server still down?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHIIATt0BaM&list=RDRHIIATt0BaM&index=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914&index=2&list=RDRHIIATt0BaM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOwuniIgYXM&list=RDGOwuniIgYXM#t=7

Enjoy!

Edit: Listening carefully at Antarctica, it it still make and break at times.

But heck, probably I can not not do much better than that.
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Message 1712628 - Posted: 14 Aug 2015, 1:47:35 UTC
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Feeling better?

Perhaps I am doing so right now.

I bought a huge rectangular shaped pizza earlier this week.

This one became three meals in total, needing a warm up in the oven before consuming the remaining part.

With my second beer at 03:22 AM in the morning, I should not say too much, but appreciate the fact that the recent server problems did not affect my running very much.

Possibly I happened to notice this fact quite early on.

The Seti@home tasks still hangs my system quite often when doing other things. For now the PrimeGrid tasks will have to wait a little as well.

Also running a couple of NFS@home tasks, these tasks become an alternative to running PrimeGrid tasks.

Heat and possible static electricity are sometimes creating problems in the middle of the day and running those CUDA tasks may not always be desirable when wishing to watch a YouTube video instead.

Also, the room temperature may be turned up in the evening in order to either consume the dinner or make things feeling better otherwise.

Still six Seti@home CUDA tasks in my task list. But whether or not my setup is correct or not, the Manager may be struggling quite a bit with the .vlar tasks.

So, if I happen to be curious again, I would perhaps be wondering whether or not the pulses being visible in the videos available for the WOW signal are being part of the detected signal itself, or maybe the numbers visible are rather part of the background noise instead.

This is the secret about the whole thing. You may perhaps know that 3 * 7 = 21 or 5 * 7 = 35, but even with this knowledge, you may not know that 1155 is 3 * 5 * 7 * 11

Same goes with a possible signal as well if it ever should be detected.

You could well be assuming such a thing to be true at times if for some reason a gaussian count from a WU may be 30, but in general such a thing is not supposed to be a very common thing either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh3TokLzzmw&feature=youtu.be

Edit: Mentioned on the BOINC Chat Message Board, I came across this video.

The video is part of a web-page being referenced. The YouTube link is for your convenience.

Anyway, nice music to be listening to if you happen to be in the mood.
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