This profile.

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Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Have to give this Grandma credit for trying!
85-Year-Old Italian Grandma Hilariously Tries to Use Google Home For First Time: 'OK Goo Goo!'

One adorable grandmother had a bit of a difficult time using a popular smart device she received for Christmas, but that didn’t stop her from trying—even if her husband was less than impressed!

For her family’s Secret Santa exchange this year, 85-year-old Maria Actis received a Google Home Mini—one of the popular editions of the company’s line of smart speakers—from her grandson’s girlfriend, Becky Siegel. Maria couldn’t wait to give her toy a spin, so she placed it out on the family’s kitchen table to see what the hype was all about. But the device presented a bit of a learning curve for the first-timer, and her grandson, Ben Actis, filmed what followed.

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LOL:)
But hang on.
I and some others have even commenting this on social media....

‘Nigerian prince’ email scammer arrested in Slidell (Louisiana)!

A 67-year-old Slidell man who served as a go-between for an international team of scammers running a “Nigerian prince” email scheme has been arrested after an 18-month investigation.

Michael Neu, who is neither Nigerian nor a prince, has been charged with 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering.

Neu helped shuttle fraudulently obtained money to his co-conspirators, some of whom actually do live in Nigeria, according to the Slidell Police Department.

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A reel time traveler...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Shopping around for some replacement belts, tried Primark 1st but after seeing this, think I'll go elsewhere :-)
Clicked on products/mens/accessories/belts & saw this:



Think somebody should have a word with their I.T guy :-)

Shopping around for some replacement belts, tried Primark 1st but after seeing this, think I'll go elsewhere :-)
Clicked on products/mens/accessories/belts & saw this:



Think somebody should have a word with their I.T guy :-)

I guess it depends on how big someone's moobs are. Lol.

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For personal reasons I won't go into, I am leaving the Seti boards & forums as from today, until March 2018.

Clock alarm set 54 days too early :-)

It's Twelfth Night, or What You Will today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R39jE4SUEF4

Not enough light? Get a mirror.

"The problem with Rjukan is that it is six months [a year] without any sun," Martin Anderson tells me, as we sit in the town's main square.
"In the winter time the sun is so low in the sky that the [mountains] block out the sun."
On a clear day, you can see the sun on the surrounding peaks.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Solspeilet är kjempefint:)

A little about how we go here and how my team, The Planetary Society, helped launch Seti@home.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2017/20171025-seti-anybody-out-there.html?utm_campaign=setifeature&utm_medium=301

Is there anybody out there?

Jason Davis • October 25, 2017

The past, present and future of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

About 2,000 years ago, just before the start of the Common Era, the Romans conquered Spain. The Roman Empire was powered by money, and the currency of the time was silver. Fortunately for the Romans, there were an ample number of silver mines in their new Spanish territory.

It takes a lot of energy to smelt silver into coins, so the Romans cut down vast swaths of Spain's forests to burn the wood for fuel. A byproduct of the smelting process is lead, which the Romans used for plumbing. For the first time, our species was engaged in large-scale industrial manufacturing—and also large-scale pollution. Signs of all this can be found in Greenland ice cores.

Pete Worden is the executive director of Breakthrough Initiatives, which funds efforts to search for life beyond Earth. He recently told me Roman silver mining is arguably the first time humans' impact on the planet was noticeable from outer space.

"If you were sitting at a nearby star and had the ability to take a spectrum of the atmosphere, with technology that we can imagine in the next few decades, you would detect these things that are at least, from our understanding, clearly industrial pollutants," he said.
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Meanwhile, in the late 1980s, The Planetary Society, NASA and the National Science Foundation helped fund a west coast SETI effort called SERENDIP at the University of California, Berkeley. SERENDIP, as its name implies, looks for serendipitous SETI detections by piggybacking on traditional astronomical observations made by large radio telescopes. The program has undergone many upgrades and relocations over the years, and was still running at Arecibo when the telescope was damaged by Hurricane Maria in September 2017.

SERENDIP originally processed data in real-time, but Berkeley soon began archiving the data and sifting through them using computer algorithms. There were more data available than could be processed using supercomputers, said Dan Werthimer, who is now chief scientist of the Berkeley SETI Research Center. Werthimer and three other engineers and scientists designed a program to allow home computers to help with the data crunching.

"We had this wild and crazy idea to use volunteers to analyze our data, but we took it around to various people, and nobody seemed to think it would ever work," Werthimer told me. "The Planetary Society said, 'Hey this wild, crazy idea? We want to get behind it.' And they gave us the money to launch the project."

In 1999, Berkeley released the result, SETI@home, and since then more than 8 million people have downloaded the program and donated spare computing power to help search for intelligent life. The open-source software, BOINC, on which SETI@home is based, is now used for other projects. This led to what Werthimer calls "the democratization of supercomputing," where users can choose individual research programs to assist.

Andrew Siemion, the Berkeley SETI Research Center director, credits The Planetary Society's SETI@home involvement for helping keep the field alive prior to his arrival at Berkeley as a student in 2004.

"Science is about standing on the shoulders of giants," he said. "Frankly, we would not be here today were it not for the support specifically of the Planetary Society."

For personal reasons I won't go into, I am leaving the Seti boards & forums as from today, until March 2018.

Clock alarm set 54 days too early :-)

It hasn't stopped him from rattling peoples' inboxes though. :-(

Cheers.

For personal reasons I won't go into, I am leaving the Seti boards & forums as from today, until March 2018.

Clock alarm set 54 days too early :-)

It hasn't stopped him from rattling peoples' inboxes though. :-(

Cheers.

Mine too.

Stephen Hawking is now 76 today. So Happy Birthday.

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Stephen Hawking is now 76 today. So Happy Birthday.

Pretty amazing for someone who was not expected to live past his 25th birthday.

How Has Stephen Hawking Lived Past 70 with ALS

Happy Birthday Steve!

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Dumb crook of the week award goes to a Bank theft suspect who applies for a job with police, and is arrested during job interview

COTTONWOOD, Ariz. (KSAZ) - Cottonwood police said they have arrested the suspect behind a 2016 bank theft incident, because the suspect tried to apply for a job with them.

According to a statement, Alberto Saavedra Lopez was arrested for felony theft on January 4, after he arrived at the Cottonwood Police Department for a job interview.

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