Posts by SciManStev

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc juggling Cuda versions, examples from Juan (Message 1374816)
Posted 16 days ago by

SciManStev

Although I have been way to busy to check specifics, my 480's have been given mostly Cuda 5.0, by a huge margin. For now, I'll crunch anything that comes my way.

Steve

2) Message boards : Politics : Famous Atheists (Message 1374192)
Posted 17 days ago by

SciManStev

This was my favorite comment from the article I posted, and it was from Richard Dawkins, from an excerpt from his book "The God Delusion"..

" In it he wrote: "We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

Steve

3) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (84) Server Problems? (Message 1373226)
Posted 19 days ago by

SciManStev

I am running stock now, and doing exactly what Jason suggests. It will all balance out in the long run, and with a project that has the potential for going long past my expected life time, I am happy. It will all balance out on it's own. Then the tweaking begins......

Steve

4) Message boards : Politics : Famous Atheists (Message 1372592)
Posted 21 days ago by

SciManStev

Many of these were a surprise to me.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/25/living/gallery/atheists/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

I am certainly not the only atheist, and have said many of the same things these atheists have said.

Steve

5) Message boards : Number crunching : Heptabad Cruncher part 2 (Message 1370412)
Posted 27 days ago by

SciManStev

Likely the best you can do for those is to have them 45 deg away from the case and angled so that they are 90 deg from each other. That is, they form an off-axis "V" shape.

Happy fast crunchin'!
Martin

That is a very true bit of knowledge. I'm impressed when anyone knows that.

Steve

6) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1367813)
Posted 34 days ago by

SciManStev

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/13/world/asia/north-korea-orphans/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

Steve

7) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Black Holes part 2 (Message 1365902)
Posted 40 days ago by

SciManStev

Interesting, Lynn:)

Yes it is interesting, Julie, hope it stays 26,000 light-years away from earth.

+1

I am really enjoying the great links, and raw science. We may eventually end up with a Black Holes part 3. :D

Steve

8) Message boards : SETI@home Science : UFO's exist - I've seen at least two (Message 1365395)
Posted 41 days ago by

SciManStev

+1

Steve

9) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Dark Energy? (Message 1365324)
Posted 42 days ago by

SciManStev

Does anyone know how wide the universe is? The most accurate age estimate I have heard is 13.75 billion years, so that would be 27.5 billion light years in diameter. How much is space expansion, and how much is what we would expect?

Steve

10) Message boards : Number crunching : I was having a problem w/gpu downclocks while doing S@H wu's[solved] (Message 1361779)
Posted 51 days ago by

SciManStev

Have you tried increasing the voltage? I have the voltage on my cards maxed out at 1.138 VDC. Some cards may need more voltage to just do stock speeds, at the intensity we drive them. I believe the 590's are intentionally undervolted, because the 580's didn't like higher voltage, but I could be wrong about that. I haven't checked for quite a while.

Steve

11) Message boards : Number crunching : I was having a problem w/gpu downclocks while doing S@H wu's[solved] (Message 1360692)
Posted 54 days ago by

SciManStev

I can get downclocks if I push the overclock on one of my cards too much. Now that I know the new operating point, it is fine. I have one running at 871 MHz, and the other running at 857 MHz. Stock is 700 MHz. All voltages are at max, and temps stay below 60°C.

Steve

Edit: Sometimes I can get a downclock from running Einstein, but that seems to be code related. Seti is totally stable.

12) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : UFO lights over Phoenix Arizona, real or not? (Message 1360090)
Posted 56 days ago by

SciManStev

I make up my mind all the time, and change it when warranted. What leads me to my decisions is evidence. I have no problem at all admitting that something I said was completely wrong, provided I have solid evidence to the contrary.

As for the ET conspiracy, I think the story is much more interesting that the factual information. Even if we were to have ET visitors, I would need to get past the physics of traveling what is certainly more than 100 light years, at speeds that are locked at a maximum of 186,000 miles per second, and dealing with time dilation, and the deaths of anyone left on the "home" planet by the time any visitor returned. The only way, given the huge distances that makes sense, is to have several generations embark on the trip, and several generations on the return trip. That doesn't make sense with them staying a short while, leave no concrete evidence, then heading back. It would be a bit more like this link.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/22/world/mars-one-way-ticket/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

The distances are just to huge. Even if I see something myself, I can't explain the physics, so I would be more inclined to come up with an explanation that fit the physics.

Steve

13) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : UFO lights over Phoenix Arizona, real or not? (Message 1360081)
Posted 56 days ago by

SciManStev

Can you provide a link? I haven't heard of that. Not that it isn't authentic, but I haven't heard of that yet.

Steve

14) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : UFO lights over Phoenix Arizona, real or not? (Message 1360073)
Posted 56 days ago by

SciManStev

I also think there must be things the governments won't tell us and I think their main reason is to avoid a panic outbreak...

I don't think that any government anywhere has any alien spaceships. But I do think it is possible that the USA at least, and possibly the UK also, has some sort of evidence that ET does exist. But for the sake of avoiding mass panic, and civil unrest throughout the world, they are keeping it back. And rightly too.

If the world can't keep nuclear secrets secret which can be an immediate and severe threat, then why would they be able to keep alien secrets secret, when thousands of people must be involved, and any actual threat is minimal?

I would be panicking a lot more if some rogue country launched a few nuclear tipped missiles than I would at confirming evidence of ET visitation.

Steve

Edit: I can add that scientist have alerted all of us that there are extinction events that can do a lot of harm, very quickly. Super volcanoes, gamma ray bursts within 2000 light years, meteor impacts, plaques, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, fires, and of course wars. The only way they could keep a secret like ET visitation, is if there was no secret to keep. Panic the world with concrete news of ET, I just don't see it.

15) Message boards : SETI@home Science : 3 earth like planets discovered. (Message 1359783)
Posted 56 days ago by

SciManStev

never understood why they never sent some new 'Voyagers with todays technologies' towards our neighbors yet. i m pretty sure they would be already further than the old ones.

Mostly we are stuck with chemical rockets, and speeds similar to what the Voyagers are doing, and Glenn is somewhat correct. We did use gravity boost, but with specific trajectories to get them heading out of the solar system.

Even at extreme energy levels, whether it is the formation or feeding of black holes, or the results of the extreme collisions of particle accelerators, there is no evidence that something could travel faster than light. One of the more promising long term solutions is
Ion Drive. Even that has it's limits due to the very low thrust.

With such puny thrust, a NEXT-based ion drive would need to run for 10,000 hours — just over a year — to reach a suitable speed for space travel. Dawn, a NASA probe that’s powered by previous-generation NSTAR ion thrusters, accelerated from 0 to 60 mph in four days. As a corollary, ion thrusters only work at all because of the near-vacuum of space; if there was any friction at all, like here on Earth, an ion drive would be useless. The good news, though, is that the (eventual) max speed of a spacecraft propelled by an ion drive is in the region of 200,000 miles per hour (321,000 kph).

The efficiency is really much better than chemical rockets, but even at maximum speed, it is not even close to light speed.

Steve

16) Message boards : Politics : Good News; God created all Living things! (Message 1359133)
Posted 58 days ago by

SciManStev

The fact that scriptures and the Bible came up with nothing relating to modern science or for that matter current society should tell you exactly what is worth.

+1

Steve

17) Message boards : Politics : interesting gun facts (Message 1359090)
Posted 58 days ago by

SciManStev

Here is what Wikipedia says.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_war

Steve

18) Message boards : Politics : interesting gun facts (Message 1359088)
Posted 58 days ago by

SciManStev

RELIGION has killed more people than other men intended.

I remember saying exactly that here 5 years ago, when I got roundly castigated by everyone.

And rightly so, trying to blame violence and death solely on religion, when we know the USSR had no religion. Such a statement seems to be about as silly as saying that atheism has killed millions in the 20th century. Both simplistic views.

Trying to forget all the massive killing done in the name of the lord huh?

1) The crusades.
2) The inquisition.
3) The killing of the Native Americans.
need I go on?

Here is a link with some more information. There is a good post in this link that describes wars done for religion, and not for religion, but I wanted to include the whole link.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101216201242AABY4JB

Steve

19) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1358342)
Posted 60 days ago by

SciManStev

We have raccoons and skunks back this year. I made sure we put out extra food!

Last night we had two racoons and one skunk. Tonight, we are trying for more....

Steve

20) Message boards : Politics : interesting gun facts (Message 1358330)
Posted 60 days ago by

SciManStev

I have seen information that says that the percentage of mentally unhealthy people is pretty much the same from country to country. I have seen information that many countries play violent video games, but that is pretty much equal also. We are all humans, and have basically similar genetics. There are acceptations, where people living in high altitudes have bigger hearts and lungs, or people living in different environments have adapted to the different conditions. But, over all, people are very similar. Laws don't always work, sometimes they do, but the availability of firearms does change the outcome. If a country has the most guns per capita, then the most crimes by those guns is at a higher level. That doesn't say that law abiding gun owners commit crimes. They don't.

Steve

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