Posts by edjcox
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Message boards :
Science (non-SETI) :
UFO lights over Phoenix Arizona, real or not?
(Message 1359236)
Posted 31 days ago by  edjcox
The accidental discovery of the ability to warp space time and create pocket outside of it.. This then required the ability to envelope a physical space within the warp area. The area exists outside of time and space and as a result one can propel the warp bubble at very infinite speeds. These bubbles of warp fields allow travel through space and as they are not impacted by normal time that within the warp fields does not experience time except for relative time of that within the field. Pushing the warp bubble along could be achieved by a simple field strength alteration along one area of the bubble. The warp bubble would move in the direction where the field strength was lower. A static or even field would stop the movement. Matter interaction would not take place as the bubble would not be impacted by normal matter wit the exception of that at the edges of black holes and singularities. One would need to avoid that interaction as the singularity is the only pont in our universe that transitions to "warp" territory... And so we now can see that faster than light travel is possible but only if your within that bubble... Truth is though reality will burst that bubble and leave you stuck in Einstein's reality where FTL is simply fictional... |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Help me with my petition (funding science)
(Message 1359219)
Posted 31 days ago by edjcox
To quote" When I was a kid in the late 1980s and early 1990s I expected to see humans on Mars and Moon in the early 2000s. I expected to see cheap supersonic flights around the world, spaceflights for ordinary people, and big and powerful particle accelerators. After getting my Master's degree in physics I started to realize that there is no proper funding even for the cheapest projects. Lots of skills and brain power gets lost because there are no enough jobs available for everyone. Big science projects would bring lots of news jobs and innovations. We need new innovations to solve the problems of everyday life (water, energy, poverty, food, education, health). Big science projects will solve these problems, but not without proper funding. The purpose of this petition is to make almost unlimited funding for science possible. " Nice idea... |
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Message boards :
Science (non-SETI) :
The Voyagers
(Message 1359215)
Posted 31 days ago by edjcox
Worked at General Electrics Space Center in Valley Forge,PA. We built and tested the RTG's that provide power to the Voyagers. From 100 + Wt peak down to 1 Watt or so today, the RTG's still produce enough juice to allow a weak signal beamed back to earth to be picked up. Most of the systems aboard are inoperative as there's no power for them and the technology (including tape recorders) have long since aged past their utility. The deep space cold permeates the spacecraft and with exception of the receiversand transmitters and the RTG's little heat is present. The ancient vidicon's are also inoperative so no images are possible besides no recorders to store and play back in pieces necessary for transmission. Perhaps some day we will be able to get out there and catch up to them. Would be something to have a future Probe on its way to a nearby sun stop and pickup the voyager for future museum display... Anyways it funny to think back to those days and realize the RTG's are so very far away in Space and of course time as well..[/img] |
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Message boards :
News :
SETI@home scheduler is down until further notice.
(Message 1309559)
Posted 179 days ago by edjcox
Who's the system administrator on the project? Seems your always having crashes and problems. A lot of us out here could help solve configuration issues if there were a good source on your configurations with system details. I run Einstein as well. They seemingly have a better group or configuration. I worry SETI is just a part time job for some of your people. There are a lot of things that seem to go wrong every weekend, holiday, or three day period.Eric I do appreciate your dedication. To bad SETI at home it is so underfunded and staffed lightly. A conference to discuss SETI and technology as well as whether the analysis path pursued is still viable or do we need a shift in overall approach to maximize the utility of you SETI volunteer corps.. Given a rudimentary analysis of Earth's radio frequency history (we go from Broadband Noise pulse generation to Digital Microwave inside of a 100 years) you realize other civilizations might only use RF for communications for a very short window in time. Even if the signals are floating around out there time coincidence is very unlikely and probability of intercept very low low indeed. Then propagation distance means any intercepted signals would be so far back in time that we'd be unlikely and unable to communicate back within any reasonable period to establish a comm channel. Perhaps looking at advanced communication methods like lasers, or even neutrino emissions might be promising.. Don't know the answer only that our RF search has som many "depends on" that it's probability is very very unlikely. Hate to be a pesimist but.... Happy Thanksgiving!!! Will still crunch.. |
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Message boards :
News :
SETI@home annual fund raising campaign has started
(Message 1305998)
Posted 189 days ago by edjcox
False report.. Seti has no ability to discover moving objects especially near earth. The data it processes is a set sweep from Aricibo and seldom veers much.. seti is similar to opening a radio telescope lens onto the sky and letting it sweep as the earth rotates it across the sky. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (78) Server Problems?
(Message 1303875)
Posted 194 days ago by edjcox
My WU have piled up and can't be delivered either.. |
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Message boards :
Technical News :
Power - the Reunion Tour (Jun 11 2012)
(Message 1245745)
Posted 342 days ago by edjcox
Even some small UPS equipment for the PC's would help keep the power gremlins from disturbing circuitry and such and shortening lifespan. I have all my gear at home on UPS for graceful shutdown and power conditioning at all times... Find out who your campuis engineer is and raise hell ... Let people know they are destroying equipment with their shenanigans. This should bye upchanneled as mush as possible to let management know this is costing them money, time, equipment... |
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Message boards :
News :
"Are We Alone?" The Great Debate
(Message 1159315)
Posted 594 days ago by edjcox
Would be nice to see this one day where credit was shared... "I am delighted to announce that SETI@Home has discovered a tenth new radio galactic communications emitter in data. Acquired long ago the tapes containing the data were analyzed utilizing FFT's and Signals analysis for advanced communications concepts including Pulse Amplitude, Pulse Position, Pulse Phase and other techniques far more revealing than previous software. Further details about the newly-discovered emitters can be found on this web page, and will be published in due course. We are in the process of contacting the volunteers whose computers found this alien group of emitters, and will post information about them in the coming few days. Located over XX light years from Earth it is anticipated that these emissions represent something so far back in time as to be absent from the present day universe in a form we would comprehend. Thank you for contributing to SETI@Home" We can but hope... Goodbye Steve! |
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Message boards :
SETI@home Science :
Is there a boundary on how large/small wavelengths can be?
(Message 1152022)
Posted 616 days ago by edjcox
Ponder this A sun and still another a lightyear away The two suns are impacted by a gravitational wave at the same instant that runs parallel to them The resonate and produce an electromagnetic wave between them This wave propagates outward and eventually runs into another star and another and another, etc Each encounter causes a slight resonace or dampens the original wave. The E Wave is sometimes amplified and sometimes dampened still propagating way from the two star source. At the speed of light that wave will encounter vast distances of nada out there and most eventually will dissapate as the energy is entropied away in time.. Occasionally the wave will interact and gain energy mosly it will dissapate. So these colossal EM waves are rare.. Their origin speculative... Their lifespan finite due to entropy. What might cause two stellar cores many light years apart to resonate in coincidence? I speculate a gravitational wave but thus far they remain thoretical.. One might look a a swiming pool and drop one drop of water on its still surface. The wavve propagates outward but will eventually be so weak as to be undetectable. Now drop 1000 drops on its surface evenly distributed and the cacaophony of wavelets created will be immense. Some of those waves will netralize one another some will combine into larger wavelets. The universe is like that a cacaphony of differing incoherent waveforms being produced non-uniformly in multiple dimensions and actually in multiple time coherences. So the answer to large is above the answer to small is a matter of what can begin the oscillation of EM at what subatomic level... |
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Message boards :
Technical News :
Drive (Aug 11 2011)
(Message 1140698)
Posted 646 days ago by edjcox
Do they have any real IT engineers working on this effort? It seems I see a pattern of hit/miss efforts to fix problems that are never really pinned down. Before the rightous all chime in here let's seriously look at what's going on. There are a lot of good companies who would contribute hardware and maybe even communications hardware and bandwidth. It just seems the people within the project while doing yeomans work for little reward are simply not getting the support, funding, and outside helpt this project deserves. We seem to have but a few who even bother to communicate what's going down and that will shortly meet a two month hiatus as Matt hits the road for his music tour. Where are the principles pn this team and why can't they manage to set up a regular weekly update and a regular status update and troubleshooting direction. A lot of us out here are available for more that CPU cycles if we're comunicated with. We might even be able to dissect the system if someone would take the time and block chart a schematic and layout of the systems and the hardware. Those of you that are offended by my viewpoints needs not throw electrons as frankly I am not a happy SETI at Home camper anymore. I'm aware of the limited manpower, limited funds, and so on. I also expect that this project get handled by people with their best work. A rime example is the dated information on the website and how its not current at all. What for example has come from the Data acquired afew weeks back. HAs it even been analysed at all? How about some feedback on the front page... Sorry, with my three PC's working on SETI and Einstein I am getting a better feel looking for gravitational waves than I am looking for evidence of communications between ET's. |
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Message boards :
SETI@home Science :
Is THIS A Kepler Work Unit?
(Message 1121631)
Posted 696 days ago by edjcox
So far the big cardboard box of Kepler data still sits unattended and forgotten... |
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Message boards :
Technical News :
Monolith (Jun 14 2011)
(Message 1119902)
Posted 700 days ago by edjcox
So the all important Kepler data sits in a box being "pre-processed and crudley analyzed? It seems priorities are akilter in SETI's lab. I'm sorry so little funding is allocated and that the staff is but part time. Recommend they focus sharply and perhaps allow volunteer's to write stuff up with a a daily tech brief to the chosen authors. This would releive the staff from the tedium of keeping the people who are processing the data for the project informed as to what's about.. Let's load up the KEPLER data and process it and put the other stuff on the back burner for later. One mans humble opinion... |
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Message boards :
News :
Here's the press release for current GBT observations:
(Message 1107878)
Posted 733 days ago by edjcox
Matt: Can you give us some insight into thei "coarse analysis" and how it is done? What computational resourses are employed and what methods of determining artificial versus natural are employed? I'd like to hear from Dan Werthimer and get some outline of his plan for handling the data once acquired. How are you storing it and transporting it for processing? Seems there are a myriad of questions and insight into this program I'd like to have. Does Dan have an outline of the project and how he's going about this? Thanks 800Mhz of instantaneous bandwidth can envelop a lot of signal including modulations from analog AM and FM to Pulse Modulations, Frequency Pulse Position, Pulse amplitude, etc... Running this through a sieve to determine repetition or artificial origin ought to be most interesting and challenging. Would really like to see the signal analysis methodology Dan's employing to rake this stuff through... This could really encompass a breakthrough in SETI signal processing and anlysis methodology. There might even be others who would like to learn from this analysis methodology and possibly fund.. Let's say and FM frequency modulated signal carrying a aideband employing Pulse Postion Modulation or even pulse amplitude modulation... Would his signal analysis pick that up? I'm really excited about this new source and possible new analysis techniques... |
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Message boards :
News :
Green Bank Telescope observations to start Saturday.
(Message 1107876)
Posted 733 days ago by edjcox
Fromt the article "Once UC Berkeley astronomers acquire 24 hours of data on a total of 86 Earth-like planets, they’ll initiate a coarse analysis and then, in about two months, ask an estimated 1 million SETI@home users to conduct a more detailed analysis on their home computers." So SETI@home get's in on the act in July or so. Meanwhile a "coarse analysis" is performed. Can we get an understanding of what that means? Coarse analysis done how and by what? I thought our SETI@home efforts is the analysis being done. Why the dely and why do this serially? Why not put the data to SETI@home immediatly? Or for that matter why not as real time as possible? Anyone have any understanding as to when this effort was planned and who planned it this way? I would think that our parallel processing effort supercomputations is the fastest way to analyze this data and would be the most productive. Has there been any efforts to enhance the methods used to identifiy artificial vice natural emissions? Would seem this is the best efforts in this arena in a while. 800Mhz of bandwidth in a given instant constitutes a lot of potential sources of emissions.. Anyways, I'm looking forward to this evolution of SETI@home and a more focused search can't hurt. Anyone out there can answer any of the above? |
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Message boards :
News :
Green Bank Telescope observations to start Saturday.
(Message 1104592)
Posted 744 days ago by edjcox
Does this mean we will be getting to process this data? Can one electo to focus on this verss the old data from the static view RT? I'd love to work on this? Given we are exploring targeted sets instead of random sky scans... |
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Message boards :
SETI@home Staff Blog :
Q&A about the ATA shutdown.
(Message 1100880)
Posted 756 days ago by edjcox
Here's an article with some info MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In the mountains of Northern California, a field of radio dishes that look like giant dinner plates waited for years for the first call from intelligent life among the stars. But they're not listening anymore. Cash-strapped governments, it seems, can no longer pay the interstellar phone bill. Astronomers at the SETI Institute said a steep drop in state and federal funds has forced the shutdown of the Allen Telescope Array, a powerful tool in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, an effort scientists refer to as "SETI." The 42 radio dishes had scanned deep space since 2007 for signals from alien civilizations while also conducting hard scientific research into the structure and origin of the universe. SETI chief executive Tom Pierson said in an email to donors last week that the University of California, Berkeley, has run out of money for day-to-day operation of the dishes. "Unfortunately, today's government budgetary environment is very difficult, and new solutions must be found," Pierson wrote. The $50 million array was built by SETI and UC Berkeley with the help of a $30 million donation from Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen. Operating the dishes costs about $1.5 million a year, mostly to pay for the staff of eight to 10 researchers and technicians to operate the facility. The shutdown came just as researchers were preparing to point the radio dishes at more than 1,200 potential new planets identified by NASA's Kepler Mission. Leo Blitz, a professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley and former director of the observatory that includes the Allen Telescope Array, says the dishes are unique in their ability to probe for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations while gathering more general scientific data at the same time. "That made the telescope a double-barreled threat," Blitz said. He said he knew of no other facility in the country that was undertaking this kind of search for extraterrestrial life. The SETI Institute was founded in 1984 and has received funding from NASA, the National Science Foundation and several other federal programs. Other projects that will continue include the development of software and tools to be used in the search for extraterrestrial life. |
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Message boards :
Science (non-SETI) :
Van Allen Array Shutdown Scientists forget to budget for salaries
(Message 1100877)
Posted 756 days ago by edjcox
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In the mountains of Northern California, a field of radio dishes that look like giant dinner plates waited for years for the first call from intelligent life among the stars. But they're not listening anymore. Cash-strapped governments, it seems, can no longer pay the interstellar phone bill. Astronomers at the SETI Institute said a steep drop in state and federal funds has forced the shutdown of the Allen Telescope Array, a powerful tool in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, an effort scientists refer to as "SETI." The 42 radio dishes had scanned deep space since 2007 for signals from alien civilizations while also conducting hard scientific research into the structure and origin of the universe. SETI chief executive Tom Pierson said in an email to donors last week that the University of California, Berkeley, has run out of money for day-to-day operation of the dishes. "Unfortunately, today's government budgetary environment is very difficult, and new solutions must be found," Pierson wrote. The $50 million array was built by SETI and UC Berkeley with the help of a $30 million donation from Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen. Operating the dishes costs about $1.5 million a year, mostly to pay for the staff of eight to 10 researchers and technicians to operate the facility. The shutdown came just as researchers were preparing to point the radio dishes at more than 1,200 potential new planets identified by NASA's Kepler Mission. Leo Blitz, a professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley and former director of the observatory that includes the Allen Telescope Array, says the dishes are unique in their ability to probe for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations while gathering more general scientific data at the same time. "That made the telescope a double-barreled threat," Blitz said. He said he knew of no other facility in the country that was undertaking this kind of search for extraterrestrial life. The SETI Institute was founded in 1984 and has received funding from NASA, the National Science Foundation and several other federal programs. Other projects that will continue include the development of software and tools to be used in the search for extraterrestrial life. |
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Message boards :
Science (non-SETI) :
Prove to me we "Evolved" from Apes!
(Message 1100324)
Posted 759 days ago by edjcox
So do you like Bananas? See. |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Sound for SETI??
(Message 1091018)
Posted 786 days ago by edjcox
What SETI is searching for is some form of coherent signal in a vast area of space filled with what appears to be white noise but hopefully with some pink noise in there someplace. There really isn't anything to listen to audibly that would interest you very long. Just turn on an old analog TV set and tune off channel and that is what it sounds like. I think the previous post said the same thing. We're searching using our best most likely understanding but we might just be looking the wrong way. If you've ever looked at a stream without polarized sunglasses on and then put a pair on and you can now see the fish and the stream bottom that is what we are doing.. SETI is taking that noise and attempting to filter and make some coherent sense out of a digital mish mash of essentially white noise. No one knows if our idea of how we're processing the signal is actually efective but it is science's best guess at this time... Stay aboard and give us a hand... |
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Message boards :
SETI@home Science :
NASA spots 54 potentially life-friendly planets
(Message 1082307)
Posted 814 days ago by edjcox
Wormholes These are just thoretical and no real evidence of them exists. We don't really even know for certain that Blackholes exist although we can see Galactic centers and what appears to be mass accelerating towrds the center of these galaxies and brightening but where its accelerating to and what occurs to the matter is again an unknown to us. Conjecture and theory about Black Holes but we don't know for certain. To make the leap from these tow theories to the possibility of traveling through the universe by entering into a backhole and hoping that there's another end out of which to emerge is again highly speculative, theoretical and without much proof... Think of it this way. If you were to travel to the proximity of a back hole you would likely be at the edge of the acrition disk. At the edge matter as we know it ceases to exist in it's coherent form as the gravity there is so overhwhelming that atomic structure begins to break down and matter ceases to exist and everything becomes a particle soup. This particle soup continues to condense as the matter nears and moves ever close to the gravitational center of the black hole. As matter condenses nuclear interactions occur including the interactions we can all observe every day on and in the sun. This soup of matter becomes so dense as one nears the center of the black hole that all resemblence to the known universe as we know ceases for that matter. Condensation of the soup carries on and we do not understand or know what takes place amongst that super dense matter (We need to call it something else as it is not matter as we know it) The particles begin to lose their energy and attempt to give it up but the immense gravitational influx disallows any emanation of energy of any kind. Density is such that a humogenous mass of sub primal particles begins to squeeze and densify. Gravity is overwhelming at this point, energy no longer emits, matter and density become infinite, and time ceases as there no longer exists a frame of reference for it. We arn't anywheres near understanding this. A present or future being that can will be so far beyond us technologicly that we won't recognize it and surely we might be less than a microbe is to us. Physics has a long way to go towards understanding what goes on in these stellar hell holes. There are examples of where we know matter acretes and doesn't quite make it and forms so called neutron stars. Again theory but some in direct evidence that they may exist. We know that these neutron stars sometimes implode and explode again in the form of massive exposions and some pump out streams of particles (pulsars). Why does this occur and what would happen if the mass gathered was just a might more? Stars we think dies strangely and collapse upon themselves occasionally. They sometimes create massive energy light shows that leave behind vast expanse of matter, gas, and dust for other interstellar vacuums to gather up to grow their own gravitational wells. We've got a lot to learn and experience before we jump to wormholes and interstellar travel. How would you create an area in space that would be exempt from the crushing gravity, the hot (radiatively and radioactivly) acretion disk soup, and travel into and through the realm o fa black hole? How would you deal with the loss of time reference as gravity so massive distorts it to non existence... No, we are but microscopic denizons on the edge of a planets surface, orbiting a star,in a non descript galaxy, one of billions and billions of galaxies akin to the proverbial pinhead of water in an ocean of space and time amd matter. We matter not. So I don't think we're going to jump any wormholes and hitchhike across the galaxies anytime soon.. |
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