Posts by Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan

Thanks for the update Matt,

Claggy

Well, thanks guys - I didn't expect that, but it was greatly appreciated.

Dude and Dudette just drive the parcel van, and throw the goodies out the back. The real heavy lifting is done in the back rooms at Luna HQ - let's have a shout out for them too.

• Richard Hasselgrove
  
• Lady L
  
• and others
  
• and the back rooms at Luna HQ
  
• Congrats to all involved
  

Byron

I'd like to propose a vote of thanks to Richard Hasselgrove, LadyL and others who have worked so damn hard, and under a lot of pressure, to get this latest installer out.

+1

+2

I'd like to propose a vote of thanks to Richard Hasselgrove, LadyL and others who have worked so damn hard, and under a lot of pressure, to get this latest installer out.

+1

Dear Lady Joanne

Welcome to Café SETI,

Best Wishes
Byron

Thank you for the welcome, I found your profile (family) very interesting

sincerely, joanne

SETI@home Project Scientist Eric Korpela has published a blog entry in the Huffington Post's new science section. Other Berkeley SETI bloggers may follow. Depending upon the response we may only blog there, may restrict blog entries here to things directly related to SETI@home, or we may duplicate the posts here. Let us know what you think.

Mount Robson

Correct Byron! Take it away. Maybe we should use something besides Canadian pictures for a while, so the others can play too;).

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Analog UHF television transmitters had ERPs of up to 5000 KW,

which would give a comparative range of somewhere between 300 and 400 light years.

While the existence of such signals might be detectable,

it's not likely that the content could be discerned.

Michael

Message 1196921 was from the Seti Goddess Ess99%.
Whatever you do
"Don't get her mad, you'll be sorry."

+1

We've released the Astropulse version 6 application to the SETI@home project. The only real difference is a couple of minus signs in the code that were added to match changes to the way the data recorder works.

It'll take a while for the credit granted by this application to settle out to a reasonably constant value. If you run optimized applications, I'd suggest you wait a couple of weeks before starting to do Astropulse v6 work just to avoid the possibility that you will be granted an extremely low credit for your work.

Wow, the SKA super computer will perform 1018 operations per second. Couple of those working together should be able to match my pocket calculator

• The project timeline
  
  
• 1991 Concept
  
• 2006 Short listing of suitable sites
  
• 2008-12 Telescope system design and cost
  
• 2011 Establish SKA organisation as a legal entity
  
• 2012 Site selection
  
• 2013-15 Detailed design and pre-construction phase
  
• 2016-19 Phase 1 construction
  
• 2018-23 Phase 2 construction
  
• 2020 Full science operations with Phase 1
  
• 2024 Full science operations with Phase 2
  

• Facts and figures
  
  
• The SKA central computer will have the processing power of about 1 billion PCs.
  
• The SKA will use enough optical fibre to wrap twice around the Earth!
  
• The dishes of the SKA will produce 10 times the global internet traffic.
  
• The aperture arrays in the SKA could produce more than 100 times the global internet traffic.
  
• The SKA will generate enough raw data to fill 15 million 64 GB iPods every day!
  
• The SKA super computer will perform 1018 operations per second – equivalent to the number of stars in three million Milky Way galaxies
  
• in order to process all the data that the SKA will produce.
  
• The SKA will be so sensitive that it will be able to detect an airport radar on a planet 50 light years away.
  
• The SKA will contain thousands of antennas with a combined collecting area of about one square kilometre (that’s 1,000,000 square metres!). .
  

Read More here:

Square Kilometer Array
http://www.skatelescope.org/

The Radio telescope is so sensitive that it could even pick up television signals
from distant worlds —

From how far away ?

The Square Kilometer Array Radio Telescope will be so sensitive
that it will be able to detect an airport radar on a planet 50 light years away.

• The project timeline
  
  
• 1991 Concept
  
• 2006 Short listing of suitable sites
  
• 2008-12 Telescope system design and cost
  
• 2011 Establish SKA organisation as a legal entity
  
• 2012 Site selection
  
• 2013-15 Detailed design and pre-construction phase
  
• 2016-19 Phase 1 construction
  
• 2018-23 Phase 2 construction
  
• 2020 Full science operations with Phase 1
  
• 2024 Full science operations with Phase 2
  

• Facts and figures
  
  
• The SKA central computer will have the processing power of about 1 billion PCs.
  
• The SKA will use enough optical fibre to wrap twice around the Earth!
  
• The dishes of the SKA will produce 10 times the global internet traffic.
  
• The aperture arrays in the SKA could produce more than 100 times the global internet traffic.
  
• The SKA will generate enough raw data to fill 15 million 64 GB iPods every day!
  
• The SKA super computer will perform 1018 operations per second – equivalent to the number of stars in three million Milky Way galaxies
  
• in order to process all the data that the SKA will produce.
  
• The SKA will be so sensitive that it will be able to detect an airport radar on a planet 50 light years away.
  
• The SKA will contain thousands of antennas with a combined collecting area of about one square kilometre (that’s 1,000,000 square metres!). .
  

Read More here:

Square Kilometer Array
http://www.skatelescope.org/

The Radio telescope is so sensitive that it could even pick up television signals

from distant worlds —

From how far away ?

It is said that the ... $2.1 ... Billion Dollar Square Kilometer Array Radio Telescope will be made up of some 3,000 dishes, each 15 meters in diameter.

when is the estimated completion Date ?

The Radio telescope is so sensitive that it could even pick up television signals

from distant worlds —

From how far away ?