Posts by Jason Safoutin
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
BoincLogX stopped working
(Message 1212565)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by  Jason Safoutin
Post: Never mind...it seems whatever was wrong, it has fixed itself. This AM I could not get it to work for the life of me. I just opened it back up and suddenly there was light at the end. |
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Number crunching :
BoincLogX stopped working
(Message 1212560)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by Jason Safoutin
Post: I think i had this problem before, but cannot find the thread. I went to open BoincLogX one day and it asked me for the "boinc directory." I forget which "directory" was there. Also when this happened an error message for BoincLogX popped up...however it was in German? Anyways...not sure what I did wrong and every "boinc directory" I try to add fails. |
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News :
Project Back Online After Overnight Outage
(Message 1195406)
Posted 15 Feb 2012 by Jason Safoutin
Post: Thanks for the update. It's Tuesday night here, so technically the outage is still on :P I am not too worried. You guys always pull through. |
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SETI@home Science :
Kepler-22b: The new Earth?
(Message 1177157)
Posted 10 Dec 2011 by Jason Safoutin
Post: Dr. Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute announced that Kepler 22b and other promising planets discovered by the Kepler Project will soon be monitored for intelligent radio signals at the newly reopened Allen Telescope Array. IF this planet is inhabited, and *if* its inhabitants had the ability and inclination to send a strong radio beam our way 600 years ago, we may not have to wait too long for confirmation of life on the planet. They don't even have to be sending it to us. Just in our general direction. Would be nice if they were sending constant signals much like TV and radio on earth do here. But if we don't find those transmissions, that doesn't mean there are no human like beings on the planet, they just might not yet have the capabilities to send such signals. There was a time when we had no clue what radio even was much less signals from space. |
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SETI@home Science :
Kepler-22b: The new Earth?
(Message 1177156)
Posted 10 Dec 2011 by Jason Safoutin
Post: UPDATE: Is the New planet Kepler 22b discovered by NASA super earth? "Bill Borucki, Kepler’s lead scientist, said, “If it has a surface, it ought to have a nice temperature.†Natalie Batahla, the Kepler deputy science chief, said, “It’s right in the middle of the habitable zone. The other exciting thing is that it orbits a star very, very similar to our own sun. It’s so exciting to imagine the possibilities.†Floating on that “world completely covered in water†could be like being on an Earth ocean and “it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that life could exist in such an ocean,†Batalha said in a phone interview. Kepler-22b is one of the fifty planets that fit the bill of orbiting a star in the habitable zone. It is 600 light years away from earth and is about 2.4 times the diameter of Earth. It makes a revolution around its sun in 290 days and its surface boasts the balmy daytime temperatures of around 22 degrees Celsius." Also: Human-like Life Could Exist on Newly-discovered Planet "A newly-discovered Earth-like planet could very well contain continental features where normal human-like life could exist. Or it could be more of a water world with an ocean containing life forms similar to dolphins. That’s according to Dr. Alan Boss, of the Carnegie Institution for Science, one of the researchers involved in discovering the new planet. Located some 600 light-years away, Kepler 22B is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth. And while scientists don’t yet exactly know if the planet is predominantly rocky, gaseous or liquid composition, its discovery has excited scientists who now say we’re now one step closer to finding other Earth-like planets throughout the cosmos. If it is truly made of rock, as some speculate, Dr. Boss says it might look something like our own Earth with probably a fair amount of water on it as well. |
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SETI@home Science :
Kepler-22b: The new Earth?
(Message 1175908)
Posted 5 Dec 2011 by Jason Safoutin
Post: NASA scientists with the Kepler program have confirmed, for the first time, a planet in the 'habitable zone' in an other solar system. NASA's Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star "NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface....The newly confirmed planet, Kepler-22b, is the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a star similar to our sun. The planet is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth. Scientists don't yet know if Kepler-22b has a predominantly rocky, gaseous or liquid composition, but its discovery is a step closer to finding Earth-like planets....Kepler-22b is located 600 light-years away. While the planet is larger than Earth, its orbit of 290 days around a sun-like star resembles that of our world. The planet's host star belongs to the same class as our sun, called G-type, although it is slightly smaller and cooler." Unfortunately, we really have no way, yet, to determine if life exists on this planet. Sending a probe is possible, but it would take over 600 years to get there. This is great news and I hope they find out more about this planet. Also: Would it be possible for Arecibo to make an observation of this planet? Not saying aliens are there, but being the first "confirmed, habitable" planet...isn't it worth a shot? |
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Science (non-SETI) :
Speed of light broken again as scientists test neutrino result
(Message 1172277)
Posted 19 Nov 2011 by Jason Safoutin
Post: I think I started a previous thread on this matter, but can't find it so I am starting a new one because of new developments. Speed of light broken again as scientists test neutrino result The speed of light appears to have been broken again after scientists carried out a new set of experiments to test measurements that could require the laws of physics to be rewritten. The researchers behind the experiments, which involved sending neutrino particles 450 miles through the ground from the CERN facility in Geneva to the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy, have now attempted to rule out one possible source of error. By tweaking the experiment in an attempt to address a potential flaw in their original experiment, they again showed that the neutrons arrived at the Italian site some 60 billionths of a second faster than if they had been travelling at the speed of light. Scientists have posted new results that confirm measurements made in September that a beam of subatomic particles had travelled faster than the speed of light. The initial result caused widespread debate as it appeared to break one of the most fundamental laws of physics – that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. The findings have proved troubling for scientists as it goes against Albert Einstein's law of special relativity and opens up the possibility of being able to send information back in time. This really does amaze me. Even if there was an error in the first test (which so far they have yet to find evidence of), this test yielded the same results...TWICE! This is incredible for science. The amount of things we could do if we were able to harness such power in small spaces at a constant, would be near endless. This could very well be a new era of science we never thought possible. |
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SETI@home Science :
They haven't landed yet!
(Message 1170589)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Jason Safoutin
Post: Well I have to agree...at least about 80%. I still think they know a lot more about the possibility or existence of another species, intelligent or not, than what they are telling us. NASA has at least 2 cards left to play: 1) Announce they have found life, microbial or mammal, on another planet (most likely place is one of several moons in our own solar system) or 2) Announce they have found proof of an intelligent alien species that existed in the past or present and have made or intend to make contact with said species (NASA has that second card to play assuming they discover a signal or etc. before any other agency or citizen etc.). Once those cards are played the only real thing left is getting to those places if not in our own backyard and frankly light speed or getting anything near it is not as fascinating as talking to another alien. So once one of those two things happen, then what...you know? So for them its like 'meh.' If you ask me they have a lot of hard evidence to say there may very well mammal life in oceans under the ice surfaces of at least one of Jupiter's and Saturn's moons, but are stalling announcing it. I always asked the question: Why have they paid much less attention to these moons? Why haven't they really planned on sending probes or rovers or etc. to these things? Well i pretty much answered those questions... |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Every workunit I downloaded is a .vlar
(Message 1169921)
Posted 11 Nov 2011 by Jason Safoutin
Post: Credits or etc don't concern me at all. My main concern: Is this normal? I mean I have downloaded a few .vlar here and there before, but never every single workunit in one download bundle. I just thought it to be odd... |
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Number crunching :
Every workunit I downloaded is a .vlar
(Message 1169915)
Posted 11 Nov 2011 by Jason Safoutin
Post: I have never seen this before on this machine, or any other machine I have used to crunch for SETI@home. Every workunit I downloaded the other day is a .vlar. Not sure what that means if anything, but thought I would run it by here to see why this is the case. |
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