Posts by kenzieB
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Message boards :
Politics :
Carlin.
(Message 1350871)
Posted 85 days ago by  kenzieB
When one lives in Canada, everything below the 49th is south. Now there's an idea that merits pondering. :) |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
New Lonley and lost
(Message 1349870)
Posted 88 days ago by kenzieB
Welcome to the boards. In addition to the Cafe, there are a couple of interesting science boards that you might want to check out. |
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Science (non-SETI) :
The Voyagers
(Message 1348822)
Posted 91 days ago by kenzieB
If this is correct, all I can say is... I'm not sure that I agree that it has left the Solar System just yet. According to the article it is 18 billion km out, which sounds a very long way but is actually less than a light-day whereas most astronomers would consider the Oort Cloud to be a part of the Solar system and it extends upwards of a light-year from Sol. It'll be another 18000 to 20000 years before truly exits the Solar System. (People sometimes don't appreciate just how vast these distances are.) |
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Message boards :
SETI@home Science :
Where is THIS Seti's science ?
(Message 1348533)
Posted 92 days ago by kenzieB
At least one member doesn't even believe that life in any form exists off of Earth. No, I wasn't referring to you. :) Mostly my post was meant to be ironic. Sometimes my sense of humour doesn't translate well to the written page. :/ |
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SETI@home Science :
Where is THIS Seti's science ?
(Message 1348086)
Posted 93 days ago by kenzieB
Sometimes I wonder about what motivates people. Take this project as an example. There are people who don't think that the project has any possibility of success. At least one member doesn't even believe that life in any form exists off of Earth. That is fine. Folks believe whatever they choose to believe but I do wonder why they bother crunching. Why waste the computer cycles? Why waste the electricity. Why risk the wear and tear on the equipment? It is a curiosity. |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
For those addicted to Chocolate
(Message 1345817)
Posted 99 days ago by kenzieB
Just don't eat too much... There is no such thing as too much chocolate. :D |
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Message boards :
SETI@home Science :
Would an exo planet's magnetic field be detectable from earth?
(Message 1345815)
Posted 99 days ago by kenzieB
Unfortunately, I would think not. AFAIK we haven't the technology to even directly detect magnetic fields around planets in our own solar system. They've been inferred through observed effects and in the case of a couple planets magnetometer on spacecraft. Neither would be practical for planets that are many light-years distant. |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
How many passwords?
(Message 1340212)
Posted 117 days ago by kenzieB
So there I sat, trying to remember my eBay password. Eventually, I had to use the 'forgot password' link and, after two tries at answering the security question, got a temp password emailed to me. What should have taken 30 seconds took the better part of a quarter hour. It got me to wondering about how many passwords I have (turn out, about 14) and how many places I need them for: about 47. That's websites, bank and credit cards, even my library card now has a password backup. I do cheat and use the same password for multiple things (for example: same password for all my BOINC projects) though I do change them all periodically. And all the passwords are random letter/number combinations. No one would ever figure them out but they are hard to remember especially 14 of them and when you're not that bright to begin with. :P So, how many passwords do you have and how many places, cards, doors, etc do you need them for? |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Can't figure this one out
(Message 1340060)
Posted 118 days ago by kenzieB
Oddly, a portion of this song was left on my voice mail at work after I'd left Thursday. Meanwhile, Mark racks up a million every two or three days. :P |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Potato Crisps
(Message 1339756)
Posted 119 days ago by kenzieB
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Message boards :
Science (non-SETI) :
Meteorite crash in Russia
(Message 1338926)
Posted 123 days ago by kenzieB
Seem like an Asteroids@Home moment. :P |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
A General Discussion of Phobias
(Message 1338081)
Posted 125 days ago by kenzieB
Sorry Jim, but I love cities. :) I am not sure if this would qualify as a true phobia but I am not terribly fond of bats. Or snakes. |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Hi Gang!
(Message 1332803)
Posted 140 days ago by kenzieB
I can't believe you people are still here. It will take me a few weeks to determine whether or not this place is smarter or dumber than when I left it. Welcome back, Robert. If you have to ask that question then your return may well lower the collective IQ. :P Now if only Rush would return . . . :) |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Cereal
(Message 1330821)
Posted 146 days ago by kenzieB
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Message boards :
SETI@home Science :
Galaxy collisions the Milkyway and andromada.
(Message 1329823)
Posted 149 days ago by kenzieB
I do too! My sources list Andromeda as having an estimated trillion stars whereas the Milky Way is estimated to have between 100-400 billion stars and their masses are estimated to have about the same proportions. I guess the uncertainty is great enough to cause somewhat different estimates from different sources. Agreed (on the don't worry about it) idea. The two galaxies are comparable in mass and, when it comes to collisions, mass is everything Agree to disagree on the size estimates. :) |
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Message boards :
SETI@home Science :
Fossils in a newly fallen meteorite?
(Message 1328388)
Posted 153 days ago by kenzieB
I think probably that life got it's start on some planet in our galaxy and upon that planet's destruction the seeds of life got distributed throughout space. If it evolved out there then why could it not have just evolved here? Seems to me that the idea that life began elsewhere and then came here just adds another layer of complexity to an already complicated and unlikely enough scenario. |
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SETI@home Science :
Galaxy collisions the Milkyway and andromada.
(Message 1328383)
Posted 153 days ago by kenzieB
I have seen or read that there is evidence that the Milky Way has absorbed several smaller Galaxies in the past. I think also that you will find that the andromeda galaxy is the larger of the two by a big margin. But what does any of this have to do with searching for new planets to populate? Our sun will most likely be history before the Milky Way and Andromeda merge. Andromeda Galaxy About 1/3 the way down the Mass and Luminosity Estimates section: . . . M31 may be less massive than our own galaxy, although the error range is still too large to say for certain. Even so, the masses of the Milky Way and M31 are comparable. . . As I stated in a previous post, the galaxies are roughly the same size with our galaxy probably having a slight edge. I do actually research this stuff before I post it. Others . . not-so-much :P |
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SETI@home Science :
The subject of UFOs
(Message 1327938)
Posted 154 days ago by kenzieB
Oh, Dog, another perpetual motion concept. I remember having a heated argument in these forums a few years ago on another similar notion (if I recall it was cars that run on water, or something). As always, believers say it is a cover up or it is being suppressed by the big oild companies or something. In fact, if this worked for real, then the big oil companies would start manufacturing these devices instead of pumping oil because, despite what a lot of people think, the big oil companies are not really in the oil business. They are in the 'making money' business. Martin: You and I don't always agree but I would bet we do this time. We aren't surrounded by these things because they don't work. :P And, no, I didn't watch the 2 hour long video. I simply don't have the time to sit through it, figure out where the scam is, then report it. |
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Message boards :
Science (non-SETI) :
A Quantum of Qusars?
(Message 1327935)
Posted 154 days ago by kenzieB
Very interesting story. The author seems to think that it somehow topples Einstein because it seems to challenge the Cosmological Principle. It probably would make the Principle questionable if the Universe were only 14 billion light-years in radius but, thanks to hyper-inflation shortly after the big bang, it is a good deal larger than that. Stand back far enough and I am fairly sure that the Principle will still hold: the universe will look roughly the same in any direction. |
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Message boards :
SETI@home Science :
The subject of UFOs
(Message 1326885)
Posted 159 days ago by kenzieB
If we're still here in 3 billion years, we may have learned how to inhibit the expansion of the Sun by mixing it stratified layers and prolonging its stable life span. At least one nearby star, Zeti Reticuli appears to be part of a group of old stars, but has some points of appearance of a much younger one. We won't be (here in 3 billion years.) At best we'll have evolved into something else, at worst we'll have become extinct. This is the first time I had heard of mixing layers of the sun to prolong it's life. Do you have a link? Wouldn't really do anything about the fundamental problem of it running out of hydrogen and forcing it to start fusing helium instead. |
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