Profile: Pierre A Renaud

Personal background

(Picture aboved: to my left, a brave guide under a hot suit and floridian sun, my sister Nathalie and my late mother Huguette, Cape Canaveral, circa 1975) 2022/06/15 David Anderson \| BOINC in Retrospect https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=14693&postid=108463 March 4th 2020: All good things must come to an end... (last task processed and reported April 26, 2020) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home SETI@home hibernation announced https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85267&postid=2035163 Dr Eric Korpela comments : https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85275&postid=2035328#2035328 Testimonies 01 March 12th, 2020 - The Vox guide to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemia https://www.vox.com/2020/3/5/21162138/vox-guide-to-covid-19-coronavirus -~~Join the geeky (but funny and good natured) 8th SETI@home Wow! Event 2019 at https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/~~ - Presently curating pages & projects @ https://trello.com/b/Se5smkQq/2dopar1138 - 20th Anniversary T-shirts ! ----> https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84069 - RIP Keith Flint 1969 â€“ 2019 (The Prodigy) Give Me a Signal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOG8cCYDt1k Out Of Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eav7dFvc8 ABOUT ME Risen ape, optimistic nihilist, philosophical skeptic, secular humanist, atheist+, LGBTQ ally, clinobibliophile, tsundokultist, ailurophile and chess patzer. Worked most of my life as an operator/dispatcher in the field of electronic security until MS forced me into early retirement. Usually sentient after the morning coffee. Occasionally snorts-out coffee through the nose when flabbergasted. Permanent member of Sceptiques du QuÃ©bec and board member of Atheist Freethinkers (membre permanent de Libres penseurs athÃ©es & Sceptiques du QuÃ©bec). Bilingual (French/English) and trilingual when I've had a beer (or a sleepless night) too many (ne vous gÃªnez pas pour me contacter en franÃ§ais). Can be found on twitter, facebook, goodreads, soundcloud, reddit and here in Team Carl Sagan (on facebook). Furthermore, I'm a satirically, heterosexually inclined 54yo male carbon-based bag of mostly water living on a speck of iron-silicate dust around a boring dwarf star in a minor galaxy in an underpopulated local group of galaxies in an unfashionable suburb of the Laniakea supercluster (thanks to Douglas Adams for the help), fluent in French, English and Expletives. I stand for freedom of expression framed by critical thinking, democracy & state/church separation. I abhor tyrannies, absolutisms, unquestioned traditions, unhinged skepticism & complacent ethical relativisms. My old profile, accounts, User of the Day at Asteroid@home & Yoyo@home (whew!), Climate Prediction & the SETI@Videotron pages I maintained from 1999 to 2002 when I belonged to the defunct Videotron Ltee team. Finally, a proof I was once a quite sexy keyboard smasher lol... Classic 4,852wu 77,843h A FEW OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES " If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people." â€• Neil deGrasse Tyson " You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.â€ â€” Daniel Patrick Moynihan â€œ The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.â€ â€• Steven Weinberg â€œ The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.â€ â€• Steven Weinberg â€œ Once one invokes the supernatural, anything can be explained, and no explanation can be verified.â€ â€• Steven Weinberg â€œ If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men and women are not content to comfort themselves with tales of gods and giants, or to confine their thoughts to the daily affairs of life; they also build telescopes and satellites and accelerators and sit at their desks for endless hours working out the meaning of the data they gather.â€ â€• Steven Weinberg â€œ With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.â€ â€• Steven Weinberg â€œIf knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.â€ â€• Isaac Asimov "Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion." â€” Jon Stewart â€œYou're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.â€ â€• Carl Sagan, Contact " Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There would never be another. It changed the future and it changed us. It taught us that we have to create the future or others will do it for us. It showed us that we have to care for one another, because if we don't, who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely places. Mostly, though, I think it gave us hope, that there can always be new beginnings. Even for people like us." (Susan Ivanova, character from Michael J. Straczynski's tv series Babylon 5) "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." (Clarke's 2nd law) "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Clarke's 3rd law) "Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God." (Shermer's last law) "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." (Gehm's corollary) "Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out." (Groucho Marx) "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." (Terry Pratchett) "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." (Aristotle)
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Q. Do you think extraterrestrial life exists? A. Yes, considering how unfathomably huge the cosmos is, and considering how easily life could arise due to the self organizing properties of matter in favorable environments. Intelligent life is probably much rarer, and it isn't demonstrated that intelligence (as we conceive it) is a positive evolutive survival factor (taking the human species as an example). Q. Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find? A. We've already been transmitting a lot since I Love Lucy. I would understand if an extraterrestrial civilization decided to quarantine us for a while after listening to Hitler or their wannabees. High-power targetted transmissions should be subjected to the complete oversight of high-level international scientific commissions. No amateurs, tyrants or psychos should speak in the name of humanity. Q. Why do you run SETI@home? R. I'm a romantic nerd at heart, my cat seems to love the humming and the heat generated in winter, and citizen science can certainly help us (until quantum computing and AI reshuffle the cards) find that elusive extraterrestrial technosignal. I've been running SETI@home on my computers/devices since its beginning and doing my bit to help find that elusive technosignature, knowing it -- along with all the SETI initiatives up to now (see https://technosearch.seti.org ) has only sifted through the equivalent of a coffee cupbathtub/swiming pool of this cosmic ocean, with only one certitude: we won't find those technosignals if we're not looking for them. And until quantum computers & IA can take over and do the job more efficiently, I'll keep doing my bit: because (like so many of us, Earthlings) I'd like to know wether we're alone or not - both being vertiginous and/or terrifying possibilities, depending on your milage. Q. Any suggestions? A. Perhaps we should initiate a major, and I mean a major, international leaflet campaign to ask our so-called extragalactic undercover alien visitors to provide at least one tiny piece of material evidence they really exist outside our feverish imaginations ? Or not. In the end, wether there are - or not - extraterrestrial entities arguing on intergalactic channels about who is growing the best coffee beans (an essential component of any successful civilization), the consequences are formidable. We need to know and, if in spite of fantabulous projects such as SETI@home we can't, then on one of those more glorious days, we will be the ones comparing and discussing on these same channels the respective qualities of Earth's vs Proxima Centauri b human colonies' coffees. _______________________________________________________________________________ HAPPY BIRTHDAY â€“ CARL SAGANâ€™S â€œLOST LECTUREâ€ - NOVEMBER 9, 2018 http://carlsaganinstitute.org/2018/11/happy-birthday-carl-sagans-lost-lecture/ Carl Sagan Institute: Carl Sagan's 1994 Lost Lecture, "The Age of Exploration" (Cleaned Up, Audio Only) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snFWUAlNBFY Originals, Audio and Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_-jtyhAVTc Skeptic Â» Tags Â» Carl Sagan Archives https://www.skeptic.com/tag/carl-sagan/ _______________________________________________________________________________ USEFUL LINKS â–º BOINC & SETI@home Help Ressources - About SETI@home (Read First) https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_about.php - BOINC User manual BOINC Help: Live https://boinc.berkeley.edu/help.php Wiki https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/BOINC_Help Forums https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=10 - SETI@home Questions and Answers https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_participate.php https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_help_desk.php - BOINC Reddit Active projects & Supported Hardwares https://www.reddit.com/r/BOINC/wiki/resources/projectslist - Manually adding the SETI@home Beta project to BOINC: use http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/ Deadline vs FIFO modes https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=12675&postid=88513 Reactivating timed-out threads https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=83345&postid=1954968 - Account deletion - Removing a team https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=9748&postid=57977 - BOINC Client Errors and Error Codes - Stalled downloads: don't abort them - Berkeley Networks System Status - DNS failure resulting in entries such as "Can't resolve hostname" in the Event Log - Is SETI@home down right nowÂ ? - Exclude the BOINC directory from the virus scanner, a known cause of problems - GhostÂ recoveryÂ protocol - Statistics and leaderboards - Server status - SETI@homeÂ dataÂ activity - Panic Mode On (116) (new threads -117, 118 etc- to be expected) - BOINCÂ CreditÂ System - BoinccmdÂ tool (alternative to the BOINC manager - [url][/url] - Deciphering tasks' names Rob https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=83680#1970407 File format primer and addenda 1 2 3 4 â–º PROJECTS' NEWS - BOINCstats Free-DC boinc.berkeley (1) boinc.berkeley (2) SETI@home WCG boinc.mundayweb ars_technica NouvellesÂ AFÂ (French) - BOINC for Android new release 7.16 ? Github ReportingBugs Testing, Forums Alpha and Beta tests, How to become an Alpha or Beta tester, TestResults, [url=][/url] â–º SETI@home References & Tools - Server Status & Glossary https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_server_status.php - BOINCstats about SETI@home https://boincstats.com/en/stats/0/project/detail - Learn about SETI@home (old site) - SETI@home add-on for Firefox by SMeyer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/seti-at-home/?src=search - SETI@home data transmissions visualization https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/kiosk/ - SETI@home Beta - SETI@home, the Alien-Hunting Project for the Nonscientist, Turns 20 https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/5/24/18637942/seti-home-aliens-citizen-science-extraterrestrial-life-20th-anniversary - A Brief History of SETI@home https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/aliens-on-your-packard-bell/527445/ May 23, 2017 - A briefer history of SETI@home from birth to end Link 2022.03.28 - SETI@home 10th anniversary conferences by Pierre Goolaerts https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0F587054641F2EE2 - De SETI@home Ã BOINC (par Thierry Lombry) http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/seti-athome.htm - GPU cards and comparative graphic - Android devices problems threads 1 2 [url=][/url] Both the CPU and Android OS must be either 32 or 64 bits - Overflows https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=83328&postid=1954272 - SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2018 15-29 August 2018 - Final results & Awards - SETI@home Classic Registration Index and SETI@home at the Wayback Machine (2005) https://web.archive.org/web/20050507015407/http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ - Astropulse FAQ https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ap_faq.php - GPU/APU/CPU throughput optimization in one graph - Reverting to an older HostID https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=82634&postid=1921095 https://boinc.mundayweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_revert_to_an_older_HostID_number%3F - During SETI@home downtimes: The SETI is Down Cafe - File name meanings: BLC, Star catalogues, Ordering (corr), - SETI@home: SneakerNET offline processing setup instructions - SETI@home: DNS Server problem fix - Have you been a UOTD (User of the Day) here or on a different dc project? Search the archives at http://uotd.org/index.py - eFMer: TThrottle (temperatures control) & BoincTasks (visual BOINC interface) - Julian Modified Calendar http://www.csgnetwork.com/julianmodifdateconv.html - Munin SETIStats https://setistats.haveland.com https://munin.kiska.pw/munin/Munin-Node/Munin-Node/index.html#setiathome - How to locate the astronomical object(s) splitter files refer to - SETI@home Donor List[url][/url] - Berkeley SETI's position on METI https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76730&postid=1641391 (original statement and signatories https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/meti_statement_0.html) - The Arecibo, Green Bank and Parkes radio telescopes on which SETI@home piggy-backs - Data distribution history (Old Richard's) - Articles describing the Nebula project https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/nebula/web/ The science of SETI@home https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_about.php Astropulse FAQ https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ap_faq.php Science Newsletters https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_sci_newsletters.php Nebula results for SETI@home https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/nebula/index.php BBCode tags https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/bbcode.php Is real time processing possible ? - How to stop polling all BOINC Servers (including the SETI servers) during the Tuesday outages and the reason why - WUs ending with _0 or _1 are new, _2, _3 etc are resends - How about the page/swap file ? https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84350#2000715 - New WU download limitations: if you have more than 2xCPU cores "uploads 'in progress'" (stalled) you won't get new work even when you make a manual request. Less than that and you will get new WUs but only if you manually trigger the request. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84081&postid=2001900#2001900 - Statistics for BOINC projects at a specified hostÂ http://stateson.net/HostProjectStats/ - You can access your account either by using your email address and password, or by using an assigned 'account key' https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/weak_auth.php - The BOINC command-line tool https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Boinccmd_tool can replace the BOINC manager - BOINC master database: mysql database containing all BOINC-related informations (user stats, forum messages, basic workunit/result information, etc.) - BOINC replica database: back-up server containing an identical copy of the BOINC db. Read-only queries can be aimed at this server to lessen the load on the BOINC database. - Science database: informix database containing science data produced by the SETI@home clients - Astropulse science database: informix database containing the final science data returned by Astropulse clients â–º NEBULA Nebula: Completing the SETI@home pipeline https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/nebula/web/ Instructions for evaluating Nebula output https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/nebula/instructions.php â–º DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING - Available BOINC Projects: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php - Science United selects science projects for your BOINC project manager based on your interests, thus facilitating voluntary computing for the less tech savvy of us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects â–º CITIZEN SCIENCE https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ianc2/exoplanet-explorers https://www.zooniverse.org/projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_citizen_science_projects â–º EXOPLANETS NASA's Exoplanet Exploration https://exoplanets.nasa.gov Eyes on Exoplanets beta https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/eyes-on-exoplanets/ (Article) https://exo.mast.stsci.edu/ - NASA's Exoplanet Archive https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/ - The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia http://exoplanet.eu/ - Open Exoplanet Catalogue http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/ - New Worlds Atlas Exoplanet Archive https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/newworldsatlas/ - SIMBAD Astronomical Database http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/ â–º RADIOTELESCOPES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_telescopes Breakthrough Listen (BLC WUs) on the Green Bank Telescope https://twitter.com/GrnBnkTelescope https://greenbankobservatory.org SETI Instituteâ€™s Allen Telescope Array https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Telescope_Array Arecibo Observatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) - WikipediaÂ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_hundred_meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope â–º SPACE TELESCOPES - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_telescopes - TESS https://www.nasa.gov/tess-transiting-exoplanet-survey-satellite - MAST https://archive.stsci.edu/index.html â–º SPACE & Astrobiology News http://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/blogs/posts/recent/ http://news.sky-map.org/ https://www.space.com/news https://www.astrobio.net/ https://www.reddit.com/r/space/ https://minorplanetcenter.net/daily-minor-planet https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html â–º CARL SAGAN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan SAGANet.org http://saganet.org or http://saganet.ning.com https://www.space.com/15994-carl-sagan.html Carl Sagan Center for Research (Director: Frank Drake) https://www.seti.org/carl-sagan-center http://carlsaganinstitute.org/ http://www.celebratingsagan.com/ Edgar Rice Burroughs' Webzine tribute to Carl Sagan http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1384.html http://carlsagan.com/ (on hiatus) https://www.reddit.com/r/carlsagan/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/Sagan/ Saganism https://www.instagram.com/saganism/ - Facebook groups and pages: https://www.facebook.com/pg/CarlSaganQuotesandMemes/ https://www.facebook.com/CarlSaganQuotesAndInspiration/ https://www.facebook.com/OurCosmos/ https://www.facebook.com/Saganism101/ â–º SETI [url=][/url] The WIRED Guide to Aliens https://www.wired.com/story/wired-guide-aliens/ - New dc project: SETI@CAMRAS https://charon.camras.nl/setiatcamras/index.php - Berkeley SETI's blog, Breakthrough Listen & SETI@home @ Berkeley SETI - Technosearch is an interactive tool for SETI that includes all published SETI searches from 1960 up to now https://technosearch.seti.org https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/01/10/technosearch-an-interactive-tool-for-seti/ - Why METI would be an error (Eric Korpela) https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76730&postid=1641391#1641391 - Technosignatures Workshop: NASA report 20 Dec 2018 - UC Berkeley SETI dev ProgramsÂ https://github.com/UCBerkeleySETI - https://www.reddit.com/r/SETI/ - The Rio Scale of significance of ET detection 2.0: Online Questionnaire https://dh4gan.github.io/rioscale2/ PANOSETIÂ - A Panoramic All-sky All-time Near InfraRed and Optical Technosignature Finder https://oirlab.ucsd.edu/PANOSETI.html - A great SETI signal analysis primer by Rob Smith that doesn't make you "bleed by the nose" https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85223&postid=2033544 - SETI@home and Science Links on IRCÂ (SSLOI) https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com â–º VARIA - California fires 2018 https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ll=37.866989436255096%2C-122.24467506835936&hl=en&z=7&source=embed&ie=UTF8&mid=1HacmM5E2ueL-FT2c6QMVzoAmE5M19GAf :( - Time zones: UTC GMT EST - Alien quotes https://spacequotations.com/quotes-about-aliens/ â–º MEDIA - Recommanded documentary film: The Farthest (2017): How the Voyager story keeps on giving. forty years after the Voyager spacecrafts launch; captures the grandeur of the project â€“ plus its alien appeal. â–º BOINC https://boinc.berkeley.edu https://boinc.mundayweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Enter_the_FAQs BOINC/SETI@home issues https://github.com/BOINC/boinc BOINCworkshop (July 9-12, 2019) In Chicago â–º ANDROID DEVICES - The latest Android 64 bit-only devices are unable to run the 32 bit SETI@home code https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=82842&postid=1962561 - SETI@Home may not work properly on newer Android (7 and 8) devices and Jord sums it here - The SETI@home app (through BOINC https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.berkeley.boinc&hl=en) will work with your Android device if both your CPU and Android OS are matched in bitness, so 32bit/32bit and 64bit/64bit, but not if you're mismatched with a 64bit CPU and 32bit Android. Use tools such as AnTuTu Benchmark to verify this. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.antutu.ABenchMark&hl=en https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=82842&postid=2026334 â–º SKY MAPS - Sky Map, Google Sky, Centre de donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg & Celestia - The fully rendered 3D universe â€œEyes on Exoplanetsâ€ app will fly you to any planet you wish, as long as it's far beyond our solar system. â–º ADD-ONS, SOFTWARE & GAMES - SETIspirit , a free add-on for BOINC crunchers with a rich feature set for SETI@home users (news) - eFMer: TThrottle (temperatures control) & BoincTasks (visual BOINC interface) https://efmer.com + GPU-Z - BES â€“ Battle Encoder ShirasÃ© 1.7.7 & 1.6.3 http://mion.faireal.net/BES/ "software that controls per-process CPU usage: an â€œactiveâ€ software CPU cooler" - Windows Lunatics installer (SETI@home optimized app packages) http://mikesworld.eu/download.html - Signal Simulator https://steamcommunity.com/app/839310 Game inspired by SETI. Take the role of a scientist to find an extraterrestrial signals. Control massive Radio Antennas by using interactive controls in your Observatory. Detect , download and decode unknown or story telling signals. â–º REDDIT https://www.reddit.com/r/BOINC/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SETI https://www.reddit.com/r/distributedcomputing https://www.reddit.com/r/CitizenScience â–º FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/BerkeleySETI (Official) https://www.facebook.com/groups/317689381579505/ (Active) https://www.facebook.com/TeamCarlSagan/ https://www.facebook.com/SETIhome-16063264533 â–º IRC#SETI@home (most active channels in bold - updated Feb. 12, 2019) SETI@home & Science Links on IRC - AfterNET#SETI@home Criten#SETI@home DALnet#SETI@home EFnet#setiathome EFnet#SETI@home EsperNet#SETI@home euIRCnet#SETI@home EuropNet#SETI@home freenode#setiquest freenode#SETI@home IRC4Fun#SETI@home IRCnet#setiathome Mibbit MindForge#SETI@home OtherNet#SETI@home QuakeNet#seti SlashNET#SETI@home SwiftIRC#SETI@home UnderNet#seti UnderNet#SETI@home Xertion#SETI@home https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/related.php & http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/related.php (out of date on 21 Dec 2018) â–º UNCLASSIFIED - (Why) Is SETI@home down ? Ressources UC Berkeley Internet Service Status and planned outages http://ucbsystems.org/category/active/ http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/setiathome.berkeley.edu.html Servers' status: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_server_status.php DNS Server problem fix: https://pastebin.com/sePA36DM - BOINC/Android issues (github) https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues - SETI Q & A - Cornell University - Wikipedia Categories:Exoplanet search projects - Celebrating Carl Sagan, Carl Sagan Portal - wowsignal's podcast - DemonHauntedWorld_carlSagan - UC Berkeley Internet Service Status and planned outages - PIE vs non-PIE Android devices - Total average computing speed (at the bottom of the page - compare to the TOP500 list) - BOINC/SETI@home terminology https://www.gridcoin.us/Guides/terminology.htm - SETI@home Tenth Anniversary Celebration and videos http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_10yr_anniversary.php - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home - Search for extraterrestrial intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_extraterrestrial_intelligence Splitters go to sleep when the RTS hits around 630,000 and wake up again once that drops below about 575,000 BOINC & SETI@home Questions and Answers https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_help_desk.php â–º During SETI@home outages The SETI is Down Cafe https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=8105&sort_style=5 The SETI@home facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/317689381579505/ The SETI Refuge Bar & Bistro Wing of Cafe Einstein The AfterNET#SETI@home IRC Channel https://www.afternet.org/channels/setiathome or IRC4fun#SETI@home or Undernet#SETI â–º ACRONYMS & Definitions - AR (Angle Range), AP (AstroPulse), BLC (Breakthrough Listen = Green Bank Telescope GBT data = data sources), HIPxxxxxxx PSRxxxxxx (targets in the sky where the telescope was pointing at), CPID (Cross-Project ID), EDF (earliest deadline first = Panic mode, high priority mode), guppi (Greenbank Ultimate Pulsar Processing Instrument), LTD (long time debt), MB (Multi-beam), RTS (Ready To Send buffer), VLAR (Very Low Angle Range = when the receiver is actively being powered backwards against the Earth's rotation, so a single sky point (star, nebula, galaxy) remains at the centre of the field of view for an extended period), VHAR (very high angle range = when the Arecibo receiver is actively being 'nodded' from side to side to cover more sky, in a basket weave pattern), pfb (polyphase filter), RAC (recent average credit). See also https://www.gridcoin.us/Guides/terminology.htm, the SETI@home Glossary of Terms and Star catalogues. - Ghosts: Work Units marked as being sent by setiathome.berkeley.edu that aren't displayed by the Android app or BOINC manager. - Near Real Time Persistency checker (Nitpicker) - Nebula (successor to Nitpicker) - OCD (Obsessive Crunching Disorder Thread 83680 - SSP (servers status page): https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_server_status.php - WAG (Wild Ass Guess) - NoiseÂ bombs - Shortie Storm - â–º SETI-THEMED science-fiction (to complete) Cosmos (Carl Sagan), Themes : SETI : SFE : Science Fiction EncyclopediaÂ http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/seti, First contact (science fiction) - WikipediaÂ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_contact_(science_fiction), Why we imagine aliens the way we do - VoxÂ https://www.vox.com/videos/2018/3/15/17126340/science-fiction-aliens-vfx-seti, â–º HUMOR UFO caught on tape https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/avgEXbX_460swp.webp Richard's Maneuver: "I also had problems accessing this website, with - apparently - the Cloudflare service failing to get me a secure connection and giving me a 'forbidden' plain http connection instead. So I went out to the pub, and it was fine when I got back." Posting about a problem often fixes it immediately (betreger) or within 15 minutes - the time it takes for the server stats page to update (Rob Smith) â–º SPACE and SETI related music - The Prodigy - No Tourists - Give Me a Signal (feat. Barns Courtney) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOG8cCYDt1k&list=PLVONh1wUPeQmICwXoJnckGdFBUiLfLHib&index=10 _______________________________________________________________________________ Team Members should not hesitate to use the following images provided here for their forum signatures (using your own user CPIDs on the stats.free-dc.org, boincstats.com & signature.statseb.fr sites) : SETI@home Classic 3,615 WUs & 51,681 hrs Â â€œ I don't want to believe. I want to know.â€ - Carl Sagan Â· Member of Team Carl Sagan on Facebook Â· Message board Â· Â· 19 Year Club Â· Previous accounts Â· Hosts Â· Contact Â· Â· Join us at Team Carl Sagan ! 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