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wulf 21 Send message Joined: 18 Apr 09 Posts: 93 Credit: 26,337,213 RAC: 43 |
SETI Live? No. I mean a method that is actually using amateur equipment for collecting data instead of searching the data someone else has collected with professional equipment. |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Optical seti is linking multiple telescopes together to form a very large baseline array. Some of these telescopes are owned by amateurs. BOINC WIKI |
wulf 21 Send message Joined: 18 Apr 09 Posts: 93 Credit: 26,337,213 RAC: 43 |
Optical seti is linking multiple telescopes together to form a very large baseline array. Some of these telescopes are owned by amateurs. That's right! Optical SETI was what I was looking for. I samewhat expected that people might get the term "amateur" wrong. It doesn't mean that they just switch on their computer and do a bit SETI for fun but rather that they do it in their free time and are willing to spend some thousand dollars for their hobby (i.e. amateurs don't get aby funding) On this page I found detailed calculations about what type of alien signals might be detected that way, instructions how to build an amateur optical SETI receiver and a cost estimation for the equipment needed. PM on the way |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Recently I found a replica of the earliest steam locomotive. It is very close to where it was originally developed. Where was this location? BOINC WIKI |
The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
The Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. Visited it last year. Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
The Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. Visited it last year. Nope. Sort of the right area of the world though. BOINC WIKI |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Festinniog? |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Festinniog? No. It is not in Wales. Sorry about the delay, but I have been in a place where there is no internet connection easily available. BOINC WIKI |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
I was visiting England and discovered this place near the place that started the industrial revolution. Sorry about the delay, I went on a short vacation in the middle and sort of forgot. BOINC WIKI |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
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LadyL Send message Joined: 14 Sep 11 Posts: 1679 Credit: 5,230,097 RAC: 0 |
Somewhere near Conwy? I'm not the Pope. I don't speak Ex Cathedra! |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Somewhere near Conwy? Not terribly. It is a bit more than 2 hours of driving. I did not visit anywhere in Wales. BOINC WIKI |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
National Waterfront Museum Swansea. Nope. I was in England, not in Wales. It is a replica of the prototype for the locomotive that actually ended up being used for the first time. BOINC WIKI |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
National Waterfront Museum Swansea. It is by the same person that made the one featured ad the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea. The area features the first of a particular type of bridge, and is named after that bridge. BOINC WIKI |
The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
Ironbridge? Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34053 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
Coalbrookdale? Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Coalbrookdale? Very good. Coalbrookdale is a short hike from Iron Bridge (most people drive though). BOINC WIKI |
The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
Okey Dokey. This one might be a little abstract. I learned yesterday that something taught to all school children is completely incorrect. It concerns Physics. What is it? Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Okey Dokey. Newton's apple? BOINC WIKI |
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