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musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2442 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
Is there an end to the Universe? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lIm-dcJwK8 Honestly, after watching the first 40 seconds of this video... |
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musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2442 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
Linda Hamilton trousers off, eh? Compare with a male "chicken" wearing teeth... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VYDIZLjtkY |
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musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2442 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
Any way, or by the way. Thanks from the letters earlier received from the Chancellor of Berkeley. Small world, if you don't already know it. If it was two or three such ones, the most recent one lies in my mail shelf. But a hero status needs you to be 50 years old or more of age. Is it supposed to ever show up? Ask a scientist whether he or she ever have had "ugly" thoughts. Sigh! |
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musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2442 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
Oh, ugly tairs from a supposedly actress a little earlier today on Yahoo. Anyway, it went down the drain... Perhaps she needs a prescribed diet. |
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musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2442 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
"Ugly" two times. Journey to the end of the Universe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufl_Nwbl8xs He-hoh-hoh s.c. Female bonkers. Harley Davidson or Harley Smith. Buh! |
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musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2442 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
I am thirsty. Need a glass of water. Purified perhaps. Where goes the detection of water outside the solar system? |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34070 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18
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musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2442 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
Sorry Mark for pushing you down this thread, but so it goes. But you are still supposed to see (or know) who is doing the cleaning and who is doing the rest of the thing, are you not? Anyway, it is nice to see some nice people around and whether or not you end up looking green or yellow in your face or possibly somewhere else instead, science is supposedly being carried out nevertheless, regardless of whatever else that may be happening all the time. There is no secret that the usual housecleaning which is needed at times may take up a bit of your day when it happens. Ultimately you get the reward a little later on when things once again have settled down and you are able to do your single show when on your own once again. |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54
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Where goes the detection of water outside the solar system? I think Eric is doing a hydrogen survey of the Milkyway galaxy. I have no clue if its just the gas hydrogen or if also the H2O molecue. [/quote]Old James |
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musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2442 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
Oh, what sad story. Apparently brushed teeth, black shoes and red flowers did not help very much. |
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musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2442 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
Oh, you don't need a rehearsal when it comes to a realilty scene, do you? Linda Hamilton trying to be honest once again. As usual, her counterpart was dead on arrival, but that is another story. I'll try to locate the scene for you. Stay tuned. Found some nice music for you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Tbvah7waU&list=RD02cvuUwTHOqj8 Skip to some 14:45 minutes into the playback. Some good music following there. |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 7723 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 3 |
The streets of San Francisco... Do you ever happen to have a nightlife at all there, or did you eventually become civilized instead? |
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musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2442 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
And Sten-Arne, Notice the error message from stderr output: WARNING: BOINC supplied wrong platform! Not a surprise that it become wrong here. I guess you received either the wrong driver or application for your platform and that it was due to a server quirk or hiccup. |
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musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2442 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
The "instead" in the previous post possibly should have been skipped. But, when driving across the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco using Google Maps, I notice the following strange thing. Namely the fence. The bridge is famous among other things because of the color of the painting that has been used, but when walking on the pavement which is wooden (or planks), only a fence less than a meter high separates you from a perhaps 50 meter fall down to the ocean. In my opinion this is something that is a stupid thing and I have noticed the same at other places. Life is definitely full of risks, but is not more or less an invitation for those of us who may be bothered by problems in life. I guess you should know better from earlier events as they happened. |
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musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2442 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
You may possibly remember a Walt Disney movie about a black hole. An expedition set out in order to try locating a missing ship. They were able to locate the missing ship close to a black hole. The scientist in charge (whose name I do not recall) was assisted by a robot called Maxmillian. Same goes with a project, including distributed ones like this one and the discoveries which may eventually arise. Both the technology being used for carrying out such a project as well as the quality of the manpower and economic resources being available for carrying out a project become limiting factors. The Manhattan Project was a project by its name. A scientist is supposed to be making discoveries on his or her own. In the case of experimental science there is no cookbook to follow. You may very well be on your own instead. Science, including distributed science needs to take advantage and use of the resources that are readily available. Really, the Manhattan Project had all the resources that was needed because it was necessary at that time and served a specific purpose. Today you probably will have to suffice with half of what you ever wished for and still hope that you will be able to succeed in what you are doing. A project is never guaranteed to be successful regardless of the resources which may be put into it because of all the human, technological and economical factors being part of it. This is the sad irony behind most projects. In most cases neither complete success nor complete failure may be associated with a typical project, but rather a result that is something in between. |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54
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Well a project sometimes needs to be done just to see what happens. This is one. [/quote]Old James |
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musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2442 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
A question for you, Tullio, since you happen to be so well-informed. I found an article in the Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_particle Many scientists still adhere to the old standard and put up their writings on the wall, or rather the wall in the classroom. In this case it becomes equations. Quite a number over times. Such equations are supposed to be able to solve problems, but they do not necessarily prove them. At the bottom of the article there is a description of the "graviton". Gravity implies mass, but it also implies energy. Still we do not know about a particle which relates directly to gravity. The question becomes as follows: In which way are the equations supposed to be following the "scheme" - meaning the figures? The section "Overview" in the mentioned link has a figure called "Elementary Particles". If E=mc2 is supposed to be an equation, where do you put this equation (as well as other ones related to physics) into the figures? What and where is the relationship between particles that are supposed to be known, their state or behavior and the equations which is supposed to accompany these particles? If you could try giving me an explanation here I would be very pleased. At least Albert Einstein was able to explain time a little better than Isaac Newton. Thank you very much! |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54
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E=MC2. Such a simple equation. But Id love to see the mathematical equations he used to refine that down to its simplest form. Does anyone know if there is a picture of Alberts blackboard? [/quote]Old James |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1
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The graviton is, or should be, the quantum of the gravitational field, which nobody has yet succeeded in quantizing, despite many efforts. It should have a spin 2, while the photon has spin one and the Higgs boson has spin zero. I would not downplay Isaac Newton, his equations are still used to calculate the orbits of planets and the trajectories of spacecrafts. Einstein's General Relativity extended the range of validity of Newtonian mechanics but did not abolish it. The Standard Model of elementary particles includes the strong and weak nuclear forces and the electro-weak theory of Salam and Weinberg, but does not include gravitation. The strings theory, although beautiful from a mathematical point of view, has not yet received any experimental confirmation from the results of LHC. No supersymmetric particles were found in the energy range (up to 7 TeV ) so far explored. The rest is just speculation. Tullio |
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musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2442 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
I am running the two last tasks in my task list right now. I have set No new tasks because I am switching from pinkpanther (with credit) to this account (musicplayer). One finished task is "uploading". Transfers tab says retry in 00:33 (33 minutes). If the task does not upload in 16 minutes or so, I may try pushing the Retry-button. But I notice the following. 01.03.2014 22:52:36 | SETI@home | Starting task 07ap13aa.4849.22562.438086664202.12.6_0 using setiathome_v7 version 700 (cuda50) in slot 2 01.03.2014 22:52:43 | SETI@home | Computation for task 07ap13aa.4849.22562.438086664202.12.6_0 finished 01.03.2014 22:52:45 | SETI@home | Started upload of 07ap13aa.4849.22562.438086664202.12.6_0_0 01.03.2014 22:52:49 | SETI@home | Finished upload of 07ap13aa.4849.22562.438086664202.12.6_0_0 Which means that the task took 13 seconds from start to finish. So, looking around, it is not being found in C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\ Checking C:\Program Files (x86)\BoincLogX\logs, I am able to locate 07ap13aa.4849.22562.438086664202.12.6.xml (file size 539 bytes) and 07ap13aa.4849.22562.438086664202.12.6.logX (366 kB or 375Â 710 byte) in true size (disc use is slightly more, 368 kB (376Â 832 byte) This task did not make it to the SMV. The two last tasks finished up in the meantime and they were added to SMV, but not the abovementioned task. Any explanation for this happening? I would be happy for a good answer. Edit: Not in the task list on the server. Thanks! |
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