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Big boost for SETI@home from Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Listen Initiative
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Steve Croft Send message Joined: 6 Oct 99 Posts: 45 Credit: 9,414,212 RAC: 0 |
SETI@home and Berkeley SETI Research Center are proud to be participating in the new Breakthrough Listen initiative, that will dramatically expand the search for life beyond Earth. http://nyti.ms/1KfWuYF |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3804 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
This is fantastic news and I hope we can start getting Green Bank results and get NTPICKR up and running. I'm glad someone with serious capital has finally stepped up to the challenge, and even more so that SETI@Home is going to be involved in it. Looking forward to moving the farm "back home" to work on this, and I'm still interested in fundraising NTPCKR if this new development doesn't happen. :^) |
MadDog Send message Joined: 25 Nov 05 Posts: 1 Credit: 14,447,606 RAC: 15 |
Eine mehr als erfreuliche Nachricht. Riesen Dank an ALLE die sich für 'unsere' Sache so leidenschaftlich einsetzen. Und besondere Grüße aus Wien von MadDog an ALLE, die wie ich, einen 'kleinen' Beitrag dazu leisten !!! Irgendwann haben wir den gewünschten Erfolg - PEACE Freunde ! |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30981 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Now Seti had better get their budget in order. |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
So far it isn't clear to me if this initiative is parallel or counter to Berkeley's own FIRSST initiative. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22504 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33596271 S@H gets a mention about half way down the page Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
Wonderful news!!!!! And all of you who have been crunching for 16 years were REALLY trend-setters!!! |
Sakletare Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 132 Credit: 23,423,829 RAC: 0 |
So what will this mean for SETI@home in practice? |
JakeTheDog Send message Joined: 3 Nov 13 Posts: 153 Credit: 2,585,912 RAC: 0 |
Just saw this in the news today. But what does the Initiative actually do in relation with SETI? Do they share the recordings from these other telescopes with SETI? Fund the servers? Have other coders/astronomers develop new algorithms? All of the above? |
Bill Schivley, QM - CLG-6 Send message Joined: 5 Jul 01 Posts: 6 Credit: 14,274,841 RAC: 24 |
Other than a large "Chunk of Change", cash, I hope that this does not mean that somewhere down the line, this project will be hijacked by some other "professionals". Our Professionals are top-notch and we want to keep them in place. |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
Wonderful news!!!!! I hope that doesn't make us hipsters then. 0.o SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Jon Golding Send message Joined: 20 Apr 00 Posts: 105 Credit: 841,861 RAC: 0 |
Great to read that up to one third of the money ($33M) will be to hire new postgrad students and science professionals. This should certainly speed up development of new hardware and optimised NTPCKR algorithms to search through the mass of data already acquired (and yet to be acquired). Also great to see that we'll be getting data from Southern skies via Parkes telescope. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11414 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Also great to see that we'll be getting data from Southern skies via Parkes telescope. LOL, we will have to adapt because it will be upside down. |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
And all of you who have been crunching for 16 years were REALLY trend-setters!!! Just you, with your wooden pipe, flip flops and your Highland Wool Plaid Quilted Vest. :P |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
100 mill / 10 years .....wahooooooo 10 mill a year for the next 10 years ......oh wait well have to probably share that with others :-( still we might just get a few more hours with the telescope the most expensive part of the project |
ivan Send message Joined: 5 Mar 01 Posts: 783 Credit: 348,560,338 RAC: 223 |
Wonderful news!!!!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11749475/Thankfully-no-hipsters-were-injured-London-Fire-Brigade-apologises-for-Shoreditch-tweet.html |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
And all of you who have been crunching for 16 years were REALLY trend-setters!!! Like any self respecting SETI@home user would have anything other than a corncob pipe. I mean... like really would doesn't love the smell of corn?! Maybe the aliens. We will have to ask them, but first we have to find them. Longest game of hide & seek ever! I don't think they are going to win though. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
edjcox Send message Joined: 20 May 99 Posts: 96 Credit: 5,878,353 RAC: 0 |
This will give the project serious dwell time on a given target set of the sky allowing for software that will use advanced signal processing techniques including accumulation and other techniques that can eliminate a lot of noise and short length random signal events. Dwell makes elimination so much easier. Waterfall processing, bragg cell utilization, etc... Rather than a constantly sweeping swath of the sky the RT's can sit on a emissions area and properly signal process. and revisits as the project will have the opportunity to drive the RT and sit on target sets repeatedly. The approach will work in conjunction with other data sets, optical and radio data sets that have more likely ET hotspots than others.. Scanning known stars with planet sets already discovered... It's a fine time to expand SETI horizons beyond our current stripes approach piggybacking on others usage of the RT. This is going to be good.... Never engage stupid people at their level, they then have the home court advantage..... |
Zombu2 Send message Joined: 24 Feb 01 Posts: 1615 Credit: 49,315,423 RAC: 0 |
Excellent [/img] I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap |
wulf 21 Send message Joined: 18 Apr 09 Posts: 93 Credit: 26,337,213 RAC: 43 |
Since the goal for SETI@home was from the start to make SETI cheap, I woudn't put the expectation too high. But, imagine what they could do with, say $ 100.000 - $ 300.000, alone. They could - buy that monster server required to run nitpckr in near real-time - hire some more team members that could do tasks they got tired of or are regarded low priority (I only say science-status-page :P), so the core team can focus on science and development - travel down to Arecibo and fix the recorder status update. I don't really see what the security issue would be, after all it only needs to do standard http post requests to Berkeley, no additional port opening required. - do some "outside" PR campaign. The current regular PR seems to reach mainly people who are already running S@H You see I think even a minor financial boost could really speed things up at S@H. |
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