Posts by Jan Henrik

1) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your "smartphone" is constantly spying on you (Message 2109344)
Posted 29 Oct 2022 by Profile Jan Henrik
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There's a very simple fix for that, don't get a smartphone.

+100

Check, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism", by Shoshana Zuboff.

my favs on that:

The Shallows - Nicholas Carr [Norton](brain-plasticity; what it actually physically does to your brain )

The Cost of CONnection - Nick Couldry/Ulises Mejias [sup.org](every last thing of your life exploited for profit even if you don`t work)
2) Message boards : SETI@home Science : aliens loud and quiet and “grabby civilizations” (Message 2084983)
Posted 25 Sep 2021 by Profile Jan Henrik
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The Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford

put out a preprint about chances for SETI;


https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.01522.pdf


and yes, they somehow ended up with 42 pages.
3) Message boards : News : Why do people run SETI@home? (Message 2036997)
Posted 9 Mar 2020 by Profile Jan Henrik
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I'd be more curious to know who would not want to run SETI@Home. :)

exactly!
as some famous german persons once said: "life without boinc is possible, but pointless"
4) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2035477)
Posted 3 Mar 2020 by Profile Jan Henrik
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物の哀れ

ok I get it, don't wanna have lots of unanalyzed data lying about till someone shows up and says:

"all your data are belong to us . . . you have no chance . . . make time . . . ha ha ha . . ."

it's just hibernation not the end . . . and since great many work has been done from classic to BOINC

there doesn't need to be much hibernation anyway . . .

I think I'll live . . .

still some mono no aware here . . .
5) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP: Freeman Dyson (Message 2034887)
Posted 1 Mar 2020 by Profile Jan Henrik
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R.I.P.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Anything relating to AstroPulse (3) tasks (Message 2030776)
Posted 4 Feb 2020 by Profile Jan Henrik
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2 on the 3rd
4 on the 4th[other machine]
7) Message boards : News : New SETI Perspectives: "Is ET in Our Solar System?" (Message 2029143)
Posted 25 Jan 2020 by Profile Jan Henrik
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ET in "Our Solar System" still looks to me more like this: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200122100548.htm

just finding some microbe would be exciting . . .
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Happy New Year!!! (Message 2025889)
Posted 1 Jan 2020 by Profile Jan Henrik
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May your credits increase, your RAC stabilize and your server troubles be less the coming year.


+1

Happy New Year!!!
9) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2023686)
Posted 19 Dec 2019 by Profile Jan Henrik
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server status has lots of red and orange . . . but luckily I´m a slow and still got some in the cache . . .
10) Message boards : News : New SETI Perspectives: "Is ET in Our Solar System?" (Message 2021803)
Posted 5 Dec 2019 by Profile Jan Henrik
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Richard Lawn has posted a new SETI Perspectives entitled "Is ET in Our Solar System?"


aka The Missing Link :)


yeah
I thought there is a difference between ET and ETI and SETI
but what do I know, having watched a famous movie . . . hearing ET brings up that ETI in my head
so I have to sort that out over and over again
ET more likely
ETI less likely within the ET category
11) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Space Exploration News (Message 2021802)
Posted 5 Dec 2019 by Profile Jan Henrik
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I think that all it signifies is a lack of understanding of the true nature of martian surface conditions.

Engineering SNAFU.


due to the usual cost-compromise problem
many ideas get easily weighted-sized-prized-perfectized of the bus

this is how space-exploration looks like to me
combine those restrictions with all the unknown unknowns
and I'm suprized how much actually does or did work so far . . .

I still see every completed EDL as a big win, then the first interplanetary CubeSats
and even for this instrument it's not the last sol
one can still hope for a "if this would have worked right away it would have been a lot less interesting"-type of sol
12) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Space Exploration News (Message 2021227)
Posted 30 Nov 2019 by Profile Jan Henrik
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did they find an underground lifeform?

that likes to tease extramartian engineers by pushing things up again?

"making NASA engineers tear their hair out" . . . "undoing much of their progress" . . .

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/29/783278261/a-mole-isn-t-digging-mars-nasa-engineers-are-trying-to-find-out-why?t=1575151033018

or do I interpret that too optimistic again ?
13) Message boards : News : 20 years and counting! (Message 2019384)
Posted 17 Nov 2019 by Profile Jan Henrik
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Ha!
same here
still have an "old 99er classic" orbiting somewhere
(and yes: "in a most peculiar way")

anyway; HAPPY BIRTHDAY!





 
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