i gots 2 stars what ya gonna do now?

Now the SETI@HOME HOOLIGANS are upset.

I'm off to Hooligan training classes, see ya later alligator.

If these guys can make it in their garage then I wonder what the hold up is on mass production. :)

No, it's not lens flare - that follows a predictable path depending on the incident angle of the sun and the lens. This object follows a slight S shape, doesn't have a uniform speed and shows some indication of a shadow in places.

I'm certain there is nothing paranormal going on. I think paranormal stuff only exists in the subconscious and cannot influence physics, even after having had an out of body experience myself that defies explanation.

The background is distorted, and the object shares characterics with this distortion, so my guess is that it is an insect crawling over the surface of what is causing the distortion, perhaps the lens or a pane of weathered glass.

Insects do not rotate with beams of light...not to mention they don't glow.

I do seem to have asked a rather more complicated question than I first thought: But it's been interesting noting that there are some anomalies; I crunched the last of my Classics in March 2005- I think- then had a 2-year hiatus, before beginning with Boinc full-blown in February.
But thanks for explaining how, as a relative late-comer, I have such a low ID (I seem to have a vague recollection that this was my ranking at the time I last crunched- or am I suffering a case of byte-fatigue?).

Stand still,cover you're self up with stink lay down and act corpsefied,pray to you're dear fluffy god.

Canon A1 and Canon AE1 Program. Several lenses - it is going to EXPENSIVE to switch to digital. There are no digital bodies that fit those lenses.

Free = Crap

By no means do all civilizations have a flood myth. Several tribes of Native Americans do not for example. The Pueblo Indians for example believe that they came up from under the ground into this world.

However, I have read that all of the peoples that are possibly traced to the Black Sea Basin at the time where there was a possible (not yet proven) flood of enormous proportions have flood myths.

There are other civilizations that have flood myths that are probably not connected to this possible event, for example, the Chinese have, I believe, a flood myth.

The usual explanation of the flood myth, is that at some time in the past the Mediterranean was not there or hundreds of feet lower than it is now. The Atlantic broke through the pillars of Hercules by Gibraltar to produce what we know today. As the Bible was based around the Holy lands which for all intents and purposes was the eastern mediterranean, any change in sea level like that would have completely changed the whole "world" as they knew it.

I read somewhere mikey (sorry, I forget the source), that nearly every culture all across the world has some kind of flooding/ark style myth. I found that quite interesting.

Every culture all across the world has stories of flying beings that help out mankind, go away, and promise to return one day.

Read Von Daniken

I read him several years ago and find some of his ideas fascinating.

Aren't they just!

He has no real proof but its all written very well.

Also interesting that most cultures around the world have this similar legend that "something" significant happened about 11,000 BC.

Duncan Lunan wrote on it for one....

[I did know people when I was young who were criminals and they had guns, but they never used their legally purchased guns for crime because those tended to be expensive, had serial numbers and were well made. The guns they used for crime were always ratty untraceable throwaways they bought for pennies on the black market.

I read somewhere mikey (sorry, I forget the source), that nearly every culture all across the world has some kind of flooding/ark style myth. I found that quite interesting.

Every culture all across the world has stories of flying beings that help out mankind, go away, and promise to return one day.

Read Von Daniken

first it tells us "for the gate is wide and the way is easy", THEN it tells us "For the gate is narrow and the way is hard"!

Maybe you overlooked the fact that God was referring to two different gates... ;)

I need to vent a little frustration. My niece had a hard drive failure, wouldn't boot correctly. I did some research and decided a recovery program called "SpinRite" would be my best bet. Ran the program, it didn't find any errors on the hard drive. Says it's a "Healthy drive" yet it's still unbootable and I'm out of $89.00. So apparently the actual data is in good shape, but it can't be booted without an error.. I'm thinking the boot sector is corrupted. Does anybody know how to replace a corrupted boot sector in windows XP? Or could it be another problem?