Posts by hergesheimer
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SETI@home Science :
How hot was 2005 for you?
(Message 241509)
Posted 3 Feb 2006 by  hergesheimer
Post: Let me point you to the thread that I started just for informative purposes : Increased CO2 concentration effects on plants But wasn't there a view that mankind may have been behind that episode? The thinking was early deforrestation (increasing CO2) and a switch to livestock (increasing CH4) combined to disturb a period of equilibrium and trigger the temperature increase. Personally I'm not so sure - just too many cows are needed to produce that much methane. |
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Cafe SETI :
Opinions Of Destruction Or Enlightenment?
(Message 241498)
Posted 3 Feb 2006 by hergesheimer
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Don't be too hasty to discount radio. In the (ex)Soviet Union, radio would in some ways play a bigger part in peoples lives than television, with world services such as the BBC very popular. With reasonable equipment, which people often did have, there were no boundaries. So, state propoganda was usually recognised as such. As for Europe, I'm not expecting to see a unified super-state in the near future. People in the UK are luke-warm, with the Germans and East Europeans much more enthusiastic. I'm sure the thought of Euopean super-power with a dominant Euro keeps prominent Americans awake at night... |
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Cafe SETI :
CLOSED
(Message 241275)
Posted 2 Feb 2006 by hergesheimer
Post: And then there's the "Mick-Jagger-Mars-Bar-in-the-intersting-wrapper" approach... Bad boy Mick! Denied of course, but we know better... |
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Cafe SETI :
CLOSED
(Message 241273)
Posted 2 Feb 2006 by hergesheimer
Post: And then there's the "Mick-Jagger-Mars-Bar-in-the-intersting-wrapper" approach... Not in polite company! Google "mick jagger mars bar". |
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Cafe SETI :
CLOSED
(Message 241265)
Posted 2 Feb 2006 by hergesheimer
Post: And then there's the "Mick-Jagger-Mars-Bar-in-the-intersting-wrapper" approach... |
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Cafe SETI :
Opinions Of Destruction Or Enlightenment?
(Message 241262)
Posted 2 Feb 2006 by hergesheimer
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We have to hope and believe that this is so, else why do we bother. I'm sure that I, too, have it easier than my folks. At times I suspect though, that things are often just different and not really better at all. Are people happier?
No argument from me! Here in Britain we have the BBC - it has the reputation of being probably the least biased of all the global media - bless it, it tries hard to be neutral but it's obvious that at times it's acting as the government mouthpiece. |
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Cafe SETI :
Opinions Of Destruction Or Enlightenment?
(Message 241229)
Posted 2 Feb 2006 by hergesheimer
Post: My only point is... This may have been so for the ex-Europeans; I wouldn't say that ex African and Chinese, and also the First Nation had such freedoms. |
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SETI@home Science :
The Holy Grail: Small, Rocky Worlds, Seti Institute
(Message 241198)
Posted 2 Feb 2006 by hergesheimer
Post: The Holy Grail: Small, Rocky Worlds Interesting article Ulli; I heard about this one yesterday on BBC radio. Distant world tops Pluto for size |
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Cafe SETI :
Opinions Of Destruction Or Enlightenment?
(Message 241185)
Posted 2 Feb 2006 by hergesheimer
Post: If I read it correctly, this thread is about how peoples opinions shape events, and there's a hint about how quickly peoples opinions can cause a thread to go off topic. If this is so, then the original poster has proved his point! I would say from what I've seen on these boards that the strongest opinions seem to concern politics, and these are the ones that upset and annoy people the most. Is that so, is it red -v- blue? |
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Cafe SETI :
Take 5 Minutes to Help me With My Science Fair Project?
(Message 240652)
Posted 1 Feb 2006 by hergesheimer
Post: Also done; it's a really interesting idea. |
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Politics :
Political Thread [13] - CLOSED
(Message 240623)
Posted 1 Feb 2006 by hergesheimer
Post: Sorry:- I know this is probably more cultural than political, but it is topical. Online Independant 1st February 2006 Planetarium show is eclipsed by star culture Stargazing at the London Planetarium is about to undergo a profound transformation. Madame Tussauds will stop showing the traditional exploration of the solar system at the distinctive green-domed building in Baker Street. Instead visitors will be invited to embark on a voyage "around the worlds of fame and celebrity" at the renamed Auditorium. The announcement provoked outrage among Britain's astronomers and prompted concerns that generations of future scientists could be lost to the subject. Sir Patrick Moore, who has presented the BBC programme The Sky at Night since 1957, said: "It is the most extraordinary thing. I am completely appalled." The Dubai-owned entertainment giant said it would make the change in the summer because of a dwindling interest in space and the rocketing interest in celebrity culture. A spokeswoman for Tussauds, said that even though entry to the Planetarium was included "free" with the price of admission to the next-door waxworks museum, only 30 per cent of the two million visitors each year bothered to take advantage of it. She said: "We have done research to find out why people come to Madame Tussauds and the reason was to get up close and personal to famous people." Auditorium visitors can expect to enjoy the kind of hands-on entertainment being pioneered across the way at Tussauds. Aardman Animations, maker of the award-winning Wallace and Gromit films, has been recruited to work on new projects. Tussauds - which has museums in the United States, the Netherlands and Hong Kong with one planned for China - also owns Alton Towers and the London Eye. At Baker Street it is on a mission to get visitors to interact with the celebrity waxworks. The Tussauds' X-Factor attraction, in which people perform before animated models of the fearsome trio of judges Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh has proved particularly popular, as has playing fantasy football with a mannequin of Jose Mourinho. Sir Patrick dismissed claims that people had lost interest in the solar system and said well-run planetariums, such as his local one on the South Downs, continued to attract large audiences. He dismissed claims by Tussauds that stargazers would be catered for at the forthcoming 120-seat Peter Harrison Planetarium at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, due to open next year. "Madame Tussauds is right in the middle of London, it is very convenient," said Sir Patrick. His concerns were echoed by Robin Scagell, vice-president of the UK's Society for Popular Astronomy. He said a trip to the London Planetarium had been an inspiration for generations of schoolchildren. "Tussauds should stay in touch with the community rather than just concentrating on celebrities and footballers who will be forgotten in a year or two," he said. "I'm amazed that the management can't come up with exciting and interesting shows about the wonders of the universe that will attract audiences again. They have a valuable resource that they are squandering through a lack of imagination." The London Planetarium stands on the site of a former cinema that was bombed during the Second World War. The current copper-roofed building was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1958, and except for a brief period during the 1970s when it substituted psychedelic laser shows, it has remained dedicated to the study of the universe. However, the original 45-minute feature has dwindled to the present 15-minute presentation "Journey to Infinity". It was eventually coupled as an attraction with the waxworks four years ago, but the writing was on the wall when a live-action stage show called "Warriors" attracted an upsurge in visitors. |
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Cafe SETI :
TESTING FOR SIGNATURES AND BBCODE
(Message 240504)
Posted 1 Feb 2006 by hergesheimer
Post: Smart! Just tinkering.... |
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Cafe SETI :
CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED
(Message 240492)
Posted 1 Feb 2006 by hergesheimer
Post: Lots of profiles are gone. I just clicked on my own and got "profile error". Then I tried some of you guys' profiles and it's the same. It's usually a sign that the connection to the database has broken; the data should be ok... |
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Number crunching :
**** Closed SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ V Closed ****
(Message 238759)
Posted 28 Jan 2006 by hergesheimer
Post: 50k credits and climbing - I know it's silly, but I still can't get my head round comparing credits to work units (I try and divide the credits by 30 or something like that). |
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Cafe SETI :
Battlestar Galactica is just on German TV
(Message 238744)
Posted 28 Jan 2006 by hergesheimer
Post: I didn't see any of the previous series, but this series is fantastic! It's got handsome guys, beautiful girls, scary robots. It has complicated storylines, edge-of-the-seat drama, and wonderful characters. It's way better than the usual drivel that comes out of Hollywood. Wasn't there a fuss because they had girls playing boys, or something? |
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Number crunching :
Are there any "old" CPU's out there?
(Message 238355)
Posted 27 Jan 2006 by hergesheimer
Post: I was wondering if anyone is still using some "old" hardware to crunch on seti? Like 80486 or something like that. I got some older 80486 boards lying around and was wondering if it's worth the work of setting them up just for seti. I doubt it, but it seems I just can't throw them away... I used to have an old Pentium 120Mhz based Toshiba Satellite(I'm not sure, but I think it was 32Mb RAM) running the classic command line (it also ran a firewall), and it would take just over a day to calculate a single workunit (runnning the screensave would take nearly 60 hours). It was stable, but I gave up with it in the end. I've also ran Seti/BOINC on Via 533Mhz Eden boards, although it would take about 20 hours for a workunit, the best bit was that the board hardly got warm! |
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SETI@home Science :
Is SETI overdue?
(Message 238028)
Posted 27 Jan 2006 by hergesheimer
Post: Apologies if this has come up before, but I couldn't find anything:- Given the amount of space that SETI has now mapped, and the rate at which data is being processed, and then say taking into account the likely density of alien civilisations, and whether or not they'd actually be broadcasting whilst we're looking, when should we expect the project to announce that we're not alone in the universe? Does anyone have a view on this? If anything like this has come up before, could some kind soul please post a link? |
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Cafe SETI :
BOINC format is lame
(Message 237995)
Posted 26 Jan 2006 by hergesheimer
Post: I always thought the scrensaver was neat - it's what originally pulled me in, watching it on friends screens. Seti on BOINC seems to be a lot more divorced from the science than the classic, with more emphasis on the technical framework than discovery. Explanations for what we're doing have shrunk to three paragraphs and a set of links. |
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Cafe SETI :
signature testing
(Message 237580)
Posted 26 Jan 2006 by hergesheimer
Post: Hi! |
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