1) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : Is ET in Our Solar System? (Message 2020954) Posted 28 Nov 2019 by adrianxw Post: I can't help thinking about Charles Holland Duell when I see threads like this. The famous quote, now thought to be nothing of the sort incidently, "Everything that can be invented has been invented" is what I refer too The universe could be full of inteligent life communicating away to each other using technologies we have not discovered yet.

2) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : Seeing the Unseeable: The Black Hole Image (Message 2002099) Posted 11 Jul 2019 by adrianxw Post: Absolutely. What is needed is a small constellation of relays satelites orbiting the moon, and a real scientific observatory, deep space comms station and laboratory on the "dark side" . Of course, there is nobody that would pay for such an endeavour.

3) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : Seeing the Unseeable: The Black Hole Image (Message 2001829) Posted 9 Jul 2019 by adrianxw Post: I was reading about a plan for a huge new constellation earlier today, Amazon want to put up 3,236 satelites for their project... https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/4/18295310/amazon-project-kuiper-satellite-internet-low-earth-orbit-facebook-spacex-starlink ... the article lists a few other schemes.

4) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : Seeing the Unseeable: The Black Hole Image (Message 2001816) Posted 9 Jul 2019 by adrianxw Post: >>> It doesn't happen immediately after collapse. It starts after some time as their distance decreases accordingly. For examples of evolutions look at this poster. The stars existed for many years before the event which created the black hole. They were not approaching each other then. Now, the mass of one of the stars is reduced. Why should they start to approach each other? I would have thought quite the reverse.

5) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : Seeing the Unseeable: The Black Hole Image (Message 2001295) Posted 6 Jul 2019 by adrianxw Post: I'm a little curious about the, quite frequently heard, issue, that when a member of a binary system collapses to a black hole, it strips material off the companion star. I would expect the black hole to have pretty much the same mass as the original star, perhaps slightly less, which was not stripping material from its neighbour when it was a regular star. Sure, the mass is now concentrated into a much smaller object, and the gravitational field close to the hole is stronger than it was, but it is much smaller., and hence, further away from the companion. How is this issue justified?

6) Message boards : News : 20 years and counting! (Message 1997777) Posted 11 Jun 2019 by adrianxw Post: My join date is 14 Jul 1999.

7) Message boards : News : The Drake Equation Revisited (Message 1991409) Posted 25 Apr 2019 by adrianxw Post: Thread seems to have shrunk somewhat.

8) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : The Drake Equation: Revisiting a Classic Tool to Estimate the Odds of Contact (Message 1989483) Posted 10 Apr 2019 by adrianxw Post: As I said earlier... >>> Pointless to continue.

9) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : The Drake Equation: Revisiting a Classic Tool to Estimate the Odds of Contact (Message 1989472) Posted 10 Apr 2019 by adrianxw Post: It would appear to be the starting point for endless, progressively less likely, possibilities to surface. I don't really think that is terribly productive. Unless, of course, you subscribe to Sherlock Holmes's throry, ie. "when all else has been shown to be wrong, whatever is left, however unlikely, must be the truth". That approach is, of course, just as incorrect, the initial words "when all else" makes the assumption that EVERYTHING has been considered and shown to be wrong, it ignores the possibilities of other explanations that have not been considered either because they had not occurred to the considerer, or not known at the time.

10) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : The Drake Equation: Revisiting a Classic Tool to Estimate the Odds of Contact (Message 1989464) Posted 10 Apr 2019 by adrianxw Post: When I said... >>> Pointless to continue. ... I was refering to this thread. The Drake equation as it stands has been so shot full of holes as to basically be meaningless. Re-inventing some of the reasons really acheives very little don't you think?

11) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : The Drake Equation: Revisiting a Classic Tool to Estimate the Odds of Contact (Message 1989434) Posted 10 Apr 2019 by adrianxw Post: He said at the end of his piece that the thing was not really meant to be solved, there is so much more to consider, a few things have appeared here. Pointless to continue.

12) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : The Drake Equation: Revisiting a Classic Tool to Estimate the Odds of Contact (Message 1989074) Posted 7 Apr 2019 by adrianxw Post: ... if your number system is at least similar to ours.

13) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : The Drake Equation: Revisiting a Classic Tool to Estimate the Odds of Contact (Message 1988907) Posted 5 Apr 2019 by adrianxw Post: It would not be possible to communicate with an ape in terms of speech as their vocal biology differs from ours. Sign language is communication.

14) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : The Drake Equation: Revisiting a Classic Tool to Estimate the Odds of Contact (Message 1988869) Posted 5 Apr 2019 by adrianxw Post: I think a valid extension of the Drake equation would be a second time factor. An advanced, communicative civilization could evolve, develop and die out before the sun condensed. Adding one you could say it showed how many communicative intelligences exist today.

15) Message boards : Number crunching : x86 (Message 1948167) Posted 6 Aug 2018 by adrianxw Post: Okay, understood. Thanks.

16) Message boards : Number crunching : x86 (Message 1948152) Posted 6 Aug 2018 by adrianxw Post: I re-enabled seti on my systems after a rebuild and noticed the application is shown as... SETI@home v8 v8.22 (opencl_ati5_SoG_cat132) windows_intelx86 ... it is the Intelx86 part that raised my attention. The rebuilt machines are 64 bit and have 64 bit Windows running, Belarc shows this... Windows 8.1 (x64) (build 9600) ... so do I need to do something myself to get a 64 bit version?

17) Message boards : Number crunching : i7 v Core 2 curiosity. (Message 1760713) Posted 30 Jan 2016 by adrianxw Post: I don't know why I did it, but having done it, I noticed a curious thing. I crunched Workunit 2044507825, it ran very quickly. My machine, a 2.4GHz Core 2 crunched it in 57.20 CPU seconds. My wingman runs a 3.4GHz i7 and crunched it in 70.89 CPU seconds. Now, I would expect his more up-to-date faster CPU to run the job faster than me, not slower. Why would that be?

18) Questions and Answers : Web site : e-mail address change. (Message 1529320) Posted 18 Jun 2014 by adrianxw Post: Thanks man. Just done that. I'd have known this myself, or been able to find it when I was alive. The anoxic brain damage I received when I had my heart attack reduced me in a few hours from a professional software engineer to a worthless heap of wreckage. To everyone: DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU - IT IS ABSOLUTE HELL.

19) Questions and Answers : Web site : e-mail address change. (Message 1528997) Posted 17 Jun 2014 by adrianxw Post: TeleNor are dropping the e-mail service I used for years at the end of this month. I have, just now, resubscribed to the e-mail lists I normally read, (boinc_dev, boinc_stats etc.). What I could not see, was a way to remove my old address subscription, which probably means I'll get each twice, at least for the next few weeks. Frankly, I can live with that, but the server will be sending the mails twice, and after this month, getting failures for my old address. How do I remove the old address subscriptions, does it matter?

20) Message boards : Number crunching : Something is broken. Getting CPU tasks when I shouldn't. (Message 1013447) Posted 8 Jul 2010 by adrianxw Post: I haven't forgotten this, I let the wu complete and am waiting for it to upload now!

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