The shutdown (temporary) of WCG is bringing back memories of when seti went down. I've got a good hoard of WUs (only what I can run on my slow machine in time, so not that many), but I'm sure the admins will run some of the same tactics that seti did and send out multiple copies even before the return date. I'm so close to earning my year badge in ARP.

I'm not sure if I will run another project in the time between. I probably should, as this could take longer than 2 months as the message they sent out sounds like they were rushed by a deadline to do this the hard way. I'll check other posts for possibilities, but if you have a team on another project that an old mac could run, send me a message.

Happy New Year to you too Wiggo.
And of course to everyone else here.

My realistic nature though, tells me that 2022 will be as crappy as the last 2, unfortunately.

Scientists calculated that an object orbiting a pulsar — perhaps an asteroid — would carve a wake in the pulsar's wind. An electric current would circulate around this wake, and when the pulsar's wind crosses this wake, the researchers calculated, the resulting magnetic disturbances would generate a very narrow and extremely intense beam of radio waves.

The researchers noted that asteroids 0.6 to 6 miles wide (1 to 10 kilometers) orbiting their pulsars at one astronomical unit (AU) or closer would generate fast radio bursts of the intensities detected to date, especially if the pulsars had powerful magnetic fields. (One AU is the average distance between Earth and the sun, which is about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers.) ... Asteroids zipping through a pulsar's highly magnetic, superfast winds would continuously generate intense radio beams. But astronomers on Earth would only see these beams as bursts, during the rare instances when the neutron stars, asteroids and telescopes on Earth happened to line up.

A discussion of Joe Biden's space policy is of course much more speculative, but we can make some educated guesses.

The coming SKA (...) could be available later in this decade, would extend the SETI search into billions of star systems, and would be capable of detecting what Tingay calls “Earth-like radio signals” from relatively nearby planetary systems leakage radiation as opposed to directed signals designed to be interstellar.

"It's hiberating, it not hibernating, Jim!"

Still here waiting for work

Curtis Steinhour

Don't you read the news notices? ;-)

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85267&sort_style=6&start=0

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85275

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85412#2042009

Cheers.

I am still on the Team Carl Sagan Byron Crunching away with my Mapping Cancer and COVID!! I wish I got to talk to you more before this but enjoyed the small talks we did have. I will be here crunching away and you will never be forgotten!! <3 Holding that candle in the dark in this demon-haunted world.

Today is my 21st, woohoo and the project thinks I'm still alive, sort of.
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Dear Byron, or should I say Chuck. Pierre has informed me that your health has taken a turn for the worse. Im so very sorry to hear this.

I know we don't know each other, but I just want to thank you for creating Team Carl Sagan. A group that inspires yet another generation of dreamers and star gazers to ponder what is out there beyond the clouds, all while encouraging them to look back at Carl's great body of work. I imagine he would be greatly honoured to have such a group, with such a purpose, working in his name.

Sending you and your family all the very best wishes from Australia,

James.

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love" - Carl Sagan

Any news on Byron?

I just wanted to update you in Chuck Hatch’s medical condition. I spoke with his doctor this morning. He will not be getting out of the hospital and only has a few days left. I’m devastated to have to share this news to all of you. His loving niece, Catherine Hatch.

If you wish to send him any messages, send them to me and I will read them to him before he passes. :'(