1) Questions and Answers : Windows : Need help? Go here! (Message 242739) Posted 5 Feb 2006 by DocORock Post: CHUCK Temper temper. Love, DocORock

2) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Big Bang Theory and Time... (Message 239205) Posted 29 Jan 2006 by DocORock Post: Cruel and Wonderful World

3) Message boards : SETI@home Science : BOINC Problems? Wrong place - take this link. (Message 217408) Posted 18 Dec 2005 by DocORock Post: Here is your link to vent all your issues with BOINC. Thank you in advance for not venting here in the SETI@Home Science area. And hang in there!

4) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Photon count (Message 204349) Posted 6 Dec 2005 by DocORock Post: Intelligent Question Very intelligent (original) question. It's set me on a path of investigation, thanks.

5) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Scientists, be on guard ... ET might be a malicious hacker (Message 202871) Posted 4 Dec 2005 by DocORock Post:

6) Message boards : SETI@home Science : If this isn't life on Mars, what is it? (Message 202789) Posted 4 Dec 2005 by DocORock Post: Check Out This Mars Photo Here is an interesting Mars photo, taken from the NASA Web site. You may have to right-click the image placeholder (then select "Show Picture") in order to view it. If you peer downward, toward the shaded area (color provided by NASA), you see this: And, more closely... To view this image from the source yourself, take this link: Nicholas Crater H And, if that doesn't astound you, there is always this action photo recently captured by the "Spirit" rover: The silver lining to this reality is that our advanced counterparts, obviously, practice freedom of speech, even in the open context of demonstrations. (Whew!)

7) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Are We Sending Any Signals? (Message 202128) Posted 3 Dec 2005 by DocORock Post: Physics of Waves/Beams

8) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Are We Sending Any Signals? (Message 202104) Posted 3 Dec 2005 by DocORock Post: You are correct (my bad). Radio waves don't travel in the same direction as laser beams. That's the aim.

9) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Are We Sending Any Signals? (Message 202048) Posted 3 Dec 2005 by DocORock Post: Laser Beam Messages On the Science Channel, I saw a piece that described how Seti is developing a method to search for signals that come to us by laser beam versus the much slower-traveling radio waves we currently are searching. In the process, they are considering sending beams of our own. Has anyone else seen this review? I looked for a link to provide but could not locate one right away. In my search, however, I did stumble across this one, which is sort of interesting: Daniel Fry. About half-way down is some interesting bits of information that caught my attention. Once it is loaded, if you search that page for the words "Signals to Earth" using {CTRL F} it will take you straight to the related article.

10) Message boards : SETI@home Science : If this isn't life on Mars, what is it? (Message 198457) Posted 29 Nov 2005 by DocORock Post: Here is my own argument on life outside Earth, and my supposed role that NASA should be assuming in the eventual discovery of it. The Absence of Science I sure commend everyone here for the logical approach you take with one another in the debate. It is refreshing to locate an intelligent group, willing to debate the matter intelligently with such intelligent views from both intelligent sides. Joseph Dougherty Los Angeles, California Cruel and Wonderful World

11) Message boards : SETI@home Science : UFO Studies: The Absence of Science (Message 198451) Posted 29 Nov 2005 by DocORock Post: Thank you, Kathy.

12) Questions and Answers : Windows : Need help? Go here! (Message 198263) Posted 29 Nov 2005 by DocORock Post: How do you activate your BOINC Seti@home account? Activating your BOINC Seti@Home account This is a good question since the BOINC application does not prompt you to do this after installing the program. Follow these instructions and let me know if you have any problems. a) take this link: Seti@Home Account b) check your email for the account KEY c) follow the instructions in the email (taking a link from it) Hope that helps! Joseph Dougherty Los Angeles, California

13) Message boards : SETI@home Science : UFO Studies: The Absence of Science (Message 197338) Posted 28 Nov 2005 by DocORock Post: UFO Studies: The Absence of Science (by Joseph Dougherty) Your average-Joe rocket scientist might simply shake his head at the mere notion that extra-terrestrial beings have been visiting Earth. While the scientific community guardedly approaches what inarguably would be the greatest discovery in human history, the thought that aliens have visited - and are visiting - this planet of ours is something to be scoffed at by the educated scientist. That is, while NASA's entire budget might be classified as a fund that aims to discover just that - there is life beyond our planet. In the 21st century, space programs admittedly declare that discovering some form of life - on, say, a moon of Saturn, or one of Jupiter’s many satellites - is the chief driving force in spending millions and even billions of dollars in venture. If we hypothetically subtract the assignment to discover life outside our home from the NASA mission, the entire organization would shrink in its form (and, largely, its budgets) considerably. While the human brain has been figuring out things for only a few thousand years, science estimates there are things that have been lurking around in this universe for as many as 15 billion years longer. Yet...to state that this life we seek so feverishly has...well, that it already has evolved? Ahead of the human race? And that it already has thought to do the same as we have - to seek other life forms? And that some form of life out there has been developed to such a stage in its own existence that it has managed to place rivets into metal containers, creating spacecrafts capable of interstellar travel? Albeit - though we expect the very same of our own race - the idea that others have achieved this has been safely labeled "preposterous" by the brainiest of our brains. There are many branches of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). However, the overall mission statement for NASA declares that the administration strives to “understand and protect our home planet, to explore the universe and search for life, and to inspire the next generation of explorers…as only NASA can”. Extra-planetary rovers of the program, assigned such names as “Spirit” and “Opportunity”, have been set out to discover if Mars ever hosted life. Space awards have been bestowed upon the craft called “Cassini”, which offered a piggy-back ride for the Huygens probe. The mission of the probe? Discover if the conditions for any form of life might exist on one of the promising moons of Saturn. As a human race, we forge ahead into space, first exhausting the grounds of our own solar system, scouring for any sign of this thing we recognize as “life”. We are represented by the scientists of our population, who lead us toward other prospective neighboring worlds, probing and scanning, poking and prodding – all in respect to one very exciting ideal: We are not alone. Many missions of NASA are prompted by that very conception. In 2006, Atlas V will launch a piano-sized space probe called “New Horizons” that will span the solar system in record time. Its mission: To visit the outer planet of Pluto (and its moon, Charon), to “unlock one of the solar system's last, great planetary secrets”. That is, we have hopes of discovering how water is created on planets. In November 2006, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, equipped with the highest resolution camera to-date, is expected to reveal ancient water beds of the red planet. “Stardust” is a spacecraft that was programmed to take a 1.5 billion mile round trip course – all to collect some tailings of a comet (weighing less than one-hundreth of a gram) and bring the stuff back to Earth. The analysis is aimed to validate that comets contain building blocks of life, labeled CHON. The idea is that these icy-fiery objects make special deliveries of life-giving chemicals to prospective planets as they perform their fly-bys through solar systems like ours. These days, high-tech telescopes are being built to act as peepholes into the universe. The Spitzer Space Telescope possesses and uses state-of-the-art infrared detectors to pierce the dense clouds of gas and dust that enshroud many celestial objects, including distant galaxies; clusters of stars in formation; and planet forming discs surrounding stars. It is the fourth of NASA's Great Observatories, a program that also includes the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. These super-science telescopes, as with many devices of the modern day, allow us to embark on a bold mission to reveal to ourselves a very modest portion of the cosmos unknown - in fact, some things which are currently unimaginable. We aspire to shed light onto those spinning objects in the distant skies to reveal more about the things of which we know very little as well as deliver us more settling answers, which undoubtedly will spawn only more inticing questions; discover things that will defy our reality to a point we are compelled to redefine it; to know things that will have us rewrite the baffling bylaws of nature in all its grandure. The scientific community postures that if we discover life has formed on one of the planets that share the resources of our own star, it is not only likely that life is abundant beyond the proximity of the sun, but that likelihood is mathematically profound. To venture into that fundamental math is to calculate that we – the humble human race – are certainly not the first to have taken in life-giving breath. Yet, we are expected to consider ourselves the first collection of minds to ponder the hair-brained idea that we might not be alone in this vast, ten-to-fifteen billion year old home of ours. The veritable voice of science itself should be the first to scream out the possibility that our elusive alien guests have been discovering the likes of us. Average-Joe rocket scientist fails to position himself well if so much of the costly missions of NASA purport that life is out there to be discovered…but – still, relentlessly – shakes his head at the simple view that he is indeed correct. A science exists here on Earth, one untouched by scientists. It supports the cause and aim of NASA that “life is out there”. That science – conveniently located in our own atmosphere – is the evidence that we have been visited. The community that very well should be responsible for putting together this evidence is even fortunate enough that so much respective data already has been collected, documented, compiled, logged, debated and recorded. So, I address NASA, respectfully, and I encourage our scientists to build those spacecrafts, to enhance the resolution of our telescopes and to send probes to places that we are all excited to see. Why not? But – hey there, Joe. While you’re at it…do as any formally educated weatherman does. Look up. Joseph Dougherty Los Angeles, California DocORock (DocORock@comcast.net)

14) Questions and Answers : Windows : Proxy Problemers - read this for help (Message 197332) Posted 28 Nov 2005 by DocORock Post: Proxy Problemers You should not need to enter any proxy info. There should be no reason why you should require entering proxy information in order to have your BOINC program make the connection. If you are connected to the Internet when you start the BOINC application, then the next piece of information for which you should be prompted (if you have just installed your program) is your Seti@Home sign-on data. If you are beyond installation, then BOINC is experiencing problems making the Internet connection. In any case... Proxy Solution REBOOT your computer (unfortunately). Hope that helps. Joseph Dougherty Los Angeles, California

15) Questions and Answers : Windows : Proxy Configuration issues (HELP ME!) (Message 197329) Posted 28 Nov 2005 by DocORock Post: Proxy Problemers You should not need to enter any proxy info. There should be no reason why you should require entering proxy information in order to have your BOINC program make the connection. If you are connected to the Internet when you start the BOINC application, then the next piece of information for which you should be prompted (if you have just installed your program) is your Seti@Home sign-on data. If you are beyond installation, then BOINC is experiencing problems making the Internet connection. In any case... Proxy Solution REBOOT your computer (unfortunately). Hope that helps. Joseph Dougherty Los Angeles, California

16) Questions and Answers : Windows : Need help? Go here! (Message 196714) Posted 27 Nov 2005 by DocORock Post: Seti@Home Users: If you follow these broadly labeled steps, and let me know where your problems begin (as they surely will), I will do my best to lend a hand. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0) completely disregard the confusing "BOINC users manual" (a vital step) 1) download the BOINC software 2) install the BOINC software 3) activate your BOINC account with Seti@Home (myself, I missed this step a few times) 4) reboot your computer (even though the application does not instruct so) 5) start the BOINC program (it should start up automatically after rebooting) 6) attach BOINC to your Seti@Home project . . . . .to do this: --------6a) select "Project" from the menu at the top --------6a) enter "http://setiathome.berkeley.edu" for your project link 7) provide your Seti@Home sign-on information that the BOINC program requests . . . . .if you are not required to enter this information (above), then STOP - either: --------7a) you have not yet activated your account with BOINC (because you weren't prompted to), or --------7b) you are being asked for Proxy connection info (incorrectly) 8) follow subsequent instructions Designate where your problems begin (using the respective number from above) and I will try to assist you. My guess is either (7a) or (7b) are your issues. In any case, let me know where your problems start and I will help you through the mess as best I can. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope I can be of assistance. I was very frustrated with my initial installation of this program. I still am put out with the ill-designed, ill-equipped "BOINC users manual". It is a "BIONIC users headache", with all its superfluous links (don't take that link) and unrelated information. Since I managed to get through the confusion myself, I would like to lend a hand, if I can, to my fellow Seti@Home users. NOTE: I am merely another user - I am not help desk, nor am I affiliated with BOINC in any way other than through my humble little Seti@Home account. (So please go easy on me - I'm just trying to help.) Joseph Dougherty Los Angeles, California

17) Questions and Answers : Windows : Need help? Go here! (Message 195446) Posted 26 Nov 2005 by DocORock Post: ************************************** Seti@Home Users Afer some irritation with the new BOINC program, I simply followed the instructions of some helpful users here and the advice of a help desk individual...and I'm connected to my project. My problem was the program continuously "required" proxy server information, which I do not connect through any type servers. So - as these people suggested - I reboot my computer and low and behold I immediately connected with the email address I registered with Seti@Home and the password of my account and I'm in. I think a large part of the ongoing problem with BOINC is the format of their help, at this Web site. It is very confusing and the navigation of it is not helpful. Every link takes you to another (off-route) place. When users see a link, they feel they are supposed to take it (in a help area). In the "manual" that BOINC provides, there are links all over the damn place, and so you end up going... well, all over the damn place...just to have one simple question answered. Anyway, hang in there, people. We shouldn't let a program implementation get in the way of our cause. ***********************************************

 
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