1) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What Are You Reading? (Message 1997251) Posted 7 Jun 2019 by George 254 Post: Just started The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry who died in February

2) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What Are You Reading? (Message 1985051) Posted 14 Mar 2019 by George 254 Post: Thanks for this Tullio

3) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What Are You Reading? (Message 1984268) Posted 9 Mar 2019 by George 254 Post: The Higgs Force by Nicholas Mee. Very readable and well-reviewed story of the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Higgs_Force.html?id=J8YzkU0vXEMC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false Managed to get a signed copy from the author at Astrofest 2019 in London 8/9th February. Has some other interesting books too: http://www.nicholasmee.com/

4) Message boards : News : New forum, and a new contributor. (Message 1983584) Posted 6 Mar 2019 by George 254 Post: Welcome aboard Richard

5) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What Are You Reading? (Message 1979859) Posted 11 Feb 2019 by George 254 Post: Thanks for this Jim. The BBC series is not sugary!

6) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What Are You Reading? (Message 1979721) Posted 10 Feb 2019 by George 254 Post: Dear Jim Noticed your latest reading. Did you see this? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00023vy

7) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What Are You Reading? (Message 1979720) Posted 10 Feb 2019 by George 254 Post: Attended EUROPEAN Astrofest yesterday in London and had a great time http://europeanastrofest.com where I treated myself to a signed copy of Nigel Mee's book HIGGS FORCE - Cosmic Symmetry Shattered https://www.amazon.co.uk/Higgs-Force-Cosmic-Symmetry-Shattered-ebook/dp/B0083JQQLW

8) Message boards : News : Report from the NASA Technosignatures Workshop released. (Message 1975520) Posted 17 Jan 2019 by George 254 Post: Thanks for the response Bob. The same lack of current technology also applies in biosignatures where detecting water and especially chlorophyll in planateary atmospheres would be a great way of sorting out habitable from inhabitable planets.

9) Message boards : News : Report from the NASA Technosignatures Workshop released. (Message 1975381) Posted 16 Jan 2019 by George 254 Post: Eric Just had another thought about the report. To find a planet like ours, there would need to be the right biosignatures and technosignatures (as mentioned) BUT surely the planet concerned would need a magnetic field to protect it from harmful radiation? Is there any way of detecting this? Regards

10) Message boards : Nebula : Multiplet-finding revisited (Message 1975265) Posted 15 Jan 2019 by George 254 Post: Apologies for asking this but bary and non-bary signals? TIA

11) Message boards : Number crunching : Anything relating to AstroPulse (2) tasks (Message 1974411) Posted 10 Jan 2019 by George 254 Post: Happy New Year Guys. Having finally got my DELL 3500 Precision TU with a GTX 1050 ti [host 8023146] running OK, crunching WUs every 700 seconds or so, I was wondering why I never seem to get any AP WUs when heigh ho! one turns up on my slightly weird laptop, a HP Elitebook 2740p [host 8308762] where total crunch time should be 16 hours - 57600 seconds. Other WUs on this machine take from say, 11,000 seconds to 23,000 seconds and one taking 46,000? Question: would my DELL crunch an AP unit more quickly?

12) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What Are You Reading? (Message 1972549) Posted 29 Dec 2018 by George 254 Post: BBC Radio 4 has a feature Book of the Week. This week was Michael Caine's biography "Blowing the Bloody Doors Off" a line from the original 1969 film "The Italian Job" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064505/ You can hear extracts on BBC iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001s16 The podcast is of course shortened, but it's nice to hear Michael telling his own story. Otherwise, use a book token from Christmas maybe. Enjoy

13) Message boards : News : Report from the NASA Technosignatures Workshop released. (Message 1972322) Posted 28 Dec 2018 by George 254 Post: Thanks for this Eric. A year ago I gave a talk at my astronomical club about SETI. Reading this report has made it rather out of date! Is there a comparable forum/report about biosignatures?

14) Message boards : Number crunching : Seti and SSD's? (Message 1971579) Posted 23 Dec 2018 by George 254 Post: On my laptops two of which have SSDs, the only warnings I get are when I do a defrag. It is important to have a decent amount of free space though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XZNr7mS0iw&t=4s HTH and Merry Christmas George

15) Message boards : Number crunching : 03dc18od (Message 1970846) Posted 17 Dec 2018 by George 254 Post: Guys Silly question time - with WUs crunched in 55 seconds, is there any possibility of the supply running out? TIA George

16) Message boards : Number crunching : GTX 1050 ti settings (QUADDRO 5000 Thread continuation) (Message 1970845) Posted 17 Dec 2018 by George 254 Post: Dear Zalster Thanks for your response here. Looks like I will stick to my current unit which crunches WU in around 700 seconds which is a huge improvement on the four laptops I have, but then I bought those as laptops tend to be more efficient power wise plus I always have a spare.

17) Message boards : Number crunching : GTX 1050 ti settings (QUADDRO 5000 Thread continuation) (Message 1970809) Posted 17 Dec 2018 by George 254 Post: Thanks Guys So from previous posts: a) 1050 several times faster than old QUADRO 5000 b) 1050 ti 20% faster than a) with 4GB Cost: £160 c) 1060 60% -------- " ------b) with 6 GB Cost: £233 d) 1080 ti 300% -------- " ---b) with 8GB Cost: £979 e) RTX 2070 also 300% ----- " ----- b) also with 8 GB Cost: £539 which all goes to show that you get what you pay for. The above prices are new with pre-owned units significantly less. And if I may repeat a previous question, what components do I need to turn my Dell TU 8023146 into a proper PC rather than its current state of purely crunching WUs?

18) Message boards : Number crunching : GTX 1050 ti settings (QUADDRO 5000 Thread continuation) (Message 1970807) Posted 17 Dec 2018 by George 254 Post: Juan Thank you for looking but no idea how my computers were hidden? I am logged on which shows full info.

19) Message boards : Number crunching : GTX 1050 ti settings (QUADDRO 5000 Thread continuation) (Message 1970796) Posted 17 Dec 2018 by George 254 Post: Hi I have finally got my new graphics card running in my DELL Precision T3500 [host no. 8023146] and WUs crunch out at around 700 seconds. This was after selecting only one setting for SoG. Two questions: a) How do 1060 and later GPU cards compare with the 1050 ti? b) What are the Multibeam and Astropulse settings for? I am tempted to add another card into the DELL TU (the power supply seems OK) as there is a spare PCIE slot, but am worried about my electricity bill. BTW just sold the old QUADRO 5000 on eBay for £78. TIA George

20) Message boards : Number crunching : Error while computing on Android (Message 1970793) Posted 17 Dec 2018 by George 254 Post: For a while I ran two old android handsets which crunch slowly when plugeed in for charging, but since they are old and the charging sockets are loose, they didn't work much of the time. Eventually it was more trouble than it was worth, so now only use my partner's handset, but that is very slow even with 8 cores.

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