Posts by Gloves Q
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SETI@home Science :
Stephen Hawking: Interstellar Exploration
(Message 744028)
Posted 25 Apr 2008 by  Gloves Q
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That's right A Pirate Wedding! 60 Pirates, 3 tall ships, swards, cannons and grog! http://www.glovesandclover.com/wedding/ <-- lots of pictures Couldn't have gone better. 
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SETI@home Science :
Stephen Hawking: Interstellar Exploration
(Message 743708)
Posted 24 Apr 2008 by Gloves Q
Post: According to this article about Stephen Hawking at NASA's 50th anniversary, we need to start exploring the universe with human explorers. He thinks it's very possible to do this with .25% of the worlds GDP. I'm in favor of a .25% world tax to further Human exploration in space. Where each participating country (same ones that are allowed in the Olympics) donate .25% of their GDP to this international fund. I think it's time for us to move past the space stations and get some exploration started! Stephen Hawking: Interstellar Exploration - The Possibilities British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes it’s time to get out of the dark and invest more in the exploration of outer space: if there is life out there (which he believes there is), we should make a long-term goal of finding it, Hawking said at NASA’s 50th Anniversary. The professor compared the situation we’re indulging in with the period before Christopher Columbus’ journey in 1492, when "people might well have argued it was a waste of money to send Columbus on a wild goose chase. Yet the discovery of the new world made profound difference to the old," said Hawking, joking that without Columbus, "we would not have Big Mac or KFC." On a more serious note, Hawking said that a journey into space in the search of extraterrestrial life would have an enormous impact on our lives, and could even possibly determine the future of the human race. But in order to accomplish that, we need better technology and "we should make interstellar travel a long-term aid," he said. "By long term, I mean over the next 200-500 years." "Robotic missions are much cheaper and may provide more scientific information, but they don’t catch the public imagination in the same way, and they don’t spread the human race into space, which I’m arguing should be our long-term strategy," Hawkins said. "If the human race is to continue for another million years, we will have to boldly go where no one has gone before." In economic terms, the international space exploration budget would have to increase 20 times, the equivalent of 0.25 percent of the world’s GPD. "Isn’t our future worth a quarter of a percent?" Hawking wondered, arguing it is a small effort for an essential purpose. Not only that, but the astrophysicist also offered an explanation for why no extraterrestrial intelligent life form has been discovered so far: either life is too rare in the Universe; or primitive life is common and intelligence is rare; or maybe intelligent life is out there, but it is also capable of creating weapons that leads to their self-destruction. "Personally, I favor the second possibility - that primitive life is relatively common, but that intelligent life is very rare," said Hawking, adding: "Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth." However hard to find it may be, we shouldn’t stop looking, Hawking suggested, even though that wouldn’t solve any of our immediate problems. But who knows what perspectives such a discovery may open? eFluxMedia |
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Number crunching :
Time until 1,000,000 credits.
(Message 740930)
Posted 18 Apr 2008 by Gloves Q
Post: It tells me I will NEVER reach 1,000,000 units. LOL LOL. that's a good one, must have taken into account that by the time you reach 1 million these guys and their super computers will have already found all the intelligent life in the galaxy. OK, Time for me to look into 1, optimizing my boinc software AND Looking into getting a faster CPU. Something like a AM Phenom 9600 Socket AM2+ 95W Quad-core |
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Number crunching :
Time until 1,000,000 credits.
(Message 740326)
Posted 17 Apr 2008 by Gloves Q
Post: Thanks for the link. It's going to take me just about 5 years to reach the 1 million! (I've been in it for 3 months) So my computers are basically Intel Pentium 4, CPU 3.20GHz And my software isn't "optimized"? So assuming I figure out how to optimize the BOINC software, can I expect twice as efficient processing? You guys who are reaching a million after just a few months, (JasonA, Fred j. & David to name a few) What in the h*ll are you guys running? What is it going to take for me to burn through 1 million credits in less than 1 year? -Gloves |
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Number crunching :
Time until 1,000,000 credits.
(Message 739596)
Posted 16 Apr 2008 by Gloves Q
Post: While reading the forums, it seems some users have 1 or more MILLION credits. I'm running - 4 full-time CPUs - 1 part-time CPU. My average is 612 credits a day. By my calculations, it's going to take me roughly 4.5 years to reach 1 Million! |
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Number crunching :
To Screen-save or not to screen-save?
(Message 739592)
Posted 16 Apr 2008 by Gloves Q
Post: Good info guys. I thought there might be a chance that when the Screen Saver is runnig it curnches numbers even faster. I say this is good news because I needed to take off that screen saver. Seems to be some sort of bug; When I leave the Boinc screen saver on over the weekend and I leave my AOL account logged in. Occasionally, when I come back in on Monday, I can't get my computer to send a signal to the monitors at all. I think this happens when I sign onto AOL from another location and it auto-logs me off from this location. In any case we'll see if turning off the screen saver helps or if it's Just AOL being dumb again. |
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Number crunching :
To Screen-save or not to screen-save?
(Message 739146)
Posted 14 Apr 2008 by Gloves Q
Post: To Screen-save or not to screen-save? Does anyone have any stats on if it's faster to run the Boinc screen-saver or to have no screen saver load? The Boinc screen saver seems to take some 'resources' while it's running. I find it a hassle sometimes when I have to wait for the screen saver to 'shut down' after I jostle the mouse around a bit. Personally, I think if I change my windows settings to: . . - no screen saver . . - turn off monitor after 10 min Boinc might be able to get more computing done because it's not having to load yet another program and that program has a lot of 3D calculations it uses that might be better spent on processing tasks. |
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SETI@home Science :
Early Mars was too salty to support life.
(Message 727230)
Posted 17 Mar 2008 by Gloves Q
Post: That BBC article is dumb. The Dead Sea has life in it. It's the 2nd saltiest body of water in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea#Flora_and_fauna :: "The sea is called "dead" because its high salinity means no macroscopic aquatic organisms such as fish or water plants can live in it, though minuscule quantities of bacteria and microbial fungi are present." Good luck to the Phoenix lander! |
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Can aliens detect us?
(Message 711884)
Posted 13 Feb 2008 by Gloves Q
Post: Let's hope that someone out there is trying this or else we may be wasting our cycles. That's what I'm saying! Where on this huge website can I see the sections of sky SETI@home has scanned and that we are processing? They had better be the ones most-likely to hold life and are less than 100 light-years away. We don't want to waist precious cycles. =) |
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SETI@home Science :
Can aliens detect us?
(Message 711825)
Posted 12 Feb 2008 by Gloves Q
Post: Dimytes, you posted a similar question to this topic. According to the FCC. Our TV broadcast has a maximum output of 1 KW. "(4) The visual transmission amplitude characteristic shall be in accordance with the chart designated as Figure 5 of Sec. 73.699: Provided, however, That for stations operating on Channel 15 through 69 and employing a transmitter with maximum peak visual power output of 1 kW or less the visual transmission amplitude characteristic may be in accordance with the chart designated as Figure 5a of Sec. 73.699." Source: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2006/octqtr/47cfr73.682.htm The question is, how far will 1,000 meezly watts go? I know if I had a 1,000 W light bulb, I could probably see it from 5 miles away before it dissipated into nothing. So has anyone calculated it? |
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Is The Universe Infinite?
(Message 705707)
Posted 30 Jan 2008 by Gloves Q
Post: It's picture time! I did a little doodle of my theory as to why the Universe is infinite. This goes with my previous post.  As you can clearly see, the absence of 'stuff' in space does not mean that you can't go any further. * "The Universe's growth is accelerating." Could it be the 'great pull-apart' instead of big bang? Since explosions don't grow in speed. |
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SETI@home Science :
TRIPLET
(Message 704412)
Posted 26 Jan 2008 by Gloves Q
Post: Had a triplet show up today... 30! that sounds great! Well, how do I find my best Triplet Score? My score changes so fast it's hard to tell. Is there stats I can see? for-myself and best triplets found by other SETI users? |
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Don’t call the aliens,they might not be friendly
(Message 704402)
Posted 26 Jan 2008 by Gloves Q
Post: Robert Smith. These "Scientists" are off their rockers. 1. *IF* our television/radio broadcasting could be differentiated from the random space noise further than 2 light years, it would take at least 20 or more light years for these aliens to hear it. 2. They are also assuming these aliens are dumb enough to travel to see us instead of sending us a message back via radio waves/blinking star or supernova moris code. =) Jason Gee, I think your analagy is pretty good, but overlooking a few points. - We communicated to the aliens, thus the picnic people could try communicating back. So it might look like this: > Say you and your family were taking a picnic / camping trip out into the woods .... > A particularly annoying termite mound nearby is noisy and ***spelling out words > with their bodies*** and possibly swarming with bitey living things. [short lived > termites] > > Do you?: > > 1 - Leave the area and find a less crowded camping spot? > 2 - Apply liberal quantities of insect repellent and ignore the annoyance? > 3 - Booze up and play smash the termite mound? or > 4 - Attempt to make contact with the termites, offer them technology in exchange for culture? Now, 4 seems more likely an option. -Gloves Q P.S. Would a culture hell-bent on smashing termites and such ever survive/progress to the point of spce-travel? |
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SETI@home Science :
Is The Universe Infinite?
(Message 704400)
Posted 26 Jan 2008 by Gloves Q
Post: DADDIO, you are wacky! =) Ok, let's take it down about 50 light years so that I can help understand the 'edge' of the universe theory. 1. Let's remove all galaxies, stars and debris in space. 2. Let's add 1 pineapple hand grenade pin not pulled floating 'stationary' in space. Ok, let's say that pin suddenly disappears and the hand grenade explodes (big-bang). Now, all the fragments of this grenade are traveling outward at a good rate of speed. *Big questions I hear that don't make sense.* - "The universe/hand grenade fragments are expanding faster and faster." I don't get this. If you measured the speed of the fragments from the center of the explosion, wouldn't that object in motion continue at that rate of speed? (being that the explosion is done with in the first 1/4 second) - "There's an edge of the universe" Let's say I had a craft that travels faster than the speed of the grenade fragments. So if I started my craft at the center of the explosion and headed in any direction in a straight line, I would eventually pass the radius of the fragments. Is the radius of the fragments the edge of the universe? Cause I don't know about you, but my sweet space craft has tons of magic fuel left and can keep going for trillions of light years past the fragment radius but the 1 flaw is, I can't turn it. So it continues to go straight until *what happens?* nothing right? I just keep going into blackness further and fuhrer away from the fragments. - Gloves Q |
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SETI@home Science :
Background noise in 2 light years. =(
(Message 704392)
Posted 26 Jan 2008 by Gloves Q
Post: While watching Life After People on the History Channel. (http://www.history.com/minisites/life_after_people) In it, they talked about how SETI@HOME claims that our radio waves transmitted from Earth will travel a good 2 light years away before fading away into indistinguishable background noise. *IF* this is true, why am I using my CPU time to try to find another radio signal from another world further than 2 light years? Especially since it seems the closest similar solar system (Gliese 581) is 20 light years away. (http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/25/news/planet.php ) Can anyone tell me if the dish was pointed at Gliese 581 or some place else? -Gloves Q |
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