Posts by Ket

1) Message boards : News : Slow network connection to Green Bank (Message 1917085)
Posted 5 Feb 2018 by Profile Ket
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Bummer. SETI is a fantastic stability testing tool as well as getting some good work done :p I'll have to start reconnecting to my long forgotten milkyway@home project again. This was all some sort of master plan to trigger people in to remembering forgotten projects they were connected to isn't it? :D
2) Message boards : Cafe SETI : US astronaut Neil Armstrong dies (Message 1275980)
Posted 26 Aug 2012 by Profile Ket
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RIP Neil. For every great chapter that closes another begins, you were the first to set foot on the moon, hopefully somebody out there will be inspired by your accomplishments and be the first to set their foot on Mars.
3) Message boards : SETI@home Science : At Least 100 Billion Planets (Message 1201458)
Posted 1 Mar 2012 by Profile Ket
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If the Milky way was swimming with intelligent life we would surely have solid proof of such by now.


That may not necessarily be true. We don't know how long civilizations last or how much time there is between them. We also don't know how long it takes for a civilization to become spacefaring. They may be at our stage of development, more developed but still with no means of traveling vast distances, or they may be cavemen.

There may have been advanced civilizations in the past as well, even on Earth. Earth and the universe is very old.

Space so incredibly vast that contacting other alien civilizations within any decent amount of time just isn't feasible. Even light barely crawls through space since it moves so slow. This is the main reason why I think we haven't really heard anything. Everyone is WAY out of reach.


Thats my point when I say about another race blowing itself up. Its a miracle we haven't blown ourselves up. The chances of other races doing so is equally as high perhaps moreso than us even. For that reason I think life on other worlds (regardless of if they are habitable to us or not) is extremely high, but actual intelligent life much much rarer. Sadly I'll never be alive to know the exact number of other intelligent life in our galaxy (by intelligent I mean those of at least equal intellect to ours) but to say other intelligent civillisations is between 10 - 100 in our galaxy makes sence to me. I would be strongly inclined to think spacefaring civillisations certainly no more than 10. To get that kind of knowledge would certainly take a more mature civillisation to ne at least 10,000 years more advanced than us. I can't remember who else said what so I'll generalise, superfast space travel can't be ruled out. If we survive even another 1000 years I'd think humans would be capable of extending reach to 20 lightyears, perhaps more. It all depends on if wormholes are proven to be real, if we can manipulate them etc. Even if wormholes don't exist natural development in technology will allow us to travel large distances. The latest examples that spring to mind (I forget its exact name) is some kind of like 3rd generation ion drive that could take us to out nearest star in like 45-35 years, something like that I think it is. Looking at the more immediate future I know theres some kind of engine being worked on that can get spacecraft to Mars in 5 weeks. Thats a incredible leap forward of the current fastest spacecraft to go to Mars which took 6 months!
4) Message boards : SETI@home Science : At Least 100 Billion Planets (Message 1201146)
Posted 29 Feb 2012 by Profile Ket
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Lets make things simple and not get carried away. Whats the chances of, lets say ONE planet in the region of 300 light years or so having a intelligent race on it? Slim to none would be my guess. Do I think planets exist that are perfectly habitable but have no life beyond insect and sea life exist within that 300 light year range? Absolutely. Now lets address the "aliens", they must certainly exist in this galaxy, its just too damn big with too many stars and planets for them not to. Do I think they are within range of our feeble attempts to "make contact" let alone be near Earth? Absolutely not. Life may be abundant, but intelligent life isn't going to be like putting your hand into a bag of sweets and pulling out a fistful. The Milkyway is massive, but taking into consideration all the factors involved for intelligent life not to get wiped out or snuff itself out, would it not be realistic to think a reasonable number on intelligent life in our galaxy (weather it be as advanced as us or more advanced than us) should be put around 10 - 100 civillisations? The Milkyway is big, bug there are FAR bigger galaxies out there than the Milkyway. If the Milky way was swimming with intelligent life we would surely have solid proof of such by now.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (49) Server problems? (Message 1121998)
Posted 27 Jun 2011 by Profile Ket
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So many problems with storage lately.. hope its not effecting the project too much.
6) Questions and Answers : Windows : Run Seti with ATI GPU ? (Message 966481)
Posted 28 Jan 2010 by Profile Ket
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I find this bloody annoying as well. I have some monster ATi cards sitting here twiddling their thumbs, I WANT to set my GPUs to handle most the work to power through the tasks. Both sides need to work on this properly. Us ATi guys have been sitting patiently for 1-2yrs for the ability to turn our GPUs into serious crunchers. GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER PPLS! If needed, all ATi guys should hassle the hell out of AMD/ATi about seti GPU crunching compatibility.





 
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