“ Men and Women wanted for a hazardous distributed computing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Low wages, bitter false positives, long hours of data crunching, overheating CPU's and GPUs. Safe return doubtful without caffeinated beverages. Honour and recognition in event of technosignal detection.” – ErnestShackleton@setiathome.berkeley.eduSETI@home is back up (7 Mar 2019) - "Hopefully there won't be any further problem. Our attempt to upgrade the memory on Oscar (the BOINC database machine) and Carolyn (the replica database) took a bit of DIMM swapping to find pairs of DIMMs that worked. Carolyn is still short two DIMMs (32 GB), but we didn't want to extend the outage any further to try to get it up to the full 192 GB. We might try to max out Carolyn during the outage next week. [edit]And as is usual after a long outage, we've got a large number of hosts out there starving for work. It'll take a little while before "no work" messages start to get less frequent.[/edit] 7 Mar 2019, 0:51:29 UTC https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=83989&postid=1983711 https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_server_status.php
It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” -- Sir Ernest Shackleton (Feb. 15, 1874 - Jan. 5, 1922)LINKS
(Previous status update) Long Outage this Week: "SETI@home will have an extended outage this week. The database backup is taking much longer than usual. This may be caused by the errors we're seeing with our memory upgrade. We will be looking into the memory errors wednesday morning (March 6). The projects may be down until after this work is done." (6 Mar 2019, 1:58:53 UTC) https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=83972&postid=1982953
PAPER - BOINC: A Platform for Volunteer Computing - David P. Anderson (Submitted on 5 Mar 2019) "Volunteer computing" is the use of consumer digital devices for high-throughput scientific computing. It can provide large computing capacity at low cost, but presents challenges due to device heterogeneity, unreliability, and churn. BOINC, a widely-used open-source middleware system for volunteer computing, addresses these challenges. We describe its features, architecture, and implementation." https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01699
SETI Institute in the news February 21 - February 27, 2019 (Mar 7, 2019); SETI Institute Airborne Astronomy Ambassador Teachers Announced; Hippocamp, the Hidden Moon of Neptune; Lori Fenton Delves into the Hexagonal Dunes of Mars; Franck Marchis talks Adaptive Optics on Simulation; Seth Shostak on the Search and Its Challenges; https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-february-21-february-27-2019
SETI Institute in the news February 14 - February 20, 2019Feb 26, 2019; Meet Hippocamp, the Little Neptunian Moon with a Rough History; Andrew Siemion Discusses Alien Life on Voice of Islam Radio; Arecibo Observatory Calls on Kids to Craft Message to the Stars https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-february-14-february-20-2019
David Brin about the New Arecibo Message contest, which asks kids - not experts or scientists - to design our planet's next message to aliens https://www.setileague.org/editor/newAOmsg.htm
Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox https://www.quantamagazine.org/galaxy-simulations-offer-a-new-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox-20190307/?mc_cid=12beccef95&mc_eid=a2bccb49a5
What Does the Milky Way Weigh? Hubble and Gaia InvestigateRelease date: Mar 7, 2019 https://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2019-16 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/07/scientists-milky-way-weighs-galaxy-hubble-nasa
Planet or no Planet? Notes on Tau Ceti https://blog.planethunters.org/2019/03/07/planet-or-no-planet/
March , Hayabusa2 Scores a Bulls-eye on Touchdown, More Explodey Fun on the Horizon https://planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/hayabusa2-touchdown-recap.html
Falcon 9 Return to Port - March 7, 2019 https://nineplanets.org/news/falcon-9-return-to-port/
Earth's Low Orbit Needs Legal Protection Before It Becomes a Cosmic Junkyard https://gizmodo.com/earths-low-orbit-needs-legal-protection-before-it-becom-1832997885
ESO Becomes Shareholder in Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - 7 March 2019 https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann19013/
What killed the dinosaurs? Astronomy and geology. https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/what-killed-the-dinosaurs-astronomy-and-geology
Canada’s long-awaited space strategy emphasizes AI, EO and deep-space roboticsby David Pugliese — March 7, 2019 https://spacenews.com/canadas-long-awaited-space-strategy-emphasizes-ai-eo-and-deep-space-robotics/ http://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/03/06/canada-launches-space-strategy/
It’s even harder to destroy asteroids than we thought: New research shows smacking an asteroid may fracture but not shatter it.By Alison Klesman | Published: Thursday, March 7, 2019 https://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/03/its-even-harder-to-destroy-asteroids-than-we-thought
How the moon got its sunburn | March 7, 2019 - Every object, planet or person traveling through space has to contend with the sun’s damaging radiation – and the moon has the scars to prove it. https://earthsky.org/space/how-moon-got-sunburn-solar-radiation-scars
Introducing 4MOST: The next generation survey telescope - 7 March 2019 - 4MOST will study thousands of spectra at once in the southern hemisphere and aims to be operational in 2022 https://www.spaceanswers.com/astronomy/introducing-4most-the-next-generation-survey-telescope/
March 6, 2019 by Matt Williams - Gamma Ray Telescopes could Detect Starships Powered by Black Hole https://www.universetoday.com/141657/gamma-ray-telescopes-could-detect-starships-powered-by-black-hole/
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - China Preparing for Space Station Missions https://www.astrowatch.net/2019/03/china-preparing-for-space-station.html
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - Russia, US to Continue Cooperation in Manned Space Programs After Crew Dragon’s Launch https://www.astrowatch.net/2019/03/russia-us-to-continue-cooperation-in.html
Crew Dragon Returns to Earth on Friday - March 6, 2019 https://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/03/06/crew-dragon-returns-earth-friday/
Wednesday, March 6, 2019China to Open Chang'e-4 Lunar Probe Data to the World https://www.astrowatch.net/2019/03/china-to-open-change-4-lunar-probe-data.html
March 6, 2019 by Matt Williams - Sorry Hollywood, it’s Going to Take a Lot More to Destroy an Asteroid https://www.universetoday.com/141685/sorry-hollywood-its-going-to-take-a-lot-more-to-destroy-an-asteroid/
Roscosmos Blames SpaceX For Being Successful - March 6, 2019 https://nasawatch.com/archives/2019/03/roscosmos-blame.html
The New Apollo 11 Documentary is Jaw-Droppingly Gorgeous | March 6, 2019 12:07 pm https://blogs.discovermagazine.com/vintagespace/2019/03/06/the-new-apollo-11-documentary-is-jaw-droppingly-gorgeous/
Here's What Downtime Looked Like Going to the Moon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKvuzPbd_Go
Why Did We Test Nukes in Space? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcTrOGS3TyE
Gravity Industries to launch jetpack racing league next year http://www.rocketeers.co.uk/node/5831
Barbara Bosworth’s best photograph: midsummer moon over Boston - ‘Light pollution is making it increasingly hard to find a really dark night sky that lets you see the stars. It’s a shame for humanity’ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/06/barbara-bosworth-best-photograph-midsummer-moon-over-boston
AMAZING video: Hayabusa-2 shot a bullet at an asteroid and collected the shrapnel https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/amazing-video-hayabusa-2-shot-a-bullet-at-an-asteroid-and-collected-the-shrapnel
Sirius Is The Brightest Star In The Night Sky, Seriously - https://astrobob.areavoices.com/2019/03/06/sirius-is-the-brightest-star-in-the-night-sky-seriously/
How to See Sirius in the Daytime | March 6, 2019 https://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/how-to-see-sirius-in-the-daytime/
Fifty years ago today, astronaut Rusty Schweickart had 5 minutes alone above the Earth. 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 9 mission, crewed by Jim McDivitt, Doug Scott, and B612 co-founder Rusty Schweickart. There will be many celebrations of the mission. Some were this past Sunday on March 3rd, the 50th anniversary of the mission’s launch. Some will be on March 13th, the 50th anniversary of its landing. But here at B612 we want to celebrate the day Rusty had a life-changing experience that ultimately led to his founding of the B612 Foundation. It started with a mistake. https://b612foundation.org/50-years-ago-rusty-schweickart-had-5-minutes-alone/
SETI inspired Signal Simulator - links added : https://www.facebook.com/SignalSimulator/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/839310/Signal_Simulator/
February 26, 2019, 09:00 PST - A passing star: our Sun's near miss https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/blog/1549/a-passing-star-our-suns-near-miss/
March 7, 2019, 14:59 PST - Weird Worlds? Yes -- by the Trillion https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/blog/1555/weird-worlds-yes-by-the-trillion/
Black Hole Propulsion as Technosignatureby - Paul Gilster on March 6, 2019 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/03/06/black-hole-propulsion-as-technosignature/
Why Do Some Galactic Unions Lead to Doom? | February 27, 2019 https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1551/why-do-some-galactic-unions-lead-to-doom/
Why is the James Webb Space Telescope taking so long? Mar 2, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8yRDrl76d0
March 05, 2019 - Merchants of Hype https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/03/merchants-of-hype.html See also "How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-futurism-transhumanism-singularity
Mar 5 How Did The Universe Expand To 46 Billion Light-Years In Just 13.8 Billion Years? If you think it expanded faster than light-speed, you need to read this. https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/how-did-the-universe-expand-to-46-billion-light-years-in-just-13-8-billion-years-a52d2648a106
A Shocking Model of FRBs https://astrobites.org/2019/03/05/shocking-model-frbs/
Mar 2019 01:00:00 -0500 - There’s an arms race going on in this bird nest. Scientists are uncovering how each side fights back https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/there-s-arms-race-going-bird-nest-scientists-are-uncovering-how-each-side-fights-back
NASA visualizes supersonic shockwaves in a new, awe-inspiring way https://arstechnica.com/?p=1469125
Climate change: Long Antarctic satellite record is secured https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47461199
Deus Ex...Artificial Intelligence? https://the1a.org/shows/2019-03-05/deus-ex-artificial-intelligence
Hayabusa-2: Movie shows moment of asteroid landing https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47459248
Computer Program Measures the Entropy of Art http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/9xPvNg3GkDk/
Bird extinctions 'driven' by global food trade https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47441292
SETI Institute in the news February 14 - February 20, 2019 (Feb 26, 2019) https://seti.org/seti-institute-news-february-14-february-20-2019
Why you think you’re right, even when you’re wrong - Mar 9, 2017 https://ideas.ted.com/why-you-think-youre-right-even-when-youre-wrong/
Quotes Aabout Aliens https://spacequotations.com/quotes-about-aliens/
RIP Keith Flint | The Prodigy - No Tourists - Give Me a Signal (feat. Barns Courtney) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOG8cCYDt1k&list=PLVONh1wUPeQmICwXoJnckGdFBUiLfLHib&index=10 The Prodigy - Out of Space (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eav7dFvc8
“The key to SETI is to guess the type of communication that an alien society would use. The best guesses so far have been that they would use radio waves, and that they would choose a frequency based on ‘universal’ knowledge—for instance, the 1420 MHz hydrogen frequency. But these are assumptions formulated by the human brain. Who knows what sort of logic a superadvanced nonhuman life form might use? … Just 150 years ago, an eyeblink in history, radio waves themselves were inconceivable, and we were thinking of lighting fires to signal the Martians. “ — David E. Fisher https://spacequotations.com/quotes-about-aliens/-30-
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