SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/04/04

The curator of this blog has been away on holidays for the last few weeks. You can sue him here.

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“ 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.edu)

Intermittent Work Units' uploads problems, March 23-25: "Dr. Korpela indicated that there was actually an issue with the campus networking... he's done a workaround so it seems to have resolved it." https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=83895&postid=1987337#1987337 http://systemstatus.berkeley.edu/

Now is the time to get your 20th Anniversary T-Shirt at https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84069 and is offered at cost ($13 US + shipping). Hardcore oldtimers http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu/classpages/index.html sure can wear it proudly ^^  Design will be similar to the 15th anniversary tee http://www.arkayn.us/seti/CAM00097s.jpg Black or White, M L XL 2XL or 3XL 20th anniversary tee 1999-2019 NEW: This is the 20th Anniversary t-shirt: https://i.imgur.com/UNL7q4k.jpg?1

UOTD - User of the Day searchable archives http://uotd.org (SETI@home and other distributed computing projects)

[2020.02.29 - under development (frequently offline)] New DC project: SETI@CAMRAS, which will analyze signals from the 25 meter Dwingeloo Radio Telescope https://charon.camras.nl/setiatcamras/index.php https://www.camras.nl/en/ https://www.camras.nl/en/about-the-radio-telescope/ https://www.instagram.com/radiotelescoop/ If you ever decide to jump into this wagon, create first an account with your regular distributed computing email adress (to insure statistical consistancy across dc projects) and a specific password (for security reasons) and through BOINC manually add the https://charon.camras.nl/setiatcamras/ project (enter the url as is). Then join an existing team or create your own. This project is in development so please keep breathing while they are working on it. 

SETI Perspectives : The Drake Equation: Revisiting a Classic Tool to Estimate the Odds of Contact - Dr Richard M Lawn, 4 Apr 2019, 18:24:10 UTC https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84104&postid=1988766

Mars May Have Lots of Water Deep Underground - Mike Wall 2019-04-02T11:08:55Z https://www.space.com/mars-deep-groundwater-recurring-slope-lineae.html

There Are 2 Rocket Launches, a Moon Arrival and Asteroid Crash Today! Here's How to Watch -  Tariq Malik, 2019-04-04T13:28:46 https://www.space.com/watch-rocket-launches-moon-arrival-asteroid-crash-webcasts.html

[Scientific American] Looking for Life on Mars: Viking Experiment Team Member Reflects on Divisive Findings http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/bQepY7EjI4Y/ 2019-04-02T10:45:00

Media Advisory: First Results from the Event Horizon Telescope to be Presented on April 10th  https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/media-advisory-first-results-event-horizon-telescope-be-presented-april-10th April 10, 4:00 UTC : Breakthrough discovery in astronomy: press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=Dr20f19czeE https://eventhorizontelescope.org/about

ESA's CHEOPS exoplanet observatory cleared for flight https://newatlas.com/cheops-exoplanet-flight-ready/59091/ http://sci.esa.int/cheops/

The web site http://exoplanets.org will not regularly update its Exoplanet Orbit Database, a task that is now taken over by exo.MAST https://exo.mast.stsci.edu

The Messenger: a galactic centre gravitational-wave beacon https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10698v1 Excerpt: "Our existence in the Universe resulted from a rare combination of circumstances. The same must be true for any advanced extraterrestrial civilisation. If there exist any in the Milky Way, they are likely scattered over large distances in space and time, however, they must be aware of the unique property of the Galactic centre: it hosts the closest massive black hole to anyone in the Galaxy. A sufficiently advanced civilisation may have placed material in orbit around this black hole to study it, extract energy from it, and/or for communication purposes. In either case, its orbital motion will necessarily be a source of gravitational waves. Here we show that a Jupiter-mass "Messenger" on the innermost stable circular orbit around the black hole can be sustained for a few billion years by the energy output of a single star and emits an unambiguously artificial (continuous) gravitational wave signal that will be observable with LISA-type detectors."

The SETI Institute cordially invites you to the May 8th, 2019 Drake Awards, Celebrating the Search for Life in the UniversePlease join special guestsFrank Drake, Chair Emeritus, SETI InstituteJill Tarter, Co-founder, SETI InstituteEd Lu, AstronautBill Borucki, Chief Investigator, NASA Kepler MissionSeth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute; Jason Wright, 2019 Drake Award Recipient https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drake-awards-2019-tickets-59341829008

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Maybe Self-Replicating Robot Probes are Destroying Each Other. That’s Why We Don’t See Them https://www.universetoday.com/141855/self-replicating-robots-see-them/

Are self-replicating extraterrestrial spy probes eating each other? https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/are-self-replicating-extraterrestrial-spy-probes-eating-each-other

Can organisms survive on Mars, and can we identify them? https://phys.org/news/2019-03-survive-mars.html

RIP Keith Flint 1969 – 2019
The Prodigy - Give Me a Signal (feat. Barns Courtney) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOG8cCYDt1k
The Prodigy - Out Of Space (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eav7dFvc8

SETI Institute in the news March 7 – March 20, 2019 (Mar 26, 2019) https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-march-7-march-20-2019 Drone Mapping of Lava Tubes on Earth a Prelude to Lunar and Martian Exploration; 22 Million Years Old Meteorite Fell in Turkish Village in 2015; New Horizons Reveals Key Details about Kuiper Belt; EARTHLING: Connecting through Sound; US Teachers Celebrate Selection for SETI Institute Airborne Astronomy Ambassador Program; Space Exploration, Life Detection, and Keeping an “Experimental Mindset”; Friedemann Freund on the Origin of Life; Stellar Motion as Space Travel May Answer Fermi’s Paradox.

147: Searching for extraterrestrial life with Dr. Seager — Spacepod - Dr. Seager explains how she and other astronomers are looking for extraterrestrial life. We discuss the Drake and Seager equations. We also talk about how astronomers might be able to detect life by measuring chemicals in distant planet atmospheres. https://www.listentospacepod.com/episodes/2019/3/24/147-searching-for-extraterrestrial-life-with-dr-seager

A SETI Search of Earth’s Co-orbitals - Paul Gilster, March 22, 2019 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/03/22/a-seti-search-of-earths-co-orbitals/

Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home: "The digital revolution promised many things and although we may become mired in some of the more commercial aspects as of late, I'd like the SETI endeavor to continue. The act of searching itself, holding the slightest glimmer of earnest hope that something might be out there seems a pure form of exploration that includes us amateurs too." - Matt Watkins (userid=25386)

LDRiders - Team Description: "Endurance motorcycle riders seeking intelligence outside of the voices in their heads." (teamid=30620 )

2019-03-12: Meet Jerome Doussy, a volunteer from France who shares in his own words why he supports distributed computing and scientific research. http://alt.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=590

Message boards : SETI Perspectives : Fast Radio Bursts: Enigmatic Signals from Across the Universe https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84024&postid=1984813#1984813

New citizen science tools database to discover and access the right instrumentsBy Julia Travers | February 14, 2019 12:55 pm  https://blogs.discovermagazine.com/citizen-science-salon/2019/02/14/new-citizen-science-tools-database-to-discover-and-access-the-right-instruments/ or http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/citizen-science-salon/2019/02/14/new-citizen-science-tools-database-to-discover-and-access-the-right-instruments/

The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) is ready for launch https://phys.org/news/2019-03-image-cheops-room.html

NASA mission finds new planet, most promising stars to support life https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/28/world/nasa-tess-exoplanet-stars-habitable-scn/index.html

"Extraterrestrial life probably exists. How do we search for aliens?" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/03/extraterrestrial-life-probably-exists-how-do-we-search-for-aliens/ Excerpt: "Ground telescopes are much more powerful light-gatherers than space telescopes like the Hubble, chiefly because nobody has yet figured out how to squeeze a 27-foot mirror into a rocket and blast it into space. But ground telescopes have a serious drawback: They sit under miles of our atmosphere. Fluctuations in the air’s temperature cause light to bend erratically—think of a twinkling star, or the wavy air above an asphalt road in the summertime. The first task of the SCExAO is to iron out those wrinkles. This is accomplished by directing the light from a star onto a shape-shifting mirror, smaller than a quarter, activated by 2,000 tiny motors. Using information from a camera, the motors deform the mirror 3,000 times a second to precisely counter the atmospheric aberrations, and voilà, a beam of starlight can be viewed that is as close as possible to what it was before our atmosphere messed it up."

BBC News: Exoplanet tally set to pass 4,000 mark   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47681239

Planet Venus: Hopes rise of new mission to the hothouse world  - The European Space Agency (Esa) is evaluating a Venus mission, called EnVision, alongside two astronomy proposals - Theseus and Spica. Other concepts are also being proposed to Nasa.  https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47672736

Carbon monoxide detectors could warn of extraterrestrial life https://phys.org/news/2019-03-carbon-monoxide-detectors-extraterrestrial-life.html

Cooking up alien atmospheres on Earth https://phys.org/news/2019-03-cooking-alien-atmospheres-earth.html

Why dangerous asteroids heading to Earth are so hard to detect https://phys.org/news/2019-03-dangerous-asteroids-earth-hard.html

Volunteers wanted to help unlock the secrets of the universe https://phys.org/news/2019-03-volunteers-secrets-universe.html

The case of the over-tilting exoplanets- March 4, 2019, Yale University https://phys.org/news/2019-03-case-over-tilting-exoplanets.html

Archaeologist debunks alien influence, other conspiracy theories in archaeology - March 20, 2019, Arizona State University https://phys.org/news/2019-03-archaeologist-debunks-alien-conspiracy-theories.html

Could We Actually Detect Life on Other Planets? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k1zB-65SA4 SciShow Space, Mar 19, 2019

Space's Deepest Secrets (TV Series documentary) (2 episodes)
- Expedition Extraterrestrial (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o2CsFjKiGI
- Search for Alien Earths (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX-kLE4Dhmw

Space's Deepest Secrets - Journey to Alien Earths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz6_UekgG0k

2015 Is Anybody Out There? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzQpcm_hWec (looks like it is one of the 1rst two videos but uploaders take liberties with their titles)

Where in the Universe are hidden aliens Documentary National Geography 2017 (Origins - NOVA with Neil deGrasse Tyson) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TnsMKpIqoM

[Scientific American] "Toffee Planets" Hint at Earth's Cosmic Rarity http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/F28wW67EE_k/ 2019-04-03T10:45:00

Where SETI should search for intelligent life by Nola Taylor Redd, Aug. 28, 2015 , 3:30 PM https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/08/where-seti-should-search-intelligent-life

[NYT - Space] A NASA Journey to the Moon May Need to Find Another Rocket or Two https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/science/nasa-space-launch-system.html?partner=rss&emc=rss 2019-03-13T20:37:09

No AI in humor: R2-D2 walks into a bar, doesn't get the joke https://apnews.com/bae71c3bef8145ecaaa84bca24d77430

Behind the Scent: Lockheed Martin Bottles Astronaut's Smell of Space - Robert Z. Pearlman 2019-04-04T20:53:22Z https://www.space.com/behind-that-lockheed-martin-space-perfume.html

Are we close to solving the puzzle of consciousness? https://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190326-are-we-close-to-solving-the-puzzle-of-consciousness

NSA contractor pleads guilty to data theft - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47747355

1 in 4 people near Congo's Ebola outbreak believe virus isn't real, new study says"Medical responses alone are not enough to stop the spread of Ebola." https://abcnews.go.com/International/people-congos-ebola-outbreak-virus-real-study/story?id=62031431

Google announces AI ethics panel https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47714921

Article 13: Memes exempt as EU backs controversial copyright law https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47708144

The True Dollar Cost of the Anti-Vaccine Movement https://www.wired.com/story/anti-vaccine-movement-true-cost/

Anti-vaccination Activity and the 1874 Smallpox Epidemic in Stockholm https://academic.oup.com/shm/article-abstract/5/3/369/1693760?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Tim Berners-Lee: 'Stop web's downward plunge to dysfunctional future' https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47524474

Principles for a Contract for the Web https://contractfortheweb.org

10 Incredibly Insane UFO Religions http://listverse.com/2014/06/10/10-incredibly-insane-ufo-religions/

10 Facts About SpaceX And How It Is Revolutionizing Space Travel http://listverse.com/2018/05/08/10-facts-about-spacex-and-how-it-is-revolutionizing-space-travel/

How apps and online databases are helping conservation science to thrive https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/how-apps-and-online-databases-are-helping-conservation-science-to-thrive/

Emma Haruka Iwao smashes pi world record with Google help https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47524760

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47771706 [07:22:52] <tacgnol> ^ Harry Potter books burned by Polish priests alarmed by magic - BBC News

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190401-why-theres-so-little-left-of-the-early-internet [08:55:49]  URL title: BBC - Future - Why there s so little left of the early internet

[NYT - Space] NASA Says Debris From India’s Antisatellite Test Puts Space Station at Risk https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/world/asia/nasa-india-space-debris.html?partner=rss&emc=rss 2019-04-02T09:24:50

[Ars Technica - Science] Rocket Lab widens its lead in small launch. Will many others survive? https://arstechnica.com/?p=1484199 2019-04-02T14:30:54

[BBC - Science & Environment] Nasa: India's satellite destruction could endanger ISS https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-47783137 2019-04-02T06:30:06

[BBC - Science & Environment] Animal testing: US closes 'kitten slaughterhouse' after outcry https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47795500 2019-04-03T01:44:39

Scamming the scammers https://www.rescam.org

How gamers can protect against increasing cyberthreats https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/2019/04/how-gamers-can-protect-against-increasing-cyberthreats/ InfectedMushroom: New PSY MIX "Fire" https://soundcloud.com/infectedmushroom/new-psy-mix-fire

Transparent wood might become tomorrow’s new wonder material https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/transparent-wood-material-03042019/


The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine launches website about vaccine facts https://www.zmescience.com/science/the-national-academies-of-sciences-engineering-and-medicine-launches-website-about-vaccine-facts/ http://sites.nationalacademies.org/BasedOnScience/vaccines-are-safe/

New research sheds light into how our brains handle metaphors https://www.zmescience.com/science/brain-metaphor-handling-825273543/


The desert kangaroo rat is a black belt among tiny mammals—and biologists have captured how they use their skills in fighting off rattlesnakes: https://fcld.ly/kgum91i   via https://twitter.com/NewsfromScience/status/1113494080103829504

[Scientific American] Cats Recognize Their Own Names--Even If They Choose to Ignore Them http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/qzt0EUCXU8g/ 2019-04-04T13:00:00

[Science]  Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:00:00 -0400 - Historians expose early scientists’ debt to the slave trade https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/historians-expose-early-scientists-debt-slave-trade

For the UFO buffs : 2019.03.12 List of Key UFO Research/Analysis resources https://www.reddit.com/r/SETI/comments/aznu5p/list_of_key_ufo_researchanalysis_resources/

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