Weekly Outage and Initial Catch Up: "Every Tuesday SETI@home begins a five hour data distribution outage for database and systems maintenance. The upload/download servers will be offline during this time. Afterwards you may experience connectivity issues for several more hours as the servers catch up with demand." https://setiathome.berkeley.edu
"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." (adapted from the apocryphal newspaper ad made by famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton)SETI.Germany invites all BOINC teams to the SETI@Home Wow! Event 2019 https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/home which takes place from Aug.15th, 1600 UTC until Aug.29th 2019, 1600 UTC. "We cordially ask all team leaders to forward the invitation to their team. Information about the Wow! Race & a registration form can be found at https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/register/en SETI.Germany wishes you & your team members much fun!" -- Facebook Event https://www.facebook.com/events/440620326793598/
Dr Richard Lawn has posted another interesting article to the SETI Perspectives section, "Seeing the Unseeable: The Black Hole Image", about the Event Horizon Telescope's image of the black hole in M87. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84366
World Community Grid @WCGrid is hosting this year's @BOINCworkshop (July 9-12) In Chicago. See live and archived events at Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJDOd7pQf1IF8ZxKHpNwung/videos https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=12945#91467
2019.07.13 BOINCstats (Willy) - Next weekend (July 14-15) the new BOINCstats website will be released. It's an all new design which plays nicely with mobile phones and tablets. Security is improved, pages and forms are optimized. It's a big change but most pages kan be found in the same place as before. Support for customized languages has been dropped, most were not properly maintained. For those who really need a translated version the build in translation of the browser may do the trick. I found it to be pretty decent for Dutch. And if you really can't get used to the new design, the old version of BOINCstats can be found at https://classic.boincstats.com, but be aware, that version will no longer be maintained and will receive no updates other than security patches! https://boincstats.com/en/forum/8/5247391
Enceladus' ocean right age to support life | Space | EarthSky https://earthsky.org/space/enceladus-ocean-moon-habitability-right-age-to-support-life
International team agrees on a natural origin for ?Oumuamua - Astrobiology Magazine https://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/international-team-agrees-on-a-natural-origin-for-%ca%bboumuamua/ http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/oumuamua_natural/
Sci-Am: 11,898 Solar Eclipses in 5,000 Years -> https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/11-898-solar-eclipses-in-5-000-years/
[BBC - Science & Environment] Spektrum-SG: Powerful X-ray telescope launches to map cosmos https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48966645 2019-07-13T12:33:20
Crikey, that's FAST: China clocks 84 pulsars in 2 years using world's largest radio telescope • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/04/china_radio_telescope/
Freaky Star Seems to Dim Randomly, and Astronomers Don't Know Why https://gizmodo.com/freaky-star-seems-to-dim-randomly-and-astronomers-dont-1836045295
Astronomers Are Baffled by HD 139139, the Most Bizarre Star Yet - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/astronomers-dont-know-what-to-make-of-this-incredibly-bizarre-star/
Deadly Cyanide Might Help Us Better Understand Early Life | Space https://www.space.com/cyanide-meteorites-may-reflect-origins-of-life.html
'What Would You Do If We Found Aliens?' Survey Asks https://www.livescience.com/65848-alien-contact-seti-survey.html Take the survey https://www.fromafar.world/opinion (results will be kept confidential for the moment: "We do not want to release any data at this moment, because it would bias the views of those who are still to respond")
OpenZika Nears End of Work on World Community Grid https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=598
NASA Releases Stunning Panoramas of Apollo Landing Sites | NASA https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-releases-stunning-panoramas-of-apollo-landing-sites-for-50th-anniversary/
‘They can't stop all of us': More than 250K pledge to storm Area 51 to uncover alien secrets - Story | KRIV http://www.fox26houston.com/news/you-re-clicking-it/they-cant-stop-all-of-us-more-than-250k-pledge-to-storm-area-51-to-uncover-alien-secrets https://www.facebook.com/events/448435052621047/
‘Let’s see them aliens’: 300,000 Facebook users pledge to ‘storm Area 51’ - National | Globalnews.ca https://globalnews.ca/news/5483485/area-51-raid-facebook-aliens/ The Area 51 raid is set to be held at 3 a.m. on Sept. 20. “Let’s see them aliens,” the group description says. The event appears to be a massive inside joke, with thousands of users posting tongue-in-cheek plans of attack on the discussion page. “So what’s the parking situation gonna be like?” user Nick Damico wrote. “Are we car pooling?” “Just got some inside information that the base is actually deep underground,” said user Aaron Suadi. “If everyone brings a shovel we should make it.” https://www.facebook.com/events/448435052621047/?active_tab=discussion
NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) | Space https://www.space.com/wfirst.html
Astronomers explore the hypothetical world of exomoon expulsion | https://www.spaceanswers.com/deep-space/astronomers-explore-the-hypothetical-world-of-exomoon-expulsion/
How Was the Moon Made? We Won’t Know Until We Go Back - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/science/moon-facts.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
How well prepared are we to deal with a catastrophic asteroid strike? - Science News - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-07-14/asteroids-and-apocalypse-and-life-on-earth/11282664
ALMA Reveals Moon-Forming Disk Around Distant Planet https://scitechdaily.com/alma-reveals-moon-forming-disk-around-distant-planet/
Moon landing footage would have been impossible to fake — a film expert explains why - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-11/moon-landing-footage-faked-film-expert-shows-why-it-wasnt/11298680
Science and Sustainability May Clash on the Moon - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-and-sustainability-may-clash-on-the-moon/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciam%2Fspace+%28Topic%3A+Space%29
Newly Spotted Asteroid with Supershort Year Swings Closer to the Sun Than Mercury | Space https://www.space.com/new-asteroid-discovery-shortest-known-year.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29
A Jarful of Titan Could Teach Us A Lot About Life There, and Here On Earth - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/142765/a-jarful-of-titan-could-teach-us-a-lot-about-life-there-and-here-on-earth/
Could NASA Build the Famous Saturn V Today? It's Working on It, with a Twist | Space https://www.space.com/nasa-saturn-v-and-sls-compared.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29
[NPR - Science] JoAnn Morgan: The Only Woman In The Firing Room During Apollo 11 https://www.npr.org/2019/07/05/738860204/joann-morgan-the-only-woman-in-the-firing-room-during-apollo-11
The Coolest Images of the July 9th, 2019 Solar Eclipse https://gizmodo.com/the-coolest-images-of-yesterdays-solar-eclipse-1836074629
This Is Everything That’s Wrong With Our Definition Of ‘Planet’ https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-is-everything-thats-wrong-with-our-definition-of-planet-f61f3873bd08
Eclipsecane! Solar Eclipse Photobombs Hurricane in Stunning Satellite Shots https://earther.gizmodo.com/eclipsecane-solar-eclipse-photobombs-hurricane-in-stun-1836072976
The Space Station May Soon Smell like Fresh-Baked Cookies - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-space-station-may-soon-smell-like-fresh-baked-cookies/
[Ars Technica - Science] No, a “checklist error” did not almost derail the first moon landing http://arstechnica.com/?p=714125 2019-07-05T14:08:21
[NYT - Space] Remembering Those Who Lived the Apollo 11 Mission https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/obituaries/apollo-11-moon-obituaries.html?emc=rss&partner=rss 2019-07-05T13:47:41
[NYT - Space] Mickey Kapp, Who Made Mixtapes for Astronauts, Dies at 88 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/arts/music/mickey-kapp-dead.html
James Webb's Eye in the Sky Aids Human Eyes with LASIK Tech | Space https://www.space.com/james-webb-technology-improve-human-vision.html LASIK: Laser-Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis (vision correction laser surgery)
Opinion: Apollo 11: A Globe reporter’s childhood memory of the moonshot and why we shouldn’t go back - The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-apollo-11-a-globe-reporters-childhood-memory-of-the-moonshot-and-why/
What happened, or didn’t happen, next astonishes me to this day. I do not remember raucous cheering and clapping, football-stadium-style, as Apollo 11 soared away, piercing the light clouds. All I remember was silence, as if the crowd was dumbstruck by the sheer majesty of the event. It was the greatest technological achievement of the era, maybe of all time. -- Eric RegulyApollo 11 in Real Time https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/?t=rt
Apollo 11 launch. Extended coverage and some great super slow-mo of the launch. https://www.facebook.com/SteveSwayneAdelaide/videos/10212819348752498/
A Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer | Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21107177-a-fire-on-the-moon
Apollo 11 - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
The Science of Apollo - Sky & Telescope https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/the-science-of-apollo/
50 years after Apollo 11, unsung heroes of Mission Control ponder past and future – GeekWire https://www.geekwire.com/2019/50-years-after-apollo-11-unsung-heroes-of-mission-control-get-their-share-of-glory/
Sorry, Black Holes Aren’t Actually Black - Starts With A Bang! - Medium https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/sorry-black-holes-arent-actually-black-2c6892393f49
The Real Reasons We Explore Space | Space | Air & Space Magazine https://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-real-reasons-we-explore-space-18816871/
Thirty Meter Telescope Set to Begin Construction - Sky & Telescope - July 11, 2019 https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/thirty-meter-telescope-beginning-construction/
Hawaii: Mauna Kea protests rage against Thirty Meter Telescope - July 17, 2019 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/15/hawaii-mauna-kea-protests-rage-against-thirty-meter-telescope/1739657001/
Controversial telescope to be built on Mauna Kea in Hawaii - JUne 20, 2019 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/20/controversial-telescope-built-mauna-kea-hawaii/1519270001/
The Heart of the Hawaiian Peoples' Arguments Against the Telescope on Mauna Kea | Smithsonian - 2015/04/23 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/heart-hawaiian-people-arguments-arguments-against-telescope-mauna-kea-180955057/
The Moon Hoax?: Conspiracy Theories on Trial | Thomas Eversberg | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43681473-the-moon-hoax
Fast Radio Bursts: Another Mysterious Space Signal Was Just Traced Back to Its Source
https://www.sciencealert.com/another-mysterious-space-signal-was-just-traced-back-to-its-source
Book Excerpt: The Complex Politics of Landing Man on the Moon – Flavorwire http://flavorwire.com/617772/book-excerpt-the-complex-politics-of-landing-man-on-the-moon
[Scientific American] DNA Data Storage Is Closer Than You Think http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/0jUbrf9rAWQ/ 2019-07-05T12:00:00
[BBC - Science & Environment] Electric cars 'will not solve transport problem,' report warns https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48875361 2019-07-05T04:01:13
[BBC - Science & Environment] Climate change: Trees 'most effective solution' for warming https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48870920 2019-07-04T19:14:00
[BBC - Science & Environment] Sargassum: The biggest seaweed bloom in the world https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48869100 2019-07-04T18:38:56
[Scientific American] Massive Forest Restoration Could Greatly Slow Global Warming http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/aiQsBhKX3BE/ 2019-07-04T18:00:00
[Scientific American] Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/S6Q6mQYaFz0/ 2019-07-04T12:30:00
[Scientific American] Advanced Food Tracking and Packaging Will Save Lives and Cut Waste http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/wCb3YABxVys/ 2019-07-04T12:00:00
[Scientific American] Utility-Scale Energy Storage Will Enable a Renewable Grid http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/zoqZRTVLzXc/ 2019-07-05T12:30:00
[NSF - Discoveries] Study ties poor sleep to reduced memory performance in older adults https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=298829&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
[NSF - Discoveries] Algorithm is designed to map universe, solve mysteries https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=298831&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
[NSF - Discoveries] Artificial intelligence controls robotic arm to pack boxes and cut costs https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=298828&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
[BBC - Science & Environment] Toxic processionary caterpillar plague spreads across Europe https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48880468 2019-07-05T12:20:34
In Photos: The Famous Flightless Dodo Bird https://www.livescience.com/48639-dodo-bird-images.html
Biblical bad guys the ancient Philistines came from Europe, DNA shows - Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-archaeology-philistines/biblical-bad-guys-the-ancient-philistines-came-from-europe-dna-shows-idUSKCN1TY2JP
Personal Writings of Arthur C. Clarke Reveal the Evolution of "2001: A Space Odyssey" | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/personal-writings-arthur-c-clarke-reveal-evolution-2001-space-odyssey-180954967/
Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/liu-cixins-war-of-the-worlds
The Invasion of Giant Pythons Threatening Florida | Science | Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/snakes-ate-florida-180972534/
CNN: Not everyone uses a toothbrush to clean their teeth -- here's what science says about the alternatives -> http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/qcWNFzDXU6k/index.html
Cockatoo Who Taught Self to Head-Bang Proves Rock Transcends Species https://www.livescience.com/65891-parrot-dances-spontaneously.html
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