SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/08/30

SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/08/30 https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/2019/08/setihome-science-links-on-irc-20190830.html. RSS Feeds https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default http://feeds.feedburner.com/SETIathomeScienceIRClinks

⌁ 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

⌁ To alleviate the load on the SETI@home servers during Ttuesday's maintenance outages and to give regular users the chance to replenish their work unit caches, the operators of high throughput hosts can set BOINC to temporarily stop polling data servers on this specific day. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84048&postid=1986061

SETI.Germany congratulates the winners of the 8th SETI@home Wow! Event 2019 https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/stats/winners/2019

[Good read] Mr. Kevvy explains why he takes part to the SETI@home project, competes in the Wow! Events & why "cheating" is acceptable https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84374&postid=2009133#2009133

Dan Werthimer wins the 2019 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84579#2009250 http://wonderfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/SaganPrize2019-release.pdf http://wonderfest.org/sagan-prize/ Werthimer is the Chief Scientist at the Berkeley SETI Research Center (BSRC). BSRC conducts experiments searching for electromagnetic signatures of hypothetical intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations. Affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley, BSRC may be best known for its SETI@home volunteer computing software and for its10-year, $100-million Breaththrough Listen project.

Dr. Richard Lawn has posted another interesting article to "SETI Perspectives", titled What to expect from ET? https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84590&postid=2009519#2009519

In Search of ET, Home Computers Handle 200TB Data | India News https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=fr&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fteles-relay.com%2F2019%2F08%2F26%2Finde-a-la-recherche-det-les-ordinateurs-domestiques-traitent-des-donnees-de-200-to-inde-nouvelles%2F&sandbox=1 from original article in French https://teles-relay.com/2019/08/26/inde-a-la-recherche-det-les-ordinateurs-domestiques-traitent-des-donnees-de-200-to-inde-nouvelles/

Planets Bursting With Alien Life Might Exist Beyond the Solar System, Scientists Claim: 'We Need to Start Looking' https://www.newsweek.com/planets-alien-life-solar-system-scientists-1455729

Looking for Life at the Bottom of the Ocean - InVADER Mission - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLxnZ9qswCg&feature=em-uploademail

Does the massive metallic core of a primordial impactor lie buried under the South Pole-Aitken basin on the lunar farside? https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/huge-mass-found-under-largest-moon-impact/

New research shows that a planetoid impact could have made our Moon asymmetric. https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/long-ago-collision-explain-two-faced-moon/

[Scientific American] Faced with a Data Deluge, Astronomers Turn to Automation http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/AkWUe24Lgf8/ 2019-08-21T15:30:00

Exploring The Icy Moons of Jupiter. NASA's Europa Clipper and ESA's JUICE - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAW2uPPS2A4

'Surprising' study finds some planets may be better suited to life than Earth | CTV News https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/surprising-study-finds-some-planets-may-be-better-suited-to-life-than-earth-1.4565510

Earth is the only place in the universe where we know life exists. But with billions of other star systems out there, it might not be the best place for life. http://astronomy.com/news/2019/08/life-on-alien-worlds-could-be-more-diverse-than-on-earth

SETI Institute in the news August 15 - August 21, 2019 | Clues in the Dunes of Mars - The Thirty Meter Telescope Dispute - Imagining Alien Lifeforms https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-august-15-august-21-2019

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), successor to the Hubble observatory, comes together - setting the stage to a launch to orbit sometime in 2021 - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49504866

Planets Bursting With Alien Life Might Exist Beyond the Solar System, Scientists Claim: 'We Need to Start Looking' https://www.newsweek.com/planets-alien-life-solar-system-scientists-1455729

Upwelling Oceans: Modeling Exoplanet Habitability https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/08/27/upwelling-oceans-modeling-exoplanet-habitability/


There Could be Planets Out There Which are Even More Habitable than Earth - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/143229/there-could-be-planets-out-there-which-are-even-more-habitable-than-earth/

Can Mars Be Made Habitable in Our Lifetime? - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/can-mars-be-made-habitable-in-our-lifetime/

Searching for the Edge of Habitability – Many Worlds https://manyworlds.space/2019/08/21/searching-for-the-edge-of-habitability/

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Asteroid 2006 QV89 Will Not Hit Earth This Year - SETI Institute researchers Michael Busch and Franck Marchis talk about asteroids that come very close to the Earth -YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAzjasaPw7k

5 Realities Space Advocates Must Face https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2019/08/26/5-realities-space-advocates-must-face/?ss=cio-network#62a74a952269

Saturn, Not Earth Or Jupiter, Has The Largest Storms In Our Solar System https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/saturn-not-earth-or-jupiter-has-the-largest-storms-in-our-solar-system-a1bb5a362d0f

Simulation of eight million ‘mock universes’ sheds light on galaxy evolution – Physics World https://physicsworld.com/a/simulation-of-eight-million-mock-universes-sheds-light-on-galaxy-evolution/

Bad Astronomy | Earth’s last magnetic pole flip took 22,000 years to complete https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/earths-last-magnetic-pole-flip-took-22000-years-to-complete

Let's Talk Asteroid Apophis, Planetary Defense and Elon Musk | Space https://www.space.com/elon-musk-asteroid-apophis-and-planetary-defense.html

Astronomers Find A ‘Cloaked’ Black Hole 500 Million Years Before Any Other https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/astronomers-find-a-cloaked-black-hole-500-million-years-before-any-other-4be7ffb5e42f

Astronomy Faces A Field-Defining Choice In Choosing The Next Steps For The TMT https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/astronomy-faces-a-field-defining-choice-in-choosing-the-next-steps-for-the-tmt-e012fa20e9cd

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How the brain finds order amidst chaos https://neurosciencenews.com/cortical-neurons-order-chaos-14771/

[BBC - Science & Environment] Fake news is 'reinforced by false memories' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49435387 2019-08-22T13:07:22

Carbon nanotubes built this bizarre ultrablack material, vanta black - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzW2Xqw7k6A

[Scientific American] Researchers Model Online Hate Networks In Effort to Battle Them http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/dlqR4-bbqso/ 2019-08-21T19:15:00

[Ars Technica - Science] Vaping-linked lung disease cases jump from 94 to 153 in 5 days, CDC says https://arstechnica.com/?p=1556177 2019-08-22T15:36:09

BBC: Thousands of fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. How bad are they? -> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-49433767

Nobel Prize: Blessing or Curse? | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/event/nobel-prize-blessing-or-curse

Skeptic Check: Brain Gain | Separating pseudo from science in cognitive enhancement.| SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/podcast/skeptic-check-brain-gain

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