SETI@home
[18 Jan 2020, 18:51:01 UTC] Result table problems / For the next few days (until at least next tuesday's maintenance outage) work units will be hard to come by (but not zero). Details at https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85093&postid=2028359 ..2019/12/30 14-Days long Fundraiser to help modernize SETI@home's aging storage infrastructure. Details at https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85017&postid=2025584 .... GOAL REACHED WITHIN 48 HRS - THANKS !
Check out Stars in Their Eyes?, a research paper from the University of Geneva about why people run SETI@home (16 Jan 2020, 3:49:24 UTC_) ... https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/tancoigne_paper.pdf ... https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85079 ...
2019/12/02 Work Units Limits changed: New maximum of 200 (from 100) work units for each CPU and 300 (possibly 400 - from 100) work units for each GPU https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/3387 ...UPDATE 2020/1/16 It looks like the limits have been set to 150 per CPU and 250 per GPU.
20 Dec 2019 - News: "It's the Friday before a holiday week and the servers know it.The file system containing the beta project uploads directory is having problems, so beta is down until further notice. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84968&postid=2023883#2023883 ...FIXED BY JAN 15TH... MOSTLY
PSA: don’t use your AMD RX 5700 XT to search for aliens | PCGamesN https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/radeon-rx-5700-xt-seti-home-aliens ... https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/eblv26/psa_please_remove_your_amd_rx5700xt_from_setihome/ ...
FIXED saw this, which fixes a problem or two with AMD GPUs :
> v. 8.24 is now available on main for AMD GPUs: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/apps.php
kotd88 comments on PSA: "I don't get it, how does [SETI@home] work[s]? Is it like mining ?" https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/eblv26/psa_please_remove_your_amd_rx5700xt_from_setihome/fb70b63/ ...
Posting about a problem often fixes it immediately (betreger) [which, curiously, corresponds to the frequency of] server stats page updates - about every 15 minutes (Rob Smith)
SETI
Universe Today podcasts with Fraser Cain - https://www.universetoday.com/10406/universe-today-podcasts/ ... Episode 611: Are Aliens Watching Us And How Could We Hide? With Dr. David Kipping - Jan 14, 2020 https://media.fireside.fm/file/fireside-audio/podcasts/audio/9/94f97fb6-b72c-4d98-a80a-1e141b67e50c/episodes/c/c261dbe8-8e36-46da-b338-e859e7b6bdc4/c261dbe8-8e36-46da-b338-e859e7b6bdc4.mp3 ... Episode 609: Why Haven't Aliens Settled Every Star In The Milky Way? With Adam Frank - Jan 12, 2020 https://media.fireside.fm/file/fireside-audio/podcasts/audio/9/94f97fb6-b72c-4d98-a80a-1e141b67e50c/episodes/f/fed193e0-c4f7-4296-903c-1ff35ccc8165/fed193e0-c4f7-4296-903c-1ff35ccc8165.mp3 ...
Life in the Universe : Where is it; Will it be intelligent; Can we Communicate; Can we meet? – Stargazing https://exoworld.org/exoplanets/life-in-the-universe-where-is-it-will-it-be-intelligent-can-we-communicate-can-we-meet/ ...
Will We Ever Find Alien Life? (Video and Comment) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhJ9lJPt09k&lc=UgzYiiXdsWCLIP1CeqN4AaABAg ...
Why we imagine aliens the way we do - Vox - Mars 2018 https://www.vox.com/videos/2018/3/15/17126340/science-fiction-aliens-vfx-seti ...
Astronomer Jill Tarter Answers Alien Questions From Twitter and Swears She’d Tell Us If She’d Seen an Alien | Tech Support | WIRED - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoL4IlCXDsM ...
ASTROBIOLOGY
Looking for exoplanet life in all the right spectra - Astrobiology Magazine https://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/looking-for-exoplanet-life-in-all-the-right-spectra/ ...
Goldilocks Stars Are Best Places to Look for Life https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-06 ...
How NASA's Webb Telescope Will Search for Oxygen on Alien Worlds | Space https://www.space.com/webb-space-telescope-exoplanet-oxygen-detection.html ...
How the solar system got its 'Great Divide,' and why it matters for life on Earth - Astrobiology Magazine https://www.astrobio.net/alien-life/how-the-solar-system-got-its-great-divide-and-why-it-matters-for-life-on-earth/ ..
Life could have emerged from lakes with high phosphorus https://phys.org/news/2019-12-life-emerged-lakes-high-phosphorus.html ...
EXOPLANETS
What is Cheops? - ESA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U7LFbJYEUE ...Inside The 24/7 Search For Another Habitable Planet Within 100 Light Years Of Earth https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2019/11/25/inside-the-247-search-for-another-habitable-planet-within-100-light-years-of-earth/#7e4fe96f3442 ...
Moon FARSIDE: Lunar Astronomy Proposal Takes Aim at Cosmic Dark Ages and Exoplanets | Space https://www.space.com/farside-moon-radio-astronomy-mission-concept.html ...
NASA Planet Hunter Finds Its 1st Earth-Size World in the 'Habitable Zone' | Space https://www.space.com/nasa-tess-first-earth-size-habitable-exoplanet-toi-700d.html ...
An Earth-size planet in the habitable zone? New NASA discovery is one special world. | Space https://www.space.com/nasa-tess-exoplanet-habitable-zone-discovery-milestone.html
SPACE
First national US observatory to be named after a woman! | Legacy Survey of Space and Time https://www.lsst.org/news/vro-press-release ... ''Named after an astronomer who provided important evidence of the existence of dark matter, the NSF Vera C. Rubin Observatory seems destined to make science history with its extraordinary capabilities that will come to bear in the next few years,” said France Córdova, director of NSF. “Congress has helped make this inspiring commemoration a reality. The Rubin Observatory is expected to significantly advance what we know about dark matter and dark energy, so the Rubin name will have yet another way to inspire women and men eager to investigate.”Astronomers Find A Galaxy Of Unusual Size (G.O.U.S.), And Discover Why It Exists https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/01/07/astronomers-find-a-galaxy-of-unusual-size-g-o-u-s-and-discover-why-it-exists/#4c1cf9dd1d5c ...
What's the Point of the James Webb Space Telescope? | Space https://www.space.com/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-worth-wait.html ...
Review of 2010s in Space and Astronomy | The Astroholic http://theastroholic.co.uk/2020/01/13/review-of-2010s-in-space-astronomy/ ...
Astronomers Have Found the Secret Ingredient to the Universe’s Brightest Explosions https://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-have-found-the-secret-ingredient-to-the-universes-brightest-explosions/ ...
Bad Astronomy | Hubble's spectacular view of UGC 2885: Is this the biggest spiral galaxy in the Universe? https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/hubbles-spectacular-view-of-ugc-2885-is-this-the-biggest-spiral-galaxy-in-the-universe ...
Missing link in planet evolution found in the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt - Astrobiology Magazine https://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/missing-link-in-planet-evolution-found/ ...
Meet NASA's New Tool for 'Weighing' Unseen Planets, the NEID [Video] https://scitechdaily.com/meet-nasas-new-tool-for-weighing-unseen-planets-video/ ....
Japanese billionaire signs on for dating game with moon trip as prize – GeekWire https://www.geekwire.com/2020/japanese-billionaire-yusaku-maezawa-signs-reality-tv-dating-game-moon-trip-prize/ ...
SpaceX becomes operator of world’s largest commercial satellite constellation with Starlink launch - SpaceNews.com https://spacenews.com/spacex-becomes-operator-of-worlds-largest-commercial-satellite-constellation-with-starlink-launch/ ...
A Repeating Fast Radio Burst from a Spiral Galaxy | Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2020/1 ...
20 Dec 2019 - Who Owns the Moon? | The New Yorker Video | CNE https://video.newyorker.com/watch/who-owns-the-moon ...
The best space images of 2019 - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50765663 ...
Hubblecast 126: From Ultraviolet to Infrared: Comparing the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XIfQ7rpQaU ....
Physicists Calculate (In a Yet Unpeer-Reviewed Publication) How Long It'll Take Us to Explore The Galaxy (Without Some Kind of Warp Drive Technology), And It's Brutal https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-calculate-how-long-it-ll-take-to-explore-the-galaxy-and-it-s-depressing ...
- SCIENCE -
Breakthrough of the Year 2019 https://vis.sciencemag.org/breakthrough2019/finalists/ ...2019 was the second hottest year on record, NASA says | Space https://www.space.com/2019-second-hottest-year-on-record.html ..
Climate Change Made Recent Hurricanes Wetter. And They May Get Worse. | Space https://www.space.com/42464-wetter-storms-climate-change.html ..
Huge eruption of Philippines volcano seen from space | Space https://www.space.com/taal-volcano-eruption-seen-from-space.html ..
First 'living robots' designed on supercomputer – video | Science | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2020/jan/13/first-living-robots-xenobots-designed-on-supercomputer-video ...
Perpetual Emotion Machine: Compassionate computers and irrational human behavior | Big Picture Science http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/perpetual-emotion-machine ...
Almost 800,000 Years Ago, an Enormous Meteorite Struck Earth. Now We Know Where. - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/144568/almost-800000-years-ago-an-enormous-meteorite-struck-earth-now-we-know-where/ ...
Artificial Intelligence Examines Over 200,000 Galaxies to Confirm Galaxy Mergers Ignite Starbursts https://scitechdaily.com/artificial-intelligence-examines-over-200000-galaxies-to-confirm-galaxy-mergers-ignite-starbursts/ ...
Bad Astronomy | Your world, unmoored https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/your-world-unmoored ... Font's Point - Stabilized Sky Timelapse - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8OK7M2_hUg ...
LIGO - Virgo Network Catches Another Neutron Star Collision - 6 Jan 2020 https://www.ligo.org/news/index.php#GW190425 ... LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4XzLDM3Py8 ...
Here Are the Most Beautiful Science GIFs We Discovered in 2019 - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/here-are-the-most-beautiful-science-gifs-we-discovered-in-2019/ ...
Watch Out for These Science Events in 2020 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/watch-out-for-these-science-events-in-2020/ ...
What Climate Change Tells Us about Being Human - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/what-climate-change-tells-us-about-being-human/ ...
A decade in cybersecurity fails: the top breaches, threats, and ‘whoopsies’ of the 2010s https://blog.malwarebytes.com/awareness/2019/12/a-decade-in-cybersecurity-fails-top-breaches-threats-of-2010s/ ...
[NPR - Science] CDC Confirms A THC Contaminant, Vitamin E Acetate, The Culprit In Most Vaping Deaths https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/20/790154919/cdc-confirms-a-thc-contaminant-vitamin-e-acetate-the-culprit-in-most-vaping-deat ...
- HUMOR -
XKCD Comic on Twitter: "Group Chat Rules https://twitter.com/xkcdComic/status/1200485802406367232 ...
- OTHERS -
The truth is out there… but you're still not allowed to see it. Top-secret UFO files could 'gravely damage' US national security if released, Navy says | Space https://www.space.com/navy-confirms-secret-ufo-video.html .. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxe54z/the-navy-has-secret-classified-video-of-an-infamous-ufo-incident ,,2019 in news: The alternative end-of-the-year awards - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50650415 ...
Isaac Asimov, Scientist and Science Fiction Writer, Would Have Turned 100 This Year | Inside Science https://www.insidescience.org/news/isaac-asimov-scientist-and-science-fiction-writer-would-have-turned-100-year ...
MUSIC
https://soundcloud.com/fpoole/seti ... https://soundcloud.com/fpoole/winter-wavefront by https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=8118078 ...
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