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SSLOI 2020/02/11

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SETI@home


Android Tip: The SETI@home app (through BOINC https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.berkeley.boinc&hl=en)  will work with your Android device if both your CPU and Android OS are matched in bitness, so 32bit/32bit and 64bit/64bit, but not if you're mismatched with a 64bit CPU and 32bit Android. Use tools such as AnTuTu Benchmark to verify this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.antutu.ABenchMark&hl=en ...

Lunatics Installer v0.46 released for 64-bit Windows https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85144&postid=2030148#2030148 ...

SETI@home Uses Citizen Scientists to Search for Aliens | By Jenny McGrath, February 1, 2020 https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/setihome-citizen-scientists-extraterrestrial-intelligence/ “Over the last 20 years, we’ve gotten billions and billions of potential signals,” said Korpela. “I think at last count, it was close to 20 billion potential signals in our database.” He and the team are working on software to analyze all that information. In some upcoming papers, the team will list the most promising areas of the sky. The software injects signals that the SETI@home team believes mimics what an E.T. would send. Thus far, it hasn’t found anything that resembles this artificial extraterrestrial intelligence. If anything looks interesting, Korpela hopes others might take a look. China’s new FAST Radio Telescope is one of the world’s most powerful. “Maybe if you point a bigger telescope at it, maybe it is interesting,” Korpela said of some of the potential spots. “So that sort of thing might raise the interest of more people, I think.”

If you're running Windows 10  you can now update your Nvidia Graphic cards to Studio driver 442.19 to  resolve an issue with certain types of work units in Seti@home. https://www.facebook.com/groups/317689381579505/permalink/3270948126253601/ ...

SETI


Searching for ET with X-ray Lenses | Might an extraterrestrial civilization build giant lenses to grab our attention, magnifying the X-ray light from neutron stars? If they do, Brian Lacki's new paper suggests we might be able to see them http://seti.berkeley.edu:8000/lens-flare/ ... See also "10 Ways SETI Might Detect Alien Civilizations And What They Might Be Like" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmmy-YlGpfc ...

AI could deceive us as much as the human eye does in the search for extraterrestrials https://phys.org/news/2020-01-ai-human-eye-extraterrestrials.html ...

Could Invisible Aliens Really Exist Among Us?  " I don't believe that we have been visited by a life form with the technology to travel across the vast distances of space. But we do have evidence for life-forming, carbon-based molecules having arrived on Earth on meteorites, so the evidence certainly doesn't rule out the same possibility for more unfamiliar life forms." | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/could-invisible-aliens-exist-here-astrobiology.html ...

Interstellar Influenza? Space Viruses Could Reveal Alien Life | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/61515-astrovirology-viruses-at-large.html ...

Meet SETI@home chief scientist Dan Werthimer  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7twYZzQxeV0 ...

Cosmic Queries – ALIENS! with Jake Roper - StarTalk Radio Show by Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.startalkradio.net/show/cosmic-queries-aliens-with-jake-roper/ ...  https://soundcloud.com/startalk/cosmic-queries-aliens-with-1 ...

To find alien life, we should focus on white dwarf stars | Space https://www.space.com/search-alien-life-white-dwarf-stars.html ..


CITIZEN SCIENCE and DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING


An astrophysicist honors citizen scientists in the age of big data | Science News https://www.sciencenews.org/article/astrophysicist-honors-citizen-scientists-age-big-data ..


Searching for Disks - In addition to planets, there are many other interesting and unexplained systems to be found within the TESS data.  https://blog.planethunters.org/2020/02/05/searching-for-disks/ ...

IRC


United IRC Networks - powered by IRC4Fun - Internet Relay Chat https://irc4fun.net/uin/  ...UIN (United IRC Networks) is an IRC network interlinker.  It allows multiple like-minded (seperate) IRC networks (which may be utilizing different IRC server software than others) to maintain a link together and share channels and users if/as desired.  United IRC Networks is powered by PyLink.

EXOPLANETS


Planet-Hunting Satellite Cheops Captures Its First Image | Digital Trends https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/esa-cheops-first-image/ ...

Bad Astronomy | First light for the exoplanet hunter mission CHEOPS goes tetrahedral https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/first-light-for-the-exoplanet-hunter-mission-cheops-goes-tetrahedral ...

SCIENCE


Deep-sea microbe sheds light on primordial evolutionary milestone - Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-microorganism/deep-sea-microbe-sheds-light-on-primordial-evolutionary-milestone-idUSKBN1ZE2RT ... A microorganism scooped up in deep-sea mud off Japan’s coast has helped scientists unlock the mystery of one of the watershed evolutionary events for life on Earth: the transition from the simple cells that first colonized the planet to complex cellular life - fungi, plants and animals including people.


No eyes? No problem. Marine creature expands boundaries of vision - Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-vision/no-eyes-no-problem-marine-creature-expands-boundaries-of-vision-idUSKBN1Z11J3 ... “If our conclusions about the chromatophores are correct, this is a beautiful example of innovation in evolution,” said Lauren Sumner-Rooney, a research fellow at Oxford University Museum of Natural History  ...


What if AI becomes smarter than we are? | MonSFFA http://www.monsffa.ca/?p=9816 ..

Of Sails and Supernovae https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/02/04/of-sails-and-supernovae/ ..

ESOblog - Celebrating women at ESO — part I | ESO https://www.eso.org/public/blog/celebrating-women-at-eso-I/ ..

How to track the coronavirus: Dashboard delivers real-time view of the deadly virus | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-track-the-coronavirus-dashboard-delivers-real-time-view-of-the-deadly-virus/
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 ..

 - Related: Interstellar Influenza? Space Viruses Could Reveal Alien Life | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/61515-astrovirology-viruses-at-large.html ...

An Interplanetary Internet Using Planetary Atmospheres - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9S21HqfNR0 ...

2 defunct satellites orbiting Earth at risk of colliding | MonSFFA http://www.monsffa.ca/?p=9799 ..

Hairy situation: Scientists explain how stress-related graying occurs - Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-hair/hairy-situation-scientists-explain-how-stress-related-graying-occurs-idUSKBN1ZL2UB ... “Melanocyte stem cells are also lost during aging,” Hsu said. “An interesting hypothesis could be that stress is an accelerated aging process. But we don’t know if that is true yet. We sickoes* are interested in torturing many other animals to find out the link.” (* not in the original text)

Meet the Physicist Predicting When Online Hate Will Turn to Real-World Violence | Discover Magazine http://archive.is/EC1ln ..


SPACE


The Downlink: Mars 2020 Ready to Ship, Christina Koch Sets New Record | The Planetary Society https://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/the-downlink-mars-2020-christina-koch.html ..

OneWeb launches 34 satellites from Kazakh cosmodrome in global internet push - Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-oneweb-launch/oneweb-launches-34-satellites-from-kazakh-cosmodrome-in-global-internet-push-idUSKBN20113P ...

 SpaceX plan to put 42,000 satellites in orbit could face a big legal roadblock  | Digital Trends https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/possible-legal-case-astronomy-satellite-constellation/ ...

Oldest stuff on Earth found inside meteorite that hit Australia - Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-meteorite/oldest-stuff-on-earth-found-inside-meteorite-that-hit-australia-idUSKBN1ZC2CF ...The oldest of 40 tiny dust grains trapped inside the meteorite fragments retrieved around the town of Murchison in Victoria state dated from about 7 billion years ago, about 2.5 billion years before the sun, Earth and rest of our solar system formed, the researchers said.

Solar Orbiter: Sun mission primed for launch - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51420402 ..  Solar Orbiter Launch to Spot the Sun - Live launch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X-p5C4SLVo ... (1) The Sun: Crash Course Astronomy #10 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b22HKFMIfWo ...

After another failed launch, Iranian minister says “We’re UNSTOPPABLE!” | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/after-another-failed-launch-iranian-minister-says-were-unstoppable/ ...

Details Revealed of Asteroid So Heavily Cratered It’s Been Dubbed the “Golf Ball Asteroid” https://scitechdaily.com/details-revealed-of-asteroid-so-heavily-cratered-its-been-dubbed-the-golf-ball-asteroid/ ...

This Early Warning Signal Could Successfully Predict Betelgeuse’s Supernova - When the supernova occurs, a whole slew of signals will arrive at once. But there’s one hint that could successfully warn us in advance. https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-early-warning-signal-could-successfully-predict-betelgeuses-supernova-1b4a71a8176 ..

New Horizons Parallax Program Targets Proxima Centauri, Wolf 359 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/02/03/new-horizons-parallax-program-targets-proxima-centauri-wolf-359/ ..

SCIENCE-FICTION


Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown - Full Movie | Snagfilms - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9VCf5einY ...

HUMOR


Walmart's Super Bowl 2020 commercial recruits Martians, 'Star Trek,' Lego and sci-fi icons | Space https://www.space.com/super-bowl-2020-walmart-sci-fi-commercial.html ...

When it's cold in the room : SETI https://www.reddit.com/r/SETI/comments/eeo54k/when_its_cold_in_the_room/ ...

MUSIC


For these astronauts (3:15) something interesting their way comes...
Solee - They will come for us (Original Mix) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSlq-bBd-3M ...

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