" It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world." — Metrodorus of Chios (350 BCE)
https://astronomy.com/news/2020/08/how-floating-microbes-could-live-in-the-acid-clouds-of-venus
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.27.175430v1
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53573294
SSL Report: setiathome.berkeley.edu (208.68.240.103) Assessed on: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 03:10:37 UTC | Certificate name mismatch https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=setiathome.berkeley.edu
We're in the process of swapping web servers and the cert generation hasn't caught up yet. I expect that it will be in place in the next day or so.So just don't go there...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqeUoBEZivs
Read more: http://seti.berkeley.edu/exotica/
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.11304.pdf
Catalog: Exotica_FullAppendices.pdf
http://seti.berkeley.edu/exotica/Exotica_FullAppendices.pdf
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/07/03/a-seti-reality-check/
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/07/10/what-can-seti-scholars-learn-from-the-covid-19-pandemic/
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/htt4hi/this_makes_us_feel_so_damn_tiny_no_wonder_its/
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/nasa-seti-contract-alien-hunting-contamination-earth-missions-a9615731.html
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1HfR_062qvVq-HWMd3OKo9zfIVvneRT1E Content description https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=13463&postid=99468
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oFh33gw-Eo
The European Astronomical Society held their annual conference virtually last week, attended by nearly 2000 of the continent's professional astronomers. All plenary lectures have been made free to view on their YouTube channel, with the latest research on gravitational waves, exoplanets and more. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfpcwTCxro98CtfdE9nX4ew
How many extraterrestrial civilizations could be trying to communicate with us right now? | Astronomy.com https://astronomy.com/news/2020/06/how-many-extraterrestrial-civilizations-can-communicate-in-our-galaxy-right-now ...
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170818-voyager-inside-the-worlds-greatest-space-mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSlq-bBd-3M
The University of California at Berkeley has announced the end of SETI@home, one of the largest citizen science projects ever undertaken. This project engaged ordinary people to contribute their personal computers’ processing power to help analyze the masses of data involved in the search for extraterres- trial intelligence (SETI). Since 1999, millions of people have used the free SETI@home software to download and analyze radio telescope data to look for any sign of a signal that might be coming from the technological activities of intelligent beings light years away.
This project was made possible because of support from The Planetary Society’s members. In 1998, 2 researchers from U.C. Berkeley (computer scientist David Anderson and SETI scientist Dan Werthimer) approached The Planetary Society with the novel idea of harnessing the enormous computing power of personal com- puters, which numbered in the millions and spent much of their time idle. For more than a year, they tried to raise money for their idea, approaching numerous companies in nearby Silicon Valley but coming up empty. The idea of involving the public in scientific research was a novel one, and the Silicon Valley vision- aries found it difficult to believe that many people would lend their personal computers to a SETI search.
The Planetary Society reacted differently. SETI was in the Society’s DNA from the very beginning, and public involvement in science was at the core of our mission. SETI@home, which combines the two, seemed perfect. With the support of our members, we raised $50,000 to help launch the project and secured a matching donation from Para- mount Pictures, which was promoting its Star Trek movie franchise. SETI@home was off and running.
SETI@home went online on 17 May 1999 and was an immediate and unprecedented hit. Within a few months, more than a million people across the globe were processing work units on their personal computers, and within a year, the number was approaching 2 million. No one had expected this explosive growth, least of all Anderson and Werthimer, who had dreamed of recruiting perhaps 100,000 people. With SETI@home, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence had captured the public’s imagination.
SETI@home did something else as well, something that no one expected: it launched a radically new way of doing science. The project’s explosive success opened scientists’ eyes to the fact that the public is eager to take part in cutting-edge scientific research and is happy to donate their computers and other resources for the cause. So, where SETI@home first tread, a long line of scientific projects has followed, each engaging the public in different and creative ways. Today, the public is invited to take part in studies of climate change, cancer cells, protein folding, gravity waves, interstellar dust particles, and many, many others. Thanks to SETI@home, researchers have begun to tap into the almost-unlimited resource of public enthusiasm for science.
Although SETI@home is ending, its legacy lives on. The Planetary Society is proud to have been a part of this project, and we thank our members for helping to launch a new era of public engagement in science.
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