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EH_Holden Send message Joined: 14 Jan 02 Posts: 2 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
Does anyone know any current information about running a seti project for the Southern hemisphere?(from parkes NSW Australia) http://www.planetary.org/html/UPDATES/seti/SETI@home/Update_101001.htm Cheers |
ponbiki Send message Joined: 9 Feb 04 Posts: 114 Credit: 115,897 RAC: 0 |
They made some mention over on Classic a few years ago about this being a possibility given the bulk of the galaxy lies below Arecibo's position. Unfortunately, that's basically all that we know about Parkes, save some tidbits about the experiment being in limbo due to a lack of concrete funding. Dunno if that pertained to the Seti possibility or another project altogether. Would be nice to see it, though... |
EH_Holden Send message Joined: 14 Jan 02 Posts: 2 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
I found this story: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/seti_021001.html and this one about there being no funding: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000061791,20269078,00.htm but it would be nice to read something current.... |
Ed and Harriet Griffith Send message Joined: 10 Apr 99 Posts: 127 Credit: 226,261 RAC: 0 |
SETI@home really deserves a lot of credit for both distributed computing and the BOINC project. None the less I am considering eventually dropping seti and focusing on other projects. Checking Arecibo data over and over again does not seem productive. Doing a targeted search like the seti institute, widening the frequency checked more than we have, or using other instruments such as mentioned here would seem to be mrore productive. |
ponbiki Send message Joined: 9 Feb 04 Posts: 114 Credit: 115,897 RAC: 0 |
Well, repetition sometimes is good in that we check over data and make sure that no little bit of information was overlooked or not even noticed. As an Economist, I know that there are many different variables,(called externalities) that come into play that make even the most mundane thing suddenly light up. It's a science thing, really... ^_- Anywho, we're looking at random tapes because that's how the splitter generates: randomly. It was said by the person making the units that he picks a tape at random from a random box, pops it into the splitter, and wham, we get a unit from 99. Shouldn't we be spending time looking at new science? Sure, that would be the optimal usage of our time, effort, and the electricity being used to power our crunching. Still, it's the fun of doing it and as the kinks get worked out and the programs get more and more detailed, I'm sure the pipeline will start to open up and we'll get more and more data. Honestly, I'd rather be crunching old data and working towards a more efficient program so maybe we can start to look at data from the ATA-36 rather than jump into Parkes and have nothing. |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
> SETI@home really deserves a lot of credit for both distributed computing and > the BOINC project. None the less I am considering eventually dropping seti and > focusing on other projects. Checking Arecibo data over and over again does not > seem productive. Doing a targeted search like the seti institute, widening the > frequency checked more than we have, or using other instruments such as > mentioned here would seem to be mrore productive. Of course, once the multibeam receiver is up and running at Arecibo, we'll see a lot more data (wider area, more frequencies). http://www.planetary.org/news/2004/seti_multibeam_0804.html |
Heffo Send message Joined: 14 Jul 00 Posts: 1 Credit: 600,036 RAC: 0 |
Personally, I would love it if seti started observing from parkes. It would be nice to be able to go outside for a change and actually look at the stars my PCs are busy crunching data from. It would feel like I am playing a larger part and less like I am keeping my flat warm by keeping my CPUs at 100% usage. |
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