Here is the article. I guess its not so much what your computer can do for the project, but what your own eyes can.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/01/10/stardust.search.ap/index.html

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Stardust@Home
Interesting!

I found their website where you can pre-register:
http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Users will have to prove their mettle before they are allowed to participate in the search. That includes undergoing some Web-based training, passing a test and registering before being allowed to use the virtual "microscope," the University of California, Berkeley researchers behind the project said.

oh that's interesting.

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I have a hard time finding my car keys...

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It doesn't appear to be a BOINC based project from what I can gather looking at their site.

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I have a hard time finding my car keys...

I'll bet you have a hard time just finding the car!

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IAS - Where Space Is Golden!

NASA expects most of the collected particles to be no more than a third of a millimeter across. Scientists will slice these particle samples into even smaller pieces for study.

A dedicated handling and curation lab for the Stardust samples was prepared within the past two years at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. The lab has new, specially designed equipment to optically scan the aerogel and locate captured grains within it. It is also outfitted with a new generation of equipment to section aerogel
and extract grains for later preliminary analysis in laboratories all over the world.

NASA says...

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It doesn't appear to be a BOINC based project from what I can gather looking at their site.

Doesn't look that way to me either. Besides I don't see how it would be BOINC related if we are the ones doing the actual work. And for actual work I'd rather be paid as an employee than given a name mention on the website (unless the website pays my bills for me.) But that's just my Capitali$tic opinion. ;)

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Sounds boring to look for microscopic particles in a square foot for months. Equaly boring to crawl around a football field looking for 45 ants with a magnifying glass... <yawn>

I don't think I'll try to qualify for this project.

Sounds boring to look for microscopic particles in a square foot for months. Equaly boring to crawl around a football field looking for 45 ants with a magnifying glass... <yawn>

I don't think I'll try to qualify for this project.

Or (as boring to some as) looking for four leaf clovers.
Some people just have a knack for things like that.

For some reason this brings to mind the time I was on sitting waiting for my turn to qualify with the m16 during my second enlistment in the army (no, not I didn't re-enlist - I got out after my first enlistment and joined again four years later). Anyway, I was sitting there and what do I see? A four leaf clover. Then another. Then another. Then others started looking when they realized what I'd found. Quite a few found them as well. It was an interesting sight seeing dozens of soldiers in camoflage and helmets crawling around looking for them. Over the next half hour or so I found six four leaf, a five leaf, and a six leaf.

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Sounds boring to look for microscopic particles in a square foot for months. Equaly boring to crawl around a football field looking for 45 ants with a magnifying glass... <yawn>

I don't think I'll try to qualify for this project.

Or (as boring to some as) looking for four leaf clovers.
Some people just have a knack for things like that.

For some reason this brings to mind the time I was on sitting waiting for my turn to qualify with the m16 during my second enlistment in the army (no, not I didn't re-enlist - I got out after my first enlistment and joined again four years later). Anyway, I was sitting there and what do I see? A four leaf clover. Then another. Then another. Then others started looking when they realized what I'd found. Quite a few found them as well. It was an interesting sight seeing dozens of soldiers in camoflage and helmets crawling around looking for them. Over the next half hour or so I found six four leaf, a five leaf, and a six leaf.

Ohhh is that what they called the entire platoon doing push-ups when you were in. Looking for 4 leaf clovers...

Ohhh is that what they called the entire platoon doing push-ups when you were in. Looking for 4 leaf clovers...

It was annual training for the 256th combat support hospital.
Reserve unit. No push-ups other than the ones as part of the physical fitness tests.

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