Team ACC is approaching 1MC (1 million credits), and I'd like to thank all Team members (past and present) for helping to achieve this: Thanks!!!

And to potential new members, please help us reach the next milestone 1 Billion Credits (1BC), contributing to science along the way.

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With a (marginally) improved Web Site at Team ACC WebSite

And a brand-new-(ish) Forum at Team ACC Forum- check it out!!!
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Live long and crunch y'all 8D

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Yay for Team ACC!

1000000 credits achieved!!!

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Congratulations to Team ACC for making it to 1,000,000 credits!
Best little team on BOINC. Here's to a billion!
All the best

Thanks marz,

I think we have all done very well, we should be proud of ourselves.

These aren't just 'credits', but they represent actual real work that our computers have done in the name of science.

We are doing our little part to make a better future, and that can't be bad.

Well done to all.

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Recruitment Drive in progress.

Arthur C Clarke in Wikipedia

Arthur C Clarke Quotes in Wikiquote

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Having a rough day?



Sing-along

Why does that not make me feel better?

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Oh, Kinhull, maybe this will help:

http://wilstar.com/comedy.htm

:-)

That's more like it!

Thanks for those.

Tie me kangaroo down is one of my all time favourite songs. Rolf is a god in my eyes.

Thanks marz!!!

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See this BOINC GUI created by team member Shane:



Comments and suggestions welcome here or at the Team ACC Forum (requires registration).

The forum also contains links to instructions, pics, etc...

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Very nice, Shane!

I have to agree, Shane used a great pic. One of the defining moments in the movie I think (I'm watching 2001 as I type!)

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Here's a Yahoo group that is fairly active posting wise, that invariably has intelligent posts in it, and not just narrowly ACC related:

Yahoo ACC List


You should check out the posts by list member Bill Wheaton (he used to play Wesley Crusher in Star Trek, despite this he is actually very knowledgeable about space and science!).

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Excellent recommendation, Kinhull. Awaiting approval.

Meanwhile:

http://www.jokeindex.com/cat.asp?Cat=15

Sci Fi jokes! Hooray!

Just what the doctor ordered as I get over my winter sniffles!

Scientists Decode the First Message From an Alien Civilization:

Simply send 6 x 10 to the 50 atoms of Hydrogen to the Star System at the top of the list, cross off that star system, then put your Star System at the bottom of the list and send it to 100 other Star Systems. Within one-tenth of a Galactic Rotation you will receive enough hydrogen to power your civilization until entropy reaches its maximum! IT REALLY WORKS!

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Though it's not ACC, this is an interesting interview of Spider Robinson about finishing Robert Heinlein's last novel.

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/interviews/sfw13876.html

Thanks for that marz, a very good article.

I was quite interested by this quote:

For some reason, the readers who are voting with their feet are migrating from science fiction into fantasy. Basically, they've all decided they'd rather not be exposed to any story that their grandfather would not have recognized.

I don't know why that is. Just as we're entering the future, just as technology is proving itself, just when we've managed to keep 6 billion people alive where we had trouble feeding 2 billion, just as the commercial space program is taking off, suddenly everybody goes, "Let's stampede backward into the past."

It's dismaying, but a number of my colleagues, sensing the way the wind is blowing, have migrated away from science fiction toward writing about elves and magic and the supernatural, and they're making good money. I hope that the wheel will turn again one day—because we don't live in the past, and we do live in the future....

I wasn't aware of a downturn in sci-fi booksales, in favour of fantasy. If there is, I would simply put it down to the (excellent) Lord Of The Rings and Harry Potter mania. A good movie based on a good book will always sell more books.

I don't think Spider Robinson has anything to worry about, despite what the creationists might like, we are living in a scientific and technological age (at least those of us living in 'the West'). Artists are always going to write about the contemporary state of society and on occasion extrapolate this into the future, and at the moment there is no real alternative to science and the scientific method.

I've yet to read any Spider Robinson novels, though I have seen plenty available, I notice however that your link provides a further link to excerpts of the first eight chapters of the Robinson/Heinlein book Variable Star. Now that is a good a place as any to start!

Have you (or anyone else reading this) read any Spider Robinson books? What kind of stories does he write?

Anyway, thanks for the links marz.

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Please continue all discussions in the new Team ACC - Arthur C Clarke fans thread

The reason for closing this thread is that I am unable to alter the original post that has the link to the old Team ACC Forum, the new Forum is better in that anyone can view and read posts without having to login first.

The ALL NEW Team ACC Forum

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