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Message 508695 - Posted: 26 Jan 2007, 0:13:49 UTC

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Message 513021 - Posted: 4 Feb 2007, 12:01:20 UTC

First of all....I don't understand anything I'm looking at. But I saw something and haven't seen it again. It looked like a green light at the top of one of the spikes, shaped like a comet or sideways teardrop. I fell asleep looking at it. Is this a common thing, and has anyone else seen this? How can you tell when something unusual is showing up? Pat
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Message 523408 - Posted: 25 Feb 2007, 23:35:57 UTC - in response to Message 485619.  

Ive been running this on multiple computers for a few months now. While I dont mind running it, it does raise the concern if anyone has actually found ANYTHING at all other than just static or noise. Does seti@home program alert you when it finds something or what?

Just curious.



I don't know if it will alert you but I think you can search the berkely site to see if they found anything yet.

Plus it may be years before we actually stumble upon something.


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Message 523423 - Posted: 26 Feb 2007, 0:25:48 UTC

There could be a better job of putting out within the client what it means if we have found 135 results. I would like to know where and how good are these "results" and what happens to them. I understand that only a very few are pursued further but whose are being looked at?? if I found a particularly promising result I might like to know about it. I might also like to know why we have only data from ARECIBO from 2003 and not from other initiatives which are coming on line. Would also like to know where we are looking and what are the promising results in each sector.

This would take away the sense I get from the boards that most of us don't know what we are doing with the number crunching. Not being impatient-- just want the good RAP on the fact that we are proceeding in an orderly and efficient matter-build this into the Client
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Message 537753 - Posted: 28 Mar 2007, 7:10:00 UTC - in response to Message 498032.  
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Ive been running this on multiple computers for a few months now. While I dont mind running it, it does raise the concern if anyone has actually found ANYTHING at all other than just static or noise. Does seti@home program alert you when it finds something or what?

Just curious.



This is interesting


"The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"

This book should be a required high school reading as it encourages critical thinking while unmasking pseudoscience.

...and thats all that this Steven Greer has to offer: pseudoscience, (distorted) anecdotes, and blurry pictures.

To date, there is no hard, peer-reviewed, and widely confirmed evidence of life off the Earth. (Some of the test results from the Viking landers, along with that Mars meteorite, are very intriguing though.) As much as I believe, as most do I'm sure, that life most certainty should exist elsewhere -- I know this just a belief. As a belief, it is without warrant -- regardless of any warm fuzzy feelings.

Semi-related, but illustrating critical thinking:

Recently, I went looking at some of the "UFO" pictures out there on the internet and was extremely disappointed. There wasn't a single photograph taken that made me even remotely consider it being from extraterrestrial intelligence. Almost all of them are blurry. Even current pictures, when we have digital cameras, are as blurry as a 1970's Welcome Back Kotter episode.

The photographer will say that the photo is blurry because it was taken in the heat of the moment. If I see an airliner flying above my house (at cruise altitude), I can quickly run inside to grab my camera and take a photo of it. I can them download that picture to my computer and zoom into the airliner. Zooming in with software, the airliner, while flying at 30,000 feet, is clearly visible as an aircraft. You can make out the wings, engines, tail that weren't visible to the naked eye.

...but, ET in his flying saucer, hovering directly above a corn field 200 yards away, always comes out blurry? Give me a break.

Update: CNN story on the Disclosure Project headed by Dr. Steven M Greer

Update: Steven M. Greer and G7 Nation Disclose ET Existence

Persistant isn't he? What's he gonna come up with, I wonder? And who is the G7 Country?

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Message 537936 - Posted: 28 Mar 2007, 18:35:30 UTC - in response to Message 537783.  

A couple of weeks or so ago, before sending my newly bought PC to service because of a malfunction, I had a WU delivered to the server. In it there was both a Gaussian having a score of about 6 (6.02) as well as a triplet with a score of about 13 (13.02) - but not identical numbers following that). It was in the same area as a WU delivered some time earlier with a Gaussian score of 5.46.

So the task of finding something is not impossible, but lately I have had poor results in the 2003 / 2004 WU's. There is a pulse of 1.07 in my current WU.

Also I had a WU delivered a month ago with a triplet of 15.75.


I have been returning a lot of triplets that have scores above 5 and 10. Also been returning gaussian that had a power of over 10!(10.165935516357), chrip_rate: -40.029729531099. Highest triplet power: 12.295342445374, chrip_rate: -27.798063850781
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Message 538231 - Posted: 29 Mar 2007, 10:56:40 UTC

Just returned a pulse of 7.668270 but on the screen saver, there is no graph to show it. In mapview it also just shows a line but its flat...but it is there...what might that be? A flatlined pulse? (no pun intended) :)
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Message 538727 - Posted: 30 Mar 2007, 17:41:16 UTC - in response to Message 538656.  

Just returned a pulse of 7.668270 but on the screen saver, there is no graph to show it. In mapview it also just shows a line but its flat...but it is there...what might that be? A flatlined pulse? (no pun intended) :)


That is a high number indeed! My best pulse was 1.85 (both spike, gaussian and triplet were nil in that result).

Do you perhaps have the coordinates for this result ?


WU: 03oc03aa.4127.2640.471743.34_2_0

RA: 3.3758502646951

Dec: 13.681256220908

Period: 4.8234496116638
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Message 540335 - Posted: 3 Apr 2007, 8:35:09 UTC - in response to Message 485619.  
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Ive been running this on multiple computers for a few months now. While I dont mind running it, it does raise the concern if anyone has actually found ANYTHING at all other than just static or noise. Does seti@home program alert you when it finds something or what?

Just curious.


Also see: Multi-Beam Data Recorder Status

As of: 3 Apr 2007 8:30:41 UTC

# / Last 24 hours

Spikes: 347,914,075 / 356,079

Gaussians: 197,086,574 / 354,374

Pulses: 227,939,351 / 176,284

Triplets: 219,731,418 / 280,627

Workunits: 274,678,765 / 190,976

Results: 267,772,704 / 182,433
"By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible". Hebrews 11.3

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Message 540339 - Posted: 3 Apr 2007, 8:43:37 UTC
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Also this is pretty cool: UFO Maps. Reports sightings of UFOs as they happen, using Google Maps.

Pretty neat!
"By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible". Hebrews 11.3

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Message 541327 - Posted: 5 Apr 2007, 11:12:50 UTC

Also not that I am starting to see triplets around the Star: [http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour.asp?StarCatId=&PlanetId=111]HD 10697 or 109 PISCIUM[/url]. According to the link provided...a planet orbiting that star called: 109 PISCIUM B that has the "Planet at Earthlike Temperatures at Mean Orbital Distance."

Hmmm....I wonder ;-)
"By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible". Hebrews 11.3

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