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SSLOI #36

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 15:24:00 +0000

https://www.seti.org/news

https://www.space.com/search-for-life

SETI@hom Message Boards https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_index.php

The Vasco Network & Citizen Science Project https://vasconsite.wordpress.com/ml-blink-2/

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2022/03/31 Another bittersweet milestone in SETI@home history

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85870&postid=2096776#2096776

2022/01/25 Could a spacecraft 'catch up' to interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua in just 26 years ? https://www.space.com/oumuamua-space-rock-interstellar-asteroid-comet-spacecraft

2022/01/08 JWST: Nadia Drake - Relief as NASA's most powerful space telescope finishes risky unfolding

Nov. 28, 2021 - To find extraterrestrials, we have to think like extraterrestrials https://massivesci.com/articles/extraterrestrial-aliens-seti-telescope-array/

Dec. 18, 2021 - BBC News - James Webb Space Telescope given revised 24 December launch

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59692930

21 Nov 2021, 20:43:26 - New zones, a milestone, and next steps
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85810#2088641

Sept. 2021 - TFTRH #55: Avi Loeb and The Galileo Project - Mick West https://youtu.be/VQqdgNG-rJg

The Galileo Project

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo

The Vasco Network

https://vasconsite.wordpress.com/

September Update: OpenPandemics - COVID-19 The research team is working on analyzing the large amount of data generated from the stress test earlier this year, while also sending additional compounds to collaborators for lab testing. Published on: 1 Oct 2021 https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/article.s?articleId=736

Sept 3, 2021 - Spacewatch: James Webb telescope finally ready for launch | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/sep/03/spacewatch-james-webb-space-telescope-ready-launch https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/webb/main/index.html

Aug 29th, 2021 - Could (hypothetical) aliens be using black holes to power huge civilizations? https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/could-aliens-be-using-dyson-spheres-black-holes

July 30, 2021 CBC/Radio-Canada - International group of scientists searches for alien technology (Ari Loeb on technosignals) https://youtu.be/KhiwoZ_rRwY

July 26th, 2021 Contact Was Wrong - Aliens Can't Hear Us | Answers With Joe https://youtu.be/ISXbTBKl4aE

July 20th, 2021 Practical Engineering: « What Really Happened at the Arecibo Telescope? » https://youtu.be/3oBCtTv6yOw

July 12th, 2021 - After a 25 years' run of SETI@home and 5 years' run of Nebula, we're on the final home stretch. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85756#2079759

July 10, 2021 - Did SETI@home waste computing? https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85704&postid=2068005

July 8, 2021 - Approximately 300 million small molecules run for OpenPandemics - COVID-19 as part of system test https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=715

June 2021 - Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021: Shortlist revealed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-57653901

June 24, 2021 – June Update: OpenPandemics - COVID-19 The researchers are beginning to analyze the enormous amount of data generated during last month's stress test, when 30,000 batches of work were run in eight days. https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=713

June 16th, 2021 - Adam Frank: Searching for alien technology https://youtu.be/iHqcsip_DbM

June 10, 2021 - Recent advances in drifting RFI removal https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85745&postid=2077681#2077681

June 3, 2021 - Two new videos about Einstein@home https://einsteinathome.org/fr/content/two-new-videos-about-einsteinhome

June 1, 2021 - Important Announcement about the future of the Microbiome Immunity Project https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,43484_offset,0#659541

Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) https://youtu.be/2gvbeVI-qvY https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_I_Phase_II/lunar_crater_radio_telescope

24 Apr 2021 Nebula progress report - Check out recent data analysis progress: Reobservation and drifting RFI via https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85734#2074148

BOINC Workshop 2021, April 14, 21 & 28 https://www.boincworkshop.org/schedule

Mars 18, 2021 Oumuamua finally analyzed using a brilliant analysis https://youtu.be/hkZRUs8A_9Q

March Update: OpenPandemics - COVID-19 26 Mar 2021 - Summary: Beta testing is in progress for GPU work units, which can help speed up the process of identifying potential treatments for COVID-19. OPN Research team member Dr. Martina Maritan created an infographic about the project to help outline the full research process. Background : OpenPandemics - COVID-19 was created to help accelerate the search for potential COVID-19 treatments. The project also aims to build a fast-response, open source toolkit that will help all scientists quickly search for treatments in the event of future pandemics. In late 2020, the researchers announced that they had selected 70 compounds (from an original group of approximately 20,000) that could be promising to be investigated as potential inhibitors of the virus that causes COVID-19. Lab testing is currently underway for 25 of these compounds. https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=692

2021.03.23 SETI Institute Celebrates Women’s History Month https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-celebrates-womens-history-month

2021.03.21 Life Elsewhere in the Universe: When Did We First Consider the Possibility? https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/life-elsewhere-in-the-universe-when-did-we-first-consider-the-possibility

Pubblicazioni: SETI https//www.boincitaly.org/articoli/scienza-e-ricerca/2794-pubblicazioni-ast-fis-e-chim.html#seti

Jan. 2021 - Michael Shermer with Avi Loeb — Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth https://youtu.be/rykjXX6OhU0

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SSLOI #35

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 18:54:00 +0000

SETI@home & SCIENCE LINKS ON IRC

#SETI #DistributedComputing #science #news #Covid19 #humor #music

“Why a journey into space? Because science is now learning that the infinite reaches of our universe probably teem with as much life and adventure as Earth's own oceans and continents. Our galaxy alone is so incredibly vast that the most conservative mathematical odds still add up to millions of planets almost identical to our own — capable of life, even intelligence and strange new civilizations. Alien beings that will range from the fiercely primitive to the incredibly exotic intelligence which will far surpass Mankind. (The Hollywood Reporter, Sept. 8, 1966)” ― Gene Roddenberry

04 Feb 2021 – January/February Update: OpenPandemics - COVID-19 - Lab testing has begun for some of the promising compounds identified with the help of World Community Grid volunteers https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=680

Feb. 4, 2021 - Square Kilometre Array: 'Lift-off' for world's biggest telescope https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55933958

Dec. 31, 2020 - Puerto Rico commits $8 million to rebuild Arecibo telescope https://www.engadget.com/puerto-rico-approves-8-million-to-rebuild-arecibo-telescope-155454170.html

Dec. 22, 2020 - The collapse of the Arecibo telescope was bad news for radio astronomy. The main impact on SETI@home is that we'll have to find other telescopes (e.g. Green Bank or FAST) to do reobservations. In the meantime, progress continues on Nebula. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85662&postid=2064123

December 17 2020 Update: OpenPandemics - COVID-19 - The project is coming closer to beginning lab testing on promising compounds, but there is still much work to do on World Community Grid. https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=674

NOV 11, 2020 - Why haven't we found alien life yet? Blame our closed minds https://astronomy.com/news/2020/11/why-havent-we-found-alien-life-yet-blame-our-closed-minds

Analyzing Video Footage Of Collapse of Massive Arecibo Telescope - Scott Manley - Dec 4, 2020 https://youtu.be/59WQIRvezzI

Dec 4, 2020 - Volunteering my phone to research Covid-19 while I sleep - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55131938

Dec 4, 2020 - Puerto Rico: The moment the Arecibo Observatory telescope collapsed - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-55181448

Dec 1, 2020 - Puerto Rico: Iconic Arecibo Observatory telescope collapses - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55147973 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vchDbyIRP44

November 30, 2020 - (#503) Gearing Up For Hayabusa-2 Coverage : What Can Samples Returned Tell Us? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAjdCtrp0a8

November 30, 2020 - BBC News - One of biology's biggest mysteries 'largely solved' by AI https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55133972 "Predicting how a protein folds into a unique three-dimensional shape has puzzled scientists for half a century. London-based AI lab, DeepMind, has largely cracked the problem, say the organisers of a scientific challenge."

November 19, 2020 - Iconic Puerto Rico telescope to be dismantled amid collapse fears https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55008567 NSF begins planning for decommissioning of Arecibo Observatory’s 305-meter telescope due to safety concerns https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301674&s=03 Snapped Cable Damages Arecibo Observatory Radio Telescope - Aug 13, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V3VCt24tkE&ab_channel=ScottManley

Streamed live on Nov 4 and 5, 2020 - Day one of the Life in the Universe conference, featuring Bernard Fanaroff, Martin Rees, Pete Worden, Andrew Siemion, Sara Seager, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, and Michael Hecht is live at https://youtu.be/_cWspn8UZAs Life in the Universe Symposium Day Two (Part One) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86rD6y8NQf0&ab_channel=BerkeleySETI Life in the Universe Symposium - Day Two (Part Two) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ygz9V3BqfY&ab_channel=BerkeleySETI

2020 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Alien Life - Sep 25, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgESzc3hc2U&ab_channel=AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory

Beastie Boys - Intergalactic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g&ab_channel=BeastieBoysVEVO

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SSLOI #34

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 16:27:00 +0000

SETI@home & SCIENCE LINKS ON IRC

#SETI #DistributedComputing #science #news #Covid19 #humor #music

"On a finite world, a cosmic perspective isn't a luxury; it is a necessity." — Caleb Scharf (2014)

What does the 2020 presidential election mean for space exploration? https://www.space.com/election-2020-space-policy-trump-biden

Unpredictable space radio bursts may stem from asteroids around magnetic stars https://www.space.com/fast-radio-bursts-from-asteroid-magnetars

The Vera Rubin Observatory Should be Able to Detect a Couple of Interstellar Objects a Month https://www.universetoday.com/148696/vera-rubin-should-be-able-to-detect-a-couple-of-interstellar-objects-a-month/

The Life Scientific - Neil Ferguson on modelling Covid-19 - BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000mt0h

Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2020/11/03/voyager_2_back_online/ https://www.universetoday.com/148707/the-only-radio-antenna-capable-of-communicating-with-voyager-2-came-back-online-during-repairs-and-upgrades-contact-re-established/

Search for New Worlds at Home With NASA’s Planet Patrol Project | NASA https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/search-for-new-worlds-at-home-with-nasa-s-planet-patrol-project/ Planet Patrol — Zooniverse https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/marckuchner/planet-patrol/ Citizen Science | Science Mission Directorate https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience Projects — Zooniverse https://www.zooniverse.org/projects SciStarter https://scistarter.org

Enigmatic fast radio burst pinned on magnetised dead star - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54815687

Frame by Frame, Supercomputing Reveals the Forms of the Coronavirus
https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/10/27/frame-by-frame-supercomputing-reveals-the-forms-of-the-coronavirus/

Lawrence Livermore Announces Mammoth Cluster to Fight COVID-19
https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/11/04/lawrence-livermore-announces-mammoth-cluster-to-fight-covid-19/

Gatekeepers in Science - BOINC Radio, 3rd Nov 2020 https://www.boinc.network/episode/gatekeepers-in-science

BOINC Stats - 27th Sep 2020, BOINC Radio https://www.boinc.network/episode/boinc-stats

2020/10/30 The User of the day site uotd.org seems to have been left to expire :/ #distributedcomputing #stats

OpenPandemics 29 Oct 2020 – COVID-19 coming close to first round of lab testing for potential treatments https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=661

Data center tour at team de Volksbank — IBM World Community Grid (BOINC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-XUYNMYqIs

October Update: OpenPandemics - COVID-19, 22 Oct 2020 - The researchers recently submitted two papers for review, and are looking ahead to lab testing for potential treatments https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=658

LIFE BEYOND II: The Museum of Alien Life (4K) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThDYazipjSI #music LIFE BEYOND: Chapter 1. Alien life, deep time, and our place in cosmic history (4K) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUelbSa-OkA

Oct. 15, 2020 - The Search for E.T. - [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hwuo4vPcyU[/url] How is the SETI Institute ramping up the search for extraterrestrial intelligence? Initiatives that will speed our reconnaissance of the heavens include new receivers, the use of the Very Large Array in New Mexico, and the possibility that astronomers could find massive artifacts near distant worlds. Hear Andrew Siemion and Seth Shostak discuss the latest SETI developments and [url=https://youtu.be/2Hwuo4vPcyU?t=1795]SETI@home present status[/url].

October 6, 2020 - Who is the SETI Institute? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS8JRkrj7XE You’ve heard about us. Maybe you’ve noticed we were mentioned in a blockbuster Hollywood movie or in a sitcom on TV. Perhaps you used to run SETI@home on your computer back in the day (for the record, we’d love to take credit, but that wasn’t us). If someone asked, what would you say about us? We invite you to join SETI Institute President and CEO Bill Diamond in a wide-ranging conversation with four leaders here at the SETI Institute about the ways we are exploring the universe, learning about life and intelligence, sharing what we discover and inspiring future generations.

Sept. 11, 2020 - SETI Institute and GNU Radio Join Forces - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQQfxtZCPqc The SETI Institute and GNU Radio are officially joining forces to continue work already underway for signal processing at the SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array. Join our discussion with Steve Croft (SETI Institute) and Derek Kozel (GNU Radio). GNURadio@theATA - GNU Radio https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/GNURadio@theATA

Astronomers Watch a Star Get Spaghettified by a Black Hole - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/148307/astronomers-watch-a-star-get-spaghettified-by-a-black-hole/

11 October 2030 - The Moon is the Perfect Spot for SETI - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/148146/the-moon-is-the-perfect-spot-for-seti/

Oct. 7, 2020 - BBC News - Genome editing wins Nobel chemistry prize https//www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54432589

The Weirdly Nihilistic Reason Why Outer Space Is So Cold https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a29895696/how-cold-is-space/

Feb 7, 2020 - UFOs and Aliens – What Science Says | Donald Prothero | TEDxResedaBlvd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8bgRABGLFg

Sep 14, 2020 - Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably | Innovation Stories https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/project-natick-underwater-datacenter/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBeepqQBpvU

16 Sep 2020 - AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/forum_thread.php?id=291&postid=1940#1940 https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/hpc-fund AMD is going to donate computing systems or cloud-based computing capacity as a part of the second round of its COVID-19 HPC Fund initiative. University of Trento, with the project we are supporting here, Gene@home, is involved:

17 September Update: OpenPandemics - COVID-19 https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=648 The researchers and the World Community Grid tech team are continuing their work to get the project working on GPU.

OpenPandemics:COVID-19 — Update 7/20 – The Forli Lab https://forlilab.org/opn-update-7-20/?linkId=94724375 This is a (long overdue!) summary for all the volunteers, covering the virtual screening strategy and details about the SARS-CoV-2 targets that have been considered so far for the OpenPandemics: COVID-19 project. This is an ongoing work and more structures will be targeted and we will keep you updated on the new included structures and on the first results coming in as well.

Sept. 15, 2020 - "A Cosmic Perspective: Searching for Aliens, Finding Ourselves" with Jill Tarter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_MAD3j50Bk

Sept. 9, 2020 - A SETI Search of 10 Million Star Systems https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/09/09/a-seti-search-of-10-million-star-systems/

September 2, 2020 - Breakthrough Initiatives - Reanalysis of Breakthrough Listen Data to Include Other Stellar Objects in the Field Produces Most Comprehensive SETI Search to Date https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/30

Vodafone becomes UK’s top contributor of computer processing power in war against #coronavirus COVID-19 on World Community Grid https://www.vodafone.com/news-and-media/vodafone-group-releases/news/vodafone-becomes-uks-top-contributor https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=4TV1GFXXD2

Hints of life spotted on Venus: researchers have found a possible biomarker on the planet's clouds : science https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/ismhzh/hints_of_life_spotted_on_venus_researchers_have/

8 Sep 2020 - Version 7.16.11 of the BOINC client software has been released for Mac OS and Windows. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=13958&postid=100654#100654 https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

2020 BOINC Workshop - Call for Volunteers | Einstein@Home https://einsteinathome.org/content/2020-boinc-workshop-call-volunteers http://www.boincworkshop.org

10 Sep 2020 - Tenth anniversary of the first Einstein@Home discovery, radio pulsar J2007+2722 https://einsteinathome.org/content/tenth-anniversary-first-einsteinhome-discovery https://science.sciencemag.org/content/329/5997/1305.abstract https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/773/2/91/pdf

Covid Trends https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?scale=linear

TN-Grid
https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/index.php

https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/rss_main.php

The weird space that lies outside our Solar System https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200908-the-weird-space-that-lies-outside-our-solar-system

Vera Rubin: Super telescope's giant camera spies broccoli - how do you test the new sensor for the world's largest digital camera? You take a picture of broccoli, of course. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54066586

'Super bacteria' survives for three years outside space station - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-54029521

BBC - Does the Rio Tinto river hold the key to life on Mars? http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200903-the-spanish-acidic-river-teaching-us-about-mars

A Movie of the Evolving Universe Is Potentially Scary - Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-movie-of-the-evolving-universe-is-potentially-scary/

The Dangers of Intellectual Territorialism: Narrow expertise has its value, but it’s also vital to let scientists step out of their “lanes” - Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-dangers-of-intellectual-territorialism/

Sept. 17th, 2020 - The 30th First Annual Ig® Nobel Prize Ceremony https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/the-30th-first-annual-ig-nobel-prize-ceremony/

BBC News - Elon Musk to show off working brain-hacking device

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53921596

Your Cosmic Address Will Remind You How Huge the Universe Really Is | Travel + Leisure
https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/space-astronomy/earth-cosmic-address

The Many Worlds of Ann Druyan: Matriarch of the Cosmos - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXHw-5RLMTU

Aug 18, 2020 - New tool helps interpret future searches for life on exoplanets
https://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=55928.php

"It's mutating, Jim." Hong Kong reports 'first case' of virus reinfection https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53889823 2020/08/24

Research group prints the first biologically correct 3D model of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/touchable-corona-viruses-1/

This is the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 | inside corona https://insidecorona.net/for-the-public/

What does the Coronavirus really look like? | inside corona
https://insidecorona.net/what-does-the-coronavirus-really-look-like/

August Update: OpenPandemics - COVID-19 launched in May, and the work has just begun. Learn more about the scientists' progress so far, as well as the collaborations that will help move the research forward in the coming weeks and months. https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=635

Exoplanet-hunter TESS completes its primary mission | Space | EarthSky
https://earthsky.org/space/exoplanet-hunter-tess-completes-primary-mission

How floating microbes could live in the acid clouds of Venus | Astronomy.com
https://astronomy.com/news/2020/08/how-floating-microbes-could-live-in-the-acid-clouds-of-venus

Arecibo down, but not necessarily out, following cable failure | Astronomy.com https://astronomy.com/news/2020/08/arecibo-down-but-not-necessarily-out-following-cable-failure Iconic observatory seen in James Bond film "GoldenEye" goes dark after massive telescope found mysteriously broken https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arecibo-observatory-james-bond-film-goldeneye-telescope-mysteriously-broken-puerto-rico/ Arecibo Observatory featured in Bond film "Goldeneye" shut down - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/us/arecibo-observatory-damaged-trnd-scn/index.html Real cause found: Boys with toys: "GoldenEye - The Dish " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HFkF8904Uw

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SSLOI #33

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 14:20:00 +0000

" 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)

How floating microbes could live in the acid clouds of Venus | Astronomy.com
https://astronomy.com/news/2020/08/how-floating-microbes-could-live-in-the-acid-clouds-of-venus

Arecibo down, but not necessarily out, following cable failure | Astronomy.com https://astronomy.com/news/2020/08/arecibo-down-but-not-necessarily-out-following-cable-failure Iconic observatory seen in James Bond film "GoldenEye" goes dark after massive telescope found mysteriously broken https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arecibo-observatory-james-bond-film-goldeneye-telescope-mysteriously-broken-puerto-rico/ Real cause found: Boys with toys: "GoldenEye - The Dish " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HFkF8904Uw

BBC News - Mars, meteorites and the search for life https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53529551

Citizen Scientists Create an Exascale Computer to Combat COVID-19 | bioRxiv
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.27.175430v1

Katie Mack: 'Knowing how the universe will end is freeing' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53607943

James Lovelock: Gaia theory creator on coronavirus and turning 101 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53644147

Let's Discuss These Pentagon UFO Videos - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McVqKmUaaok

The Aliens Are Coming! with Ben Miller and Jim Al-Khalili https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FfNrO6vGTs https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28929111-the-aliens-are-coming-the-exciting-and-extraordinary-science-behind-our

BBC News - Egypt tells Elon Musk its pyramids were not built by aliens

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-53627888

Iter: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53573294

BBC News - Nasa Mars rover: How Perseverance will hunt for signs of past life

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53378023

Mars In 4K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEyAs3NWH4A&feature=youtu.be

[23 Jul 2020 22:09:45] <UINRelay> [] <@Yendred> Security issue fixed [23:19:01] <Yendred> 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

It would be safer to wait until Berkeley fixes the problem :

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

Posted: 22 Jul 2020, 14:33:47 UTC

Eric answers:

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...

11 Space Anomalies From New SETI's Exotica Catalog - YouTube
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

A SETI Reality Check
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/07/03/a-seti-reality-check/

What Can SETI Scholars Learn from the Covid-19 Pandemic?
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/07/10/what-can-seti-scholars-learn-from-the-covid-19-pandemic/

This Makes Us Feel So Damn Tiny. No Wonder It's Going to be Tough Waiting for an Intelligent Signal(s). : space
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/htt4hi/this_makes_us_feel_so_damn_tiny_no_wonder_its/

Nasa asks alien-hunting institute to make sure extraterrestrials do not contaminate Earth | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/nasa-seti-contract-alien-hunting-contamination-earth-missions-a9615731.html

MLC@Home is a new distributed computing project dedicated to understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models, with an emphasis on neural networks. https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/

BOINC_Projects_Call_2020_06_25 - Google Drive
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1HfR_062qvVq-HWMd3OKo9zfIVvneRT1E Content description https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=13463&postid=99468

BoincNetwork (@BOINCNetwork) / https://twitter.com/BOINCNetwork https://www.boinc.network/

First Ever Exposed Core of a Planet And Largest Terrestrial World Found - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oFh33gw-Eo

Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Free course on Coursera https://www.coursera.org/learn/astrobiology ...

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 ...

2020.07.07 Here's how to view Comet NEOWISE as it races towards Earth | CTV News https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/sci-tech/a-new-comet-will-be-visible-for-early-risers-as-it-races-closer-to-earth-1.5014178

Voyager: Inside the world's greatest space mission - BBC Future
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170818-voyager-inside-the-worlds-greatest-space-mission

[Skeptoid] #729: The LUCIFER Telescope Conspiracy #skeptoid https://podcastaddict.com/episode/106355417

Solee - They will come for us (Original Mix) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSlq-bBd-3M

The Life Scientific - Myles Allen on understanding climate change - BBC Sounds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000fgcn https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fgcn Released On: 18 Feb 2020 - Professor Myles Allen (climateprediction.net) has spent thirty years studying global climate change, trying to working out what we can and can't predict. He was one of the first scientists to quantify the extent to which human actions are responsible for global warming. As a lead author on the 3rd Assessment by the International Panel on Climate Change in 2001, he concluded that ‘most of the observed global warming was due to human influence’. More recently, (having established that calculating a safe concentration of greenhouse gases was very difficult indeed), he worked out instead how many tonnes of carbon would be acceptable, a shift in emphasis that paved the way for the current Net Zero carbon emissions policy. Myles tells Jim Al-Khalili how our ability to predict climate change has evolved from the early days when scientists had to rely on the combined computing power of hundreds of thousands of personal computers. He sheds light on how the IPCC works and explains why, he believes, fossil fuel industries must be forced to take back the carbon dioxide that they emit. If carbon capture and storage technologies makes their products more expensive, so be it. Producer: Anna Buckley

Society for Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology (SSoCIA) | Philosophy and Religion | University of Mississippi https://egrove.olemiss.edu/ssocia/

https://www.planetary.org/blogs/your-impact-june-solstice-2020.html

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.

NAVY release UFO documents - Prof simon breaks down the "secrets", hiding in plain sight, contained in these de-classified documents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YodfGROo-YA

Aliens From Inner Space - Seductive Soul EP [#psybient #music] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkt-L_n-Smc

Angel Technologies ] by Hadron Orchestra
https://soundcloud.com/hadronorchestra/angel-technologies-full-album

Perigeum Mix [ Full Album ] by Hadron Orchestra
https://soundcloud.com/hadronorchestra/hadron-orchestra-perigeum-mix

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SSLOI #32

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Mon, 25 May 2020 11:20:00 +0000

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"In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance." - Henry Miller

BOINC

A new version of BOINC is available (7.16.7) https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php ...

Upcoming challenges :

World Community Grid
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31 May, 2020 - BOINC upload problems with LHC, Rosetta or other https:// projects (Windows) - Until a permanent fix is made available, replace the ca-bundle.crt file (1) in the main BOINC directory and uploads should now work (force uploads/updates, no reboot necessary). The old 7.4.53 BOINC version for Android might be dead in the water for a while(fix requires root access). Some projects not requiring a secure connection are still functional. Linux, MAC versions appear to be unaffected. The future 7.16.7 release might fix this. Source : ... https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=14006&postid=96886#96886 ... https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=13758 .. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=13758 .. . (1) https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AAVyh7jontFKASg&id=B0BF9B80B38343C5%216 ... https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=13758 .. 65&cid=B0BF9B80B38343C5 .. https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/3789 ..See also Fixing the Breakage from the AddTrust External CA Root Expiration https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fixing_the_addtrust_root_expiration ...

Download BOINC client software
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Windows 64-bit - Vista/7/8/8.1/10
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28 May 2020
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SUNET has released a BOINC client that simplifies participation https://sunet.cc/#/ https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=13789 .. SUNET - first impressions https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=13792 ...

Citizen Science Discoveries: Exoplanets and Asteroids https://youtu.be/2CsdcIF5RdM ....

SETI

Why Look for Extraterrestrial Life? | SETI Institute https://seti.org/why-look-extraterrestrial-life ...

Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Coursera https://www.coursera.org/learn/astrobiology ...

How to Talk to Aliens - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xna-kdXZQHQ ///

Q&A 122: How Will We Know It's Alien Life? https://youtu.be/JrLNJ3FM_u4 ...

My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence. It changed astronomy. - by Nadia Drake, 19 juin 2020 13:48

https ://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/06/father-launched-quest-find-alien-intelligence-changed-astronomy/ ... / ...

Nasa funds major new search for signs of life elsewhere in the universe | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/aliens-nasa-study-proof-extraterrestrial-life-seti-harvard-rochester-smithsonian-a9576121.html ...

10 SETI Technosignatures We May Not Want to See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGFe4ApheLM ...

Super-Earths that could be home to alien life discovered nearby, scientists say | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/super-earth-space-alien-life-planets-gliese-887-solar-system-a9586011.html ...

How Astrobiologists search for life on other planets - Are we alone in the universe? Astrobiologist Dr. Graham Lau is searching for the answer. We talk the search for life on other planets, Shadow Biospheres here on Earth, how life started and what happens if we find intelligent life - or it finds us. https://youtu.be/8AhxtCFHEQA ...

Astronomers may have found an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star - CNN .. https ://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/world/exoplanet-sun-earth-solar-system-kepler160-scn-trnd/index.html ..

A 'Code' in Starlight Reflected Off Distant Planets Could Reveal if They're Habitable - DAVID NIELD, 23 MAY 2020 https://www.sciencealert.com/surface-reflections-of-starlight-on-distant-planets-could-reveal-which-ones-are-habitable ..

BBC News - Breathtaking new map of the X-ray Universe https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53102718 ...

SETI Institute - Early Asteroid Impact Detection: Defending the Planet One Asteroid at a Time - 7 pm PDT, 10 pm EST, 2 am UTC, June 17th 2920 https://youtu.be/DUM6RVB0--E ...

NASA Explains Moon Return Plans in Stunning Animated Short https://youtu.be/qMMguZLZxhk ..

BBC News - Solar Orbiter: Europe's Sun mission makes first close pass
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53045359 ...

BBC News - The United Arab Emirates reaches for the Red Planet http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32919988 .. https://www.mbrsc.ae/ (note: site appears to have been compromised June 9th 2020) .. @MBRSpaceCentre (Twitter) ..

BBC News - Planet's satellites aim for still sharper view of Earth
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52980330 ..

BBC News - Europe's supercomputers hijacked by attackers for crypto mining

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52709660 ...

Could We Terraform Mars? https://youtu.be/FshtPsOTCP4 ...

COVID-19 vaccine tracker | RAPS
https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2020/3/covid-19-vaccine-tracker ...

There Is No Coronavirus Cure But Plenty of Unproven Remedies Keep Popping Up https://youtu.be/VbgRGJqB0hY ...

Coronavirus: Hunting for future killer viruses - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-52786714/coronavirus-hunting-for-future-killer-viruses

BBC News - Dinosaur asteroid's trajectory was 'perfect storm'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52795929

BBC News - Coronavirus: Satellite traffic images may suggest virus hit Wuhan earlier

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52975934 ..

Pooping for public health—coronavirus in sewage could warn of outbreaks https://arstechnica.com/?p=1679535 ...

Why we can't go faster than the speed of light - BBC Reel https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p04v97r0/this-video-explains-why-we-cannot-go-faster-than-light ..

BBC News - George Floyd: Anonymous hackers re-emerge amid US unrest

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52879000. ...

News In Photos - Confused Primitive Extraterrestrial Shrugs, Take Huge Bite Of Golden Record - 5/21/20 8:07AM https://www.theonion.com/confused-primitive-extraterrestrial-shrugs-take-huge-b-1843583025 ..

Coronavirus: The mystery of 'silent spreaders' https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52840763 ..

5 products that come from outer space - can't get to space? Why not bring space to you? https://bigthink.com/gear/space-products ..

Solee - They will come for us (Original Mix) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSlq-bBd-3M ///

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SSLOI #31 | 2020.04.10 - 2020.04.2X

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:09:00 +0000

SSLOI #31

RSS Feeds 2020.04.20

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▶︎ CORONAVIRUS COVID-19

As SETI@homes hibernates, join the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus (desktops/laptops/tablets/smartphones) through
Rosetta@home (BOINC) https://boinc.bakerlab.org
Fold.it https://fold.it (game/citizen science)
Folding@home https://foldingathome.org (stand-alone/non-BOINC)
or OpenPandemics (soon via World Community Grid/BOINC) https://www.ibm.org/OpenPandemics

crowdfight covid19 - An initiative from the scientific community to put all available resources at the service of the fight against COVID-19 https://crowdfightcovid19.org

Join the fight against COVID-19 (High Performance Computing Consortium) https://covid19-hpc-consortium.org Adhesion requests https://www.xsede.org/covid19-hpc-consortium

▶︎ SETI@HOME

▶︎ BOINC

BOINC version 7.16.5 (Windows) released; security & stability fixes / If your version is older than 7.2 you should upgrade asap. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Release_Notes .
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php .. ..

Platforms On Which We BOINC : "We discuss DreamLabs, COVID19 Projects, the BOINC update, and all the platforms on which we can BOINC, from Android to Windows to iOS." https://www.boinc.network/episode/platforms-on-which-we-boinc ..

▶︎ ASTROBIOLOGY

To study the history of life on Earth and look for it beyond our planet, scientists in the field of astrobiology look for signs called “biosignatures.” NASA Goddard researcher Heather Graham discusses some of the oldest evidence of life on Earth and what scientists are searching for when they look for biosignatures in ancient rocks. By looking at what life on Earth was like millions and even billions of years ago, astrobiologists can make predictions about what signs of life could be hiding in the rest of the solar system and beyond. https://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/63552/ ..

SIMULATING EARLY OCEAN VENTS SHOWS LIFE’S BUILDING BLOCKS FORM UNDER PRESSURE https://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/simulating-early-ocean-vents-shows-lifes-building-blocks-form-under-pressure/ ..

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SSLOI #30 | 2020.03.01 — 2020.04.10

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:52:00 +0000

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▶︎ SETI@HOME

1 Apr 2020, 21:12:20 UTC - "The last chunk of new SETI@home work has gone out. There's still a little astropulse to be split when disk space clears. Beyond that, there's only resends when validation fails. Thanks for staying 'til the end." - Eric Korpela https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85412&postid=2042379 ..

2020.04.01 - FORA: "We will have to replace the RAC > 1 requirement with a total credit requirement. We may also have to come up with an endorsement process to allow new users." - Eric Korpela https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85412&postid=2042179#2042179 ..

2020.03.31 HIBERNATION: "As promised, we've stopped the process that puts new data into the queue today. Data distribution will continue until the files shown on the status pages are done. We'll be accepting results and resending results that didn't validate for a while." - Eric Korpela https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85412&postid=2042009#2042009 ..

AMA 2020.03.25 - Q. "Why did you shelve SETI@home?"
A. "SETI@home is [a] project of the Berkeley SETI Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, not the SETI Institute, but the short answer is that the small SETI@home team needs to concentrate their resources on examining the results produced thus far rather than sending out new data. But stay tuned! There will be some exciting new ways to get involved in SETI announced soon! - AS (Andrew Simeion, SETI Institute director) https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/foty97/we_are_scientists_and_engineers_working_on_the/flh7cuv/ ..

New in SETI Perspectives: "How did life begin on Earth and elsewhere?" by Dr Richard Lawn
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85360#2038992

SETI@home Is Over. But the Search for Alien Life Continues | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/setihome-is-over-but-the-search-for-alien-life-continues/ ..

Breakthrough [Listen] is also being shepherded by the Berkeley SETI Research Center, but its data firehose would overwhelm a distributed computing program like SETI@home to search through it all. Instead, to parse through the data it uses massive banks of GPUs at the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia running advanced search algorithms.“Developing these new algorithms and bringing them on site is really the way to crack this problem today,” says Steve Croft, Breakthrough Listen’s project scientist at the Green Bank Telescope. “It’s just not feasible anymore to go over the internet to individual users.”

Each day, the telescopes around the world that contribute to Breakthrough Listen generate more than 100 terabytes of raw data. Even if there were enough people volunteering their computers to analyze it, the internet connections at the telescopes can’t push the data onto the net fast enough. As Croft says, it was time to “bring the computers to the data” and do as much processing of radio signals on site as possible.

The grandfather of distributed computing projects, SETI@home, shuts down – Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/the-grandfather-of-distributed-computing-projects-setihome-shuts-down/ ..

Farewell SETI@Home | Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2020/03/06/farewell-setihome/ ..

SETI@Home ends, The search for alien life is over | The Intelligencer https://www.lintelligencer.com/setihome-ends-the-search-for-alien-life-is-over-2575-2020/ ..

'All the data we need': Seti computing project paused after 20 years | Science | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/05/all-the-data-we-need-seti-computing-project-wound-up-after-20-years ..

After 1.5 million days of computer time, SETI@home heads home to probe potential signs of alien civilizations • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/04/seti_at_home_halt/ ..

Nebula: science goals | If we don't find ET, our secondary goal is to quantify the sensitivity of the search. Read about some ideas about how we can do this in the Nebula blog.
7 Mar 2020, 4:44:49 UTC https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85311&postid=2036357#2036357 .. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85312 ..

Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation

	Message 2035163 - Posted: 2 Mar 2020, 21:16:23 UTC On March 31, the volunteer computing part of SETI@home will stop distributing work and will go into hibernation. We're doing this for two reasons: 1) Scientifically, we're at the point of diminishing returns; basically, we've analyzed all the data we need for now. 2) It's a lot of work for us to manage the distributed processing of data. We need to focus on completing the back-end analysis of the results we already have, and writing this up in a scientific journal paper. However, SETI@home is not disappearing. The web site and the message boards will continue to operate. We hope that other UC Berkeley astronomers will find uses for the huge computing capabilities of SETI@home for SETI or related areas like cosmology and pulsar research. If this happens, SETI@home will start distributing work again. We'll keep you posted about this. If you're currently running SETI@home on your computer, we encourage you to attach to other BOINC-based projects as well. Or use Science United and sign up to do astronomy. You can stay attached to SETI@home, of course, but you won't get any jobs until we find new applications. We're extremely grateful to all of our volunteers for supporting us in many ways during the past 20 years. Without you there would be no SETI@home. We're excited to finish up our original science project, and we look forward to what comes next.

All good things must come to an end...
''SETI@home hibernation'' https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85267&postid=2035163 .. Dr Eric Korpela comments : https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85275&postid=2035328#2035328 .. The Nebula portion of the project continues https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=1511 . The SETI@home community is maintained along with its Message boards https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_index.php ..

UC Berkeley SETI ..@BerkeleySETI .. Thanks to the many volunteers who have helped crunch data for SETI@home in the last two decades. On March 31, the project will stop sending out new work to users, but this is not the end of public engagement in SETI research. 8:15 PM · Mar 2, 2020

.. @BerkeleySETI

Data volumes from projects like @brkthroughprize Listen are huge, requiring us to bring computing resources to the data rather than the other way round. But we still seek to engage the world in helping to develop algorithms and analyze data: breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/28

UC Berkeley SETI

@BerkeleySETI

Stay tuned …. We have some exciting new ways for the public to contribute to SETI@Berkeley that we will announce in the near future. 8:15 PM · Mar 2, 2020

2020.03.24 - Opportunities to Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09639 ..

Europe - The Final Countdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw ..

THERE IS NO PLANET B

▶︎ SETI

Life as We Don’t Know It https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/life-as-we-dont-know-it/ "If we’re going to find extraterrestrials, we need to stop assuming they’ll think like humans"

Reddit AMA 25 March 2020 - " We are scientists and engineers working on the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) at SETI Institute. AUA!" https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/foty97/we_are_scientists_and_engineers_working_on_the/ ..

Asteroids@home... Because an asteroid will eventually come around here to check how our space programs are doing. http://asteroidsathome.net

A great post about Dysonian SETI in ''Signs of Life on Ancient Mars?" https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85356&postid=2039740#2039740 ..

We asked astronomers: are we alone in the Universe? The answer was surprisingly consistent. https://theconversation.com/we-asked-astronomers-are-we-alone-in-the-universe-the-answer-was-surprisingly-consistent-132088 ...

Interference is a huge problem. It's really easy to find signals from technology - much harder to eliminate the ones which have been generated by us pesky humans. As the field of machine learning has massively grown, there are probably a lot of techniques that those outside the field of SETI are familiar with that are only just making inroads to the SETI community. If you're an at home nerd with those skills, check out some SETI data from the Breakthrough Listen Initiative! It never hurts to look at data in new ways --

The main data repository is at: https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/opendatasearch and there is an additional beta version at http://seti.berkeley.edu/opendata

Our github repository hosting code and walkthroughs is a good place to learn more about our searches: https://github.com/UCBerkeleySETI/breakthrough [AMA]

▶︎ BOINC

Updated BOINC Clients for Win 64, Mac OS X 64 and Linux 64 have been released for public use https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Release_Notes_for_BOINC_7.16 ..

The future of BOINC (6 Apr 2020) - Android apps is questionable now that Google has implemented new policy of only signed apps being distributed by the app store. Got notification that Vitalii and David Anderson are looking for developers to completely change how Android BOINC native executable apps are developed and packaged to make them compatible with Google's new policies. https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/system/sepolicy/+/804149  https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/3561 (source : Keith Myers)

IBM.org - OpenPandemics https://www.ibm.org/OpenPandemics ..

▶︎ DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING

WCG has released an open paper about future plans about covid-19 here / https://www.ibm.org/OpenPandemics ..

IBM (through https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org) will soon join research efforts (Rosetta@home, Folding@home, Fold.it) in the fight against COVID-19 with OpenPandemics https://www.ibm.org/OpenPandemics ..

Coronavirus: How your PC's spare computing power could help discover potential COVID-19 treatments | ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/coronavirus-how-your-pcs-spare-computing-power-could-help-discover-potential-covid-19-treatments/ ..

▶︎ CITIZEN SCIENCE

[AMA] We are scientists who use computers to design COVID-19 vaccine candidates — AND we’re part of the team behind https://Fold.it, the computer game that lets anyone craft new antivirals. Ask us anything! : COVID19 https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/frt2za/crosspost_we_are_scientists_who_use_computers_to/ ..

▶︎ COVID-19 & EPIDEMIOLOGY

How to track the coronavirus: Dashboard delivers real-time view of the deadly virus | ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-track-the-coronavirus-dashboard-delivers-real-time-view-of-the-deadly-virus/ ..

▶︎ ASTROBIOLOGY

Life found in rocks beneath the ocean floor give scientists hope of finding life on Mars - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/world/earth-ocean-rock-life-mars-scn/index.html ..

▶︎ EXOPLANETS

Astronomy student discovers 17 new planets, including Earth-sized world -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200228073146.htm ..

▶︎ PLANETOLOGY

Earth formed much faster than previously thought - Astrobiology Magazine https://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/earth-formed-much-faster-than-previously-thought/ ..

▶︎ SPACE

NASA calls on public to help improve RASSOR Moon-mining robot https://newatlas.com/space/nasa-public-help-improve-rassor-moon-mining-robot/ https://grabcad.com/challenges/nasa-regolith-advanced-surface-systems-operations-robot-rassor-bucket-drum-design-challenge ..

Solar Orbiter launch preparations - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw0w2qb-2eU&feature=youtu.be ..

Space Bites: Becoming a planetary explorer | Matthias Maurer - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvk3TNNURI .. .. .. .

Voyager and the Deep Space Network Upgrade https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/03/05/voyager-and-the-deep-space-network-upgrade/ .. ..

Calculating Life’s Possibilities on Titan by PAUL GILSTERon MARCH 4, 2020 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/03/04/calculating-lifes-possibilities-on-titan/ ..

Possible Worlds' takes us back into a universe of science - https://www.space.com/cosmos-possible-worlds-season-3-premiere.html .. Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Carl Sagan's original 'Cosmos.'

Pearl Jam's 'Gigaton' boldly goes to the Red Planet, has 'Apollo' launch on SiriusXM

These 4 Pieces Of Evidence Have Already Taken Us Beyond The Big Bang https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/these-4-pieces-of-evidence-have-already-taken-us-beyond-the-big-bang-5d0005bad7ed?source=rss----458a773bccd2---4 ..

Two Mars Missions Are Gutted Despite Near-Record Funding for Planetary Science | Strong funding for NASA's Planetary Science Division isn't enough to support MSL Curiosity and Mars Odyssey, apparently https://www.planetary.org/blogs/casey-dreier/2020/fy-2021-pbr-for-planetary-science.html ..

Using Gaia as a Gravitational-Wave Detector | astrobites https://astrobites.org/2020/03/02/using-gaia-as-a-gravitational-wave-detector/ ..

Bad Astronomy | The Earth has a new minimoon! But not for long… https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-earth-has-a-new-minimoon-but-not-for-long ..

Chinese moon rover peers beneath surface of mysterious lunar far side | Space https://www.space.com/china-change-4-moon-far-side-subsurface.html ..

Alien-life hunters are eyeing icy ocean moons Europa and Enceladus | Space https://www.space.com/alien-life-ocean-moons-europa-enceladus.html ..

Scientists eye the Martian underground in search for alien life | Space https://www.space.com/alien-life-hunt-mars-underground.html ..

▶︎ SCIENCE

David Baker: 5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins | TED Talk https://www.ted.com/talks/david_baker_5_challenges_we_could_solve_by_designing_new_proteins ..

The Audacious Project https://www.audaciousproject.org ..

Coronavirus massive simulations completed on Frontera supercomputer: New simulations can help researchers design new drugs and vaccines to combat the coronavirus -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200324102720.htm ...

The world's fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading, a crucial step toward a treatment - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/us/fastest-supercomputer-coronavirus-scn-trnd/index.html ..

World's Fastest Supercomputer, Summit, Joins The Battle Against COVID-19 https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-joins-the-battle-against-covid19/

Fight climate change like it's World War III: 4 potent weapons to deploy https://phys.org/news/2020-03-climate-world-war-iii-potent.html ..

News | Greenland, Antarctica Melting Six Times Faster Than in the 1990s https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7616 ..

At CMS, artificial neural networks search for exotic particles | CERN https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/cms-artificial-neural-networks-search-exotic-particles ..

New study allows brain and artificial neurons to link up over the web -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200226110843.htm ..

Why is there any matter in the universe at all? New study sheds light: Scientists one step closer to understanding the mystery of matter in the universe -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200228142022.htm ..

Unique material could unlock new functionality in semiconductors: Researchers synthesized ferroelectric material that can be manipulated using light in previously impossible ways -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200228170329.htm ..

Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic: A deep-learning model identifies a powerful new drug that can kill many species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200220141748.htm ..

▶︎ SCIENCE-FICTION

From Soviet to science fiction icon, the weird life of Isaac Asimov 100 years on • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/06/isaac_asimov_100_years_on/ ..

▶︎ TELEVISON AND PREVIEWS

COSMOS on Twitter: "The discoveries of today would not be possible without the sacrifices of the past. Yesterday’s scientists are today’s historic heroes. #COSMOS https://t.co/NEf7tkNrvr" / Twitter https://twitter.com/COSMOSonTV/status/1239567097018986496 ..

▶︎ HUMOR

Neil deGrasse Tyson On Coronavirus: Will People Listen To Science? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB4FUHHMI24 hhhhh

▶︎ WEIRD

How UFO Sightings Became an American Obsession | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/how-ufo-sightings-became-an-american-obsession/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_1 ..

BBC - Ogopogo, Canada’s mysterious lake monster http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200309-ogopogo-the-monster-lurking-in-okanagan-lake ..

First US coronavirus death follows Trump claim outbreak is a hoax | World news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/29/joe-biden-trump-coronavirus-hoax-claim ..

▶︎ OTHER NEWS

▶︎ MUSIC

Unique non-oxygen breathing animal discovered: The tiny relative of the jellyfish is parasitic and dwells in salmon tissue -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200225114408.htm ..

FLOPPY DISK OVERDRIVE | MASTER BOOT RECORD https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/album/floppy-disk-overdrive ..

▶︎ ON REPEAT

Why dying stars may be a good place to look for alien life (2016) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/05/16/why-dying-stars-might-be-a-good-place-to-look-for-alien-life/.

China barred my dystopian novel about how its system enables epidemics - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/china-barred-my-dystopian-novel-about-how-its-system-enables-epidemics/2020/02/27/cc0446f0-58e5-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html “World War Z” imagined a mysterious virus being downplayed by Beijing. Sound familiar?''

▶︎ NEW LINKS UNCATEGORIZED

Mystical Complex & Dapanji - Distigma (Bassfactor Remix) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWeoGaVFOMs ..

Voyager and the Deep Space Network Upgrade by PAUL GILSTER on MARCH 5, 2020 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/03/05/voyager-and-the-deep-space-network-upgrade/ ..

Calculating Life’s Possibilities on Titan by PAUL GILSTERon MARCH 4, 2020 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/03/04/calculating-lifes-possibilities-on-titan/ .. ..

'Cosmos: Possible Worlds' takes us back into a universe of science - https://www.space.com/cosmos-possible-worlds-season-3-premiere.html .. Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Carl Sagan's original 'Cosmos.'

Pearl Jam's 'Gigaton' boldly goes to the Red Planet, has 'Apollo' launch on SiriusXM By Steve Spaleta an hour ago Our changing planet is a muse for the legendary grunge rockers. https://www.space.com/pearl-jam-gigaton-record-review.html ..

Surprise! Earth and the moon aren't made of exactly the same stuff. By Charles Q. Choi 5 hours ago The new findings provide a boost to the giant-impact theory of the moon's origin. https://www.space.com/earth-moon-different-compositions-surprise.html ..

Tenacious bacteria flourish on space station, but they're no more dangerous than Earth bugs By Chelsea Gohd 3 days ago It turns out that bacteria contaminating the drinking water on the International Space Station aren't any more dangerous than bacteria here on Earth. https://www.space.com/bacteria-space-station-water-dispenser-not-dangerous.html ..

What's in a name: Why NASA chose 'Perseverance' for its next Mars rover By Mike Wall 3 days ago NASA didn't name its next Mars rover Perseverance just because 'Percy' is a cute nickname. https://www.space.com/why-nasa-chose-perseverance-mars-rover-name.html ..

Is life possible around black holes? By Paul Sutter 3 days ago A new research paper has found a new potential type of abode for life: a rocky planet orbiting just past the event horizon of a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole. https://www.space.com/is-life-possible-around-black-holes.html ..

'They Are Already Here' starts with a total solar eclipse and a UFO. (Book Excerpt) By Sarah Scoles a day ago Read an excerpt from the new book "They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers" by Sarah Scoles. https://www.space.com/they-are-already-here-ufo-culture-book-excerpt.html ..

Designing 'Avenue 5': HBO's epic space cruise ship comedy's look explained By Tariq Malik a day ago https://www.space.com/avenue-5-space-cruise-ship-design-explained.html ..

Two Mars Missions Are Gutted Despite Near-Record Funding for Planetary Science | Strong funding for NASA's Planetary Science Division isn't enough to support MSL Curiosity and Mars Odyssey, apparently https://www.planetary.org/blogs/casey-dreier/2020/fy-2021-pbr-for-planetary-science.html ..

Using Gaia as a Gravitational-Wave Detector | astrobites https://astrobites.org/2020/03/02/using-gaia-as-a-gravitational-wave-detector/ ..

Bad Astronomy | The Earth has a new minimoon! But not for long… https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-earth-has-a-new-minimoon-but-not-for-long ..

Chinese moon rover peers beneath surface of mysterious lunar far side | Space https://www.space.com/china-change-4-moon-far-side-subsurface.html ..

Alien-life hunters are eyeing icy ocean moons Europa and Enceladus | Space https://www.space.com/alien-life-ocean-moons-europa-enceladus.html ..

Scientists eye the Martian underground in search for alien life | Space https://www.space.com/alien-life-hunt-mars-underground.html ..

▶︎ SCIENCE

New study allows brain and artificial neurons to link up over the web -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200226110843.htm ..

Why is there any matter in the universe at all? New study sheds light: Scientists one step closer to understanding the mystery of matter in the universe -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200228142022.htm ..

Unique material could unlock new functionality in semiconductors: Researchers synthesized ferroelectric material that can be manipulated using light in previously impossible ways -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200228170329.htm ..

Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic: A deep-learning model identifies a powerful new drug that can kill many species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200220141748.htm ..

▶︎ HUMOR

▶︎ WEIRD

First US coronavirus death follows Trump claim outbreak is a hoax | World news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/29/joe-biden-trump-coronavirus-hoax-claim ..

▶︎ OTHER

Free online courses - full list — Class Central https://www.classcentral.com/report/new-online-courses/

▶︎ MUSIC

Mystical Complex & Dapanji - Distigma (Bassfactor Remix) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWeoGaVFOMs ..

▶︎ ON REPEAT

Why dying stars may be a good place to look for alien life (2016) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/05/16/why-dying-stars-might-be-a-good-place-to-look-for-alien-life/ ..

China barred my dystopian novel about how its system enables epidemics - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/china-barred-my-dystopian-novel-about-how-its-system-enables-epidemics/2020/02/27/cc0446f0-58e5-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html “World War Z” imagined a mysterious virus being downplayed by Beijing. Sound familiar?''

Green auroras dance over Iceland in awesome fisheye video https://www.space.com/green-auroras-over-iceland-seljalandsfoss-cliffs-video.html ..

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SSLOI #29 | 2020.02.22 — 2020.02.29

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:11:00 +0000

SSLOI #29 | 2020.02.22 @ 22:02:02 — 2020.02.29

Links (long) https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com (short) https://tinyurl.com/SSLOI | RSS Feeds https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default | https://feeds.feedburner.com/SETIathomeScienceIRClinks ...

"Seti searches are surely worthwhile, despite the heavy odds against success, because the stakes are so high." -- Professor Martin Rees

— SETI@HOME —

Dan Werthimer (SETI@home) and Seth Shostak (SETI Institute) feature in the "SoundWorks Collection: Space is a Sound'' documentary https://vimeo.com/390859057 details https://soundworkscollection.com/post/space-is-a-sound ..

First SETI Observations with China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) Draft version February 7, 2020 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.02130.pdf .. ABSTRACT: "The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) attempts to address the possibility of the presence of technological civilizations beyond the Earth. Benefiting from high sensitivity, large sky coverage, an innovative feed cabin for China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we performed the SETI first observations with FAST’s newly commisioned 19-beam receiver; we report preliminary results in this paper. Using the data stream produced by the SERENDIP VI realtime multibeam SETI spectrometer installed at FAST, as well as its off-line data processing pipelines, we identify and remove four kinds of radio frequency interference(RFI): zone, broadband, multi-beam,and drifting, utilizing the Nebula SETI software pipeline combined with machine learning algorithms. After RFI mitigation, the Nebula pipeline identifies and ranks interesting narrow band candidate ET signals, scoring candidates by the number of times candidate signals have been seen at roughly the same sky position and same frequency, signal strength, proximity to a nearby star or object of interest, along with several other scoring criteria. We show four example candidates groups that demonstrate these RFI mitigation and candidate selection. This preliminary testing on FAST data helps to validate our SETI instrumentation techniques as well as our data processing pipeline." Keywords: astrobiology - SETI - extraterrestrial intelligence - instrumentation - spectrometer - skysurvey - NEBULA - SETI@home - Eric Korpela - Jeff Cobb - David Anderson - Dan Werthimer

— SETI —

Freeman Dyson, quantum physicist who imagined alien megastructures, has died at 96 | Space https://www.space.com/freeman-dyson-dead-at-96.html ..

Detecting Extraterrestrial Technologies and Life — American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, Feb. 2020 https://science.nrao.edu/science/meetings/2020/aaas ..

Scientists Need Help Looking for Aliens in Massive New Trove of SETI Data https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dm5pq/scientists-need-help-looking-for-aliens-in-massive-new-trove-of-seti-data The Breakthrough Listen project just released two petabytes of SETI data, and anyone from scientists to coders with experience in Python and a bit of gumption can look for signs of extraterrestrial life https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/opendatasearch ..

The Next Generation of Super-Sensitive Alien Hunting Telescopes Is Coming - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvgyx5/the-next-generation-of-super-sensitive-alien-hunting-telescopes-is-coming ..

No Signs of Alien Tech Found by SETI Scans of Our Interstellar Visitor 2I/Borisov https://www.sciencealert.com/scans-of-mysterious-interstellar-comet-2i-borisov-reveal-no-signs-of-alien-technology ...

SETI and other alien-hunting strategies are dealing with new tools — and new troubles https://ca.news.yahoo.com/seti-other-alien-hunting-strategies-022608483.html ..

SETI Researchers Release Petabytes of Data in the Search For Aliens - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/145047/seti-researchers-release-petabytes-of-data-in-the-search-for-aliens/ ..

Is there anybody out there? - The search for extraterrestrial intelligence moves up a gear | Science and technology | The Economist https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/02/20/the-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence-moves-up-a-gear ...

9 Strange, Scientific Excuses for Why Humans Haven't Found Aliens Yet | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/63208-alien-life-excuses.html ..

Could Alien Life Travel on Interstellar Asteroids and Comets like 'Oumuamua? | Discover Magazine https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/could-alien-life-travel-on-interstellar-asteroids-and-comets-like-oumuamua ..

If we find alien life, can we avoid harming it? | Astronomy.com https://astronomy.com/news/2019/09/if-we-find-alien-life-can-we-avoid-harming-it ..

Will recent advances in AI result in a paradigm shift in Astrobiology and SETI? | International Journal of Astrobiology | Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/will-recent-advances-in-ai-result-in-a-paradigm-shift-in-astrobiology-and-seti/044673CC288498FC3E17C993D296F285 ..

Nine axes of merit for technosignature searches | International Journal of Astrobiology | Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/nine-axes-of-merit-for-technosignature-searches/2F3C599B95AB00A0DF414F1389089D58 ..

"Alien Beacons" -- Radio Astronomers Target C-Band Signal from Artificial Interstellar Technology | The Daily Galaxy https://dailygalaxy.com/2020/02/alien-beacons-radio-astronomers-target-c-band-signal-from-artificial-interstellar-technology/ ..

Looking For Aliens Who Might Be Looking For Us - Astrobiology http://astrobiology.com/2020/02/looking-for-aliens-who-might-be-looking-for-us.html ..

SETI search of interstellar Comet Borisov finds no sign of alien 'technosignatures' | Space https://www.space.com/interstellar-comet-borisov-seti-technosignatures-search.html ..

Scientists eye the Martian underground in search for alien life | Space https://www.space.com/alien-life-hunt-mars-underground.html ..

Quantum SETI - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/quantum-seti/ Vast data sets and machine learning could link SETI to quantum computing

How Deep is the Deepest Hole in the World? - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-deep-is-the-deepest-hole-in-the-world/ ...

VLA observatory to partner with SETI » Albuquerque Journal https://www.abqjournal.com/1422100/vla-observatory-to-partner-with-seti.html ..

From the past - Meet Jill Tarter, the Woman Who Pioneered Our Search for Aliens - VICE 2016 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3k8zzy/jill-tarter-seti-institute-interview ..

A great SETI signal analysis primer by Rob Smith that doesn't make you "bleed by the nose" https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85223&postid=2033544 ...

— BOINC —

BOINC on Android https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=82842&postid=2026334#2026334 .. Both the CPU and Android OS must be either 32 or 64 bits

Pangalactic BOINC Workshop 2020 Forum for BOINC Workshop 2020 participants and information. Event page: https://www.rechenkraft.net/wiki/BOINC_Workshop_2020 ..

— DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING —

Rosetta@home's role in fighting coronavirus https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13533&postid=91772 ...

— CITIZEN SCIENCE —

— COURSES —

Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Coursera https://www.coursera.org/learn/astrobiology? ..

— EXOPLANETS —

Bad Astronomy | First light for the exoplanet hunter mission CHEOPS goes tetrahedral https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/first-light-for-the-exoplanet-hunter-mission-cheops-goes-tetrahedral ..

— SPACE — Asteroids@home... Because an asteroid will eventually come around here to check how our space programs are doing. http://asteroidsathome.net

Alien-life hunters are eyeing icy ocean moons Europa and Enceladus | Space https://www.space.com/alien-life-ocean-moons-europa-enceladus.html ..

First probe to explore far side of the Moon reveals secrets of lunar surface https://ca.news.yahoo.com/first-probe-explore-far-side-190004083.html ..

Bad Astronomy | Space potatoes and rubber duckies: Shattered asteroids reassemble into weird shapes https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/space-potatoes-and-rubber-duckies-shattered-asteroids-reassemble-into-weird-shapes ..

How better propulsion systems can improve space exploration https://phys.org/news/2020-02-propulsion-space-exploration.html ..

Engineers devise a decision map to identify the best mission type to deflect an incoming asteroid https://phys.org/news/2020-02-decision-mission-deflect-incoming-asteroid.html ..

Bad Astronomy | Astronomers find a star dive-bombing our galaxy’s supermassive black hole https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/astronomers-find-a-star-dive-bombing-our-galaxys-supermassive-black-hole ..

What should we do if a 'planet-killer' asteroid takes aim at Earth? | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/how-to-stop-asteroid-from-hitting-earth.html ..

Hackers Could Shut Down Satellites--or Turn Them into Weapons - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hackers-could-shut-down-satellites-or-turn-them-into-weapons/ ..

Flaremageddon: How Satellite Mega-Constellations Could Create A New Natural Disaster https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/02/19/flaremageddon-how-satellite-mega-constellations-could-create-a-new-natural-disaster/#7cd258e249cf ..

What Really Kept American Women From Going To Space For So Long? https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/02/18/what-really-kept-american-women-from-going-to-space-for-so-long/#44a270235e8a ..

InSight to try to push mole into Martian surface - SpaceNews.com https://spacenews.com/insight-to-try-to-push-mole-into-martian-surface/ — Engineers plan to use the robotic arm on its InSight Mars lander to push a heat flow probe into the surface, acknowledging that they have “few alternatives” if that effort fails.

How the Celebrated "Pale Blue Dot" Image Came to Be - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-the-celebrated-pale-blue-dot-image-came-to-be/ ..

NASA Prepares for Moon, Mars With New Addition to Deep Space Network | NASA https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-prepares-for-moon-and-mars-with-new-addition-to-its-deep-space-network ..

— SCIENCE —

The World Isn't Ready for the Coronavirus https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/24/west-coronavirus-china-quarantine-covid-19-pandemic/ ..

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician portrayed in Hidden Figures film has died aged 101 https://ca.news.yahoo.com/katherine-johnson-nasa-mathematician-portrayed-hidden-figures-film-184300318.html ..

What if AI becomes smarter than we are? | MonSFFA http://www.monsffa.ca/?p=9816 ..

Big Picture Science: Climate Changed - Feb 17, 2020 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpb-JAXZ2Z4&list=PLHycHI5gi3giEgPKzZRm37_cQT7xdoiZU&index=2&t=0s ..

How long can the new coronavirus last on surfaces? | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/how-long-coronavirus-last-surfaces.html ..

How Deep is the Deepest Hole in the World? - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-deep-is-the-deepest-hole-in-the-world/ ...

Newly found bacteria fights climate change, soil pollutants https://phys.org/news/2020-02-newly-bacteria-climate-soil-pollutants.html ...

— COMPUTING —

The FBI Wants You To Stop Using Passwords And Do This Instead https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/02/22/the-fbi-wants-you-to-stop-using-passwords-and-do-this-instead/#75a7bdb8512b ..

— HUMOR —

— OTHER NEWS —

List of selfie-related injuries and deaths - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injuries_and_deaths ..

Skeptic of world being round dies in California rocket crash h ttps://phys.org/news/2020-02-skeptic-world-dies-california-rocket.html ..

British 'X-Files' of UFO sightings is going public | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/uk-ufo-reports-soon-released.html ..

7 Things Most Often Mistaken for UFOs | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/32849-7-ways-to-generate-a-great-space-hoax.html ..

— MUSIC —

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SSLOI 2020.02.16

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:32:00 +0000

SSLOI 2020.02.16

"Seti searches are surely worthwhile, despite the heavy odds against success, because the stakes are so high." -- Professor Martin Rees

— SETI@HOME —

The server issues caused by a bloated database have apparently been fixed, but an update to a new 16 TB hd should insure a "definitive" cure.

— SETI —

Astronomers to sweep entire sky for signs of extraterrestrial life | Science | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/15/astronomers-to-sweep-entire-sky-for-signs-of-extraterrestrial-life ..

Astronomers want public funds for intelligent life search - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51223704 "The head of one of the US's national observatories says the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe needs to be taken more seriously. Dr Anthony Beasley told the BBC that there should be greater government support for a field that has been shunned by government research funders for decades. His backing for the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (Seti) marks a sea change in attitudes to a field regarded until recently as fringe science. Dr Beasley made his comments at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in Seattle."

Breakthrough Listen scans Milky Way Galaxy for beacons of civilization | Berkeley News https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/02/14/breakthrough-listen-scans-milky-way-galaxy-for-beacons-of-civilization/ ..

Asteroids@home... Because an asteroid will eventually come around here to check how our space programs are doing. http://asteroidsathome.net

— BOINC —

Rechenkraft.net is proud to be organizing the 2020 BOINC Workshop which is hosted by the Physics Department (AG Astronomie) of the Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany. This annual workshop is designed for researchers, scientists, academics, developers and volunteers with any level of interest in the BOINC open source volunteer computing platform. All are welcome! Dates: 7th-10th of September, 2020 https://www.rechenkraft.net/wiki/BOINC_Workshop_2020

NEW PROJECT:: BlackHoles@Home http://astro.phys.wvu.edu/bhathome/blackholesathome_homepage-en_US.html ..

BOINC Network Podcast on Discord https://discordapp.com/channels/605398931479724074/628659434142564352 https://boinc.network/ Invite link: https://discord.gg/wPRafUq .. https://www.boinc.network/ https://twitter.com/BOINCNetwork ..

— CITIZEN SCIENCE —

AstroQuest is an online non-BOINC citizen science project where participants inspect and edit images that will help Australian astronomers understand how galaxies grow and evolve. https://astroquest.net.au/about/ .. It is perfect for those times when your favorite BOINC projects are down :) See the article "Volunteers needed to help unlock the secrets of the Universe" | University of Western Australia http://www.news.uwa.edu.au/2019032211292/volunteers-wanted-help-unlock-secrets-universe ... [In a nutshell] The science behind AstroQuest on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/324133654 and a Tutorial https://vimeo.com/324135477 .. NOTE: Also led by the ICRAR was the now completed SkyNet POGS project http://pogs.theskynet.org/index.html ..

— SPACE —

3 years later, what has been learned about 'Oumuamua, our first interstellar visitor ? https://astronomy.com/magazine/2020/02/our-first-interstellar-visitor ..

Mysterious radio signal from space is repeating every 16 days - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/11/world/repeating-fast-radio-burst-pattern-scn-trnd/index.html ..

Riding the Booster with enhanced sound (and take a look at the playlist) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aCOyOvOw5c&list=PLD46FA19058EA0F50&index=1 ..

NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth https://www.inverse.com/science/nasa-brings-voyager-2-fully-back-online-11.5-billion-miles-from-earth ..

NASA reveals the 2 things you need to qualify for a trip to the Moon https://www.inverse.com/science/nasa-reveals-2-things-you-need-to-qualify-for-trip-to-moon ..This may be the most exciting job listing of all time. NASA is looking for the next Neil Armstrong.

In 2021, NASA's flying telescope SOFIA might lose its wings https://www.inverse.com/science/2021-nasa-flying-telescope-sofia-might-lose-its-wings ..

— SCIENCE —

The global fight against coronavirus - BBC Future https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200210-coronavirus-finding-a-cure-to-fight-the-symptoms ..

CERN highlights from 2019 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=fWvrqF8p5Hg&feature=emb_title ...

— HUMOR —

Corey S. Powell on Twitter: "I guess "Smallish asteroid with well-known orbit will pass not-particularly close to Earth this weekend, with zero chance of impact" is not an exciting headline. But it's the right one. https://t.co/zpBnSWcfnk https://t.co/37outjtLxI" / Twitter https://twitter.com/coreyspowell/status/1228444943150198789 ..

— MUSIC —

Uncharted Worlds by Mark Petrie Composer https://soundcloud.com/mark-22/uncharted-worlds ..

Quantum by Mark Petrie Composer | https://soundcloud.com/mark-22/quantum-audiomachine ..

Resurgence by Mark Petrie Composer | https://soundcloud.com/mark-22/resurgence ..

Approaching the Summit by Mark Petrie Composer https://soundcloud.com/mark-22/approaching-the-summit . ..

Open Future by Mark Petrie Composer https://soundcloud.com/mark-22/open-future ..

Reaching Horizon by Mark Petrie Composer https://soundcloud.com/mark-22/reaching-horizon ..

Battersea by Mark Petrie Composer https://soundcloud.com/mark-22/oro ..

Solaris Rising - as heard in Westworld Season 2 by Mark Petrie Composer https://soundcloud.com/mark-22/solaris-rising ..

Cahokia by Mark Petrie Composer https://soundcloud.com/mark-22/cahokia ..

New Dawn by Mark Petrie Composer https://soundcloud.com/mark-22/new-dawn ..

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SSLOI 2020/02/11

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 06:07:00 +0000

SSLOI and RSS Feeds

Links: Long https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com Short https://tinyurl.com/SSLOI Feeds https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default | https://feeds.feedburner.com/SETIathomeScienceIRClinks ...

SETI@home

Android Tip: The SETI@home app (through BOINC https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.berkeley.boinc&hl=en) will work with your Android device if both your CPU and Android OS are matched in bitness, so 32bit/32bit and 64bit/64bit, but not if you're mismatched with a 64bit CPU and 32bit Android. Use tools such as AnTuTu Benchmark to verify this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.antutu.ABenchMark&hl=en ...

Lunatics Installer v0.46 released for 64-bit Windows https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85144&postid=2030148#2030148 ...

SETI@home Uses Citizen Scientists to Search for Aliens | By Jenny McGrath, February 1, 2020 https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/setihome-citizen-scientists-extraterrestrial-intelligence/ “Over the last 20 years, we’ve gotten billions and billions of potential signals,” said Korpela. “I think at last count, it was close to 20 billion potential signals in our database.” He and the team are working on software to analyze all that information. In some upcoming papers, the team will list the most promising areas of the sky. The software injects signals that the SETI@home team believes mimics what an E.T. would send. Thus far, it hasn’t found anything that resembles this artificial extraterrestrial intelligence. If anything looks interesting, Korpela hopes others might take a look. China’s new FAST Radio Telescope is one of the world’s most powerful. “Maybe if you point a bigger telescope at it, maybe it is interesting,” Korpela said of some of the potential spots. “So that sort of thing might raise the interest of more people, I think.”

If you're running Windows 10 you can now update your Nvidia Graphic cards to Studio driver 442.19 to resolve an issue with certain types of work units in Seti@home. https://www.facebook.com/groups/317689381579505/permalink/3270948126253601/ ...

SETI

Searching for ET with X-ray Lenses | Might an extraterrestrial civilization build giant lenses to grab our attention, magnifying the X-ray light from neutron stars? If they do, Brian Lacki's new paper suggests we might be able to see them http://seti.berkeley.edu:8000/lens-flare/ ... See also "10 Ways SETI Might Detect Alien Civilizations And What They Might Be Like" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmmy-YlGpfc ...

AI could deceive us as much as the human eye does in the search for extraterrestrials https://phys.org/news/2020-01-ai-human-eye-extraterrestrials.html ...

Could Invisible Aliens Really Exist Among Us? " I don't believe that we have been visited by a life form with the technology to travel across the vast distances of space. But we do have evidence for life-forming, carbon-based molecules having arrived on Earth on meteorites, so the evidence certainly doesn't rule out the same possibility for more unfamiliar life forms." | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/could-invisible-aliens-exist-here-astrobiology.html ...

Interstellar Influenza? Space Viruses Could Reveal Alien Life | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/61515-astrovirology-viruses-at-large.html ...

Meet SETI@home chief scientist Dan Werthimer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7twYZzQxeV0 ...

Cosmic Queries – ALIENS! with Jake Roper - StarTalk Radio Show by Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.startalkradio.net/show/cosmic-queries-aliens-with-jake-roper/ ... https://soundcloud.com/startalk/cosmic-queries-aliens-with-1 ...

To find alien life, we should focus on white dwarf stars | Space https://www.space.com/search-alien-life-white-dwarf-stars.html ..

CITIZEN SCIENCE and DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING

An astrophysicist honors citizen scientists in the age of big data | Science News https://www.sciencenews.org/article/astrophysicist-honors-citizen-scientists-age-big-data ..

Searching for Disks - In addition to planets, there are many other interesting and unexplained systems to be found within the TESS data. https://blog.planethunters.org/2020/02/05/searching-for-disks/ ...

IRC

United IRC Networks - powered by IRC4Fun - Internet Relay Chat https://irc4fun.net/uin/ ...UIN (United IRC Networks) is an IRC network interlinker. It allows multiple like-minded (seperate) IRC networks (which may be utilizing different IRC server software than others) to maintain a link together and share channels and users if/as desired. United IRC Networks is powered by PyLink.

EXOPLANETS

Planet-Hunting Satellite Cheops Captures Its First Image | Digital Trends https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/esa-cheops-first-image/ ...

Bad Astronomy | First light for the exoplanet hunter mission CHEOPS goes tetrahedral https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/first-light-for-the-exoplanet-hunter-mission-cheops-goes-tetrahedral ...

SCIENCE

Deep-sea microbe sheds light on primordial evolutionary milestone - Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-microorganism/deep-sea-microbe-sheds-light-on-primordial-evolutionary-milestone-idUSKBN1ZE2RT ... A microorganism scooped up in deep-sea mud off Japan’s coast has helped scientists unlock the mystery of one of the watershed evolutionary events for life on Earth: the transition from the simple cells that first colonized the planet to complex cellular life - fungi, plants and animals including people.

No eyes? No problem. Marine creature expands boundaries of vision - Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-vision/no-eyes-no-problem-marine-creature-expands-boundaries-of-vision-idUSKBN1Z11J3 ... “If our conclusions about the chromatophores are correct, this is a beautiful example of innovation in evolution,” said Lauren Sumner-Rooney, a research fellow at Oxford University Museum of Natural History ...

What if AI becomes smarter than we are? | MonSFFA http://www.monsffa.ca/?p=9816 ..

Of Sails and Supernovae https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/02/04/of-sails-and-supernovae/ ..

ESOblog - Celebrating women at ESO — part I | ESO https://www.eso.org/public/blog/celebrating-women-at-eso-I/ ..

How to track the coronavirus: Dashboard delivers real-time view of the deadly virus | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-track-the-coronavirus-dashboard-delivers-real-time-view-of-the-deadly-virus/
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 ..

- Related: Interstellar Influenza? Space Viruses Could Reveal Alien Life | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/61515-astrovirology-viruses-at-large.html ...

An Interplanetary Internet Using Planetary Atmospheres - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9S21HqfNR0 ...

2 defunct satellites orbiting Earth at risk of colliding | MonSFFA http://www.monsffa.ca/?p=9799 ..

Hairy situation: Scientists explain how stress-related graying occurs - Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-hair/hairy-situation-scientists-explain-how-stress-related-graying-occurs-idUSKBN1ZL2UB ... “Melanocyte stem cells are also lost during aging,” Hsu said. “An interesting hypothesis could be that stress is an accelerated aging process. But we don’t know if that is true yet. We sickoes* are interested in torturing many other animals to find out the link.” (* not in the original text)

Meet the Physicist Predicting When Online Hate Will Turn to Real-World Violence | Discover Magazine http://archive.is/EC1ln ..

SPACE

The Downlink: Mars 2020 Ready to Ship, Christina Koch Sets New Record | The Planetary Society https://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/the-downlink-mars-2020-christina-koch.html ..

OneWeb launches 34 satellites from Kazakh cosmodrome in global internet push - Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-oneweb-launch/oneweb-launches-34-satellites-from-kazakh-cosmodrome-in-global-internet-push-idUSKBN20113P ...

SpaceX plan to put 42,000 satellites in orbit could face a big legal roadblock | Digital Trends https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/possible-legal-case-astronomy-satellite-constellation/ ...

Oldest stuff on Earth found inside meteorite that hit Australia - Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-meteorite/oldest-stuff-on-earth-found-inside-meteorite-that-hit-australia-idUSKBN1ZC2CF ...The oldest of 40 tiny dust grains trapped inside the meteorite fragments retrieved around the town of Murchison in Victoria state dated from about 7 billion years ago, about 2.5 billion years before the sun, Earth and rest of our solar system formed, the researchers said.

Solar Orbiter: Sun mission primed for launch - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51420402 .. Solar Orbiter Launch to Spot the Sun - Live launch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X-p5C4SLVo ... (1) The Sun: Crash Course Astronomy #10 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b22HKFMIfWo ...

After another failed launch, Iranian minister says “We’re UNSTOPPABLE!” | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/after-another-failed-launch-iranian-minister-says-were-unstoppable/ ...

Details Revealed of Asteroid So Heavily Cratered It’s Been Dubbed the “Golf Ball Asteroid” https://scitechdaily.com/details-revealed-of-asteroid-so-heavily-cratered-its-been-dubbed-the-golf-ball-asteroid/ ...

This Early Warning Signal Could Successfully Predict Betelgeuse’s Supernova - When the supernova occurs, a whole slew of signals will arrive at once. But there’s one hint that could successfully warn us in advance. https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-early-warning-signal-could-successfully-predict-betelgeuses-supernova-1b4a71a8176 ..

New Horizons Parallax Program Targets Proxima Centauri, Wolf 359 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/02/03/new-horizons-parallax-program-targets-proxima-centauri-wolf-359/ ..

SCIENCE-FICTION

Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown - Full Movie | Snagfilms - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9VCf5einY ...

HUMOR

Walmart's Super Bowl 2020 commercial recruits Martians, 'Star Trek,' Lego and sci-fi icons | Space https://www.space.com/super-bowl-2020-walmart-sci-fi-commercial.html ...

When it's cold in the room : SETI https://www.reddit.com/r/SETI/comments/eeo54k/when_its_cold_in_the_room/ ...

MUSIC

For these astronauts (3:15) something interesting their way comes...
Solee - They will come for us (Original Mix) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSlq-bBd-3M ...

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SSLOI 2020/01/27

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 03:30:00 +0000

SSLOI 2020/01/27 https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com ∨ https://tinyurl.com/SSLOI | RSS Feeds https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default ∨ https://feeds.feedburner.com/SETIathomeScienceIRClinks ...

Name the Rover Contest (ends Jan. 27th at UTC-5) - NASA Mars 2020 Mission https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/participate/name-the-rover/ ..

Social Media Posts Spread Bogus Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory - FactCheck.org https://www.factcheck.org/2020/01/social-media-posts-spread-bogus-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory/ ...

SETI@home

18 Jan 2020, 18:51:01 UTC For a couple of reasons, the result table has grown to the point where it no longer fits in main memory. That has been slowing the validators and assimilators, which is causing the result table to grow further. We'd like to get it down to a manageable size before our Tuesday outage. To that end we are throttling work generation to a rate at which the table size is shrinking. We hope that this rate will increase as the table gets smaller. So for the next few days work will be hard to come by (but not zero).
21-22 Jan 2020 - Weekly Tuesday outage extended to a 2nd day | Extended outage continues: "We're having an extended outage this week in order to do a reorg of our database. We hope that this will improve performance once we catch up." 21 Jan 2020, 17:46:14 UTC https://setiathome.berkeley.edu ...
22 Jan 2020, 22:51:58 UTC "We are now into the second day of the outage. We hope to wrap this up tomorrow. The reorganization of the database will help us reduce its size and this, in turn, should speed it up.
23 Jan 2020 +/- 16:20 UTC SETI@home is (most of the time) back up.

2020.01.16 SETI@Home will now cache 150 CPU work units (up from the previous 100 WUs) and 150 per installed GPU (up from the previous 100 WUs).

Check out Stars in Their Eyes? a research paper from the University of Geneva about why people run SETI@home (16 Jan 2020, 3:49:24 UTC_) ... https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/tancoigne_paper.pdf ... https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85079 ...

ASTROBIOLOGY | EXOPLANETS | SETI

Jason Wright (u/AstroWright) posted to his blog a number of whitepapers, published over the past year, on technosignatures. Take a peek! https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/2020/01/21/technosignatures-white-papers/ ... Technosignatures White Papers : SETI https://www.reddit.com/r/SETI/comments/etd380/technosignatures_white_papers/ ...

Problems of Assessing the Risk of Contact by Extraterrestrial Intelligence - The Futurescape https://thefuturescape.org/2019/12/09/problems-of-assessing-the-risk-of-contact-by-extraterrestrial-intelligence/ ...

Galactic Hegemony and the Zoo Hypothesis - The Futurescape https://thefuturescape.org/2019/12/02/galactic-hegemony-and-the-zoo-hypothesis/ ...

A Sustainability Solution to the Fermi Paradox - The Futurescape https://thefuturescape.org/2019/11/27/a-sustainability-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox/ ...

Is Earth Being Watched? In the last few decades, our astronomical techniques have developed to the point that we can now detect planets orbiting other stars. This makes us wonder - could someone out there already be using this method on usM and could this enable a possible means of direct communication across the stars? - Cool Worlds - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G71yqev301Q ...

Ad Astra says we're alone in the universe. What if that's true? https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/science-behind-the-fiction-what-if-like-ad-astra-suggests-there-are-no-aliens ..

Meet the NASA intern who discovered a new planet on his third day - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-51122019 ..

How the solar system got its 'Great Divide,' and why it matters for life on Earth - Astrobiology Magazine https://www.astrobio.net/alien-life/how-the-solar-system-got-its-great-divide-and-why-it-matters-for-life-on-earth/ ...

Earth bacteria may have colonised other solar systems | Cosmos https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/earth-bacteria-may-have-colonised-other-solar-systems ..

Giant Chinese Telescope Joins the Search for Alien Radio Signals | Daily Planet | Air & Space Magazine https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/giant-chinese-telescope-joins-search-alien-radio-signals-180973737/ ...

Problems of Assessing the Risk of Contact by Extraterrestrial Intelligence - The FuturescapeThe Futurescape https://thefuturescape.org/2019/12/09/problems-of-assessing-the-risk-of-contact-by-extraterrestrial-intelligence/ ...

SPACE

Name the Rover Contest (ends Jan. 27th) - NASA Mars 2020 Mission https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/participate/name-the-rover/ ..

The Spitzer Space Telescope will be shut down this week after 16 years of service. But unlike Hubble, which will burn up in our atmosphere after it's eventually put down, Spitzer will sail past Earth in about 50 years before drifting off into space for eternity." posted in /r/space by clayt6. http://redd.it/euuwqp ...

The Huge and Mysterious Planet Nine - Ella Alderson - Medium https://link.medium.com/JC5lsMtQv3 ... http://archive.is/7VRx5

What if the Universe has no end? - BBC Future https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200117-what-if-the-universe-has-no-end ...

A New Health Risk in Human Spaceflight - An Alarming Discovery in an Astronaut’s BloodstreamA study has turned up a side effect of human spaceflight that no one had observed before. | The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/11/astronaut-blood-clot/602380/ ...

Bad Astronomy | Where does the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov come from? https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/where-does-the-interstellar-comet-2iborisov-come-from ...

SpaceX performs an emergency escape test before the rocket explodes - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-20/spacex-mimicked-an-emergency-escape-shortly-after-liftoff/11881566 ..

An Unusual Radio Telescope, The CHIME, Could Hold The Key To Understanding Fast Radio Bursts https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2020/01/18/an-unusual-radio-telescope-could-hold-the-key-to-understanding-fast-radio-bursts/#2dbd8d3b3f0e .. Canadian scientists trace 2nd strange radio signal to nearby galaxy | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/second-frb-located-1.5429450 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope Is the Largest, Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever Built [Video] https://scitechdaily.com/the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-the-largest-most-powerful-space-telescope-ever-built-video/ ...

As New Telescopes Prepare to Fly Into Orbit, Hubble Still Has a Big Role to Play | Discover Magazine https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/as-new-telescopes-prepare-to-fly-into-orbit-hubble-still-has-a-big-role-to ...

Bad Astronomy | Hubble's spectacular view of UGC 2885: Is this the biggest spiral galaxy in the Universe? https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/hubbles-spectacular-view-of-ugc-2885-is-this-the-biggest-spiral-galaxy-in-the-universe ...

SpaceX's CEO discusses plan to place one million humans of the Red Planet https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/elon-musk-mars-colonization ..

SCIENCE

The science fiction that became science fact in 2019 https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-science-fiction-that-became-science-fact-in-2019 ..

Science Behind the Fiction: What science fiction got right in 2019 https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/science-behind-the-fiction-what-science-fiction-got-right-in-2019 ..

First Living Robots Created by Assembling Living Cells From Frogs Into Entirely New Life-Forms https://scitechdaily.com/first-living-robots-created-by-assembling-living-cells-from-frog-embryos-into-entirely-new-life-forms/ ..

Coronavirus outbreak in China is spreading through human contact, authorities confirm - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-21/china-confirms-human-to-human-transmission-of-new-coronavirus/11884630 ...

How the Fight over a Hawaii Mega-Telescope Could Change Astronomy - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-fight-over-a-hawaii-mega-telescope-could-change-astronomy/ ...

SpaceX's Starlink satellites are so bright, they're being reported as UFOs https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/spacex-satellites-are-now-being-mistaken-for-ufos-and-making-astronomers-rage ..

Scientists are starting to find out how the giant squid got to be a behemoth https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/giant-squid ..

A new class of cool blues: Developers say they are also cheaper and safer | Cosmos https://cosmosmagazine.com/chemistry/a-new-class-of-cool-blues ..

SciCheck - Fact-checking science-based claims https://www.factcheck.org/scicheck/ ...

Social Media Posts Spread Bogus Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory - FactCheck.org https://www.factcheck.org/2020/01/social-media-posts-spread-bogus-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory/ ...

Lewis, Tayna. “Infectious Disease Expert Discusses What We Know about the New Chinese Virus.” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/infectious-disease-expert-discusses-what-we-know-about-the-new-chinese-virus/

2019 Novel Coronavirus, Wuhan, China. CDC https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
Novel Coronavirus in Wuhan, China. CDC https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/warning/novel-coronavirus-wuhan-china
Davies, Will and Stephen Tan. “The Age, Sex and Symptoms of All the Coronavirus Victims.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-23/several-china-coronavirus-victims-didn-t-even-have-a-fever Bloomberg. 22 Jan 2020, updated 23 Jan 2020

Taylor, Adam. “Wuhan: The Chinese mega-city at the center of coronavirus outbreak.” Washington Post. 23 Jan 2020 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/23/wuhan-chinese-mega-city-center-coronavirus-outbreak/

OTHER

Ad Astra says we're alone in the universe. What if that's true? https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/science-behind-the-fiction-what-if-like-ad-astra-suggests-there-are-no-aliens ..

The science fiction that became science fact in 2019 https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-science-fiction-that-became-science-fact-in-2019 ...

"Carl didn’t want just to believe: He wanted to know." -- Ann Druyan | Ann is the exact source of the well known "I dont want to believe: I want to know." quote, often attributed to Carl Sagan himself. Both intros from the author Carl Sagan and editor Ann Druyan of "THE VARIETIES of SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE: A Personal View of the Search for God" can be found at https://www.amazon.ca/Varieties-Scientific-Experience-Personal-Search/dp/0143112627. See also a nice meme at https://imgur.com/gallery/FW9ob4X ...

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

There's a very good chance the U.S. government isn't hiding aliens anywhere. According to Edward Snowden's 2019 memoir, Permanent Record, the United States government has never made contact with extra-terrestrial life. At least not that he could find. https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/edward-snowden-aliens-moon-landing ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efs3QRr8LWw ...

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SSLOI 2020/01/16

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 03:54:00 +0000

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SETI@home

[18 Jan 2020, 18:51:01 UTC] Result table problems / For the next few days (until at least next tuesday's maintenance outage) work units will be hard to come by (but not zero). Details at https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85093&postid=2028359 ..

2019/12/30 14-Days long Fundraiser to help modernize SETI@home's aging storage infrastructure. Details at https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85017&postid=2025584 .... GOAL REACHED WITHIN 48 HRS - THANKS !

Check out Stars in Their Eyes?, a research paper from the University of Geneva about why people run SETI@home (16 Jan 2020, 3:49:24 UTC_) ... https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/tancoigne_paper.pdf ... https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85079 ...

2019/12/02 Work Units Limits changed: New maximum of 200 (from 100) work units for each CPU and 300 (possibly 400 - from 100) work units for each GPU https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/3387 ...UPDATE 2020/1/16 It looks like the limits have been set to 150 per CPU and 250 per GPU.

20 Dec 2019 - News: "It's the Friday before a holiday week and the servers know it.The file system containing the beta project uploads directory is having problems, so beta is down until further notice. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84968&postid=2023883#2023883 ...FIXED BY JAN 15TH... MOSTLY

PSA: don’t use your AMD RX 5700 XT to search for aliens | PCGamesN https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/radeon-rx-5700-xt-seti-home-aliens ... https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/eblv26/psa_please_remove_your_amd_rx5700xt_from_setihome/ ...
FIXED saw this, which fixes a problem or two with AMD GPUs :
> v. 8.24 is now available on main for AMD GPUs: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/apps.php

kotd88 comments on PSA: "I don't get it, how does [SETI@home] work[s]? Is it like mining ?" https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/eblv26/psa_please_remove_your_amd_rx5700xt_from_setihome/fb70b63/ ...

Posting about a problem often fixes it immediately (betreger) [which, curiously, corresponds to the frequency of] server stats page updates - about every 15 minutes (Rob Smith)

SETI

Universe Today podcasts with Fraser Cain - https://www.universetoday.com/10406/universe-today-podcasts/ ... Episode 611: Are Aliens Watching Us And How Could We Hide? With Dr. David Kipping - Jan 14, 2020 https://media.fireside.fm/file/fireside-audio/podcasts/audio/9/94f97fb6-b72c-4d98-a80a-1e141b67e50c/episodes/c/c261dbe8-8e36-46da-b338-e859e7b6bdc4/c261dbe8-8e36-46da-b338-e859e7b6bdc4.mp3 ... Episode 609: Why Haven't Aliens Settled Every Star In The Milky Way? With Adam Frank - Jan 12, 2020 https://media.fireside.fm/file/fireside-audio/podcasts/audio/9/94f97fb6-b72c-4d98-a80a-1e141b67e50c/episodes/f/fed193e0-c4f7-4296-903c-1ff35ccc8165/fed193e0-c4f7-4296-903c-1ff35ccc8165.mp3 ...

Life in the Universe : Where is it; Will it be intelligent; Can we Communicate; Can we meet? – Stargazing https://exoworld.org/exoplanets/life-in-the-universe-where-is-it-will-it-be-intelligent-can-we-communicate-can-we-meet/ ...

Will We Ever Find Alien Life? (Video and Comment) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhJ9lJPt09k&lc=UgzYiiXdsWCLIP1CeqN4AaABAg ...

Why we imagine aliens the way we do - Vox - Mars 2018 https://www.vox.com/videos/2018/3/15/17126340/science-fiction-aliens-vfx-seti ...

Astronomer Jill Tarter Answers Alien Questions From Twitter and Swears She’d Tell Us If She’d Seen an Alien | Tech Support | WIRED - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoL4IlCXDsM ...

ASTROBIOLOGY

Looking for exoplanet life in all the right spectra - Astrobiology Magazine https://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/looking-for-exoplanet-life-in-all-the-right-spectra/ ...

Goldilocks Stars Are Best Places to Look for Life https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-06 ...

How NASA's Webb Telescope Will Search for Oxygen on Alien Worlds | Space https://www.space.com/webb-space-telescope-exoplanet-oxygen-detection.html ...

How the solar system got its 'Great Divide,' and why it matters for life on Earth - Astrobiology Magazine https://www.astrobio.net/alien-life/how-the-solar-system-got-its-great-divide-and-why-it-matters-for-life-on-earth/ ..

Life could have emerged from lakes with high phosphorus https://phys.org/news/2019-12-life-emerged-lakes-high-phosphorus.html ...

EXOPLANETS

What is Cheops? - ESA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U7LFbJYEUE ...

Inside The 24/7 Search For Another Habitable Planet Within 100 Light Years Of Earth https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2019/11/25/inside-the-247-search-for-another-habitable-planet-within-100-light-years-of-earth/#7e4fe96f3442 ...

Moon FARSIDE: Lunar Astronomy Proposal Takes Aim at Cosmic Dark Ages and Exoplanets | Space https://www.space.com/farside-moon-radio-astronomy-mission-concept.html ...

NASA Planet Hunter Finds Its 1st Earth-Size World in the 'Habitable Zone' | Space https://www.space.com/nasa-tess-first-earth-size-habitable-exoplanet-toi-700d.html ...

An Earth-size planet in the habitable zone? New NASA discovery is one special world. | Space https://www.space.com/nasa-tess-exoplanet-habitable-zone-discovery-milestone.html

SPACE

First national US observatory to be named after a woman! | Legacy Survey of Space and Time https://www.lsst.org/news/vro-press-release ... ''Named after an astronomer who provided important evidence of the existence of dark matter, the NSF Vera C. Rubin Observatory seems destined to make science history with its extraordinary capabilities that will come to bear in the next few years,” said France Córdova, director of NSF. “Congress has helped make this inspiring commemoration a reality. The Rubin Observatory is expected to significantly advance what we know about dark matter and dark energy, so the Rubin name will have yet another way to inspire women and men eager to investigate.”

Astronomers Find A Galaxy Of Unusual Size (G.O.U.S.), And Discover Why It Exists https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/01/07/astronomers-find-a-galaxy-of-unusual-size-g-o-u-s-and-discover-why-it-exists/#4c1cf9dd1d5c ...

What's the Point of the James Webb Space Telescope? | Space https://www.space.com/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-worth-wait.html ...

Review of 2010s in Space and Astronomy | The Astroholic http://theastroholic.co.uk/2020/01/13/review-of-2010s-in-space-astronomy/ ...

Astronomers Have Found the Secret Ingredient to the Universe’s Brightest Explosions https://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-have-found-the-secret-ingredient-to-the-universes-brightest-explosions/ ...

Bad Astronomy | Hubble's spectacular view of UGC 2885: Is this the biggest spiral galaxy in the Universe? https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/hubbles-spectacular-view-of-ugc-2885-is-this-the-biggest-spiral-galaxy-in-the-universe ...

Missing link in planet evolution found in the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt - Astrobiology Magazine https://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/missing-link-in-planet-evolution-found/ ...

Meet NASA's New Tool for 'Weighing' Unseen Planets, the NEID [Video] https://scitechdaily.com/meet-nasas-new-tool-for-weighing-unseen-planets-video/ ....

Japanese billionaire signs on for dating game with moon trip as prize – GeekWire https://www.geekwire.com/2020/japanese-billionaire-yusaku-maezawa-signs-reality-tv-dating-game-moon-trip-prize/ ...

SpaceX becomes operator of world’s largest commercial satellite constellation with Starlink launch - SpaceNews.com https://spacenews.com/spacex-becomes-operator-of-worlds-largest-commercial-satellite-constellation-with-starlink-launch/ ...

A Repeating Fast Radio Burst from a Spiral Galaxy | Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2020/1 ...

20 Dec 2019 - Who Owns the Moon? | The New Yorker Video | CNE https://video.newyorker.com/watch/who-owns-the-moon ...

The best space images of 2019 - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50765663 ...

Hubblecast 126: From Ultraviolet to Infrared: Comparing the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XIfQ7rpQaU ....

Physicists Calculate (In a Yet Unpeer-Reviewed Publication) How Long It'll Take Us to Explore The Galaxy (Without Some Kind of Warp Drive Technology), And It's Brutal https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-calculate-how-long-it-ll-take-to-explore-the-galaxy-and-it-s-depressing ...

- SCIENCE -

Breakthrough of the Year 2019 https://vis.sciencemag.org/breakthrough2019/finalists/ ...

2019 was the second hottest year on record, NASA says | Space https://www.space.com/2019-second-hottest-year-on-record.html ..

Climate Change Made Recent Hurricanes Wetter. And They May Get Worse. | Space https://www.space.com/42464-wetter-storms-climate-change.html ..

Huge eruption of Philippines volcano seen from space | Space https://www.space.com/taal-volcano-eruption-seen-from-space.html ..

First 'living robots' designed on supercomputer – video | Science | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2020/jan/13/first-living-robots-xenobots-designed-on-supercomputer-video ...

Perpetual Emotion Machine: Compassionate computers and irrational human behavior | Big Picture Science http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/perpetual-emotion-machine ...

Almost 800,000 Years Ago, an Enormous Meteorite Struck Earth. Now We Know Where. - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/144568/almost-800000-years-ago-an-enormous-meteorite-struck-earth-now-we-know-where/ ...

Artificial Intelligence Examines Over 200,000 Galaxies to Confirm Galaxy Mergers Ignite Starbursts https://scitechdaily.com/artificial-intelligence-examines-over-200000-galaxies-to-confirm-galaxy-mergers-ignite-starbursts/ ...

Bad Astronomy | Your world, unmoored https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/your-world-unmoored ... Font's Point - Stabilized Sky Timelapse - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8OK7M2_hUg ...

LIGO - Virgo Network Catches Another Neutron Star Collision - 6 Jan 2020 https://www.ligo.org/news/index.php#GW190425 ... LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4XzLDM3Py8 ...

Here Are the Most Beautiful Science GIFs We Discovered in 2019 - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/here-are-the-most-beautiful-science-gifs-we-discovered-in-2019/ ...

Watch Out for These Science Events in 2020 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/watch-out-for-these-science-events-in-2020/ ...

What Climate Change Tells Us about Being Human - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/what-climate-change-tells-us-about-being-human/ ...

A decade in cybersecurity fails: the top breaches, threats, and ‘whoopsies’ of the 2010s https://blog.malwarebytes.com/awareness/2019/12/a-decade-in-cybersecurity-fails-top-breaches-threats-of-2010s/ ...

[NPR - Science] CDC Confirms A THC Contaminant, Vitamin E Acetate, The Culprit In Most Vaping Deaths https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/20/790154919/cdc-confirms-a-thc-contaminant-vitamin-e-acetate-the-culprit-in-most-vaping-deat ...

- HUMOR -

XKCD Comic on Twitter: "Group Chat Rules https://twitter.com/xkcdComic/status/1200485802406367232 ...

- OTHERS -

The truth is out there… but you're still not allowed to see it. Top-secret UFO files could 'gravely damage' US national security if released, Navy says | Space https://www.space.com/navy-confirms-secret-ufo-video.html .. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxe54z/the-navy-has-secret-classified-video-of-an-infamous-ufo-incident ,,

2019 in news: The alternative end-of-the-year awards - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50650415 ...

Isaac Asimov, Scientist and Science Fiction Writer, Would Have Turned 100 This Year | Inside Science https://www.insidescience.org/news/isaac-asimov-scientist-and-science-fiction-writer-would-have-turned-100-year ...

MUSIC

https://soundcloud.com/fpoole/seti ... https://soundcloud.com/fpoole/winter-wavefront by https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=8118078 ...

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SSLOI 2019/12/20

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 08:44:00 +0000

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SETI@home

20 Dec 2019 - News: "It's the Friday before a holiday week and the servers know it.The file system containing the beta project uploads directory is having problems, so beta is down until further notice.This problem may be affecting the rate at which the main project can handle results, so the validation and assimilation queues are getting large, which may affect the rate of work generation." https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84968&postid=2023883#2023883 ...

27 Nov 2019 - SETI Perspectives: "Is ET in Our Solar System?" by Dr Richard Lawn https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84888#2020712 Discuss https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84889

26 Nov 2019 - SETI@home has started its annual year-end fundraising. If you didn't get an email you can read the same letter on-line at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donor_letter_nov19.php

PowerPoint Presentation - 06-werthimer_karastari_seti_future_june2017e.pdf https://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/conferences/2017/Labyrinth/presentations/06-werthimer_karastari_seti_future_june2017e.pdf

SETI

SETI Institute Activity Report: 3rd Quarter 2019 | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-activity-report-3rd-quarter-2019 ...

Alien Hunters Need Radio Silence on the Moon. Future Lunar Missions Could Wreck It. | Space https://www.space.com/moon-farside-radio-astronomy-protection.html ...

Weird ‘Vanishing Stars’ Could Potentially Be Aliens, Study Claims https://gizmodo.com/weird-vanishing-stars-could-potentially-be-aliens-st-1840486666 The Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations Project. I. USNO Objects Missing in Modern Sky Surveys and Follow-up Observations of a "Missing Star" https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab570f More Space-related news on Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/c/space

[4 Dec 2019] Improved Analysis of Clarke Exobelt Detectability https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10061 https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84918&postid=2021712 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2018/06/15/enter-the-clarke-exobelt/

What Has the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Taught Us So Far? After a century of looking for signs of intelligent life, humanity is still searching. But have we come close to finding something? https://interestingengineering.com/what-has-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence-taught-us-so-far

Before We Find Aliens, Humans Need to Figure Ourselves Out | Space https://www.space.com/before-finding-extraterrestrial-life-humanity-questions.html ...

This Is Why 'Multi-Messenger Astronomy' (MMA) Is The Future Of Astrophysics https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/11/15/this-is-why-multi-messenger-astronomy-is-the-future-of-astrophysics/#6a50d2cc2cc6

Intelligent Ways to Search for Extraterrestrials - Is there a more rational way to scan the heavens for alien life? | Jason Wright,The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/intelligent-ways-to-search-for-extraterrestrials

- Related : Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 https://sites.nationalacademies.org/DEPS/astro2020/

“If the [Decadal Survey] tells NASA ‘This is something you should fund’, then NASA has to fund it. “If you don’t have federal money to support students, you don’t formalize the knowledge. You don’t have a curriculum. Right now, “everyone that works on [SETI] is a hobbyist.” - Jason Wright

WSS S4E7: Are we alone? Examining the recipe for intelligent life in the universe - Science at Western | Dr. Jan Cami joins the podcast to discuss the origins of life on Earth, the process of finding other Earth-like planets, and the likelihood that we will ever find company out in the Universe. https://soundcloud.com/science-at-western/wss-s4e7

Before We Find Aliens, Humans Need to Figure Ourselves Out | Space https://www.space.com/before-finding-extraterrestrial-life-humanity-questions.html ...

China's Huge, Alien-Hunting Radio Telescope Is Finishing Its Testing Phase | Space https://www.space.com/china-fast-radio-telescope-finishing-alien-search-tests.html ...

SETI Institute in the news October 31 - November 6, 2019 | Smart Gloves May Give Space Explorers a Helping Hand - Singing Across the Stars -Microbes on the Moon? -Is Meeting our Cosmic Neighbors a Bad Idea? https://seti.org/seti-institute-news-october-31-november-6-2019

What Alien Life Could Live in Europa’s Mega-Ocean? Some of our cosmic cousins may live just next door beneath a crust of ice… https://medium.com/predict/what-alien-life-could-live-in-europas-mega-ocean-1a115d7cd52d ...

ASTROBIOLOGY

Water common -- yet scarce -- in exoplanets -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191211082656.htm ...

The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog ...

Will 2020 Be the Year We Find Intelligent Alien Life? | Space https://www.space.com/will-alien-life-be-found-2020.html ...

How NASA's Next Mars Rover Will Hunt for Alien Life | Space https://www.space.com/mars-2020-rover-alien-life-hunt.html ...

CHEOPS launch set for 17 Dec. 2019 — NCCR PlanetS http://nccr-planets.ch/blog/2019/12/05/cheops-launch-set-for-17-december-2019/ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cheops https://cheops.unibe.ch/ ...

Meet Cheops, the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-bJ2YcPDUg ...

Astronomers Detect Water Vapor Around Jupiter's Moon Europa | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/astronomers-detect-water-vapor-around-jupiters-moon-europa/ ...

Water common -- yet scarce -- in exoplanets -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191211082656.htm ...

With Mars methane mystery unsolved, Curiosity serves scientists a new one: Oxygen | EurekAlert! Science News https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/nsfc-wmm111219.php

NASA probes oxygen mystery on Mars - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50419917

US meteorite adds to origins mystery - Although tens of thousands of meteorites have been recovered by humans, scientists have only been able to trace the orbits of a small number. Most of these have been calculated in the last decade. "This is a great way to do what amounts to a low-cost asteroid sample return mission," says Dr Peter Brown, who studies asteroids at Canada's University of Western Ontario. "In this case, the sample comes to us. We don't have to go to the sample." https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50419924

- related: Asteroids@home http://asteroidsathome.net

SPACE

'A Lot of Things Went Right,' NASA Chief Says After Starliner Anomaly Which Prevented It From Continuing Its Mission To The International Space Station | https://www.space.com/nasa-chief-reacts-boeing-starliner-anomaly.html ...

These are the top 20 scientific discoveries of the decade https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/science/2019/12/top-20-scientific-discoveries-of-decade-2010s ...

A Radio Telescope, the Netherlands-China Low Frequency Explorer (NCLE), is Now Scanning Deep Space From the Moon’s Far Side https://gizmodo.com/a-radio-telescope-is-now-scanning-deep-space-from-the-m-1840146460 ...

Why is NASA Going Back to the Moon? | Unveiled - video dailymotion https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7opoyy ...

June 15, 2019 — Should we have humans in space? Astronaut Chris Hadfield headlines our panel looking at the future of space exploration | A Quirks & Quarks public debate | CBC Radio https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/june-15-2019-should-we-have-humans-in-space-a-quirks-quarks-public-debate-1.5174690

Who Owns the Moon? Fifty years after the Apollo 11 mission, the field of outer-space law is growing. Watch Who Owns the Moon? | The New Yorker Video | CNE https://video.newyorker.com/watch/who-owns-the-moon ...

We May Finally Understand the Moments Before the Big Bang | Space https://www.space.com/physicists-model-reheating-universe.html ...

Researcher Finally Explains Why Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has 'Tiger Stripes' - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/19/11/16/192240/researcher-finally-explains-why-saturns-moon-enceladus-has-tiger-stripes ...

Something Very Strange Seems to Be Synchronizing Distant Galaxies https://futurism.com/the-byte/something-strange-synchronizing-distant-galaxies

The Distribution Of Space Debris Orbiting The Earth GIF by sirtsix | Gfycat https://gfycat.com/welldocumentedappropriatecrane-rsciences-space

The Next Two Astronauts on the Moon Could Both Be Women, NASA Administrator Says | Space https://www.space.com/artemis-next-astronauts-moon-both-women.html

'That roar is terrific... look at that rocket go!' It's been 52 years since first Saturn V left the pad • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/11/apollo_4/

Link post: "A Timelapse of The Sun's Rotation Complete with a Sunspot the Size of the Earth" posted in /r/space by Omega109. http://redd.it/dxhrux

Link post: "Mercury Transiting at Sunrise Over Wasatch Mountains" posted in /r/space by controlzee. http://redd.it/dxhddy

"NASA's 1st SLS Megarocket Core Stage for the Moon Has Its Engines (Photos)" posted in /r/space by -CoAlpha-. http://redd.it/dxf3nx

"Mercury Transits the Sun - John Chumack (11.11.2019)" posted in /r/space by inkexit. http://redd.it/dxgbq0

SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY

[NPR - Science] CDC Confirms A THC Contaminant, Vitamin E Acetate, The Culprit In Most Vaping Deaths https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/20/790154919/cdc-confirms-a-thc-contaminant-vitamin-e-acetate-the-culprit-in-most-vaping-deat ...

New Evidence for the Strange Idea that the Universe Is a Hologram https://getpocket.com/explore/item/new-evidence-for-the-strange-idea-that-the-universe-is-a-hologram ...

Want to live to 1,000? Be careful what you wish for - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-16/thompson-want-to-live-to-1000-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/6860396

[Scientific American] Brain Circuit Involved in Compulsive Drinking Identified in Mice http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/_sbdiUXdAwQ/ 2019-11-21T19:00:00

Core Concept: What are the chances of a hazardous solar superflare? | PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/116/47/23368

Neanderthal footprints found in France offer snapshot of their lives | Science | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/sep/10/neanderthal-footprints-found-in-france-offer-snapshot-of-their-lives

What’s behind a phobia of holes? | Science | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/19/whats-behind-a-phobia-of-holes

Were Aboriginal Australians the world's first astronomers? The Wurdi Touang site would make it the oldest astronomical observatory in the world. - BBC Reel https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07vfplf/were-aboriginal-australians-the-world-s-first-astronomers- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurdi_Youang

Prime editing: DNA tool could correct 89% of genetic defects - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50125843

SpaceX Starship prototype blows its top - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50500980 ...

Humans put into suspended animation for first time | Science | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/20/humans-put-into-suspended-animation-for-first-time

Social, demographic, and economic correlates of food and chemical consumption measured by wastewater-based epidemiology | PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/116/43/21864

Predicting evolution: Not just 'survival of the fittest': What survives, thrives and dominates over a thousand generations? The answer might be even more complex than previously thought https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191113153037.htm

Is China gaining an edge in artificial intelligence? - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50255191

How do you fight extreme wildfires? - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50410481?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science_and_environment&link_location=live-reporting-story

Preparing for age of smart glasses and deepfakes - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-50388894/adobe-readies-for-the-age-of-smart-glasses-and-deepfakes

DEBUNKINGS

Mars 3 2019 - The truth is out there? Billy Meier's UFO images - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-50634120 ...

AND THE REST (BOOKS / MUSIC / HUMOR / QUIRKY / WOW / MUSIC)

Space invaders: the best books about interstellar arrivals | Books by Alastair Reynolds ( https://old.reddit.com/e7c5r0 ) [ www.theguardian.com - https://is.gd/88Qk4t ]

APOD: 2019 December 4 - Electric Night https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191204.html

Is It Time To Get Rid Of The Caps Lock Key? https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/07/13/0148233/is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-the-caps-lock-key?sdsrc=popbyskid

Q: Why are E.T's eyes so big?
A: He just got his phone bill....

[Scientific American] What Makes a Song? It's the Same Recipe in Every Culture http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/0VIDNG1KukU/ 2019-11-21T20:15:00

Two people just got the plague in China — yes, the Black Death plague
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/13/health/china-plague-intl-hnk-scn-scli/index.html (CNN)Two people in China are being treated for plague, authorities said Tuesday.It's the second time the disease, the same one that caused the Black Death, one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, has been detected in the region -- in May, a Mongolian couple died from bubonic plague after eating the raw kidney of a marmot, a local folk health remedy.

NASA Reverses Course After Giving Asteroid Nazi Name https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-reverses-giving-asteroid-nazi-name

-=o=- -=o=- -=o=- 'o// Navy Officers Say 'Unknown Individuals' Made Them Erase Evidence of 2004 UFO Encounter | Space https://www.space.com/navy-witnesses-nimitz-encounter.html

Chilean protesters take down a police drone with lasers! : nextfuckinglevel https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/dvlvwr/chilean_protesters_take_down_a_police_drone_with/?sort=confidence

Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy' - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/education-50418317

Bloodhound land speed racer blasts to 628mph - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50438614 Bloodhound diary: Racing at over 500mph - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50374942

Preparing for age of smart glasses and deepfakes - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-50388894/adobe-readies-for-the-age-of-smart-glasses-and-deepfakes

The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (Original Mix) (1990) - YouTube h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ecdn5SGT1E&list=PLZDIwCDGuTGKThOLdHrLKmqdJOQzXcFEJ&index=256 ...

Paint the Sky Red - Not All Who Wonder Are Lost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHC7P400C6w

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SETI@home/SSL/UC in Berkeley/Bay Area Power Outage

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 01:55:00 +0000

Campus returns to normal power | Berkeley News https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/10/11/campus-returns-to-normal-power/

Oct. 11, 6:16 p.m.: PG&E says that 96 percent of Bay Area customers affected by the mass power outage have had their electricity restored, and that overall, 89 percent customers in the outage areas now have their power back. https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/winds-PGE-shutoff-second-phase-delayed-weather-14504575.php#photo-18419437

Servers Remain Up During Power Outage - Large swaths of Northern California, including the UC Berkeley Campus, are under a Public Safety Power Shutoff due to high winds and the associated wildfire risks. Our servers are located in the campus Data Center which is protected by a high capacity UPS. We expect that our servers will remain up for the duration of the outage. Thus far Internet connectivity also remains up although this depends on factors outside of the Data Center. / 10 Oct 2019, 16:57:08 UTC ·
Discuss https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84743
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Bay Area Power Outage Survival Guide – CBS San Francisco (Univ.of California in Berkeley: Alameda County)
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PG&E shutdown latest: Restoration underway for Bay Area counties - SFGate https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/winds-PGE-shutoff-second-phase-delayed-weather-14504575.php#photo-18408957
UC Berkeley Cancels Classes For A Third Day Due To PG&E Shutdown – CBS San Francisco https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/10/10/uc-berkeley-cancels-classes-for-a-third-day-due-to-pge-shutdown/
Strong Winds Trigger PG&E Power Shutoff Across Bay Area Starting Wednesday – CBS
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SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/08/30

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 07:55:00 +0000

SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/08/30 https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/2019/08/setihome-science-links-on-irc-20190830.html. RSS Feeds https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default http://feeds.feedburner.com/SETIathomeScienceIRClinks

⌁ Weekly Outage and Initial Catch Up: "Every Tuesday SETI@home begins a five hour data distribution outage for database and systems maintenance. The upload/download servers will be offline during this time. Afterwards you may experience connectivity issues for several more hours as the servers catch up with demand." https://setiathome.berkeley.edu

⌁ To alleviate the load on the SETI@home servers during Ttuesday's maintenance outages and to give regular users the chance to replenish their work unit caches, the operators of high throughput hosts can set BOINC to temporarily stop polling data servers on this specific day. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84048&postid=1986061

SETI.Germany congratulates the winners of the 8th SETI@home Wow! Event 2019 https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/stats/winners/2019

[Good read] Mr. Kevvy explains why he takes part to the SETI@home project, competes in the Wow! Events & why "cheating" is acceptable https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84374&postid=2009133#2009133

Dan Werthimer wins the 2019 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84579#2009250 http://wonderfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/SaganPrize2019-release.pdf http://wonderfest.org/sagan-prize/ Werthimer is the Chief Scientist at the Berkeley SETI Research Center (BSRC). BSRC conducts experiments searching for electromagnetic signatures of hypothetical intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations. Affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley, BSRC may be best known for its SETI@home volunteer computing software and for its10-year, $100-million Breaththrough Listen project.

Dr. Richard Lawn has posted another interesting article to "SETI Perspectives", titled What to expect from ET? https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84590&postid=2009519#2009519

In Search of ET, Home Computers Handle 200TB Data | India News https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=fr&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fteles-relay.com%2F2019%2F08%2F26%2Finde-a-la-recherche-det-les-ordinateurs-domestiques-traitent-des-donnees-de-200-to-inde-nouvelles%2F&sandbox=1 from original article in French https://teles-relay.com/2019/08/26/inde-a-la-recherche-det-les-ordinateurs-domestiques-traitent-des-donnees-de-200-to-inde-nouvelles/

Planets Bursting With Alien Life Might Exist Beyond the Solar System, Scientists Claim: 'We Need to Start Looking' https://www.newsweek.com/planets-alien-life-solar-system-scientists-1455729

Looking for Life at the Bottom of the Ocean - InVADER Mission - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLxnZ9qswCg&feature=em-uploademail

Does the massive metallic core of a primordial impactor lie buried under the South Pole-Aitken basin on the lunar farside? https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/huge-mass-found-under-largest-moon-impact/

New research shows that a planetoid impact could have made our Moon asymmetric. https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/long-ago-collision-explain-two-faced-moon/

[Scientific American] Faced with a Data Deluge, Astronomers Turn to Automation http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/AkWUe24Lgf8/ 2019-08-21T15:30:00

Exploring The Icy Moons of Jupiter. NASA's Europa Clipper and ESA's JUICE - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAW2uPPS2A4

'Surprising' study finds some planets may be better suited to life than Earth | CTV News https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/surprising-study-finds-some-planets-may-be-better-suited-to-life-than-earth-1.4565510

Earth is the only place in the universe where we know life exists. But with billions of other star systems out there, it might not be the best place for life. http://astronomy.com/news/2019/08/life-on-alien-worlds-could-be-more-diverse-than-on-earth

SETI Institute in the news August 15 - August 21, 2019 | Clues in the Dunes of Mars - The Thirty Meter Telescope Dispute - Imagining Alien Lifeforms https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-august-15-august-21-2019

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), successor to the Hubble observatory, comes together - setting the stage to a launch to orbit sometime in 2021 - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49504866

Planets Bursting With Alien Life Might Exist Beyond the Solar System, Scientists Claim: 'We Need to Start Looking' https://www.newsweek.com/planets-alien-life-solar-system-scientists-1455729

Upwelling Oceans: Modeling Exoplanet Habitability https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/08/27/upwelling-oceans-modeling-exoplanet-habitability/

There Could be Planets Out There Which are Even More Habitable than Earth - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/143229/there-could-be-planets-out-there-which-are-even-more-habitable-than-earth/

Can Mars Be Made Habitable in Our Lifetime? - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/can-mars-be-made-habitable-in-our-lifetime/

Searching for the Edge of Habitability – Many Worlds https://manyworlds.space/2019/08/21/searching-for-the-edge-of-habitability/

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Asteroid 2006 QV89 Will Not Hit Earth This Year - SETI Institute researchers Michael Busch and Franck Marchis talk about asteroids that come very close to the Earth -YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAzjasaPw7k

5 Realities Space Advocates Must Face https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2019/08/26/5-realities-space-advocates-must-face/?ss=cio-network#62a74a952269

Saturn, Not Earth Or Jupiter, Has The Largest Storms In Our Solar System https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/saturn-not-earth-or-jupiter-has-the-largest-storms-in-our-solar-system-a1bb5a362d0f

Simulation of eight million ‘mock universes’ sheds light on galaxy evolution – Physics World https://physicsworld.com/a/simulation-of-eight-million-mock-universes-sheds-light-on-galaxy-evolution/

Bad Astronomy | Earth’s last magnetic pole flip took 22,000 years to complete https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/earths-last-magnetic-pole-flip-took-22000-years-to-complete

Let's Talk Asteroid Apophis, Planetary Defense and Elon Musk | Space https://www.space.com/elon-musk-asteroid-apophis-and-planetary-defense.html

Astronomers Find A ‘Cloaked’ Black Hole 500 Million Years Before Any Other https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/astronomers-find-a-cloaked-black-hole-500-million-years-before-any-other-4be7ffb5e42f

Astronomy Faces A Field-Defining Choice In Choosing The Next Steps For The TMT https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/astronomy-faces-a-field-defining-choice-in-choosing-the-next-steps-for-the-tmt-e012fa20e9cd

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How the brain finds order amidst chaos https://neurosciencenews.com/cortical-neurons-order-chaos-14771/

[BBC - Science & Environment] Fake news is 'reinforced by false memories' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49435387 2019-08-22T13:07:22

Carbon nanotubes built this bizarre ultrablack material, vanta black - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzW2Xqw7k6A

[Scientific American] Researchers Model Online Hate Networks In Effort to Battle Them http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/dlqR4-bbqso/ 2019-08-21T19:15:00

[Ars Technica - Science] Vaping-linked lung disease cases jump from 94 to 153 in 5 days, CDC says https://arstechnica.com/?p=1556177 2019-08-22T15:36:09

BBC: Thousands of fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. How bad are they? -> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-49433767

Nobel Prize: Blessing or Curse? | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/event/nobel-prize-blessing-or-curse

Skeptic Check: Brain Gain | Separating pseudo from science in cognitive enhancement.| SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/podcast/skeptic-check-brain-gain

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SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/08/22

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:30:00 +0000

SSLOI 2019/08/22 https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com or https://preview.tinyurl.com/SSLOI | RSS Feeds : https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default or http://feeds.feedburner.com/SETIathomeScienceIRClinks

Join SETI@home, a scientific distributed computing project using the unused CPU cycles of web-connected computers and Android devices such as yours in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : https://setiathome.berkeley.edu

#distributed If you contribute cycles to project World Community Grid, make sure your account's email adress is up to date before Aug. 28th : "We're Switching to Email-Based Login" https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=602

Ongoing: 8th SETI@home Wow! Event https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/home/en (ends Aug. 25 2019, 16: UTC)

#setiathome #humor #video 8th SETI@home Wow! Event 2019 : This time we find ET ! https://youtu.be/nYrUstdhsCo (c) SETI.Germany https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/home/en

#SETI@home: The Safer, Saner Alternative to "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Area_51,_They_Can%27t_Stop_All_of_Us

#seti@home #tools Statistics for BOINC project for specified hosts http://stateson.net/HostProjectStats/ https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=82901&postid=2006879

#radioastronomy National Science Foundation Awards Arecibo Observatory $12.3 Million Grant | University of Central Florida News https://www.ucf.edu/news/national-science-foundation-awards-arecibo-observatory-12-3-million-grant/

#exoplanets James Webb Space Telescope could begin learning about TRAPPIST-1 atmospheres in a single year, study indicates https://phys.org/news/2019-08-james-webb-space-telescope-trappist-.html

#exoplanets How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars? https://phys.org/news/2019-08-earth-like-planets-sun-like-stars.html

#seti Nikolai Kardashev 1932 – 2019 | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/nikolai-kardashev-1932-2019

#Seti : les civilisations extraterrestres de Nikolaï Kardashev sont orphelines, le radioastronome russe est mort https://www.futura-sciences.com/sciences/actualites/seti-institute-seti-civilisations-extraterrestres-nikolai-kardashev-sont-orphelines-radioastronome-russe-mort-77117/

#SETI Institute in the news August 8 - August 14, 2019 | SETI Institute - STEM Education for Girl Scouts: Reaching for the Stars - Disruption and Vision in Technology - Bishun Khare’s Crater on Pluto - Franck Marchis Bringing the Sky Down to Earth on 2SER https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-august-8-august-14-2019

#SETI Institute in the news August 1 - August 7, 2019 | SETI Institute - Fermi Problems - Taking a Peek at our Closest Neighboring Star System - UFO Government Secrets? SETI Institute CEO Weighs In - New Project, 'InVADER,' Will Test Technology for Ocean World Exploration https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-august-1-august-7-2019

#seti The Kardashev Scale and Beyond - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6RaWa7iM-I

#exoplanets "Alien Glow" --May Indicate Hidden Biospheres on Exoplanets | The Daily Galaxy https://dailygalaxy.com/2019/08/alien-glow-may-indicate-hidden-biospheres-on-exoplanets/

#exobiology Could Alien Life Evolve Similarly to Earth on Other Planets? The chances that we might discover analogs to Homo Sapiens are small, but it may be likely that we find recognizable interstellar cousins… https://medium.com/predict/could-alien-life-evolve-similarly-to-earth-on-other-planets-9b62b39f314a

#space Joining SpaceX and Orbital ATK, Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser spaceplane is to ride the Vulcan Centaur rocket in 2021 to ship cargo and experiments to the ISS - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49352720

#radioastronomy https://public.nrao.edu/news/jodie-foster-narrates-new-vla-visitor-film/ https://vimeo.com/70554007

#radioastronomy Into Deepest Space: The Story of ALMA https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/into-deepest-space/

#gaming #seti #video Signal Simulator Storm Area 51 weapon tests - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5SXprPNgqc https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxy_qdfdtfe0iyVMKdRB86g

#computing CPU/GPU UserBenchmarks - 1182 Processors Compared https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/

#radioastronomy Astronomers Have Detected a Whopping 8 New Repeating Signals From Deep Space https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-have-bagged-a-jaw-dropping-haul-of-eight-new-repeating-fast-radio-bursts

#exoplanets Europa Clipper's Mission to Jupiter’s Icy Moon Confirmed - Europa, an icy ocean world in our solar system, could tell us more about the potential for life on other worlds | NASA https://www.nasa.gov/feature/europa-clippers-mission-to-jupiter-s-icy-moon-confirmed

#exoplanets NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface | NASA https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-gets-a-rare-look-at-a-rocky-exoplanets-surface

#space Recent Asteroid Flybys - Unusual, But Expected | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/recent-asteroid-flybys-unusual-expected NEO Earth Close Approaches https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

#moon [BBC - Science & Environment] Chandrayaan-2: India spacecraft begins orbiting Moon https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-49404019 2019-08-20T10:41:18

#environment [BBC - Science & Environment] When an ethical vegan met a sheep farmer... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49399478 2019-08-19T23:01:33

#exobiology [BBC - Science & Environment] Nasa confirms ocean moon mission https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49408495 2019-08-20T11:50:55

#space [Ars Technica - Science] The ambitious Europa Clipper has cleared an important step toward flight https://arstechnica.com/?p=1554535 2019-08-20T13:29:24

#space The Power Source for a Mars Outpost Could Be Ready in 3 Years https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a28679934/mars-outpost-power-source/

#mars Can Martian soil support plant life? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_jXEZFuw38

#climate There’s No Free Lunch With Climate Change https://onezero.medium.com/theres-no-free-lunch-with-climate-change-4b9c1e095eaa

#astronomy This Is How We Know There Are Two Trillion Galaxies In The Universe - Hubble, even at its best, only reveals perhaps 10% of what’s out there. Here’s how we get the rest. https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-is-how-we-know-there-are-two-trillion-galaxies-in-the-universe-15fc0fea950b

#interviews #science Joe Rogan Experience #1233 - Brian Cox - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wieRZoJSVtw

#computing AI used to test evolution's oldest mathematical model https://phys.org/news/2019-08-ai-evolution-oldest-mathematical.html

#physics World's Largest Nuclear Fusion Experiment Clears Milestone: The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, the world’s first commercial-scale fusion reactor project, is on track to officially launch operations at the end of 2025. After First Plasma, it will take another 10 years until it reaches full deuterium-tritium operations. - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worlds-largest-nuclear-fusion-experiment-clears-milestone/

#space #history #video Failure Is Not An Option A Flight Control History of NASA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f51Jzm7M4w
Beyond the Moon: Failure is Not an Option Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSiOwBx6gLQ

#radioastronomy Milky Way's black hole just flared, growing 75 times as bright for a few hours https://phys.org/news/2019-08-milky-black-hole-flared-bright.html

#physics NASA selects proposals to further study the fundamental nature of space https://phys.org/news/2019-08-nasa-fundamental-nature-space.html

#physics Physicists design an experiment to pin down the origin of the elements https://phys.org/news/2019-08-physicists-pin-elements.html

#moon NASA Moon landing: Space agency's incredible SLS rocket is ’90 percent complete’ | Science | News | Express.co.uk https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1166672/nasa-moon-landing-space-launch-system-sls-rocket-90-percent-complete-space-news

#cosmology The Epic Scale of Spacetime - Predict - Medium https://medium.com/predict/the-epic-scale-of-spacetime-b769e7e17e28

#evolution Did Exploding Stars Force Humans to Walk Upright? - Robert Roy Britt - Medium https://medium.com/@robertroybritt/did-exploding-stars-force-humans-to-walk-upright-4677050332d9

#asteroids We Were Not Almost Killed by an Asteroid This Week - Popular Science - Medium https://medium.com/popular-science/we-were-not-almost-killed-by-an-asteroid-this-week-1705cd2f074

#moon Why Doesn’t Anyone Live on the Moon Yet? - Popular Science - Medium https://medium.com/popular-science/why-doesnt-anyone-live-on-the-moon-yet-1628168a0329

#internet #security Facebook Is Eroding Trust in Two-Factor Authentication https://onezero.medium.com/facebook-is-eroding-trust-in-two-factor-authentication-306163dacd6a

#security The Night My Doorbell Camera Captured a Shooting - OneZero https://onezero.medium.com/the-night-my-doorbell-camera-captured-a-shooting-d8255f5c4e5

#climate Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientists-have-been-underestimating-the-pace-of-climate-change/

#astrobiology Scientists Mull the Astrobiological Implications of an Airless Alien Planet - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-mull-the-astrobiological-implications-of-an-airless-alien-planet/

#radioastronomy Astronomers Spy a Black Hole Devouring a Neutron Star - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/astronomers-spy-a-black-hole-devouring-a-neutron-star/

#climate When Will All the Ice in the Arctic Be Gone? - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-will-all-the-ice-in-the-arctic-be-gone/

#security Your Employer May Be Spying on You--and Wasting Its Time - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/your-employer-may-be-spying-on-you-and-wasting-its-time/

#radioastronomy Earth Could Be a Lens for a Revolutionary Space Telescope - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-could-be-a-lens-for-a-revolutionary-space-telescope/

#programming Use Cython to get more than 30X speedup on your Python code https://towardsdatascience.com/use-cython-to-get-more-than-30x-speedup-on-your-python-code-f6cb337919b6

#environment Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49295051

#climate #video David Attenborough: 'Climate Change - Britain Under Threat' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq1oFhTINXE Jefferdaughter's comment "What you can do" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq1oFhTINXE&lc=UggJ53HhiFU2O3gCoAEC (text AT https://pastebin.com/W3vbV9Rq)

#climate NOAA Just Confirmed July 2019 Was The Hottest Month On Record https://www.iflscience.com/environment/noaa-just-confirmed-july-2019-was-the-hottest-month-on-record/

#geology 'Jurassic world' discovered under Australia https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/jurassic-world-discovered-under-australia/ar-AAFNoZp

#distributed If you're a contributor to World Community Grid make sure your account's email adress is up to date before the 28th : "We're Switching to Email-Based Login" https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=602

#bigdata The most powerful idea in data science - A quick fix for separating red herrings from useful patterns https://towardsdatascience.com/the-most-powerful-idea-in-data-science-78b9cd451e72

#climate #science Climate deniers get more media play than scientists: study https://phys.org/news/2019-08-climate-deniers-media-scientists.html

#geology Making sense of a '7.1' earthquake https://phys.org/news/2019-08-earthquake.html

#ai Artificial intelligence to predict protein structure https://techxplore.com/news/2019-08-artificial-intelligence-protein.html

#ai More chat, less duh, on the way thanks to Nvidia AI leaps with BERT https://techxplore.com/news/2019-08-chat-duh-nvidia-ai-bert.html

#robotics Playing god: Japan temple puts faith in robot priest https://techxplore.com/news/2019-08-god-japan-temple-faith-robot.html

#privacy Researchers find a new way to snoop with smartphones. But should you be worried? https://techxplore.com/news/2019-08-snoop-smartphones.html

#anthropology Neanderthals also got 'surfer's ear,' suggesting they liked to fish https://phys.org/news/2019-08-neanderthals-commonly-swimmer-ear.html

#robotics [Scientific American] An Innovative Robotic Exosuit Boosts Both Walking and Running http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/T5f0yjAh0pI/ 2019-08-16T17:00:00

#science #pictures [Scientific American] A Flash on Jupiter, the Death of Mitochondria and the World under Your Skin: The Week's Best Science GIFs http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/86skgUEzx0k/ 2019-08-16T14:00:00

#climate How to save a sinking nation http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190813-how-to-save-a-sinking-island-nation

#ethology The real reason sharks attack humans http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190808-why-do-sharks-attack-humans

#mind The brain that moves objects http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190814-will-we-ever-control-the-world-with-our-minds

#climate The animals that will survive climate change http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190730-the-animals-that-will-survive-climate-change

#ai Sci-Fi From the Future (repeat) Are you ready to defer all your personal decision-making to machines? Polls show that most Americans are uneasy about the unchecked growth of artificial intelligence. The possible misuse of genetic engineering also makes us anxious. We all have a stake in the responsible development of science and technology, but fortunately, science fiction films can help. http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/sci-fi-future

#health Candida auris: The new superbug on the block - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49170866

#cats Scientists Have Created A Vaccine For Cats To Stop You Being Allergic To Your Cat https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-have-created-a-vaccine-to-stop-you-being-allergic-to-your-cat-/

#sociology #media How online extremists are shaping the minds of white teens https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49363958

#environment Puerto Rico's Hurricane Maria provides ethnic studies lesson https://phys.org/news/2019-08-puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-ethnic.html https://www.npr.org/2018/09/12/646997771/fact-check-puerto-rico-was-an-incredible-unsung-success https://blogs.uoregon.edu/theuopuertoricoproject/

#space #music Italian Astronaut Becomes First DJ To Play A Set in Space https://www.iflscience.com/space/italian-astronaut-becomes-first-dj-play-set-space/

#aliens Prepare to storm Area 51 and see them aliens - Facebook briefly removes Area 51 event 'by accident' https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49263255 Half a million people signed up to storm Area 51. What happens if they actually show? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/07/13/half-million-people-signed-up-storm-area-what-happens-if-they-actually-show-up/ He got 2 million people to say they’d storm Area 51. Now he’s planning an alien festival https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/12/he-got-million-people-say-theyd-storm-area-now-hes-planning-an-alien-festival/

#aliens The Only Band Booked to Play the “Storm Area 51” Festival Explains Why It Might Believe in Aliens https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/storm-area-51-alienstock-festival-interview-wily-savage.html
https://www.stormarea51.us/ https://alienstockfestival.com/

#aliens “Let’s See Them Aliens”: The Comic Futility of #StormArea51 - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/pop-culture/2019/7/17/20697053/storm-area-51-explained

#technology Devices and Appliances You Could Theoretically Tweet From, Ranked https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/twitter-electronics-ranked-list-which-is-best.html

#politics #media Twitter bans advertising from state-controlled news outlets and suspends 936 accounts - The change comes after 'Xinhua' sponsored ads attacking Hong Kong protestors. https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/19/twitter-advertising-policy-ban-state-sponsored-media/

#security Massive biometric security flaw exposed more than one million fingerprints - The system is used by banks, police and defence companies. https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/14/biometric-security-flaw-fingerprints/

#education Students are still using tech to cheat on exams, but things are getting more advanced https://phys.org/news/2019-08-students-tech-exams-advanced.html

#The curious history of the rise and fall of twin beds https://phys.org/news/2019-08-curious-history-fall-twin-beds.html

#internet #culture How the Internet Changed Language—for the Better - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/8/1/20749580/because-internet-gretchen-mcculloch

#media ‘Matrix 4’: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss & Lana Wachowski to Return – Variety https://variety.com/2019/film/news/matrix-4-keanu-reeves-carrie-anne-moss-lana-wachowski-1203307955/

"If a man is to shed the light of the sun
upon other men,
he must first of all have it within himself."

~Romain Rolland

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SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/08/11

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2019 SETI.Germany Wow! anniversary event: 15-29 August - Posted: 22 Jul 2019, 23:13:46 UTC - Every year SETI.Germany organizes an event in honor of the anniversary of the Wow! signal. This year's event (the 42nd anniversary) takes place from 15 to 29 August. Further information can be found here: https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/home/en

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84429&postid=2003886

8th SETI@home Wow! Event 2019 - Update 2019.08.11
https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/home/en
372 Participants https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/stats/users/2019
73 Teams https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/stats/teams/2019
32 Countries https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/stats/countries/2019
Register at https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/register/en
Test / Fine tuning : July 15 - Aug.15 16:00 UTC
Event / Competition : August 15, 16:00 UTC - August 29, 16:00 UTC
Facebook event : https://www.facebook.com/events/440620326793598

Regarding *gasp* "Cheating'' at - and bonkering for - the SETI@home Wow! Event 2019 :
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84374&postid=2003842 and
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84374&postid=2003885

[NSF - Discoveries] What motivates people to join -- and stick with -- citizen science projects?
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=298936&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1

#strange #setiathome THERE BE SCREAMERS (Area 51 Raid): "They can't stop all of us" https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84395

#seti SETI Institute in the news July 4 - July 10, 2019 https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-july-4-july-10-2019 Applying AI to Mysterious Deep Space
Signals - Our Moon: Commercial Interests and Scientific Safeguards - Funding Space Exploration, Without a Space Race

#BOINC volunteers, here's an invite to join the @discordapp of @team_csf link: https://discord.gg/XtYGz9v

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#seti Breakthrough Listen's new search for alien lasers - For the last few decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has focused on detecting radio signals. But a new collaboration between Breakthrough Listen and VERITAS will focus on looking for laser-like flashes of light. | Space | EarthSky https://earthsky.org/space/breakthrough-listen-seti-optical-beacons-technosignatures

#radioastron National Science Foundation sides with Green Bank Observatory - WV
MetroNews http://wvmetronews.com/2019/07/30/national-science-foundation-sides-with-green-bank-observatory/

#seti SETI Institute in the news July 11 - July 17, 2019 https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-july-11-july-17-2019 Girl Scouts Announces New Space Science Badges - Saturn s Rings Teach Us About How the Solar System Formed - Internet Memes and Area 51 and UFO s, Oh My! -

#seti Jul 30, 2019 - SETI Institute in the news July 18 - July 24, 2019 https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-july-18-july-24-2019 Forbes Asks: Can We Decode an Extraterrestrial Message? - How the Moon Landing Changed Our View of Extraterrestrials - Jill Tarter Fields Twitter s Most Pressing Alien Questions - VERITAS and Breakthrough Listen Announce New Search for Optical Signals - Jason Wright on the Drake Award and Viral Joke to See Them Aliens

#exoplanets [Scientific American] The Hunt Is on for Alpha Centauri's Planets http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/tWAiieBvTJA/
2019-08-05T10:45:00

#society Neil deGrasse Tyson is facing backlash after tweeting about shooting deaths - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/05/us/neil-degrasse-tyson-gun-death-tweets-trnd/index.html

Katie Mack @AstroKatie : "Here's to hoping we humans someday learn to share enough of our dreams that no one has to live out our nightmares"

#music Home - NASA's Third Rock Radio | Stream New Rock | Indie Rock | Alternative Rock https://thirdrockradio.net

#citizenscience Volunteers Needed @MDRS - The Mars Society https://www.marssociety.org/news/2019/08/07/volunteers-needed-mdrs/

#radioastronomy Astronomy and Space News - Astro Watch: Dead Planets Can Broadcast for Up to a Billion Years https://www.astrowatch.net/2019/08/dead-planets-can-broadcast-for-up-to.html

#radioastronomy NASA's new lightweight X-ray mirrors ready for try-outs in space
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-nasa-lightweight-x-ray-mirrors-ready.html

#psychology Why speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser | Aeon Ideas
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-speaking-to-yourself-in-the-third-person-makes-you-wiser

#asteroids A Meteor Just Exploded On Jupiter, And A Photographer Actually Caught It On Video
https://www.sciencealert.com/rare-and-breathtaking-video-of-a-meteor-exploding-on-jupiter

#technology These Guys Built a Flying Saucer That Actually Flies Pretty Well https://futurism.com/the-byte/flying-saucer-flies-pretty-well

#food Vegan food’s sustainability claims need to give the full picture - CSIROscope
https://blog.csiro.au/vegan-foods-sustainability-claims-need-to-give-the-full-picture/

#seti Are we alone in the Cosmos? Biological Time, the Drake Equation and the Fermi Paradox -
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhDUB28BtdA

#marsHow We Could Make Mars Habitable, One Patch of Ground at a Time |
Space https://www.space.com/make-mars-habitable-with-silica-aerogel.html

#exobiology Earth's Changing Colors Could Help Us Find Alien Life |
Space https://www.space.com/alien-life-search-expanded-photosynthesis-signatures.html

#spacehistory Never-Before-Seen NASA Video Shows Scientists Test Apollo 11 Moon Rocks for Life in 1969 | Space https://www.space.com/apollo-11-moon-rocks-life-signs-test-video.html

#exobiology Searching For The Red Edge. How The Earth's Forests Are Telling The Aliens Where We Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovcD2uL5Cc

#exoplanets Four thousand exo-planets discovered (and counting). :
SFcrowsnest https://www.sfcrowsnest.info/four-thousand-exo-planets-discovered-and-counting/

#physics Physicists solve 2,000-year-old optical problem https://phys.org/news/2019-08-physicists-year-old-optical-problem.html

#exoplanets NASA's Planet-Hunting TESS Telescope Finds 21 New Worlds in 1st Year | Space
https://www.space.com/tess-first-year-hunting-alien-planets.html

#seti Apollo 11 Moon Landing Showed That Aliens Might Be More Than Science Fiction |
Space https://www.space.com/moon-brought-aliens-to-earth.html

#seti 10 SETI Messages That We May Not Want to Receive - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKVpHTMj3XM

#exobiology 10 Indicators that Mars Might Harbor Life - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqf9JloNrts

#space First Flight on Another Planet! The Mars Helicopter aims to make the first powered flight on another planet when it takes off on Mars as part of the Mars 2020 mission. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsZUZmJvaM&feature=youtu.be

#seti Will Aliens Want to Eat Us? Our ideas of evil aliens are probably wrong.- Predict - Medium
https://medium.com/predict/will-aliens-want-to-eat-us-de7226ab53d

#space #technology To Save the Internet, Silicon Valley is Sending it to Space - The Crux
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/07/30/to-save-the-internet-silicon-valley-is-sending-it-to-space/#.XVB_Xkd7kd4

#space #technology Building Interplanetary Internet with 'Disruption Tolerant Networking' - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=TeJSQ4ZWk78

#asteroids Something Just Smacked Jupiter and Here's the Photo to Prove It | Space
https://www.space.com/jupiter-impact-flash-photo-august-2019.html

#events Perseid Meteor Shower 2019: When, Where & How to See It | Space https://www.space.com/32868-perseid-meteor-shower-guide.html

#seti Mysterious, Ancient Radio Signals - FRBs - Keep Pelting Earth. Astronomers Designed an AI to Hunt Them Down. | Space
https://www.space.com/fast-radio-bursts-australia-artificial-intelligence.html

#seti New SETI Project InVADER Will Practice Looking for Alien Life Near Deep-Sea Vents on Earth - D-brief
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/08/09/new-seti-project-will-practice-looking-for-alien-life-near-deep-sea-vents-on-earth/#.XVB9E0d7kd4

#history Can the man who found the Titanic find Amelia Earhart? - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49231625

#biocontamination Tardigrades Were Already on the Moon - Scientific American Blog Network
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/tardigrades-were-already-on-the-moon/

#politics Congress on verge of creating Space Force after years of delays : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/11/743612373/with-congressional-blessing-space-force-is-closer-to-launch?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=space

#space #history #computing The Story of the Apollo Guidance Computer, Part 3 - Universe Today
https://www.universetoday.com/143113/the-story-of-the-apollo-guidance-computer-part-3/
https://www.universetoday.com/142897/the-story-of-the-apollo-guidance-computer-part-1/
https://www.universetoday.com/143102/the-story-of-the-apollo-guidance-computer-part-2/

#space Nasa Joins Forces with SpaceX To Conquer Mars And Moon | David Reneke | Space and Astronomy News
https://www.davidreneke.com/nasa-joins-forces-with-spacex-to-conquer-mars-and-moon/

#space Air Force cubesat successfully deployed from Atlas 5 upper stage - Astronaut
https://astronaut.com/air-force-cubesat-successfully-deployed-from-atlas-5-upper-stage/

#astrophysics Dark Matter May Have Existed Before the Big Bang, New Math Suggests | Space
https://www.space.com/dark-matter-before-big-bang.html

#astrophysics Dark Matter and Dark Energy: The Mystery Explained (Infographic) | Space
https://www.space.com/20502-dark-matter-universe-mystery-infographic.html

#books Book Review: Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft |National Space Society
https://space.nss.org/book-review-ambassadors-from-earth/

#politics #humor Bernie Sanders Pledges to Release Any Information About Aliens If He's Elected in 2020: Report | Space
https://www.space.com/bernie-sanders-would-reveal-ufo-information-2020-election.html

#exoplanets 4000 Exoplanets - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiFD_LBx2nM https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190710.html

#astrobiology Life may be common in the Milky Way, thanks to comet swapping - And Earth may be one of the primary donor worlds
https://www.spaceanswers.com/solar-system/life-may-be-common-in-the-milky-way-thanks-to-comet-swapping/

#radioastronomy [NPR - Science] Chile And Telescopes Are A Match Made In Heaven
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/02/747260660/chile-and-telescopes-are-a-match-made-in-heaven

#exoplanets NASA's TESS mission completes first year of survey, turns to northern
sky https://phys.org/news/2019-07-nasa-tess-mission-year-survey.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LLyFFsY7ZY

#carlsagan Carl Sagan : A Personal Voyage - Tribute by Brian Cox (2009) https://archive.org/details/CarlSaganAPersonalVoyage Topics : BBC Radio, Archive on Four, Carl Sagan, documentary, biography, science, astronomy - Physicist and broadcaster Brian Cox presents a tribute to his science hero,
the American astronomer Carl Sagan, the man who many people describe as the greatest populariser of science of all time. His landmark television series Cosmos was seen by more than 60 million people worldwide and inspired a generation of young scientists to regard the universe with wonder and
awe. Release date: 11 April 2009 - 1 hour audio, BBC RADIO 4

#exoplanets NASA's TESS mission finds 'missing link' planets https://phys.org/news/2019-07-nasa-tess-mission-link-planets.html

#moon Study shows that the Moon is older than previously believed -A new study spearheaded by Earth scientists at the University of Cologne's
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy has constrained the age of the Moon to approximately 50 million years after the formation of the solar system.
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-moon-older-previously-believed.html

#space The Orion Spacecraft for NASA's 2020 Trip Around the Moon Is Ready to Go (Photo) | Space
https://www.space.com/orion-capsule-artemis-1-finished-photo.html

#asteroids An asteroid buzzed past Earth, and we barely noticed in time - Michael J. I. Brown, Associate professor in astronomy, Monash University -
July 25, 2019 2.41am EDT http://theconversation.com/an-asteroid-just-buzzed-past-earth-and-we-barely-noticed-in-time-120972 "A 100-metre-wide
asteroid passed just 70,000km from Earth on Thursday, Australian time. It was discovered by the Brazilian SONEAR survey just days ago, and its
presence was announced mere hours before it zoomed past our planet. The lack of warning shows how quickly potentially dangerous asteroids can
sneak up on us."

#philosophy To imagine our own extinction is to be able to answer for it | Aeon Essays
https://aeon.co/essays/to-imagine-our-own-extinction-is-to-be-able-to-answer-for-it

#psychology What happened when I made my students turn off their phones | Aeon Ideas
https://aeon.co/ideas/what-happened-when-i-made-my-students-turn-off-their-phones

#cosmology Tracer galaxies probe the cosmic background - The universe, perhaps surprisingly, is not comprised of galaxies randomly distributed
throughout space; that is, it is not very homogeneous. Instead, its galaxies are clustered into distinct structures, typically gigantic filaments separated by
vast voids the "large-scale structure (LSS)," an architecture whose discovery and mappings were pioneered by CfA astronomers about thirty years ago.
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-tracer-galaxies-probe-cosmic-background.html

#space Space mining kits blast off for tests in orbit - The groundbreaking study could aid efforts to establish manned settlements on distant worlds by
helping develop ways to source minerals essential for survival in space. https://phys.org/news/2019-07-space-kits-blast-orbit.html

#moon Scientist Explains How Moon Mining Would Work | WIRED - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix6BxLf1bew

#space Space junk: A recycling station could be cleaning up in Earth orbit by
2050 https://phys.org/news/2019-07-space-junk-recycling-station-earth.html

#space First free flight of SpaceX's Starhopper aborted after engine fire https://phys.org/news/2019-07-free-flight-spacex-starhopper-aborted.html

#sciencehistory Voyager 1 and 2 - 2019 UPDATE Narrated Documentary - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZIB8vauWSI

#space Sail Deployment: Reflections on LightSail 2 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/07/24/lightsail-2-sail-deployment/

#space Planetary Society Deploys LightSail 2 s Solar Sail. What Does The Future Hold For Solar Sails? -
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDYkxHQ7X78

#space Liftoff! India Launches Ambitious Mission to Land at the Moon's South Pole |
Space https://www.space.com/india-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission-launch-success.html

#anthropology Let's Stick Together - how social bonding evolved | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/podcast/lets-stick-together

#maths Math's Paths | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/podcast/maths-paths "If you bake, you can appreciate math s transformative properties.
Admiring the stackable potato chip is to admire a hyperbolic sheet. Find out why there s no need to fear math - you just need to think outside the
cuboid. Also, how nature s geometric shapes inspire the next generation of squishy robots and an argument for radically overhauling math class. The
end point of these common factors is acute show that s as fun as eating Pi."

#space World Joins NASA to Celebrate Apollo as the Agency Looks Forward |
NASA https://www.nasa.gov/feature/world-joins-nasa-in-celebrating-apollo-as-the-agency-looks-to-the-future

#moon #space Jul 10, 2019 28:48 When NASA s Apollo 11 mission sent the first astronauts to the moon 50 years ago, there were many things we didn t know. Like whether the moon s surface would turn out to be a field of quicksand, if space germs would infect the astronauts, or what exactly the moon was made of. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, we join forces with the National Air and Space Museum's podcast, AirSpace, to explore the mysteries of lunar science: what we didn't know then, and what we still don't know today. Listen to AirSpace, stories that defy gravity: https://airandspace.si.edu/learn/airspace-podcast

#moon NASA Releases Stunning Panoramas of Apollo Landing Sites |
NASA https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-releases-stunning-panoramas-of-apollo-landing-sites-for-50th-anniversary

#moon #space From the Moon to the Stars https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/07/22/from-the-moon-to-the-stars/

#astrophotography Astrophotography competition sees joint winners for prestigious David Malin Awards - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-20/david-malin-awards-astrophotography-competition-space/11322710 2019 CWAS "David Malin Awards" Shortlist https://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/astrofest/DMA/2019_shortlist/ Previous years https://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/astrofest/DMA/

#obituaries Chris Kraft: Key Apollo 11 director dies days after anniversary - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49082897

#society Hawaii telescope: The volcano that could help prove alien life exists - Desecrating sacred land or finding new frontiers? - BBC
News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49082156

#space Why is India sending humanoid robots into space? - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48918280

#asteroids NASA tracked three large asteroids - 2019 OD, 2019 OE and 2015 HM10 - zipping by Wednesday,-- and one was closer than the Moon -
CNN 2019/07/24 https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/24/world/nasa-asteroid-flyby-moon-scn-trnd/index.html

#asteroids Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) https://fallingstar.com/home.php https://twitter.com/fallingstarIfA

#asteroids Pan-STARRS https://panstarrs.stsci.edu/ https://neo.ifa.hawaii.edu/statistics/ https://twitter.com/PanSTARRS2
https://twitter.com/PanSTARRS1

#moon New research shows that a planetoid impact could have made our Moon asymmetric.
https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/long-ago-collision-explain-two-faced-moon/

#space Dragonfly Drone Will Explore Saturn?s Biggest Moon. NASA has selected its next New Frontiers mission: Dragonfly, a rover-sized drone will
begin ?coptering around Titan in 2034.https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/were-going-to-titan-dragonfly/

#space Cool Quad Video of the Falcon Re-Entry. Two Sonic Booms!
https://www.universetoday.com/143026/check-out-this-super-cool-quad-video-of-the-falcon-re-entry-two-sonic-booms/

#moon Does the massive metallic core of a primordial impactor lie buried under the South Pole-Aitken basin on the lunar farside?
https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/huge-mass-found-under-largest-moon-impact/

#asteroids IAU Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/

#spacehistory 8 Days: To the Moon and Back | 8 Days: To the Moon and Back | PBS https://www.pbs.org/video/8-days-to-the-moon-and-back-bnqvna/

#cosmology Gaia starts mapping our Milky Way's bar | Space | EarthSky https://earthsky.org/space/gaia-starts-mapping-our-milky-ways-bar

#robotics #space Meet a family of NASA space robots | Human World |
EarthSky https://earthsky.org/space/nasa-space-robots-lemur-ice-worm-robosimian

#moon #history Moon landing anniversary: One small step for man...a giant leap for space
robots http://theconversation.com/moon-landing-anniversary-one-small-step-for-man-a-giant-leap-for-space-robots-120553

#space #history That time my grandad saved Neil Armstrong's life - RN - ABC News (Australian BroadcastingCorporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-15/that-time-my-grandad-saved-neil-armstrongs-life/8022728

#cosmology CSIRO on Twitter: "Radio bursts are an astronomical "whodunnit," so we've channelled our inner Sherlock Holmes. Our researchers have pinpointed the precise location of a burst using our ASKAP radio telescope, bringing us closer to solving their mystery. @Science_Academy https://twitter.com/CSIROnews/status/1147294086870851586

#moon #technology Four surprising technological innovations that came out of the Apollo moon landings http://theconversation.com/four-surprising-technological-innovations-that-came-out-of-the-apollo-moon-landings-119605

#moon #computing #history Would your mobile phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon? http://theconversation.com/would-your-mobile-phone-be-powerful-enough-to-get-you-to-the-moon-115933

#ethics #science BBC - Future - Is it right to use Nazi research if it can save lives? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190723-the-ethics-of-using-nazi-science

#obituaries Rutger Hauer, star of Blade Runner, dies aged 75 | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/24/rutger-hauer-star-of-blade-runner-dies-aged-75 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNbJ45yyVcY https://media.giphy.com/media/NfssuO1V5K0kE/giphy.gif "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannh user Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

#society #science The volcano that could help prove alien life exists - Hawaii telescope: Desecrating sacred land or finding new frontiers? - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49082156

#history #science [BBC - Science & Environment] Moon landing: How Jodrell Bank tracked Apollo 11 and a Russian probe https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-49001181 2019-07-19T23:54:07

#strange Seth Shostak - 5 reasons not to storm Area 51 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBsnfFL1JM8 "The last day of summer and maybe the last day of you" "Shostak's playing devil's advocate, highlighting problems and concerns, thus enabling better planning, logistics, and first aid. Good job, sir."

#space SpaceX s shiny new spaceship prototype Starhopper has flown for the first time | New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/article/2211363-spacexs-shiny-new-spaceship-prototype-has-flown-for-the-first-time/

#asteroids Asteroid 2019 OK just missed Earth, surprising scientists - The Washington Post - https://bit.ly/2LFX0sV https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/26/it-snuck-up-us-city-killer-asteroid-just-missed-earth-scientists-almost-didnt-detect-it-time/

#health [Ars Technica - Science] Brain-eating amoeba kills again here s how it kills and how to avoid it https://arstechnica.com/?p=1542335 2019-07-26T18:25:35

#environment [Scientific American] Alarming Sonar Results Show Glaciers May Be Melting Faster Than We Expected http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/c2Dp7JhCIog/ 2019-07-26T16:32:00

#anthopology From the penalty box to the ballot box, our brains are wired for tribalism http://theconversation.com/from-the-penalty-box-to-the-ballot-box-our-brains-are-wired-for-tribalism-117089

#environment [Ars Technica - Science] Second European heatwave this summer also linked to climate change https://arstechnica.com/?p=1545801 2019-08-03T19:56:34

#environment [BBC - Science & Environment] What's causing the heatwave? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-49093455 2019-07-24T12:21:56

#biodiversity [NPR - Science] Sharks Have Few Places To Hide From Fishing, Study Shows https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/07/24/744605834/sharks-have-few-places-to-hide-from-fishing-study-shows 2019-07-24T13:00:55

#history [Ars Technica - Science] Archeologists confirm near-legendary tale of crusaders siege of Jerusalem https://arstechnica.com/?p=1540725 2019-07-24T21:20:22

#strange #events #weird Area 51 raid event 'to see them aliens' removed by Facebook - The event creator is planning a real-life festival to replace the tongue-in-cheek Area 51 raid. https://www.cnet.com/news/area-51-raid-event-to-see-them-aliens-removed-by-facebook-creator-organizing-festival/ (Best way ever to convince conspiracy theorists they are wrong, riiight...)

#technology #hoverboard French inventor successfully crosses the English Channel on a hoverboard (Video) - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/4/20753648/jet-powered-hoverboard-english-channel-crossing-franky-zapata-success

#technology #hoverboard #video Les images du vol de Francky Zapata au-dessus de la Manche - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI-DL3hJFZE

#people 90-year-old graduate from Bairnsdale says it's never too late to study - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-29/90-year-old-graduates-message-to-australians-youre-never-too-old/11353796

#climate [Ars Technica - Science] The only global climate event of last 2,000 years was ours https://arstechnica.com/?p=1541643 2019-07-25T17:22:04

#climate [Ars Technica - Science] New IPCC report shows land use is part of solution to climate change https://arstechnica.com/?p=1548483 2019-08-08T23:06:14

#cosmology Astronomy and Space News - Astro Watch: Astronomers Discover Vast Ancient Galaxies, Which Could Shed Light on Dark Matter https://www.astrowatch.net/2019/08/astronomers-discover-vast-ancient.html

#cosmology Dark Matter May Have Existed Before the Big Bang, New Math Suggests | Space https://www.space.com/dark-matter-before-big-bang.html

#strange Thousands Of Tardigrades Are Stranded On The Moon After A Failed Lunar Mission : NPR https://www.npr.org/2019/08/08/749500826/thousands-of-tardigrades-are-stranded-on-the-moon-after-a-failed-lunar-mission

#strange Hordes of Earth's toughest creatures may now be living on Moon https://news.yahoo.com/hordes-earths-toughest-creatures-may-now-living-moon-005552957.html

#history Beyond the Apollo 50th Anniversary, with Poppy Northcutt - Out There http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2019/08/08/beyond-the-apollo-50th-anniversary/

#astrophysics Very Large Telescope releases new view of ‘Cosmic Seagull’ | https://www.spaceanswers.com/deep-space/very-large-telescope-releases-new-view-of-cosmic-seagull/

#asteroids Asteroid’s Close Approach Demonstrates Need for More Eyes in the Sky – Parabolic Arc http://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/08/08/asteroids-close-approach-demonstrates-need-for-more-eyes-in-the-sky/

#cosmology What came first, dark matter or the Big Bang? | https://www.spaceanswers.com/deep-space/what-came-first-dark-matter-or-the-big-bang/

#geology When Earth's magnetic field flips, it could take thousands of years | Astronomy.com http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/08/when-earths-magnetic-field-flips-it-could-take-thousands-of-years

#space A More Secure Space Weapons System Starts with Cyber - SpaceNews.com https://spacenews.com/a-more-secure-space-weapons-system-starts-with-cyber/

#women 8 New Sci-Fi Short Films About Intriguing Women and Space Travel https://io9.gizmodo.com/intriguing-female-characters-highlight-these-8-new-sci-1836894263

#astrophysics Maybe Dark Matter is Warm, Not Cold - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/143083/maybe-dark-matter-is-warm-not-cold/

#history What Was the Space Race? | Space https://www.space.com/space-race.html

#computing The Story of the Apollo Guidance Computer, Part 2 - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/143102/the-story-of-the-apollo-guidance-computer-part-2/ https://www.universetoday.com/142897/the-story-of-the-apollo-guidance-computer-part-1/

#astrophysics When Will the Sun Die? | Space https://www.space.com/14732-sun-burns-star-death.html

#radioastronomy ALMA finds previously unseen ancestors of elliptical galaxies – Astronomy Now https://astronomynow.com/2019/08/07/alma-finds-previously-unseen-ancestors-of-giant-elliptical-galaxies/

#radioastronomy Astronomers Search for Radio Signals From ‘Dead Planets’ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/08/07/astronomers-search-for-radio-signals-from-dead-planets/

#anthropology New study in Science: Why humans in Africa fled to the mountains during the last ice age https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/mh-nsi073019.php

#food CNN: Fake meat is the future. Here's why -> http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/fxi6t291bF8/plant-based-meat-explainer-orig.cnn-business

#climate #food CNN: Food will be scarce, expensive and less nutritious, climate report says -> http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/21Bjpg186u8/index.html

#food CNN: Photos: Real or fake: meat substitutes -> http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/GQwJi5hi76I/index.html

#pictures Atlas at Dawn - Astronomy Picture of the Day https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

#pictures #robotics #rovers #spaceexploration Curiosity at Teal Ridge https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190808.html

#pictures #cosmology APOD: 2019 August 6 - The Local Void in the Nearby Universe https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190806.html https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08329 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.08329.pdf

#exoplanets New Method May Help Scientists Study Exoplanets at the Edge of Chaos | Space https://www.space.com/exoplanets-edge-of-chaos-alien-worlds.html

#psychology You have more in common with a psychopath than you realise: Psychopaths force us to confront a paradox at the heart of ethics: the fact that I care about what happens to you is based on the fact I care about what happens to me. | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/you-have-more-in-common-with-a-psychopath-than-you-realise

#strange Why speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-speaking-to-yourself-in-the-third-person-makes-you-wiser

#cats Hail Félicette! French Space Cat Memorial Beginning to Take Shape | Space https://www.space.com/felicette-space-cat-memorial-design-photos.html

#woo Your horoscope isn't speaking directly to you. But here's why it may feel like it is - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-09/astrology-horoscopes-why-it-feels-like-theyre-talking-to-you/11374550

#space Martian Merlot? How a Red Wine Compound May Help Us Cope with Mars' Gravity | Space https://www.space.com/red-wine-compound-mars-astronauts.html

#astrophysics This Is Why Black Holes Must Spin At Almost The Speed Of Light https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-is-why-black-holes-must-spin-at-almost-the-speed-of-light-8aa0fd9794e

#space NASA's Parker Solar Probe Is Beaming Back Extra Data as it Buzzes the Sun | Space https://www.space.com/parker-solar-probe-extra-data-sun-flybys.html

#moon New Images from China's Chang'e 4 as Eighth Lunar Day Ends - Sky & Telescope https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/china-change-4-mission-images-eighth-lunar-day/

#physics [Scientific American] Watch Liquid-Based Magnet Droplets Twirl and Morph http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/9OSMSzkzJZw/ 2019-07-23T10:45:00

#science A Mexican Physicist Solved a 2,000-Year Old Problem That Will Lead to Cheaper, Sharper Lenses https://gizmodo.com/a-mexican-physicist-solved-a-2-000-year-old-problem-tha-1837031984

#climate [NPR - Science] Researchers Are Trying To Find A Solution To Cut Concrete's Carbon Emissions https://www.npr.org/2019/08/08/749500858/researchers-are-trying-to-find-a-solution-to-cut-concretes-carbon-emissions

#science [Scientific American] The Brain in Images: Top Entries in the Art of Neuroscience http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/siOP4AQHLSE/ 2019-07-29T13:00:00

#health [BBC - Science & Environment] Drug-resistant superbug spreading in Europe's hospitals https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49132425 2019-07-29T15:11:28

#anthropology #PAYWALL Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world | New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332410-300-is-reality-real-how-evolution-blinds-us-to-the-truth-about-the-world/

#aliens #strange The truth is out there - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/the-truth-is-out-there-1/?utm_term=.fb453fd3c7d6

#moon #history The last person to set foot on the moon - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/the-last-person-to-set-foot-on-the-moon/?utm_term=.8c556e58d02f

#sociology #internet The researcher whose rats predicted the Internet - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/the-researcher-whose-rats-predicted-the-internet/?utm_term=.fbc2ac93dc78

#biography #people One of the greatest astronomers of her generation - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/one-of-the-greatest-astronomers-of-her-generation/?utm_term=.dc15df683411

#biography #history The astronomer who took gay rights to the Supreme Court - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/the-astronomer-who-took-gay-rights-to-the-supreme-court/

#physics #history How a solar eclipse made Albert Einstein famous - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/how-a-solar-eclipse-made-albert-einstein-famous/?utm_term=.1dcb4077aac6

[NPR - Science] I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For ... Lab-Grown Animal Proteins! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/02/747026144/dairy-ice-cream-no-cow-needed-these-egg-and-milk-proteins-are-made-without-anima

#aliens #humor #ethics #foods Storming Area 51 - Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer - Aug 1, 2019 | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/storming-area-51 "The idea for this effort was birthed on Facebook, and it was clearly intended as a joke. But so was Johnny Carson s 1973 claim that the U.S. was running out of toilet paper an offhand attempt at humor that triggered a real shortage. So joke or no, the hordes might really show up at the closely guarded federal facility. BookMaker, an Internet betting site, is already weighing the odds of a tsunami of citizens storming the chain-links and, if they do, the chances that they ll find any aliens mothballed inside. It s all good fun (unless, perhaps, you re a security guard for the Air Force.) But should you go? And, really, is there any reason to believe that extraterrestrials are stacked up at Area 51?" Latest news https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&client=firefox-b-d&biw=960&bih=445&tbm=nws&ei=II5GXe6vC46y5wKNtpeYAg&q=area+51+storm&oq=area+51+storm&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0.12678.14750.0.15529.5.1.0.4.4.0.130.130.0j1.1.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.5.164....0.yfDHhYf-z-k

#aliens They Can't Stop Us All par Finderz Keeperz https://soundcloud.com/finderzkeeperz/theycantstopusall We partnered with ''Storm area 51,they cant stop us all'' to bring the official anthem for the raid event. We are beyond thrilled to have this opportunity and we hope it snaps your fucking neck. Event page(disactactivated by facebook): bit.ly/sa51tcsua

#weird Chihuahua Was Abducted by a Seagull. It Could Happen, Expert Says. https://www.livescience.com/66006-gull-abducts-chihuahua.html

#music #18+ Rammstein 'Radio' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_(Rammstein_song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK1_C0NdSOg https://genius.com/Genius-english-translations-rammstein-radio-english-translation-lyrics

#aliens How could aliens find us? - BBC Ideas https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/how-could-aliens-find-us/p073jvp0?playlist=universal-wonders

#moon Moon landing: Why the Moon is still such a mystery - BBC Ideas https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/why-the-moon-is-still-such-a-mystery/p07h0hzw?playlist=universal-wonders

#asteroids The weird world of comets - BBC Ideas https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/how-medieval-monks-are-revealing-our-universes-sec/p07jljv5?playlist=universal-wonders

#medieval How analysis of texts from the early medieval period can help us understand comets - and our universe. - BBC Ideas https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/how-medieval-monks-are-revealing-our-universes-sec/p07jljv5?playlist=universal-wonders

#people Three amazing astronomers you need to know about - Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and Vera Rubin changed the way we view the universe. So why don't we hear more about them? BBC Ideas https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/the-women-who-changed-the-way-we-see-the-universe/p072n3vj?playlist=universal-wonders

#history Can the man who found the Titanic find Amelia Earhart? - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49231625

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SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/07/17

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SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/07/17 https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/2019/07/setihome-science-links-on-irc-20190717.html RSS Feeds https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default http://feeds.feedburner.com/SETIathomeScienceIRClinks

Weekly Outage and Initial Catch Up: "Every Tuesday SETI@home begins a five hour data distribution outage for database and systems maintenance. The upload/download servers will be offline during this time. Afterwards you may experience connectivity issues for several more hours as the servers catch up with demand." https://setiathome.berkeley.edu

"Men and Women wanted for a hazardous distributed computing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Low wages, bitter false positives, long hours of data crunching, overheating CPU's and GPUs. Safe return doubtful without caffeinated beverages. Honour and recognition in event of technosignal detection." (adapted from the apocryphal newspaper ad made by famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton)

SETI.Germany invites all BOINC teams to the SETI@Home Wow! Event 2019 https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/home which takes place from Aug.15th, 1600 UTC until Aug.29th 2019, 1600 UTC. "We cordially ask all team leaders to forward the invitation to their team. Information about the Wow! Race & a registration form can be found at https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/register/en SETI.Germany wishes you & your team members much fun!" -- Facebook Event https://www.facebook.com/events/440620326793598/

Dr Richard Lawn has posted another interesting article to the SETI Perspectives section, "Seeing the Unseeable: The Black Hole Image", about the Event Horizon Telescope's image of the black hole in M87. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84366

World Community Grid @WCGrid is hosting this year's @BOINCworkshop (July 9-12) In Chicago. See live and archived events at Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJDOd7pQf1IF8ZxKHpNwung/videos https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=12945#91467

2019.07.13 BOINCstats (Willy) - Next weekend (July 14-15) the new BOINCstats website will be released. It's an all new design which plays nicely with mobile phones and tablets. Security is improved, pages and forms are optimized. It's a big change but most pages kan be found in the same place as before. Support for customized languages has been dropped, most were not properly maintained. For those who really need a translated version the build in translation of the browser may do the trick. I found it to be pretty decent for Dutch. And if you really can't get used to the new design, the old version of BOINCstats can be found at https://classic.boincstats.com, but be aware, that version will no longer be maintained and will receive no updates other than security patches! https://boincstats.com/en/forum/8/5247391

Enceladus' ocean right age to support life | Space | EarthSky https://earthsky.org/space/enceladus-ocean-moon-habitability-right-age-to-support-life

International team agrees on a natural origin for ?Oumuamua - Astrobiology Magazine https://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/international-team-agrees-on-a-natural-origin-for-%ca%bboumuamua/ http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/oumuamua_natural/

Sci-Am: 11,898 Solar Eclipses in 5,000 Years -> https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/11-898-solar-eclipses-in-5-000-years/

[BBC - Science & Environment] Spektrum-SG: Powerful X-ray telescope launches to map cosmos https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48966645 2019-07-13T12:33:20

Crikey, that's FAST: China clocks 84 pulsars in 2 years using world's largest radio telescope • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/04/china_radio_telescope/

Freaky Star Seems to Dim Randomly, and Astronomers Don't Know Why https://gizmodo.com/freaky-star-seems-to-dim-randomly-and-astronomers-dont-1836045295

Astronomers Are Baffled by HD 139139, the Most Bizarre Star Yet - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/astronomers-dont-know-what-to-make-of-this-incredibly-bizarre-star/

Deadly Cyanide Might Help Us Better Understand Early Life | Space https://www.space.com/cyanide-meteorites-may-reflect-origins-of-life.html

'What Would You Do If We Found Aliens?' Survey Asks https://www.livescience.com/65848-alien-contact-seti-survey.html Take the survey https://www.fromafar.world/opinion (results will be kept confidential for the moment: "We do not want to release any data at this moment, because it would bias the views of those who are still to respond")

OpenZika Nears End of Work on World Community Grid https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=598

NASA Releases Stunning Panoramas of Apollo Landing Sites | NASA https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-releases-stunning-panoramas-of-apollo-landing-sites-for-50th-anniversary/

‘They can't stop all of us': More than 250K pledge to storm Area 51 to uncover alien secrets - Story | KRIV http://www.fox26houston.com/news/you-re-clicking-it/they-cant-stop-all-of-us-more-than-250k-pledge-to-storm-area-51-to-uncover-alien-secrets https://www.facebook.com/events/448435052621047/

‘Let’s see them aliens’: 300,000 Facebook users pledge to ‘storm Area 51’ - National | Globalnews.ca https://globalnews.ca/news/5483485/area-51-raid-facebook-aliens/ The Area 51 raid is set to be held at 3 a.m. on Sept. 20. “Let’s see them aliens,” the group description says. The event appears to be a massive inside joke, with thousands of users posting tongue-in-cheek plans of attack on the discussion page. “So what’s the parking situation gonna be like?” user Nick Damico wrote. “Are we car pooling?” “Just got some inside information that the base is actually deep underground,” said user Aaron Suadi. “If everyone brings a shovel we should make it.” https://www.facebook.com/events/448435052621047/?active_tab=discussion

NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) | Space https://www.space.com/wfirst.html

Astronomers explore the hypothetical world of exomoon expulsion | https://www.spaceanswers.com/deep-space/astronomers-explore-the-hypothetical-world-of-exomoon-expulsion/

How Was the Moon Made? We Won’t Know Until We Go Back - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/science/moon-facts.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

How well prepared are we to deal with a catastrophic asteroid strike? - Science News - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-07-14/asteroids-and-apocalypse-and-life-on-earth/11282664

ALMA Reveals Moon-Forming Disk Around Distant Planet https://scitechdaily.com/alma-reveals-moon-forming-disk-around-distant-planet/

Moon landing footage would have been impossible to fake — a film expert explains why - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-11/moon-landing-footage-faked-film-expert-shows-why-it-wasnt/11298680

Science and Sustainability May Clash on the Moon - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-and-sustainability-may-clash-on-the-moon/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciam%2Fspace+%28Topic%3A+Space%29

Newly Spotted Asteroid with Supershort Year Swings Closer to the Sun Than Mercury | Space https://www.space.com/new-asteroid-discovery-shortest-known-year.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29

A Jarful of Titan Could Teach Us A Lot About Life There, and Here On Earth - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/142765/a-jarful-of-titan-could-teach-us-a-lot-about-life-there-and-here-on-earth/

Could NASA Build the Famous Saturn V Today? It's Working on It, with a Twist | Space https://www.space.com/nasa-saturn-v-and-sls-compared.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29

[NPR - Science] JoAnn Morgan: The Only Woman In The Firing Room During Apollo 11 https://www.npr.org/2019/07/05/738860204/joann-morgan-the-only-woman-in-the-firing-room-during-apollo-11

The Coolest Images of the July 9th, 2019 Solar Eclipse https://gizmodo.com/the-coolest-images-of-yesterdays-solar-eclipse-1836074629

This Is Everything That’s Wrong With Our Definition Of ‘Planet’ https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-is-everything-thats-wrong-with-our-definition-of-planet-f61f3873bd08

Eclipsecane! Solar Eclipse Photobombs Hurricane in Stunning Satellite Shots https://earther.gizmodo.com/eclipsecane-solar-eclipse-photobombs-hurricane-in-stun-1836072976

The Space Station May Soon Smell like Fresh-Baked Cookies - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-space-station-may-soon-smell-like-fresh-baked-cookies/

[Ars Technica - Science] No, a “checklist error” did not almost derail the first moon landing http://arstechnica.com/?p=714125 2019-07-05T14:08:21

[NYT - Space] Remembering Those Who Lived the Apollo 11 Mission https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/obituaries/apollo-11-moon-obituaries.html?emc=rss&partner=rss 2019-07-05T13:47:41

[NYT - Space] Mickey Kapp, Who Made Mixtapes for Astronauts, Dies at 88 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/arts/music/mickey-kapp-dead.html

James Webb's Eye in the Sky Aids Human Eyes with LASIK Tech | Space https://www.space.com/james-webb-technology-improve-human-vision.html LASIK: Laser-Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis (vision correction laser surgery)

Opinion: Apollo 11: A Globe reporter’s childhood memory of the moonshot and why we shouldn’t go back - The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-apollo-11-a-globe-reporters-childhood-memory-of-the-moonshot-and-why/

What happened, or didn’t happen, next astonishes me to this day. I do not remember raucous cheering and clapping, football-stadium-style, as Apollo 11 soared away, piercing the light clouds. All I remember was silence, as if the crowd was dumbstruck by the sheer majesty of the event. It was the greatest technological achievement of the era, maybe of all time. -- Eric Reguly

Apollo 11 in Real Time https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/?t=rt

Apollo 11 launch. Extended coverage and some great super slow-mo of the launch. https://www.facebook.com/SteveSwayneAdelaide/videos/10212819348752498/

A Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer | Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21107177-a-fire-on-the-moon

Apollo 11 - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

The Science of Apollo - Sky & Telescope https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/the-science-of-apollo/

50 years after Apollo 11, unsung heroes of Mission Control ponder past and future – GeekWire https://www.geekwire.com/2019/50-years-after-apollo-11-unsung-heroes-of-mission-control-get-their-share-of-glory/

Sorry, Black Holes Aren’t Actually Black - Starts With A Bang! - Medium https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/sorry-black-holes-arent-actually-black-2c6892393f49

The Real Reasons We Explore Space | Space | Air & Space Magazine https://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-real-reasons-we-explore-space-18816871/

Thirty Meter Telescope Set to Begin Construction - Sky & Telescope - July 11, 2019 https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/thirty-meter-telescope-beginning-construction/

Hawaii: Mauna Kea protests rage against Thirty Meter Telescope - July 17, 2019 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/15/hawaii-mauna-kea-protests-rage-against-thirty-meter-telescope/1739657001/

Controversial telescope to be built on Mauna Kea in Hawaii - JUne 20, 2019 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/20/controversial-telescope-built-mauna-kea-hawaii/1519270001/

The Heart of the Hawaiian Peoples' Arguments Against the Telescope on Mauna Kea | Smithsonian - 2015/04/23 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/heart-hawaiian-people-arguments-arguments-against-telescope-mauna-kea-180955057/

The Moon Hoax?: Conspiracy Theories on Trial | Thomas Eversberg | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43681473-the-moon-hoax

Fast Radio Bursts: Another Mysterious Space Signal Was Just Traced Back to Its Source
https://www.sciencealert.com/another-mysterious-space-signal-was-just-traced-back-to-its-source

Book Excerpt: The Complex Politics of Landing Man on the Moon – Flavorwire http://flavorwire.com/617772/book-excerpt-the-complex-politics-of-landing-man-on-the-moon

[Scientific American] DNA Data Storage Is Closer Than You Think http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/0jUbrf9rAWQ/ 2019-07-05T12:00:00

[BBC - Science & Environment] Electric cars 'will not solve transport problem,' report warns https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48875361 2019-07-05T04:01:13

[BBC - Science & Environment] Climate change: Trees 'most effective solution' for warming https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48870920 2019-07-04T19:14:00

[BBC - Science & Environment] Sargassum: The biggest seaweed bloom in the world https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48869100 2019-07-04T18:38:56

[Scientific American] Massive Forest Restoration Could Greatly Slow Global Warming http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/aiQsBhKX3BE/ 2019-07-04T18:00:00

[Scientific American] Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/S6Q6mQYaFz0/ 2019-07-04T12:30:00

[Scientific American] Advanced Food Tracking and Packaging Will Save Lives and Cut Waste http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/wCb3YABxVys/ 2019-07-04T12:00:00

[Scientific American] Utility-Scale Energy Storage Will Enable a Renewable Grid http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/zoqZRTVLzXc/ 2019-07-05T12:30:00

[NSF - Discoveries] Study ties poor sleep to reduced memory performance in older adults https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=298829&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1

[NSF - Discoveries] Algorithm is designed to map universe, solve mysteries https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=298831&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1

[NSF - Discoveries] Artificial intelligence controls robotic arm to pack boxes and cut costs https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=298828&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1

[BBC - Science & Environment] Toxic processionary caterpillar plague spreads across Europe https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48880468 2019-07-05T12:20:34

In Photos: The Famous Flightless Dodo Bird https://www.livescience.com/48639-dodo-bird-images.html

Biblical bad guys the ancient Philistines came from Europe, DNA shows - Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-archaeology-philistines/biblical-bad-guys-the-ancient-philistines-came-from-europe-dna-shows-idUSKCN1TY2JP

Personal Writings of Arthur C. Clarke Reveal the Evolution of "2001: A Space Odyssey" | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/personal-writings-arthur-c-clarke-reveal-evolution-2001-space-odyssey-180954967/

Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/liu-cixins-war-of-the-worlds

The Invasion of Giant Pythons Threatening Florida | Science | Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/snakes-ate-florida-180972534/

CNN: Not everyone uses a toothbrush to clean their teeth -- here's what science says about the alternatives -> http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/qcWNFzDXU6k/index.html

Cockatoo Who Taught Self to Head-Bang Proves Rock Transcends Species https://www.livescience.com/65891-parrot-dances-spontaneously.html

[ This can’t possibly go wrong - Album on Imgur ] - https://bit.ly/2Jt5jVE

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SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/07/04

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SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/07/04 https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/2019/07/setihome-science-links-on-irc-20190704.html RSS Feeds https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default http://feeds.feedburner.com/SETIathomeScienceIRClinks

"Men and Women wanted for a hazardous distributed computing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Low wages, bitter false positives, long hours of data crunching, overheating CPU's and GPUs. Safe return doubtful without caffeinated beverages. Honour and recognition in event of technosignal detection." (adapted from the apocryphal newspaper ad made by famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton)

To alleviate the load on the SETI@home servers during Ttuesday's maintenance outages and to give regular users the chance to replenish their work unit caches, the operators of high throughput hosts can set BOINC to temporarily stop polling data servers on this specific day. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84048&postid=1986061

BOINC web server fails, gets replaced - The machine hosting the BOINC web site, and Science United, failed last Friday, just after everyone had left for the weekend. Fortunately we were able to move the disks to another computer and we're back online as of this morning. We apologize for the inconvenience. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=13001&postid=91935

Project developer and scientist Matt Lebofsky makes a comeback and clarifies the role of SETI@home within Breakthrough Listen https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=83126&postid=1999821

SETI@home 20th Anniversary Tees - New batch ordered; get yours at cost $13 USD, Shipping cost is country-dependant, S M L XL or 2XL, White https://i.imgur.com/jivPniI.png or Black https://i.imgur.com/EZPhX3Y.jpg Send requests to thread https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84069&postid=1999498 or send Uli a pm through https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=729113

   " Examining a million stellar environments might sound impractical, but it’s not. While it took three years to add 1,300 to the list of observed systems, the speed of the search is increasing. It won’t take a century or two to add a million more. The actual timescale is closer to a decade. That should buoy readers who hope to be among the first humans to learn whether aliens really exist."
   "There are no guarantees, and SETI rests upon a hypothesis that’s impossible to falsify. It may be that there is an abundance of inhabited worlds but that 21st century SETI tech — mostly listening for alien radio signals — is incapable of detecting them. But such caveats are no reason to stop trying, any more than we should abandon efforts to find a cure for the common cold just because none has yet been found."
SETI has always butted up against the fact that the universe is very large and mostly empty — and that exploring large chunks of it takes a long time. But there’s both hope and expectation that, as the numbers grow, so too will the chance that one day we’ll find a scratchy signal — one that will change all future history.
    — Seth Shostack, in "Search for space aliens comes up empty, but extraterrestrial life could still be out there" https://seti.org/search-space-aliens-comes-empty-extraterrestrial-life-could-still-be-out-there

Search for space aliens comes up empty, but extraterrestrial life could still be out there | SETI Institute https://seti.org/search-space-aliens-comes-empty-extraterrestrial-life-could-still-be-out-there

SETI@home, the Alien-Hunting Project for the Nonscientist, Turns 20 - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/5/24/18637942/seti-home-aliens-citizen-science-extraterrestrial-life-20th-anniversary

Message boards : Nebula : Help evaluate Nebula output https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84352 Instructions https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/nebula/instructions.php Documentation https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/nebula/web/

The real reason why BOINC goest down during SETI@home scheduled outages finally revealed: "They make this place go down to make it harder to have a party." https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=8105&postid=91887#91887 (The SETI IS Down cafe @ BOINC)

in Praise of SETI@home - How We Get To Next https://howwegettonext.com/in-praise-of-seti-home-c124a7461347?gi=b97ae0fe9ffa

"SETI is probably the most important quest of our time, and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently." - Arthur C. Clarke, 2006

Breakthrough Listen Releases 1 Million Gigabytes of Data from Its Search for E.T. | Space https://www.space.com/breakthrough-listen-largest-ET-data-release.html http://seti.berkeley.edu/listen2019/ https://gizmodo.com/an-ambitious-search-for-aliens-came-up-short-so-astrob-1835658888

Berkeley SETI's Danny Price and Matt Lebofsky, lead authors of the papers we announced this week, were interviewed on Facebook Live by Seth Shostack and asked what this data release means https://www.facebook.com/SETIInstitute/videos/vb.67487330534/1333520023471758/?type=3&theater

How should we respond to alien contact? Scientists ask the public | Science | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/01/do-you-think-that-there-is-alien-life-beyond-earth-first-contact

Where are the aliens? SETI Institute - Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak discusses the Fermi Paradox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXi3K8LusZQ

It's quiet out there: scientists fail to hear signals of alien life - Breakthrough Listen project found no evidence of alien civilisations on 1,327 stars https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/18/its-quiet-out-there-scientists-fail-to-hear-signals-of-alien-life

After years of listening, we've heard not a single peep out of any aliens, say boffins. You think you can do better? OK, here's 1PB of signals - The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/19/aliens_where_are_they/

NEW DC PROJECT Brainstorm@home http://brainstormhome.org/ investigates the molecular basis of brain-related diseases

WCG: New Climate research project: New Beta Test - May 29, 2019 https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg...ead,41609_offset,0#610450,41609_offset,0#610450

Oxford e-Research Centre teams up with ECMWF to enable scientists to run the OpenIFS weather model on thousands of people s home computers. | climateprediction.net https://www.climateprediction.net/oxford-e-research-centre-teams-up-with-ecmwf-to-enable-scientists-to-run-the-openifs-weather-model-on-thousands-of-peoples-home-computers/

A well rounded, humorous and recently updated article : " The WIRED Guide to Aliens" https://www.wired.com/story/wired-guide-aliens/ Extract: " What to Do When ET Phones: There's a protocol from the International cademy of Astronautics (lightly edited):
1. Scream.
2. Try to make sure, using your own equipment, that message from an alien is the most
likely explanation, way ahead of secret spy satellite or hoax courtesy of nearby laser lab.
3. Alert your alien-questing colleagues that you may have beaten them to the biggest
discovery in (non)human history, and kindly ask them to use their own equipment to confirm
it. Request that they redirect their resources to continuing observation.
4. If your colleagues agree you won, send a message out to all the other earthling astronomers
via the International Astronomical Union. Also, please phone the secretary general of the
United Nations (but gloat less).
5. Send WIRED an encrypted tip of your discovery via Signal.
6. Make the data public so scientists can check your work.
7. Work to protect the frequency at which you received the most important message ever,
so that the signal from a new internet of things toothbrush doesn t interfere with page 17 of
the faster-than-light ship schematic.
8. Don t respond to your new ET BFFs until appropriate international consultations have
taken place.
9. Pop the champagne! "

'Contact' by Carl Sagan and 'Three Body Problem' by Liu Cixin are my favorite science fiction novels. I especially enjoy the first contact theme. What are some others you'd recommend that are on par with these two? : booksuggestions https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/9b2gjh/contact_by_carl_sagan_and_three_body_problem_by/

Signal Simulator 1.7 Update - fixes and changes - 10 June @ 3:27pm https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=83985&postid=1997778#1997778 Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCtCkK_AtAk https://steamcommunity.com/app/839310

New Video Shows How Humanity Could Spread Throughout the Galaxy https://gizmodo.com/new-video-shows-how-humanity-could-spread-throughout-th-1835873779

NASA s TESS Mission Finds Its Smallest Planet Yet https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-tess-mission-finds-its-smallest-planet-yet

NASA unveils new mission, Dragonfly, to fly to Saturn's moon, Titan, which could be home to alien life | Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/science/nasa-mission-saturns-titan

New Study Dramatically Narrows The Search For Advanced Life In The Universe - Astrobiology http://astrobiology.com/2019/06/new-study-dramatically-narrows-the-search-for-advanced-life-in-the-universe.html

Why Do People Think There are Aliens in Area 51? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kgz15W7PVU

Scientists Find Bacteria Thriving in Earth Environment That's Just Like Young Mars https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-bacteria-earth-environment-young-mars-1437104

If Aliens Exist, They Will Probably Love Bach | Space https://www.space.com/8951-aliens-exist-love-bach.html

What Was the Wow Signal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDT8xDtliS8

What Are Alien Megastructures ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiLDYM2Asx4

What Comes After James Webb and WFIRST? Four Amazing Future Space Telescopes - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x0RpGa_IXA&t=6s

Big Picture Science – Is Life Inevitable? http://blog.bigpicturescience.org/2019/05/big-picture-science-is-life-inevitable/

Are We The First Advanced Civilization in The Solar System? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4WZndFzC7w

What If We Do Find Aliens? How Prepared Is Earth For Meeting Extraterrestrials - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtz1wQT1wO8

SETI Institute Activity Report: 1st Quarter 2019 | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-activity-report-1st-quarter-2019 https://www.seti.org/activity-reports

You've Got Whale | Big Picture Science http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/youve-got-whale Eavesdropping on non-human communication

SETI Talks 2019 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw6IJozmaWbRKXzeF7v9ywn-8Nmq89QJd

SETI Talks Series | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/seti-talks - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7B4FE6C62DCB34E1

"Alien Visitation and Kecksburg" : We can often get a good sense of a UFO story's accuracy even without researching all the details; by Brian Dunning https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4681

Farts. OF COURSE. "On Alien Worlds, Extraterrestrials Could Be Spewing a Toxic, Smelly Gas. That's How We Could Find Them." https://www.livescience.com/65791-alien-life-may-spew-toxic-gas.html

For the Love of Science - Science enthusiasts, researchers, and students benefit from volunteer computing using BOINC@TACC - Texas Advanced Computing Center https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/-/for-the-love-of-science

Mysterious interstellar object Oumuamua is not an alien spaceship but scientists are still baffled | Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/science/mysterious-interstellar-object-oumuamua-is-not-an-alien-spaceship-but-scientists-are-still-baffled

No Aliens Needed: Odd Properties of the 1st Known Interstellar Visitor, 'Oumuamua, Can Be Natural | Space https://www.space.com/interstellar-oumuamua-not-an-alien-spacecraft.html

Study Sees ‘Oumuamua as a Natural Object + The natural history of ‘Oumuamua | Nature Astronomy https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=82258&postid=2000698

> If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men and women are not content to comfort themselves with tales of gods and giants, or to confine their thoughts to the daily affairs of life; they also build telescopes and satellites and accelerators and sit at their desks for endless hours working out the meaning of the data they gather. ? Steven Weinberg

Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) June 24 through Friday, June 28, 2019 - SpaceRef http://spaceref.com/live/astrobiology.html

Researchers say octopuses hold key to understanding aliens | Fox News Video https://video.foxnews.com/v/6054373859001/#sp=show-clips

Carl Sagan's Solar Sail Is Finally Ready To Fly - The Planetary Society is launching LightSail 2 to fulfill a vision rooted in the future https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a28138148/solar-sail-ready-to-fly/

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 shortlist in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2019/jun/19/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2019-shortlist-in-pictures

Light pollution from satellites will get worse. But how much? | Astronomy.com http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/06/light-pollution-from-satellites-will-get-worse-but-how-much

The Milky Way still bears scars from a collision with a ghostly galaxy | Astronomy.com http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/06/the-milky-way-still-bears-scars-from-a-collision-with-a-ghostly-galaxy

BiPiSci – Nailing the Moon Landing: Inventing Technology http://blog.bigpicturescience.org/2019/07/bipisci-nailing-the-moon-landing-inventing-technology/

Lunar tales: The first (imaginative) Moon landings | Astronomy.com http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/06/the-first-imaginative-moon-landing

Apollo's influence on science fiction | Astronomy.com http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/05/apollos-influence-on-science-fiction

NASA Releases Stunning Images From Doomed Spitzer Telescope https://medium.com/extremetech-access/nasa-releases-stunning-images-from-doomed-spitzer-telescope-40c2869ed316

NASA is retiring its legendary Spitzer Space Telescope | Astronomy.com http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/06/nasa-is-retiring-its-legendary-spitzer-space-telescope

Ask Ethan: What Happens When Stars Pass Through Our Solar System? https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-what-happens-when-stars-pass-through-our-solar-system-d6ebddd5d74e

The Third Age of Understanding the Moon has Arrived? ?Are we Ready? https://medium.com/the-cosmic-companion/the-third-age-of-understanding-the-moon-has-arrived-are-we-ready-82ffd02b7a64

Settling the Galaxy: A Look at Our Future in Space Predict Medium https://medium.com/predict/settling-the-galaxy-a-look-at-our-future-in-space-f5239062b213

Ask Ethan: How Close Could Two Alien Civilizations Get To One Another? https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-how-close-could-two-alien-civilizations-get-to-one-another-770a81f91bd7

10 Disconcerting Fermi Paradox Scenarios - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbqLDmgRjbk

A New View of Exoplanets With NASA s Upcoming Webb Telescope - May 29, 2019 - NASAs James Webb Space Telescope will open a new window on these exoplanets, observing them in wavelengths at which they have never been seen before. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/a-new-view-of-exoplanets-with-nasa-s-webb-telescope

NOVA - Origins - Where are the aliens ? With Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TnsMKpIqoM

The Not So Dead Sea: Traces of Ancient Bacteria Found in the Lake's Sediments - Scientific American | A new finding points to possible life in other extreme environments, including on ancient Mars https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-not-so-dead-sea-traces-of-ancient-bacteria-found-in-the-lakes-sediments/?redirect=1

Hubblecast 121: Discovering Exoplanets from Transits | ESA/Hubble https://www.spacetelescope.org/announcements/ann1906/?

Breakthrough Watch and European Southern Observatory Achieve First Light on Upgraded Planet-finding Instrument, NEAR - Astrobiology http://astrobiology.com/2019/06/breakthrough-watch-and-european-southern-observatory-achieve-first-light-on-upgraded-planet-finding.html

Alien Life Could Be Hiding Out on Far Fewer Planets Than We Thought | Space https://www.space.com/where-complex-alien-life-exists.html

Hubblecast 121: Discovering Exoplanets from Transits | ESA/Hubble https://www.spacetelescope.org/announcements/ann1906/

Hubblecast 121: Discovering Exoplanets from Transits | ESA/Hubble https://www.spacetelescope.org/announcements/ann1906/

https://astronomynow.com/2019/06/11/new-study-suggests-tighter-restrictions-on-exoplanet-habitability/

What Happens If China Makes First Contact? - The Atlantic - Pocket https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-happens-if-china-makes-first-contact

[NYT - Space] NASA Reopens Apollo Mission Control Room That Once Landed Men on Moon https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/science/apollo-11-mission-control-nasa.html

[BBC - Science & Environment] Europe heatwave: Why are temperatures on the continent soaring? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48756480

"SETI does share some traits with religion. It is motivated by deep human desires for connection and transcendence. It concerns itself with questions about human origins, about the raw creative power of nature, and about our future in this universe and it does all this at a time when traditional religions have become unpersuasive to many. Why these aspects of SETI should count against it is unclear. Nor is it clear why Congress should find SETI unworthy of funding, given that the government has previously been happy to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on ambitious searches for phenomena whose existence was still in question. The expensive, decades-long missions that found black holes and gravitational waves both commenced when their targets were mere speculative possibilities. That intelligent life can evolve on a planet is not a speculative possibility, as Darwin demonstrated. Indeed, SETI might be the most intriguing scientific project suggested by Darwinism." - Ross Andersen

The Space Station May Soon Smell like Fresh-Baked Cookies - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-space-station-may-soon-smell-like-fresh-baked-cookies/

Misinformation is everywhere. These scientists can teach you to fight BS. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/06/24/misinformation-is-everywhere-these-scientists-can-teach-you-fight-bs/

Calling Bullshit Courses 1.1: Introduction to Bullshit - YouTube + series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2OtU5vlR0k&list=PLPnZfvKID1Sje5jWxt-4CSZD7bUI4gSPS

They Kinda Want to Believe Apollo 11 Was Maybe a Hoax - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/science/moon-landing-hoax-conspiracy-theory.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking." - Alfred Korzybsk, Polish-American scientist and philosopher (born 3 Jul
1879).

How not to trash the planet at a music festival -> http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/CkUgUyP5_Og/index.html

Books that introduce advanced tech into primitive Civs : printSF https://old.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/c6dqwq/books_that_introduce_advanced_tech_into_primitive/

Scientists closer to unraveling mechanisms of speech processing in the brain -> https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-scientists-closer-unraveling-mechanisms-speech.html

Why these strange, reclusive arachnids fled underground in evolutionary waves -> https://www.foxnews.com/science/why-these-strange-reclusive-arachnids-fled-underground-in-evolutionary-waves

New evidence shows crash with Antlia 2 gave the Milky Way the ripples in its outer disc | Rochester Institute of Technology | RIT https://www.rit.edu/news/new-evidence-shows-crash-antlia-2-gave-milky-way-ripples-its-outer-disc

ESA Announces Mothership Mission to Intercept Comets https://futurism.com/the-byte/esa-mission-intercept-comet

European Space Agency probe to intercept a comet - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48696024

Orion Capsule's Launch-Abort System: How It Works | Space https://www.space.com/nasa-orion-launch-abort-system-explainer.html

An Orbit Map of the Solar System http://tabletopwhale.com/2019/06/10/the-solar-system.html

NASA helicopter passes key tests on road to Mars flight – Astronomy Now https://astronomynow.com/2019/06/10/nasa-helicopter-passes-key-tests-on-road-to-mars-flight/

Where We Are: An At-A-Glance Spacecraft Locator | The Planetary Society http://www.planetary.org/explore/the-planetary-report/where-we-are-spacecraft-locator-july-2019.html

Three Canadian radar surveillance satellites ride SpaceX rocket into orbit Spaceflight Now https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/06/12/three-canadian-radar-surveillance-satellites-ride-spacex-rocket-into-orbit/

Canada s Next-generation RADARSAT Satellite Constellation Successfully Launches to Space Parabolic Arc http://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/06/12/canadas-nextgeneration-radarsat-satellite-constellation-successfully-launches-space/

'One Giant Leap' Recalls The Ordinary People Behind The Moon Landing : NPR https://www.npr.org/2019/06/12/731660780/one-giant-leap-explores-the-herculean-effort-behind-the-1969-moon-landing

No, This Is Not A Hole In The Universe Starts With A Bang! Medium https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/no-this-is-not-a-hole-in-the-universe-80a4bf81dd9e

Hubble Image of the Week - NGC 4051, An Explosive Galaxy https://scitechdaily.com/hubble-image-of-the-week-an-explosive-galaxy/

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Synoptic_Survey_Telescope Welcome | https://www.lsst.org/

Ending in 2020, NASA's Infrared Spitzer Mission Leaves a Gap in Astronomy - Scientific American | Delays to the James Webb Space Telescope will result in at least a yearlong hiatus in space-based infrared observations https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ending-in-2020-nasas-infrared-spitzer-mission-leaves-a-gap-in-astronomy/

Interview: The Once and Future Moon - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/interview-the-once-and-future-moon/

NASA to open International Space Station to tourists - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48560874

How the Webb Telescope Will Explore Mars - June 4, 2019 - When NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, launching in 2021, reaches its destination a million miles from Earth, it will be able to see the whole disk of Mars every two years. If a global dust storm envelops the Red Planet at a time when Webb could see it, the powerful space telescope could gather information about the storm. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/how-the-webb-telescope-will-explore-mars

Mars: The box seeking to answer the biggest question: is there life on Mars^ - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20323384

Space's Deepest Secrets Season 3 Episode 4 Search for Alien Earths - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ9xmHKTmSg
S03E15 - Search for Alien Life Air Date: Nov 27, 2017 21:00 - 2 years ago
New discoveries uncover possible evidence of alien life. This episode is a mashup of "Space's Deepest Secrets", S02E9, "Stranger Signals from Alien Worlds" and another Science Channel special, "Search for Alien Planets".
S03E07 - Expedition Extraterrestrial Air Date: Oct 03, 2017 21:00 - 2 years ago
Scientists on the hunt for extraterrestrial life suspect that it might be closer than we think: our very own solar system; using the latest discoveries, experts might, at last, confirm that our neighbors might harbor alien life.
S06E11 - Mars's Alien Secrets Air Date: May 28, 2019 22:00 - 7 days ago

BBC 100 Women - BBC Reel - The astronomer Caroline Herschel discovered eight comets. https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p06s6w9x/bringing-caroline-herschel-out-of-her-brother-s-shadow

BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon - Downloads https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2/episodes/downloads

Here s what WFIRST will find? ?if we can save it. Graham Doskoch Medium - Simulations show that the next-generation space telescope will be truly extraordinary https://medium.com/@HDE226868/heres-what-wfirst-will-find-if-we-can-save-it-bb61f998f0f

Eternal darkness on the Moon s poles and future colonies https://medium.com/@uncertainquark/eternal-darkness-on-the-moons-poles-and-future-colonies-b71e630c60b1

The Anthropocene Era: Scientists Vote to Declare New Epoch Due to Humanity's Colossal Impact on the Planet https://www.newsweek.com/anthropocene-era-scientists-vote-declare-new-epoch-due-humanitys-colossal-1437021

Islands in the Dark | Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/1105

Our Sun, the Still-mysterious Star That Gives Us Life | DiscoverMagazine.com http://discovermagazine.com/2019/july/ewk-the-sun

Two Decades of 'Growing Up' with Spitzer - NASA Spitzer Space Telescope http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/explore/blog/417-Two-Decades-of-Growing-Up-with-Spitzer

Five Things to Know About NASA s Deep Space Atomic Clock Parabolic Arc http://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/06/12/nasas-deep-space-atomic-clock/

SpaceX successfully launches first 60 satellites in massive Starlink internet constellation - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/15/18624630/spacex-elon-musk-starlink-internet-satellites-falcon-9-rocket-launch-live

As satellite constellations grow larger, NASA is worried about orbital debris - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/28/17906158/nasa-spacex-oneweb-satellite-large-constellations-orbital-debris

NASA picks three companies to send robotic landers to the Moon to study the lunar surface - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/31/18647357/nasa-clps-moon-robotic-lunar-landers-artemis-astrobotic-orbit-beyond-intuitive-machines

"TMRO.Space and TMRO.Science Live Shows" (Orbit 12-20 : Project Artemis and going back to the moon) begins shortly after 7m 48s https://youtu.be/FmT6Cd-EuxA&t=7m48s

Rise of the Supertelescopes Part 1 - Ground Telescopes - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR_uEh0qhk4
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PstUvHlKEg

SpaceX Starlink satellites flying last night as viewed from Earth.
https://youtu.be/fzc3VQFh9zs

Scientists Model Costs of Geoengineering Effort to Dim the Sun https://medium.com/extremetech-access/scientists-model-costs-of-geoengineering-effort-to-dim-the-sun-45c24c972386?
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/281347-scientists-model-costs-of-worldwide-geoengineering-effort-meant-to-dim-the-sun

Stratospheric aerosol injection tactics and costs in the first 15 years of deployment - IOPscience https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae98d#erlaae98ds5

GEBCO-NF Alumni robots win ocean-mapping XPRIZE - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48473701

Could a supernova have made humans bipedal? http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/05/could-a-supernova-have-made-humans-bipedal

Who Started the Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy Theory? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SnUaeMuyB0

Deep-Space Shielding - Scientific American Blog Network | Lithium hydride could protect humans from radiation on the way to Mars and be useful when they get there https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/deep-space-shielding/

Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Guest Post: A conversation with Lee Smolin about his new book "Einstein s Unfinished Revolution" http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/06/a-conversation-with-lee-smolin-about.html

There s Something Massive Buried Under the Moon s Far Side astroengine.com https://astroengine.com/2019/06/11/theres-something-massive-buried-under-the-moons-far-side/

It's Been Exactly One Year Since Opportunity Sent This Final Message Home - on its 5,111th Martian Day - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/142501/its-been-exactly-one-year-since-opportunity-sent-this-final-message-home-on-its-5111th-martian-day/

BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon, Ep.05: The fourth astronaut - The Apollo 11 computer and software that got us to the moon https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz4dn

Perfecting the technology needed for starshades Astronomy Now https://astronomynow.com/2019/06/14/a-mind-boggling-starshade-studied-to-reveal-exoplanets/

Inside the 'secret underground lair' where scientists are searching the galaxies https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-17/inside-super-kamiokande-360-tour/11209104

Canada's longest space mission comes to an end - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-48766731/canada-s-longest-space-mission-comes-to-an-end

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of shit.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

Total solar eclipse 2019: Sky show hits South America - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48828100

Here's the First Image from the Only Total Solar Eclipse of 2019! | Space https://www.space.com/2019-total-solar-eclipse-first-image.html

Climate change: Heatwave made 'at least' five times more likely by warming - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48838

Bird feeding chick cigarette end captured in picture - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48842178

Dragonfly: Drone helicopter to fly on Saturn's moon, Titan - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48799315

Senators get classified briefing on UFO sightings - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/19/warner-classified-briefing-ufos-1544273

Wow, What Is That? Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings-navy-pilots.html

The chart that defines our warming world - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48678196

Science Posters Suck. So Let s Reinvent Them. https://futurism.com/science-posters-suck-reinvent-them

These New Smart Lightbulbs Can Beam Data Through Light https://futurism.com/the-byte/signify-truelifi-smart-lightbulb

The Problem with Quantum Computers https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-problem-with-quantum-computers/

The language of physics | symmetry magazine https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-language-of-physics

[Scientific American] Watch a Raging Forest Fire Surround You in 360 Degrees http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/LEfSzzRH3mk/ 2019-06-12T10:45:00

https://www.nature.com/news/scientific-method-defend-the-integrity-of-physics-1.16535
[10:58:41] [ Scientific method: Defend the integrity of physics : Nature News & Comment ] - https://bit.ly/2Wzo96z

How historic Jupiter comet impact led to planetary defense https://phys.org/news/2019-07-historic-jupiter-comet-impact-planetary.html

Apollo's Bounty: The Science of the Moon Rocks - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/apollos-bounty-the-science-of-the-moon-rocks/

When Earth and the Moon Were One - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-earth-and-the-moon-were-one/

NASA used DUCT TAPE to fix Apollo 13, documentary reveals https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1138275/nasa-apollo-10-snoopy-moon-capsule-royal-astronomical-society-spacex-space-news

Chemical Pi - Using the periodic table to memorize that celebrated number - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chemical-pi/

FAQ: How Does New Trump Fetal Policy Impact Medical Research? - Scientific American | Changes could endanger promising medical research https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/faq-how-does-new-trump-fetal-policy-impact-medical-research/

The Funniest Math Joke - Scientific American Blog Network | Because you know it has to be when you write 400 words explaining it https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/the-funniest-math-joke/

Large Ebola outbreaks new normal, says WHO - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48547983

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2018, Film) Cin S ries https://www.cineserie.com/movies/2163745/

Britain s top secret laboratory - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-48504670/inside-britain-s-top-secret-research-laboratory

Why Are Alternate Names Called Nicknames? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3V7hquFegM

Apparently We've All Been Pronouncing UFO Wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeIjyLYbkUU

What Ever Happened to Everyone's Friend MySpace Tom? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcpgmzHVc1E

Why Did Neil Armstrong Get to Be the First to Walk on the Moon? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo1Zfs-tPds

Are More People Really Killed by Vending Machines Than Sharks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iglWgCfJBfA

Sea Level Rise Can No Longer Be Stopped, What Next? https://youtu.be/MvqY2NcBWI8

[BBC - Science & Environment] Philippines sends tonnes of rubbish back to Canada https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48455440 2019-05-31T03:08:45

Did an era of lightning burn humanity out of the trees? - Big Think https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/supernova-human-evolution

Can we feed 11 billion people while preventing the spread of infectious disease? https://phys.org/news/2019-07-billion-people-infectious-disease.html

A Bulwark against Trump's Stem Cell Ban - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/a-bulwark-against-trumps-stem-cell-ban/

Retire all existing and planned fossil fuel power plants to limit warming to 1.5°C https://phys.org/news/2019-07-fossil-fuel-power-limit-15c.html

End online hate by treating it like a virus - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/Charles-Koch-Foundation/the-key-to-ending-online-hate-treat-it-like-a-virus

Iceland to build first temple to Norse gods in 1,000 years - Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/iceland/11385603/Iceland-to-build-first-temple-to-Norse-gods-in-1000-years.html

Lyme disease vaccine: the frustrating reason there isn t one for humans - Vox https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/7/17314716/lyme-disease-vaccine-history-effectiveness

New York bans religious exemptions for vaccines amid measles outbreak - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48625990

Language wars: the 19 greatest linguistic spats of all time https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/17/language-wars-18-greatest-linguistic-spats

Mini-AIR (Annals of Improbable Research): The simplest way to keep informed about Improbable and Ig Nobel news and events about research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK. https://www.improbable.com/airchives/miniair/2019/mini2019-06.htm https://www.improbable.com/airchives/miniair/

They Kinda Want to Believe Apollo 11 Was Maybe a Hoax - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/science/moon-landing-hoax-conspiracy-theory.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Music to Contemplate the Night Sky Astro Bob http://astrobob.areavoices.com/2019/06/12/music-to-contemplate-the-night-sky/
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MINIKIN "THROUGH THE CLOUDS" BASSME12 par Bass Me Records https://soundcloud.com/bass_me/clouds
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SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/05/24 https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/2019/05/setihome-science-links-on-irc-20190524.html RSS Feeds https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default http://feeds.feedburner.com/SETIathomeScienceIRClinks

"Men and Women wanted for a hazardous distributed computing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Low wages, bitter false positives, long hours of data crunching, overheating CPU's and GPUs. Safe return doubtful without caffeinated beverages. Honour and recognition in event of technosignal detection." (adapted from the apocryphal newspaper ad made by famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton)

SETI@home is down? A check list https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/2019/04/is-setihome-down.html

Dr Eric Korpela, project scientist - 17 May 2019, 17:39:43 UTC "Happy Anniversary! On this date in 1999, SETI@home came online. Since then millions of our volunteers have helped us sift through petabytes of data from multiple radio telescopes. ET still hasn't shown up to the party. We're not discouraged. We're able to examine less than a tenth of a percent of the radio spectrum, over only 1/3 of the sky and a limited number of additional stars. But our capabilities are increasing every day. In 1999 it took up to a week to process a single workunit on a home PC. Now, on a machine with a GPU, it might only take a few minutes to do a far more detailed and more sensitive analysis. Who knows what the next 20 years will bring?"
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84213&postid=1994043

" In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves." - Carl Sagan

SETI@home, the Alien-Hunting Project for the Nonscientist, Turns 20 - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/5/24/18637942/seti-home-aliens-citizen-science-extraterrestrial-life-20th-anniversary

Updated agenda for the July 9-12 2019 BOINC Workshop in Chicago https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/lt/images/boinc/2019BOINCWorkshopAgenda.pdf https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/workshop.action

Signal Simulator testing the BOINC Project. #gamedevelopment #gamedev #gamedesign #madewithunity #indiedev #indiegame #indiegames #makinggames #indiedevelopment #game #seti #nasa #ufo #aliens #scifi #gaming https://twitter.com/BlagoPenev/status/1128031073420623872 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB-fcEcIS2g

The BOINC NATION server on Discord has recently been disactivated, due to the lack of a meaningful participation from its 80+ members. Any further request for an invitation will not be honored. Sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused to the former members and contributors of BOINC NATION.

SETI@home server on Discord (beta test) https://discordapp.com/channels/580067621458673669/580067621924503555 Invite link https://discord.gg/W9whdq5

The SETI screensaver shows us what the internet could've been https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2019/04/28/the-seti-screensaver-shows-us-what-the-internet-couldve-been/

"To all explorers, we are just a dust particle in the universe; make it count." - Mendez & Gonzalez-Espada (2016)

SETI@home Sticker | TeePublic https://www.teepublic.com/sticker/181989-seti-at-home?product_id=1918&store_id=39290

BOINC Sticker by Loid | Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/loid/works/8827076-boinc?p=sticker
6dollarshirts.com

Hacking SETI | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/hacking-seti https://www.gnuradio.org/grcon/grcon19/

SETI Institute in the news April 25 EMay 1, 2019 | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-april-25-may-1-2019 - Saturn ?SkimmerESpacecraft to Study Rings Up Close - US Navy to Issue New Guidelines on Reporting Unexplained Aerial Phenomena - Greetings from Earth Ea Bad Idea? -

Alien Contact: What Happens Next? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTqLPvBz8xc

May 18th, 2019 - /r/GreatFilter: The Great Filter is the most urgent question Mankind has ever faced. It's the solution to the Fermi Paradox. The Great Filter is Robin Hanson's hypothesis there are no other technological civilizations (not even on Earth) because they die before they colonize a galaxy. The mission of r/GreatFilter is to raise awareness of the value and fragility of life, and thus the importance of peaceful colonization of space beyond Earth, one rock at a time. Is our destiny literally in our stars? subredditoftheday https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditoftheday/comments/bq38ya/may_18th_2019_rgreatfilter_the_most_urgent/

How Different Might an Alien Intelligence Be From Us? https://medium.com/predict/how-different-might-an-alien-intelligence-be-from-us-5aca920d1379

Robotic Space Explorer To Pursue Earth-Like Planets https://www.forbes.com/sites/billretherford/2019/05/09/robotic-space-explorer-to-pursue-elusive-earth-like-planets/

PANOSETI?- A Panoramic All-sky All-time Near InfraRed and Optical Technosignature Finder https://oirlab.ucsd.edu/PANOSETI.html

BBC - Future - If we made contact with aliens, how would religions react? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161215-if-we-made-contact-with-aliens-how-would-religions-react

UC Berkeley SETI sur Twitter : "Congratulations to @Astro_Wright - recipient of the @SETIInstitute 2019 Drake Award, 2016 @brkthroughprize Listen Visiting Professor and Listen Advisory Board member. We talked to Jason about confirming weird signals and searching for alien megastructures: https://twitter.com/BerkeleySETI/status/1126921905871581187 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lqXc2ungX0

I am Jason Wright, the winner of the SETI Institute's 2019 Drake Award. AMA! : IAmA https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bm753f/i_am_jason_wright_the_winner_of_the_seti/

Recipient of the @SETIInstitute 2019 Drake Award, 2016 @brkthroughprize Listen Award, Visiting Professor and Listen Advisory Board member Jason Wright talks about confirming weird signals and searching for alien megastructures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lqXc2ungX0

SETI Institute in the news May 8 (April 25 EMay 1, 2019) https://seti.org/seti-institute-news-april-25-may-1-2019

SETI Institute - May 15, 2019 - Where is the Origin of Life on Earth? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFSIT1KctRU

Who?s Out There-Microbes? - Astronaut https://astronaut.com/whos-out-there-microbes/

Advanced Civilizations Could be Communicating with Neutrino Beams. Transmitted by Clouds of Satellites Around Neutron Stars or Black Holes - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/142234/advanced-civilizations-could-be-communicating-with-neutrino-beams-transmitted-by-clouds-of-satellites-around-neutron-stars-or-black-holes/

Advanced Civilizations Could be Communicating with Neutrino Beams. Transmitted by Clouds of Satellites Around Neutron Stars or Black Holes - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/142234/advanced-civilizations-could-be-communicating-with-neutrino-beams-transmitted-by-clouds-of-satellites-around-neutron-stars-or-black-holes/

Starting Life on Another Planet EMany Worlds https://manyworlds.space/2019/05/17/starting-life-on-another-planet/

On Mars, Organics Are Hard to Find And now we know the reason why. | Daily Planet | Air & Space Magazine https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/mars-organics-are-hard-find-180972213/

Contemplating the stars | Columnists | grandrapidsmn.com https://www.grandrapidsmn.com/opinion/columnists/contemplating-the-stars/article_07ed7726-78be-11e9-b068-bf3b8398cf50.html

Figuring Out Whether Aliens Exist: Possible Resolutions to the Fermi Paradox https://interestingengineering.com/figuring-out-whether-aliens-exist-possible-resolutions-to-the-fermi-paradox

An Advanced Civilization Could Resist the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe https://medium.com/mit-technology-review/an-advanced-civilization-could-resist-the-accelerating-expansion-of-the-universe-2145eee93751

Is Life Inevitable? | Big Picture Science http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/is-life-inevitable

New Water Worlds | Big Picture Science http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/new-water-worlds

Enhanced Habitability on High Obliquity Bodies near the Outer Edge of the Habitable Zone of Sun-like Stars - Astrobiology http://astrobiology.com/2019/05/enhanced-habitability-on-high-obliquity-bodies-near-the-outer-edge-of-the-habitable-zone-of-sun-like.html

A Family Of Comets Reopens The Debate About the Origin Of Earth's Water - Astrobiology http://astrobiology.com/2019/05/a-family-of-comets-reopens-the-debate-about-the-origin-of-earths-water.html

Could There Be Life Without Carbon? (video) - Astrobiology http://astrobiology.com/2019/05/could-there-be-life-without-carbon-video.html

[1901.07756] Science Opportunities and Challenges Associated with SKA Big Data https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.07756

[1901.10551] A Critical Review on the Assumptions of SETI https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10551

[1902.02426] Machine Vision and Deep Learning for Classification of Radio SETI Signals https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02426

[1902.08035] Introduction: Detectability of Future Earth https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08035

[1902.09985] Searching for Extraterrestrial Civilizations Using gamma Ray Telescopes https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.09985

Astronomy and Space News - Astro Watch: 18 Earth-Sized Exoplanets Discovered https://www.astrowatch.net/2019/05/18-earth-sized-exoplanets-discovered.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+AstroWatch+(Astro+Watch)

CITIZEN SCIENCE

World Community Grid : "Here's a #CitizenScience project for anyone interested in learning more about their (possibly unknown) roommates! Never Home Alone aims to document the species that live indoors with humans. https://twitter.com/WCGrid/status/1128734004524539905 https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/never-home-alone-the-wild-life-of-homes

SCIENCE

Astronomy and Space News - Astro Watch: Massive Martian Ice Discovery Opens a Window into Red Planet’s History https://www.astrowatch.net/2019/05/massive-martian-ice-discovery-opens.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+AstroWatch+(Astro+Watch)

Swarm of comet debris may raise chances of impacts on Earth https://www.skymania.com/wp/swarm-of-comet-debris-may-raise-chances-of-impacts-on-earth/

Phil Plait: How Can Mistakes Lead To Scientific Advancement? : NPR https://www.npr.org/2019/05/24/725516852/phil-plait-how-can-mistakes-lead-to-scientific-advancement?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=space

What Prevents Pluto's Ocean from Freezing? - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-prevents-plutos-ocean-from-freezing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciam%2Fspace+%28Topic%3A+Space%29

Why You Can?t See Extrasolar Planets With Your Telescope | David Reneke | Space and Astronomy News https://www.davidreneke.com/why-you-cant-see-extrasolar-planets-with-your-telescope/

Scientists gear up to look for fossils on Mars | Astronomy.com http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/05/scientists-gear-up-to-look-for-fossils-on-mars?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+astronomy%2ForOJ+%28Astronomy.com+News+-+Presented+by+Astronomy+Magazine%29

SPACE

How an Inflating Universe Could Create a Multiverse | Space https://www.space.com/inflating-universe-could-create-multiverse.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29

A Century of Gravity | Astronomy News https://nineplanets.org/news/a-century-of-gravity/

Was 'Oumuamua a Fragment from a Disintegrated Comet? - Sky & Telescope https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/oumuamua-comet-fragment/

How Dead Aliens Could Help Save Humanity | Space https://www.space.com/dead-intelligent-aliens-save-humanity.html

What Chang'e 4 learned from the moon's far side | Space | EarthSky https://earthsky.org/space/what-change-4-learned-from-the-moons-far-side

Astronomers prepare two space-borne tools that will investigate behemoth black holes | https://www.spaceanswers.com/deep-space/astronomers-prepare-two-space-borne-tools-that-will-investigate-behemoth-black-holes/

Want to send you name to Mars? Now's your chance - SpaceFlight Insider https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/nasa/want-to-send-you-name-to-mars-nows-your-chance/ https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/mars2020/

Astronomy photo of the day: the reddest outer solar system object, Ultima Thule : https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190522.html

Don't Forget, Curiosity's Sister Rover is Flying to Mars in 2020 - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/142272/dont-forget-curiositys-sister-rover-is-flying-to-mars-in-2020/

[Scientific American] From the Lunar Far Side, China's Rover Reveals Moon's Hidden Depths http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/MxdRVGdh9L0/ 2019-05-15T17:00:00

How some planets can survive their stars' deaths | Space | EarthSky https://earthsky.org/space/small-rocky-planets-most-likely-to-survive-star-death

Astronomy and Space News - Astro Watch: CosmoGAN: Training a Neural Network to Study Dark Matter https://www.astrowatch.net/2019/05/cosmogan-training-neural-network-to.html

Caught Speeding: Illinois Patrol Cop Spies Blazing Fireball (Video) | Space https://www.space.com/bright-meteor-fireball-illinois-police-video-may-2019.html https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1172246082947768

Video: Fly over Curiosity's route on Mars | Space | EarthSky https://earthsky.org/space/video-fly-over-curiosity-mars-rover-route

Here's Three Free Posters to Celebrate NASA's Apollo Anniversaries (and Space.com's, Too!) | Space https://www.space.com/free-space-posters-celebrate-apollo-spacedotcom-anniversaries.html

Vulcan clears final review, could fly as early as 2021 - SpaceFlight Insider https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/ula/vulcan-clears-final-review-could-fly-as-early-as-2021/

Video: Fly over Curiosity's route on Mars | Space | EarthSky https://earthsky.org/space/video-fly-over-curiosity-mars-rover-route

More Details Emerge About Artemis ESpacePolicyOnline.com https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/more-details-emerge-about-artemis/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Spacepolicyonline+%28SpacePolicyOnline+News%29

SpaceX postpones Starlink launch to update satellite software ESpaceflight Now https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/05/17/spacex-postpones-starlink-launch-to-update-satellite-software/

SpaceX releases new details on Starlink satellite design ESpaceflight Now https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/05/15/spacex-releases-new-details-on-starlink-satellite-design/

NASA taps Blue Origin and 10 other companies for moon lander projects EGeekWire https://www.geekwire.com/2019/nasa-taps-blue-origin-10-companies-work-moon-lander-studies-prototypes/

Apollo Moon landing: The 13 minutes that defined a century - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48232627

There's a Hole in Mars' Atmosphere that Spits Hydrogen into Space https://www.livescience.com/65470-strange-martian-water-cycle.html

Space Mining Could Ruin Our Solar System If We Don't Establish Protected Places Now, Researchers Warn https://www.livescience.com/65472-scientists-propose-solar-system-national-park.html

From Big Bang to Present: Snapshots of Our Universe Through Time https://www.livescience.com/65471-photo-timeline-big-bang.html

A Star in the Big Dipper Is an Alien Invader https://www.livescience.com/65452-weirdo-star-from-another-galaxy.html

Inside Giant Atom Smasher, Physicists See the Impossible: Light Interacting with Light https://www.livescience.com/65320-photons-interact.html

Space Mining Could Ruin Our Solar System If We Don't Establish Protected Places Now, Researchers Warn https://www.livescience.com/65472-scientists-propose-solar-system-national-park.html

Something Appears to Have Ripped a Huge Hole in the Milky Way and Scientists Don?t Know What https://www.newsweek.com/huge-hole-ripped-milky-way-1426920

[Ars Technica - Science] Wandering Earth: Rocket scientist explains how we could move our planet https://arstechnica.com/?p=1507409 2019-05-18T15:30:43

NASA?s full Artemis plan revealed: 37 launches and a lunar outpost | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/nasas-full-artemis-plan-revealed-37-launches-and-a-lunar-outpost/

Pluto has an underground ocean kept warm by a layer of gassy ice | New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/article/2203696-pluto-has-an-underground-ocean-kept-warm-by-a-layer-of-gassy-ice/

Bad Astronomy | What astronomers mean by 'rubble pile asteroids' | SYFY WIRE https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/what-astronomers-mean-by-rubble-pile-asteroids

Q&A: Why Rockets Use Stages ESKY LIGHTS http://sky-lights.org/2019/05/20/qa-why-rockets-use-stages/

Moon Blobs, Collapsars and Long Planets : A roundup of recent research with astrobiological implications - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/moon-blobs-collapsars-and-long-planets/

Astronomy and Space News - Astro Watch: ALMA Discovers Aluminum around Young Star https://www.astrowatch.net/2019/05/alma-discovers-aluminum-around-young.html

NASA Publishes First Kuiper Belt Flyby Science Results https://scitechdaily.com/nasa-publishes-first-kuiper-belt-flyby-science-results/

[Scientific American] How Wild Should We Let the Solar System Be? http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/BlraYpZlNnU/ 2019-05-21T12:00:00

Apollo Astronauts, in Their Own Words | DiscoverMagazine.com http://discovermagazine.com/2019/jun/apollo-in-their-own-words

How SpaceX's Starlink Internet Satellites Could Help Humanity Colonize Mars | Space https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-internet-satellites-mars-colonization.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29

LRO identifies crash site of Beresheet lander - SpaceFlight Insider https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/commercial/lro-identifies-crash-site-of-beresheet-lander/

Want to send you name to Mars? Now's your chance - SpaceFlight Insider https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/nasa/want-to-send-you-name-to-mars-nows-your-chance/ https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/mars2020/

A suspected meteor lights up the night sky over Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay (Supplied: Martha Cove Owners Corporation) - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-22/a-suspected-meteor-ignites-the-night-sky-over/11137696

U.S. launch companies not worried about Chinese competition - SpaceNews.com https://spacenews.com/u-s-launch-companies-not-worried-about-chinese-competition/

Comparing Space and Cyber Governance in Multilateral Forums and U.S. Policy Initiatives | Secure World https://swfound.org/news/all-news/2019/05/comparing-space-and-cyber-governance-in-multilateral-forums-and-us-policy-initiatives/

TED 2019: The start-ups launching in space - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47885259

LightSail Launch Event | The Planetary Society http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2019/lightsail-2-launch-event-preliminary-plans.html

Chang'e-4 Lander and its Rover Have Turned up new Mysteries on the Moon's far side. The Moon's Mantle Blasted Onto the Surface? - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/142247/change-4-lander-and-its-rover-have-turned-up-new-mysteries-on-the-moons-far-side-the-moons-mantle-blasted-onto-the-surface/

NASA Puts Mars 2020 Rover's Space Ride to the Test (Photo) | Space https://www.space.com/mars-2020-rover-spacecraft-test-photo.html

NASA's Mars Rover 2020 Mission in Pictures (Gallery) | Space https://www.space.com/21900-nasa-mars-rover-2020-images.html

NASA's Grand Plan for a Lunar Gateway Is to Start Small | Space https://www.space.com/nasa-lunar-gateway-start-small.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29

SpaceX's 60-Satellite Launch Is Just the Beginning for Ambitious Starlink Project | Space https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-launch-just-beginning.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29

The LPI?s Lunar South Pole Atlas EA New Online Reference for Mission Planners EParabolic Arc http://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/05/20/lpis-lunar-south-pole-atlas-online-reference-mission-planners/

The GMT, Next-Gen Megascope for Astronomy, Takes Shape on Chilean Mountaintop | Space https://www.space.com/giant-magellan-telescope-construction-chile.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29

Radio Pulsars: How Slow Do They Go? | astrobites https://astrobites.org/2019/05/20/radio-pulsars-how-slow-do-they-go/

New Horizons: Results and Interpretations https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/05/21/new-horizons-results-and-interpretations/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+centauri-dreams%2Feepu+%28Centauri+Dreams%29

SCIENCE

There's a Brand-New Kilogram, And It's Based on Quantum Physics | Space https://www.space.com/new-kilogram.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29

ST40 has been rebuilt and successfully operated in our new facility ? Tokamak Energy https://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/st40-has-been-rebuilt-and-successfully-operated-in-our-new-facility/

Improving Molecular Imaging Using a Deep Learning Approach - Tech Briefs https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/1198-tb/stories/news/34492-improving-molecular-imaging-using-a-deep-learning-approach?Itemid=690

Humans causing shrinking of nature as larger animals die off | Environment | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/23/humans-causing-shrinking-of-nature-as-larger-animals-die-off

New Studies Increase Confidence in NASA's Measure of Earth's Temperature - SpaceRef http://spaceref.com/earth/new-studies-increase-confidence-in-nasas-measure-of-earths-temperature.html

[NPR - Science] The 2019 Hurricane Season Will Be 'Near Normal.' But Normal Can Be Devastating https://www.npr.org/2019/05/23/726207697/the-2019-hurricane-season-will-be-near-normal-but-normal-can-be-devastating?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=science 2019-05-23T17:13:33

[Ars Technica - Science] NASA officially orders its first segment of a lunar space station https://arstechnica.com/?p=1510185 2019-05-23T21:26:11

[BBC - Science & Environment] SpaceX puts up 60 internet satellites https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48289204 2019-05-24T02:40:44

[Reuters] Procrastinating genius: did da Vinci have attention disorder? http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/yHA0SfCPWpc/procrastinating-genius-did-da-vinci-have-attention-disorder-idUSKCN1ST2U8 2019-05-23T19:12:06

Could Fundamental Constants Be Neither Fundamental nor Constant? | Inside Science https://www.insidescience.org/news/could-fundamental-constants-be-neither-fundamental-nor-constant

Canadian scientists figure out how to preserve vaccines without refrigeration Ea potential public-health game changer | National Post https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-scientists-figure-out-how-to-preserve-vaccines-without-refrigeration-a-potential-public-health-game-changer

Sam Harris: "Can we build AI without losing control over it?" (transcript) https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_can_we_build_ai_without_losing_control_over_it/transcript

" Can we build AI without losing control over it? Unfortunately, I don't have a solution to this problem apart from recommending that more of us think about it. I think we need something like a Manhattan Project on the topic of artificial intelligence, not to build it because I think we'll inevitably do that, but to to understand how to avoid an arms race and to build it in a way that is aligned with our interests. When you're talking about a super intelligent AI that can make changes to itself, it seems that we only have one chance to get the initial conditions right. And even then, we will need to absorb the economic and political consequences of getting them right. But the moment we admit that information processing is the source of intelligence, that some appropriate computational system is what the basis of intelligence is and we admit that we will improve these systems continuously, then we have to admit that we're in the process of building some sort of God. Now would be a good time to make sure it's a God we can live with." - Sam Harris

PhysOrg: Researchers replace the genes of E. coli bacteria with synthesized genome -> https://phys.org/news/2019-05-genes-coli-bacteria-genome.html

'This Is Very Hard': SpaceX Is Trying to Launch 60 Starlink Internet Satellites Into Space?Here's How to Watch Live https://www.newsweek.com/very-hard-spacex-launch-60-starlink-internet-satellites-space-1426942

Astronomy and Space News - Astro Watch: Russian Scientists Propose Building Astrophysical Observatories on the Moon in Early 2030s https://www.astrowatch.net/2019/05/russian-scientists-propose-building.html

[Ars Technica - Science] X-rays reveal the colors of a 3 million-year-old fossil mouse https://arstechnica.com/?p=1508431 2019-05-21T17:45:46

[Ars Technica - Science] For the fifth year in a row, a named storm has formed early in the Atlantic https://arstechnica.com/?p=1508539 2019-05-21T13:25:12

[NPR - Science] To Safely Study Volcanoes, Scientists Bring The Blast To Them https://www.npr.org/2019/05/21/724994967/to-safely-study-volcanoes-scientists-bring-the-blast-to-them

Sci-Am: 11 Cool Things You Never Knew about Fireflies -> https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/11-cool-things-you-never-knew-about-fireflies/

Sci-Am: Rescue Drones Need to Learn How Lost Humans Think -> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rescue-drones-need-to-learn-how-lost-humans-think/

Plastic leachates impair growth and oxygen production in Prochlorococcus , the ocean?s most abundant photosynthetic bacteria | Communications Biology https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0410-x

Navy Plans to Document UFO Sightings, But Keep Them Confidential https://www.livescience.com/65387-navy-ufo-sightings.html

UFO believers got one thing right. Here's what they get wrong | SETI Institute https://seti.org/ufo-believers-got-one-thing-right-heres-what-they-get-wrong

WhatsApp discovers 'targeted' surveillance attack - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48262681

NASA Honors William Shatner with Distinguished Public Service Medal https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-honors-william-shatner-with-distinguished-public-service-medal

Maggot sausage and insect ice cream can help feed world, scientist says - CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/02/health/insect-ice-cream-maggot-sausage-trnd/index.html

2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgSZA3NPpBs

[Reuters] Trump seeks extra $1.6 billion in NASA spending to return to moon by 2024 http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/uzQdwZyguS4/trump-seeks-extra-1-6-billion-in-nasa-spending-to-return-to-moon-by-2024-idUSKCN1SJ2FG 2019-05-14T00:35:07

SF / JG Ballard - BBC - Culture - How the near-near-future became our greatest horror http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190513-how-the-near-near-future-became-our-greatest-horror

BBC - Future - The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

When misinformation leads to death threats - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-48261087/when-misinformation-online-leads-to-death-threats

BBC - Future - What would it mean for AI to have a soul??To ask whether it?s even possible, we first must understand and define what a soul actually is, argues Brandon Ambrosino http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180615-can-artificial-intelligence-have-a-soul-and-religion

BBC - Future - How and why did religion evolve? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190418-how-and-why-did-religion-evolve

BBC - Future - Why we need to reinvent democracy for the long-term http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190318-can-we-reinvent-democracy-for-the-long-term

BBC - Future - The lifespans of ancient civilisations http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190218-the-lifespans-of-ancient-civilisations-compared

BBC - Future - Are we on the road to civilisation collapse? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190218-are-we-on-the-road-to-civilisation-collapse

BBC - Future - The perils of short-termism: Civilisation?s greatest threat http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190109-the-perils-of-short-termism-civilisations-greatest-threat

CNN: Breaking down the robocall epidemic -> http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/xgAHFdDb-cY/how-robocalls-work-explainer-orig.cnn-business

[BBC - Science & Environment] Bedbugs survived the dinosaur extinction event https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48274090 2019-05-16T15:04:47

The universe may be a billion years younger than we thought. Scientists are scrambling to figure out why. https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/universe-may-be-billion-years-younger-we-thought-scientists-are-ncna1005541

From physics to data science | symmetry magazine https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/from-physics-to-data-science?utm_source=main_feed_click&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=main_feed&utm_content=click

OTHERS

This Weird Meteorite Crashed Through a Doghouse in Costa Rica. (The Dog's Fine) | Space https://www.space.com/clay-meteorite-that-fell-through-doghouse-recovered.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29

To Stay Sane at Work, Try Taking Microvacations https://curiosity.com/topics/to-stay-sane-at-work-try-taking-microvacations-curiosity?utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email

[NYT - Space] Stanton T. Friedman, Scientist Who Tracked U.F.O.s, Dies at 84 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/obituaries/stanton-friedman-dead.html

FoxNews: Mars colonists ?will become super-mutants with cancer-immune skinEEbut could die ?if they mate with EarthlingsE scientist warns https://www.foxnews.com/science/mars-colonists-will-become-super-mutants-with-cancer-immune-skin-but-could-die-if-they-mate-with-earthlings-scientist-warns

Lunacy: how science fiction is powering the new moon rush | Books | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/18/a-new-chapter-in-space-travel-why-science-fiction-is-powering-a-moon-rush

"Imagine..." - our attitudes can change solely by the power of imagination https://www.cbs.mpg.de/1169283/20190506-1

Former FBI Director Wrote Scathing ?X-FilesEReview in Newly Released Letter https://www.newsweek.com/x-files-review-season-5-fbi-director-deloach-hoover-mccarthyism-1429276

Fake news travels six times faster than the truth on Twitter | New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/article/2163226-fake-news-travels-six-times-faster-than-the-truth-on-twitter/

Could Blockchain Tech Launch Spacefaring Nations Into a Data-Sharing Frontier | Space https://www.space.com/blockchain-for-space-cooperation.html

BBC - Culture - The 1968 sci-fi that spookily predicted today http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190509-the-1968-sci-fi-that-spookily-predicted-today

AI/Machine Learning in the Enterprise Just Became Much More Challenging https://towardsdatascience.com/ai-machine-learning-in-the-enterprise-just-became-much-more-challenging-9e62feef768c

Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? EThe Startup EMedium https://medium.com/swlh/chatbots-were-the-next-big-thing-what-happened-5fc49dd6fa61

Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? EThe Startup EMedium https://medium.com/swlh/chatbots-were-the-next-big-thing-what-happened-5fc49dd6fa61

Is AI a threat to Democracy?? ETowards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/is-ai-a-threat-to-democracy-4bef3e5fcfdd

Scientists Want to Make a Movie Out of Your Dreams EElemental https://elemental.medium.com/scientists-want-to-make-a-movie-out-of-your-dreams-8a3e62227e63

?TamagotchiEDigital Pets Make A Nostalgic Return on May 13 EVariety https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/tamagotchi-on-bandai-1203193932/

Navy Plans to Document UFO Sightings, But Keep Them Confidential https://www.livescience.com/65387-navy-ufo-sightings.html

Why Is the Indian Army Tweeting About Yetis? https://www.livescience.com/65362-indian-army-yeti-tweet.html

Giant Bird That Killed Its Owner Heads to Auction https://www.livescience.com/65335-cassowary-auction.html

Professor Brian Cox explains the universe as we know it in one hour - with some help from Eric Idle : "The Entire Universe" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozUST2136R0

The-Convo: Cyber attacks are rewriting the 'rules' of modern warfare Eand we aren't prepared for the consequences -> http://theconversation.com/cyber-attacks-are-rewriting-the-rules-of-modern-warfare-and-we-arent-prepared-for-the-consequences-117043

CNN: Crazy history of the 'Back to the Future' car -> http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/MeZiMK8gfQI/index.html

[NPR - Science] How To Help A Kid Survive Early Puberty https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/16/715291510/how-to-help-a-kid-survive-early-puberty?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=science 2019-05-16T09:41:27

TechXplore: New machine learning algorithm can predict age and gender from just your Twitter profile -> https://techxplore.com/news/2019-05-machine-algorithm-age-gender-twitter.html

FoxNews: Kurt Vonnegut museum raises $1.5M for new Indianapolis home -> https://www.foxnews.com/us/kurt-vonnegut-museum-raises-1-5m-for-new-indianapolis-home

[SANS ISC News] Adobe Patches Over 80 Vulnerabilities in Acrobat Products (SecurityWeek) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Securityweek/~3/LNSxu8zLmJk/adobe-patches-over-80-vulnerabilities-acrobat-products

[Scientific American] Can You Prevent Pregnancy with the Pullout Method? http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/5nNkXY2QbYY/ 2019-05-16T17:30:00

LULZ : Thomas Castello, A Dulce Base whistleblower - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gSKPz52cVw
"Dulce Base is an alleged secret alien underground facility under Archuleta Mesa on the Colorado-New Mexico border near the town of Dulce, New Mexico in the United States. According to Thomas Castello, a former Dulce base security officer -- this particular under-world city is a highly secret base operated by humans as well as reptilian aliens and their worker cast, the commonly encountered Grey aliens."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/german-crossbow-victims-were-part-of-medieval-sex-cult

Echonomist - Grace (Original Mix) [microCastle] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riAEFCx0Pfg

Higgs boson walks into a church, and the priest says, 'I'm sorry we don't allow Higgs bosons to come to churches.' And [the Higgs] says, 'But without me, you can't have mass...

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SETI, SETI@home (and coffee) quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Sat, 18 May 2019 05:45:00 +0000

SETI, SETI@home (and coffee) quotes
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Richard's Maneuver: "I also had problems accessing the SETI@home website, with - apparently - the Cloudflare service failing to get me a secure connection and giving me a 'forbidden' plain http connection instead. So I went out to the pub, and it was fine when I got back."

<Ageless> (about the SETI@home 20th Anniversary t-shirts https://i.imgur.com/EZPhX3Y.jpg) Nice good quality shirts. Just those confusing little white specks [nftr: the t-shirt's stars] on there make me think I have dandruff where I don't. :-)

"To all explorers, we are just a dust particle in the universe; make it count." - Méndez & González-Espada (2016)
Bad Religion - "Hello Cruel World" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GLVDRWVPtA

"The probability of success is difficult to estimate, but if we never search, the chance of success is zero." - Philip Morrison & Guiseppe Cocconi, Nature, 1959

"All this fear mongering of aliens in movies, this is not from any actual knowledge of aliens, it's from actual knowledge of humans." - Neil DeGrasse Tyson

“I don’t think you can ask the question of life beyond Earth and stop at microbes.” - Jill Tarter in "University research center will search for extraterrestrial intelligence" https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/university-research-center-will-search-extraterrestrial-intelligence

"I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with great caution." - Wernher Von Braun

<ProzacAddict> Would you like your coffee small large or intravenous ?

Ah, morning. First, coffee. Then, adulting.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

Why, yes, I could start my day without coffee. But I like being able to remember things like how to say words and put on pants

Shhhh, don’t disturb me, I’m busy changing coffee into badassery

I don’t have enough coffee or middle fingers for today

My time-travel machine is instant coffee in a microwave oven.

"The difference between seing nothing but a pebble and reading the history of the Cosmos inscribed inside it is Science." - Ann Druyan https://www.instagram.com/p/BvzENmghUZA/

"You can’t kill a legend with anything as mundane as facts." - Molecular biologist Ross Barnett

“In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.” – Carl Sagan

“Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death? No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no. One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything?" "Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.” -- Isaac Asimov

“The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” - Carl Sagan, Contact

“We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.” - Jill Tarter

“Thinking about SETI requires us to abandon all our presuppositions about the nature of life, mind, civilization, technology and community destiny. In short, it means thinking the unthinkable.” - Paul Davies, The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence

“Your story -my story, our story- began billions of years ago," she says. "But that probably doesn't come first to your mind when you wake up in the morning." A pause fills the air-conditioned room. "We need to change that." [...] "We are intimately connected with these faraways times and faraways places," she continues, "because it takes a cosmos to make a human" - Sarah Scoles, Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

“One thing we’ve learned in the last 500 years of astronomy: Every time we thought we were a miracle, we were wrong.” - Bill Retherford, Little Green Men

“Indeed, much of Tarter’s pitch, whether at speaking engagements or within SETI promotional materials, has a soaring, cinematic feel. Among her most captivating lines: “We are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolve for so long that it begins to ask where it came from. This is us, contemplating ourselves.” - Bill Retherford, Little Green Men

“The conflict came to a boil in October 2006, at a SETI meeting in Valencia, Spain, where there was a debate over active SETI and a contentious vote over new guidelines for initiating broadcasts from Earth. Later that month, Nature published a scolding editorial criticizing the SETI community for a lack of openness. According to the Nature editors, the risk posed by active SETI is real. It is not obvious that all extraterrestrial civilizations will be benign—or that contact with even a benign one would not have serious repercussions for people here on Earth… yet the Valencia meeting voted against trying to set up any process for deliberating over the style or content of any spontaneous outgoing messages. In effect, anyone with a big enough dish can appoint themselves ambassador for Earth. The SETI community should assess [the risks] in a discussion that is open and transparent enough for outsiders to listen to and, if so moved, to actively participate. As a lifelong SETI enthusiast, I found it disconcerting to see the field so publicly chewed out.” - David Grinspoon, Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future

“I began to see this as a series of dilemmas nested like Russian dolls. Can today’s SETI community agree on a policy about active SETI? Even if collectively forged and broadly ratified, would such an agreement actually control or change global behavior, as perceived from the outside? How would you get everyone to go along? Can human society in some sense agree on active SETI? Should we, as a species, cautiously try to hide our presence, or hopefully announce ourselves to the universe?” - David Grinspoon, Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future

“Way back, about a century ago, physicist Enrico Fermi and his colleagues, taking a lunch break from the Manhattan Project, found themselves discussing life in the cosmos. Some younger scientists claimed that amid trillions of stars there should be countless living worlds inhabited by intelligent races, far older than ours. How interesting the future might be, with others to talk to! Fermi listened patiently, then asked: “So? Shouldn’t we have heard their messages by now? Seen their great works? Or stumbled on residue of past visits? These wondrous others … where are they?” His question has been called the Great Silence, the SETI Dilemma or Fermi Paradox. And as enthusiasts keep scanning the sky, the galaxy’s eerie hush grows more alarming.” - David Brin, Existence

“Ultimately there may be no completely rational basis on which to decide. We can discuss probabilities and scenarios and continue to gather evidence, but the decision whether or not to make ourselves known may come down to what kind of universe we think we’re living in. I still feel that we cannot be frightened of the universe. I believe that we should start pursuing active SETI, reaching out to our space brethren and sistren, letting them know they are not alone and seeing if we can spark some cosmic conversation. There is no way to defend ourselves from, or hide from, some superadvanced entity that means to do us” - David Grinspoon, Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future

“In 1961, Frank Drake hosted the first SETI conference at Green Bank. There were only eleven in attendance, including Philip Morrison; Carl Sagan; Melvin Calvin (who, during this conference, received a call awarding him a Nobel Prize!); astronomer Su-Shu Huang, who invented the notion of habitable zones around stars; and neuroscientist John Lilly. Swept up in optimism and camaraderie, the participants formed a whimsical organization called the Order of the Dolphin, after Lilly’s work toward communicating with these sleek, bright creatures who seemed to encourage our hope for conversing with other intelligent species.” - David Grinspoon, Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future

“My conclusion is a startling one. I think it very likely—in fact inevitable—that biological intelligence is only a transitory phenomenon, a fleeting phase in the evolution of intelligence in the universe. If we ever encounter extraterrestrial intelligence, I believe it is overwhelmingly likely to be post-biological in nature, a conclusion that has obvious and far-reaching ramifications for SETI.” - Paul Davies, The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence

“In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.” – Carl Sagan,

“Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of the billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things within that enormous immensity.” - Werner von Braun

“If it is just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” – Carl Sagan

“I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” – Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

"In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally exciting. Either way, the urge to know more about the universe seems to me irresistible, and I cannot imagine that anybody of truly poetic sensibility could disagree.” - Richard Dawkins

“It is possible that the future of human civilization depends on the receipt of interstellar messages.” – Carl Sagan

“In our time this search [for extraterrestrial life] will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.“ — Ray Bradbury

“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

“The key to SETI is to guess the type of communication that an alien society would use. The best guesses so far have been that they would use radio waves, and that they would choose a frequency based on ‘universal’ knowledge—for instance, the 1420 MHz hydrogen frequency. But these are assumptions formulated by the human brain. Who knows what sort of logic a superadvanced nonhuman life form might use? … Just 150 years ago, an eyeblink in history, radio waves themselves were inconceivable, and we were thinking of lighting fires to signal the Martians.“ — David E. Fisher

“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” – Arthur C. Clarke

“To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field sown with millet, only one grain will grow.” — Metrodorus of Chios, 4th century BCE

“A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence… It is possible that the future of human civilization depends on the receipt of interstellar messages.” — Carl Sagan, ‘The Quest for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.’, Smithsonian magazine, May 1978

“Why a journey into space? Because science is now learning that the infinite reaches of our universe probably teem with as much life and adventure as Earth's own oceans and continents. Our galaxy alone is so incredibly vast that the most conservative mathematical odds still add up to millions of planets almost identical to our own — capable of life, even intelligence and strange new civilizations. Alien beings that will range from the fiercely primitive to the incredibly exotic intelligence which will far surpass Mankind. (The Hollywood Reporter, Sept. 8, 1966)” - Gene Roddenberry

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SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/05/11

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Sat, 11 May 2019 23:35:00 +0000

SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/05/11 https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/2019/05/setihome-science-links-on-irc-20190511.html RSS Feeds https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default http://feeds.feedburner.com/SETIathomeScienceIRClinks

" Men and Women wanted for a hazardous distributed computing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Low wages, bitter false positives, long hours of data crunching, overheating CPU's and GPUs. Safe return doubtful without caffeinated beverages. Honour and recognition in event of technosignal detection.” (adapted from the apocryphal newspaper ad made by famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton)

SETI@home is down? A check list https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/2019/04/is-setihome-down.html

“In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.” – Carl Sagan

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SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/05/06

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Mon, 06 May 2019 11:01:00 +0000

SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/05/06 https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/2019/05/setihome-science-links-on-irc-20190506.html or https://preview.tinyurl.com/SSLOI | RSS Feeds : https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default or http://feeds.feedburner.com/SETIathomeScienceIRClinks

“ Men and Women wanted for a hazardous distributed computing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Low wages, bitter false positives, long hours of data crunching, overheating CPU's and GPUs. Safe return doubtful without caffeinated beverages. Honour and recognition in event of technosignal detection.” (adapted from the apocryphal newspaper ad made by famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton)

SETI@home is down? A check list https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/2019/04/is-setihome-down.html

"Get your circle of people involved. It isn't all about the fastest server farm (though those are important), it is about reaching people and making them a part of something bigger even if they only have a crappy slow machine at home. It is part a public relations outreach as we make people feel a part of something that they will then maybe financially donate to, and/or elect science friendly politicians who will help. I can't wait for my new seti shirt to get here, and remind people that this project is still around after 20 years and hopefully get more people in the tent." - Unixchick https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=83777&postid=1990998

SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/05/02

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Thu, 02 May 2019 11:54:00 +0000

SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/05/02 https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/2019/05/setihome-science-links-on-irc-20190502.html RSS Feeds https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default http://feeds.feedburner.com/SETIathomeScienceIRClinks

“ Men and Women wanted for a hazardous distributed computing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Low wages, bitter false positives, long hours of data crunching, overheating CPU's and GPUs. Safe return doubtful without caffeinated beverages. Honour and recognition in event of technosignal detection.” (adapted from the apocryphal newspaper ad made by famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton)

SETI@home is down? A check list https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/2019/04/is-setihome-down.html

"Get your circle of people involved. It isn't all about the fastest server farm (though those are important), it is about reaching people and making them a part of something bigger even if they only have a crappy slow machine at home. It is part a public relations outreach as we make people feel a part of something that they will then maybe financially donate to, and/or elect science friendly politicians who will help. I can't wait for my new seti shirt to get here, and remind people that this project is still around after 20 years and hopefully get more people in the tent." - Unixchick https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=83777&postid=1990998

On the initial 144 Tees produced, some are still looking for good homes: B/W, M L XL or 2XL https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84069 (check availability with Uli while making your request) $13USD/tee (at cost) + shipping (country dependent)

SETI@home Progress report (David Anderson, Project administrator, developer & scientist) Posted: 26 Apr 2019, 19:40:53 UTC - Birdie signal generation - Introduction of "time entropy", a measure of how separated in time the multiplet's signals are - Through machine-learning, making our multiplet scoring algorithm better at finding birdie multiplets (and hence better at finding ET - bug fixes and enhancements https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84154&postid=1991588

[SETI@home humor] Richard's Universal Solution: "I also had problems accessing this website, with - apparently - the Cloudflare service failing to get me a secure connection and giving me a 'forbidden' plain http connection instead. So I went out to the pub, and it was fine when I got back."

Free-DC: "Thanks all for the great response to donations. Happy to say that the total was just over $2700, so I have more than enough for the next 18months or more. After reference from one of the users I'm also looking very closely into a dedicated server (or 2) at a local datacenter. Waiting on some responses on specs. I'd be able to pay for the full year outright easily. More to come" https://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php 2019.04.28

BOINC NATION Server : a Discord text channel for BOINC volunteers | BOINC NATION is a non-partisan community, where every volunteer, team founder, captain, co-founder, co-captain, lone wolf, and even every cruncher who wishes to remain anon, is welcome as long as he participates in the development of Science through distributed computing. https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/2019/04/boinc-nation-server-discord-text.html https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=12827

"You can’t kill a legend with anything as mundane as facts." - Molecular biologist Ross Barnett

Science progress report - An update on the SETI@home back-end data analysis - 30 Apr 2019, 22:05:21 UTC https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84154&postid=1991588#1991588

SETI Institute in the news April 18 – April 24, 2019 | Radio Signals vs. Alien Megastructures: Which Holds the Key to Making Contact? | Messaging ET: Are We Ready? | How Objects like ‘Oumuamua Might Spread of Life through the Universe | Extraterrestrial Diplomacy https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-april-18-april-24-2019

The search for the ultimate biomarker. https://www.seti.org/podcast/identity-crisis

Find out what’s involved in tickling A.I.’s funny bone. Also, an interstellar communication challenge: Despite debate about the wisdom of transmitting messages to space, one group sends radio signals to E.T. anyway. Find out how they crafted a non-verbal message and what it contained. http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/gained-in-translation

What Was It Like When Life's Complexity Exploded? https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/05/01/what-was-it-like-when-lifes-complexity-exploded/#36f1aca948c8

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Tropical Cyclone Fani https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144987/tropical-cyclone-fani

The World’s Space Agencies are Responding to a Hypothetical Asteroid Impact. You Can Watch it all Unfold Online. https://www.universetoday.com/142090/the-worlds-space-agencies-are-responding-to-a-hypothetical-asteroid-impact-you-can-watch-it-all-unfold-online/

Former Astronaut Leads New Space Habitat Research Institute at UC Davis http://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/05/01/astronaut-leads-space-habitat-research-institute-uc-davis/

Challenger: The Shuttle Disaster That Changed NASA https://www.space.com/18084-space-shuttle-challenger.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+(SPACE.com+Headline+Feed)

Its Time To Rethink ISS Utilization nasawatch.com/archives/2019/05/its-time-to-ret.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nasawatch%2FAekt+(NASA+Watch)

Happy Cosmic Birthday! NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Celebrates 60 Years https://www.space.com/nasa-goddard-space-center-60th-anniversary.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+(SPACE.com+Headline+Feed)

NASA Workers Warned About Sharing Images After SpaceX Explosion Video Leak: Report https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-dragon-explosion-nasa-memo.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+(SPACE.com+Headline+Feed)

SpaceX Faces Ire And Draws Fire Over Satellite Network Changes https://aviationweek.com/commercializing-space/spacex-faces-ire-and-draws-fire-over-satellite-network-changes

New Shepard Targeting Launch Tomorrow at 8:30 am CDT http://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/05/01/shepard-targeting-launch-tomorrow-830-cdt/

Pow! A Meteorite Slammed into the Moon at 38,000 MPH During Lunar Eclipse https://www.space.com/meteorite-hits-moon-during-2019-lunar-eclipse.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+(SPACE.com+Headline+Feed)

InSight Captures Sunrise and Sunset on Mars https://cosmologyandspace.blog/2019/05/01/insight-captures-sunrise-and-sunset-on-mars/

Huge Asteroid Apophis Flies By Earth on Friday the 13th in 2029. For Scientists, It's a Lucky Day https://www.space.com/asteroid-apophis-2029-flyby-planetary-defense.html https://www.space.com/19192-asteroid-apophis-photos-gallery.html

6 Asteroids Will Buzz Earth Within a 2-Year Span and Scientists are Psyched https://www.space.com/six-asteroids-will-buzz-earth-late-2020s.html

SpaceX cuts broadband-satellite altitude in half to prevent space debris https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/spacex-changes-broadband-satellite-plan-to-limit-debris-and-lower-latency/

The Road to the Red Planet p.7 in Berkeley Science Journal: Spring 2018, Next Generation (Volume 22, Issue 2), Published on Jun 26, 2018 , Volume 22, Issue 2 , https://issuu.com/berkeleyscientific1/docs/bsj_spring_2018

New Model Aims to Solve Mystery of the Moon's Formation https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/new-model-aims-to-solve-mystery-of-the-moons-formation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciam%2Fspace+(Topic%3A+Space)

The Fastest, Safest, and Most Economically Sustainable Way to Return to the Lunar Surface http://newpapyrusmagazine.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-fastest-safest-and-most.html

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin May Have Big (Possibly Moon-Related) News Next Week https://www.space.com/blue-origin-mystery-annoucement-may-9.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+(SPACE.com+Headline+Feed)

Cosmology Has Some Big ProblemsThe field relies on a conceptual framework that has trouble accounting for new observations https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/cosmology-has-some-big-problems/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciam%2Fspace+(Topic%3A+Space)

Leaked Memo Confirms Obvious: Crew Dragon Capsule Blew Up http://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/04/30/leaked-memo-confirms-obvious-crew-dragon-capsule-blew/

Scientists lobby NASA for additional planetary defense missions https://spacenews.com/scientists-lobby-nasa-for-additional-planetary-defense-missions/

How to Prepare Yourself for Space https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/magazine/how-to-prepare-yourself-for-space.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Belief in Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy Could Spread as Memory of Apollo Recedes https://www.space.com/moon-landing-hoax-conspiracy-may-grow.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+(SPACE.com+Headline+Feed)

A common language - 04/30/19 By Emily Ayshford - Physics professor Jason Nordhaus is working to reduce barriers to STEM for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.When Jason Nordhaus teaches physics at Rochester Institute of Technology, he doesn’t just consider how to best explain topics like thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.Much of what he thinks about involves the physical space of his classroom: He arranges his students’ desks so everyone has a line of sight to him. He positions his body to ensure that students can see both of his hands. He displays important information on the board or on a PowerPoint slide, and he always pauses his lecture to give students time to read it.That’s because many of Nordhaus’s students are deaf or hard of hearing. Nordhaus communicates with them by both speaking and using American Sign Language. https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-common-language?utm_source=main_feed_click&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=main_feed&utm_content=click

Weird Science: Nanoparticles, Algae and Organs on Chips to Launch on SpaceX Dragon https://astronaut.com/weird-science-nanoparticles-algae-and-organs-on-chips-to-launch-on-spacex-dragon/

Watching Apollo 11 With NASA Historian Bill BarryThe agency’s chief historian discusses the film and what the moon missions can teach us about global challenges today https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/watching-apollo-11-with-nasa-historian-bill-barry/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciam%2Fspace+(Topic%3A+Space)

Probing Venus’ atmosphere using infrared instrumentsby Lee Cavendish, 2 May 2019 JAXA’s Akatsuki spacecraft provided the infrared images that help astronomers understand the strange movement of Venus’ hellish clouds https://www.spaceanswers.com/solar-system/probing-venus-atmosphere-using-infrared-instruments/

Mapping Clouds on a Distant World https://aasnova.org/2019/05/01/mapping-clouds-on-a-distant-world/

Black holes : On the verge of revealing a singularity https://astrobites.org/2019/05/01/on-the-verge-of-revealing-a-singularity/

Corridor of Ice Identified on Titan https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/05/01/corridor-of-ice-identified-on-titan/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+centauri-dreams%2Feepu+(Centauri+Dreams)

The Aurora Called STEVE Isn’t Aurora After All . . . Mostly https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/aurora-called-steve-not-aurora/

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How to live without free will http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/05/how-to-live-without-free-will.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Backreaction+(Backreaction)

Amazing story of a 17th-century Moon mission https://www.skymania.com/wp/17th-century-moon-mission/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+skymania%2FNZCJ+(Skymania+News+|+Space+headlines)

Isaac Asimov: A Family Immigrant Who Changed Science Fiction And The World https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2019/04/16/isaac-asimov-a-family-immigrant-who-changed-science-fiction-and-the-world/#73653e605a30

Cosmos, Quantum and Consciousness: Is Science Doomed to Leave Some Questions Unanswered?Physicists, philosophers debate whether research can ever solve certain mysteries of the universe—and the human mind https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cosmos-quantum-and-consciousness-is-science-doomed-to-leave-some-questions-unanswered/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciam%2Fspace+(Topic%3A+Space)

NASA Ties Launch Failures of Climate-Science Missions to Aluminum Manufacturer https://www.space.com/nasa-determines-cause-satellite-launch-failures.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+(SPACE.com+Headline+Feed)

It only takes 10 Spotpower (SP) to haul a truck across the Boston Dynamics parking lot (~1 degree uphill, truck in neutral). These Spot robots are coming off the production line now and will be available for a range of applications soon. http://orbitalhub.com/?p=3330

The Fossils That Inspired 'Alien' https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2019/04/26/the-fossil-that-inspired-alien/#35ed632d5d56

Cthulhu Lurked Under The Ocean 430 Million Years Ago (Sort Of) https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2019/04/11/cthulhu-lurked-under-the-ocean-430-million-years-ago-sort-of/

Why Officials In Oregon Are Practicing For A Plague Outbreak https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2019/04/30/why-officials-in-oregon-are-practicing-for-a-plague-outbreak/

[13:39:33] <Shadow404> new melodysheep video:
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[13:39:38] YouTube OPPY: The Life of a Rover - 2:22 - 2019-05-0

SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/04/29

noreply@blogger.com (Yendred) — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 01:40:00 +0000

SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/04/29 https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/2019/04/setihome-science-links-on-irc-20190429.html RSS Feeds https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default http://feeds.feedburner.com/SETIathomeScienceIRClinks

“ Men and Women wanted for a hazardous distributed computing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Low wages, bitter false positives, long hours of data crunching, overheating CPU's and GPUs. Safe return doubtful without caffeinated beverages. Honour and recognition in event of technosignal detection.” (adapted from the apocryphal newspaper ad made by famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton)

SETI@home is down? A check list https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/2019/04/is-setihome-down.html

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