Posts by Un4Seen
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(Message 3229)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by 
Un4Seen
Post: Count me in! Allright! |
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(Message 3227)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: Well, I have been thinking about it. But there is a problem. This is really time consuming. If the Asteroids@home would do this, then everything about it I would have to do myself and the problem is that this is not my full-time job. So this is in a long term plan if my situation changes. But I would really like to start it. If I were a rich man, God knows I'd offer you 10 times what they pay you at your current job, to work full time on A@H :) Unfortunately I'm not :) Maybe one day somebody with the appropriate financial resources will recognize the potential and importance of this project and enough people with the appropriate expertise will be able to work on it and focus on it 100%... |
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(Message 3226)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: Thank you! If there's anything an amateur like myself can do to help, please let me know. I mean I don't know what work has to be done to publish the results, but if just somebody needs to verify something and I can do it, I'm happy to help. I'm a busy person myself, but I'd be happy to sacrifice 2 hours per week to help out if I can. |
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(Message 3219)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: Do we have any estimate (or at least a rough guess) about when the next update to the scientific results page will occur? I've been checking it almost daily in the last 2 months, but it never changes... |
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(Message 3218)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: How good the asteroid detection is is obviously a very important question. Does Asteroids@Home ever plan to run tasks which aim to detect new asteroids? Currently it's only computing properties of existing ones. Orbit@Home had this purpose but it's frozen and dead. For me it would make sense for A@H to also do this. |
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(Message 3216)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: I opened a separate thread for this in the cafe: Asteroid detection and prevention. http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=322#3215 |
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(Message 3215)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: There are heavy discussions in other threads about why it is important to compute asteroid properties or detect new ones and what we can do in case we find out that a big rock is going to hit Earth. So I opened a thread specifically to discuss this. Other threads mentioned that we have little means to stop larger asteroids from colliding with Earth. This is not entirely true. I saw a video about plans to deflect asteroids using nothing but sunlight :) They are experimenting with using huge mirrors to concentrate sunlight on the asteroids. Concentrated sunlight is surprisingly strong. With just a few moderately large mirrors they can concentrate enough light to melt iron instantly. the plan is to focus a very strong light beam on the asteroid, which would start melting it in one place. The meting would result in the asteroid starting to emit vapor, which is supposed to change its course :) |
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(Message 3212)
Posted 12 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: Agreed! A fist easy step would be to create a Facebook page for Asteroids@Home. We could then recommend it to friends, advertise it, etc. |
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(Message 3211)
Posted 12 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: Humanity United is an idealistic team for those who believe in all people crunching together for the scientific/technological advancement of humanity and generally for a greater future of the human race. More details in the team info page: http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/team_display.php?teamid=2469 Everybody is welcome :) |
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(Message 3210)
Posted 12 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: Thank you, Kyong, for considering our requests of improving the scientific results page. It matters a lot that you take our suggestions into consideration. I'm very thankful! AS TBMS suggested, I think that the results should be sorted by default in the order they were computed, not ordered by the asteroid ID number. This way that index in the first column would make a lot of sense. Of course, being able to sort the table according to different columns, like this index, asteroid ID, asteroid name (alphabetically), etc, would be even better, but that's probably a lot more work and could be postponed for the future. That index is a lot more important now. "we release results in groups if there are more results so in that case the date would be same at many models" - I don't think that's a problem. Just name this date column "Date of publishing" or something like that and it will be fine. Please also don't forget to add a short summary to the top of the page: - Total number of results - Date of last update of the page What do you think of adding one more column with links to the computers which made the computation? Perhaps it's not a good idea because the computers could be deleted after a while and the links would be broken? Well, I guess that's also true for the current links to users. Or user profiles never get deleted? Thank you! |
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(Message 3209)
Posted 12 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: Intel CPUs are numerous and many of the new ones contain integrated Intel HD Graphics GPUs. Are there any plans for supporting those? Thanks! |
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(Message 3208)
Posted 12 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: Alexander is right, we are waaay off topic here. The thread hijacking was unintentional, though, I think :) Something much more related to this thread: can we expect, along with ATI Radeon GPU support also some integrated Intel HD Graphics support? Ah, maybe I should start another thread for this. I think I will. |
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(Message 3206)
Posted 12 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: Oh, yeah! :) |
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(Message 3202)
Posted 12 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: I too use 4/3 day settings from today (was 0.25/0.5 before) and my tough PC has downloaded 140 tasks, so I'm OK for a while. And we're down to 3300 tasks ready to send. The "end" is near :) |
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(Message 3200)
Posted 12 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: 14.200 tasks are sure to be chewed up in max 12 hours with the current processing rate of about 130K GFlops. So there's about half a day left to react :) It would be a pity to see such an interruption. When people want to crunch and they can't, they get disappointed and leave, some of them never to return :( I modified my BOINC processing settings to make sure I download tasks for at least the next 4 days. That way I won't feel the gap if it's not too long ;) |
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(Message 3197)
Posted 12 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: The number of tasks ready to send on the server is now below 20K. Not so long ago it was around 2M. According to my estimations we're going to run out of tasks to process in less than one day. Just thought to let you know in case it wasn't known. |
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(Message 3191)
Posted 11 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: I agree with mikey completely. The fact that there are so many projects for which people can crunch, the fact that everybody can choose at least one in which he or she really believes, is a great thing. And I'm really happy that A@H exists because for me it is the project that gives me the feeling of doing something really useful by getting involved. So let us thank the people who make this project work. It might not be perfectly maintained and there's certainly room for improvement, but the pure fact that it exists and it keeps going is a wonderful thing. BTW, am I the only one getting the feeling that we're running out of work units to process? If you check the server status, the number of WUs ready to send is down to 65K. Not so long ago it was around 2M. |
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(Message 3186)
Posted 10 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: The below idea, of a better organized scientific results page is one that I've also posted about, in different threads. I completely agree, the minimum that should be done is to add an index in front of each computed asteroid; a date, which tells us when it has been computed and also a "Total scientific results so far" field, a number which tells us how many results we have in total. If we want to make it even better, we should be able to find out also not just which user, but which computer has done the computation that lead to the result. It would be nice to be able to sort the scientific results by several columns (like index, date, etc.) I also think it would be very motivational to update the scientific results page much more frequently. At least once a month, but preferably weekly. I do understand that the project admins are busy up to their necks. I also suspect that many of them invest a lot of work in this project for free, just for doing a good deed. I respect them very much for that. I'm just trying to explain from a user's point of view that the scientific results page is very important and should be handled with higher priority. Thanks! |
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(Message 3185)
Posted 10 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: finding ET IS sexy, mapping the Asteroid that is going to splatter the Earth like a broken egg is just not. Unfortunately this is true, but I think it is so very wrong. I'll explain why, but please understand that this is just my personal opinion and I have no intention whatsoever to convince anybody that my opinion is the correct one. I respect that everybody believes in their own thing. In my opinion (but I'm sure many will disagree) finding ET is a hopeless and most importantly pointless quest. Even if we found a signal, why would it matter? The distance to the closest star is roughly 4 light years away. With the current fastest imaginable (not even existing) transportation system it would take thousands of years to get to the closest star. But you could not sustain the life of generations of humans on a spaceship for thousands of years. So we have no hope of visiting even the planets of the closest star. But that's not all. The closest known and confirmed exoplanet which is assumed to be able to sustain human-like life is roughly 20 light years away, even farther. Even if we could travel with the speed of light (which is theoretically impossible unless you're an energy particle), the journey would take 20 years... and nobody says that there's ET on those planets. Perhaps ET is a lot farther. What I'm trying to say is that cosmic distances are just so unimaginably long that there's no real hope for us visiting the places where ET might live and even for ET civilizations with much more advanced transportation systems, these distances are so huge that they probably would not come here to check us out. So what's left? Communicating using radio waves? Even with that in the best imaginable scenario sending/receiving a signal would take many many years. But in reality more likely it would take thousands of years (I'm assuming that ET lives a lot farther than the closest possibly inhabitable planet). Again, this is my opinion, my belief, I understand that many don't agree and I have no intention of offending anybody, I'm just trying to explain why I think that finding ET is magnitudes less important than computing asteroid properties. Mapping asteroids, finding out their physical properties, trying to figure out when an asteroid could hit Earth, especially a big one, which could wipe out life completely, is a problem much closer at hand for humanity. OK, we have no idea how we could stop such an asteroid... yet. But I bet that if we knew for certain that we have only 50 years left, everybody would start thinking of a solution and pretty soon we would find it. It's amazing what humans can do when they are motivated. And there are 7 billions of us, with quite a few brilliant minds among us. I think we would save ourselves. But the first step is knowing what awaits us. So if you ask me, mapping asteroids is a lot more important than looking for ET. The fact that such asteroids, which can sterilize Earth, have hit in the past is proven. And it is statistically certain that it will happen again. It might not happen in 10 years, 100 years or even 1000 years, but it will definitely happen sometime. Maybe only in a few million years, if we are lucky. So this is what I think... sorry for the long "speech". It seems I had a lot of rest on my vacation and I'm all philosophical now :) Just wanted to share these thoughts :) |
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(Message 3180)
Posted 9 Jun 2014 by
Un4Seen
Post: +1 for the idea of a better organized AND much more frequently updated scientific results page. I know it's not easy but it is what keeps us (or at least me) motivated most. |
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