Space Forum / SETI / August 2004

I wanted to point out something which undercuts effort like SETI in trying
to find radio evidence of intelligent life.
A notion that some people may have, is that white noise generally consists
of signal energy which is distributed evenly over the spectrum, and that to

Does anyone know if there is a newsgroup dedicated to Astrobiology?  If
not, shouldn't one be created?

I recently assembled a new computer
Asus P4G800-E
P4 3.2 HT (130nm)
Dual 2x512Mb RAM

    Win98, 512meg ram, Athlon xp2100.  Today's version of Boinc and
seti.
    Got the new Boinc today.  Couldn't do anything for a while
because I was out of work units but it got some a few hours ago.  Then I

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=14872
PRESS RELEASE
Date Released: Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Source: University of Arizona

Due to the loss of powerful radio broadcasting and the take up of
digital technology, and other broadcasting that does not leak into
space the Earth is gradually getting more and more quiet.
"According to New Scientist our transition from radio transmissions to

Milky Way 13.6 billion years old ~+-800 million.  One of original galaxies
in universe.  Seems enough time for intelligence to develope elsewhere in
our galaxy.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/earth_age_040817.html

At last it seems to be working.  Getting a few errors like failed
downloads and checksum or signatures but I have units that are working.
   Good work team.

"quote"
August 30, 2004
The boinc server farm is having hardware problems and so the servers and
website have been turned off. We'll post an ETA for coming back up as we

I have now 2 computers and 3 CPU's on my home network.
After version 4.x upgrade things seemed to work OK, tho slow, for starters.
My dual CPU machine got one work unit to work on and my other one got WU's
that seemed to download.

Just returned my 25,000th WU.  With BOINC going on, I wasn't sure I'd make
25,000.
Mike.
obermd@alum.mit.edu

There may well be life out there but there is precious little at BOINC.
Major upgrade to 4.x with no notification.
Twats

 Win98, 512meg ram, Athlon xp2100.  Current boinc (3.19) + seti (3.08)
  All the crashes look the same.  That is, the computer locks up hard.
Mouse doesn't respond, CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't do anything.  Have to hit
the reset button to restart the computer.

I tried to download the new version of boinc, and when it tried to install I
got an error message that something was corrupted.   What gives?
Also, I thought that Boinc was supposed to be self-updating.  Or was that
just my imagination?

Bookie offers 10,000:1 for aliens
From AFP
August 26, 2004
AN online bookmaker is taking bets on the outcome of 10 big scientific endeavours,