SETI@home back online
This article is also available on the web at: http://www.spacetoday.net/getsummary.php?id=117 SETI@home back online Posted: Sat, Mar 3 3:59 PM ET (2059 GMT) The SETI@home project's connection to the Internet was restored Saturday afternoon after an outage of more than four days. The SETI@home servers were cut off early Tuesday morning when vandals severed a fiber that provided voice and data service for the building at the University of California Berkeley where the servers are housed. After several days of work a new fiber was installed and the connection restored early Saturday afternoon. The project has nearly three million users worldwide who download chunks of data collected as part of a search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) project, process the data when their computers would normally be idle, and transmit the results back to the Berkeley servers. Project officials caution on the SETI@home web site that it may take up to 48 hours before the data servers can accept all the connections from users eager to start processing data again. Related Links: -- SETI@home web site: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ Visit http://www.spacetoday.net/ to get the latest space news summaries and links to space news articles published throughout the web. If you have any questions about this service, please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
A Science, Not a Search
http://www.setileague.org/editor/setisci.htm A Science, Not A Search by Dr. H. Paul Shuch, Executive Director [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recently, the notion that we share our universe with countless sentient species has emerged out of the realm of fiction, into the scientific mainstream. Over the past forty years, dozens of organizations have conducted scores of experiments in the emerging discipline of SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. As executive director of the grass-roots nonprofit SETI League, I am privileged to head up one of those searches. But I do not speak for SETI! Perhaps the most highly visible of the various scientific organizations seeking our cosmic companions is the prestigious SETI Institute in California. Spun off from a onetime NASA SETI effort, SETI Institute scientists conduct numerous Life in the Universe studies, as well as one of the most comprehensive surveys ever for artificial radio emissions from space. It was their expertise that informed the technical content of the popular film Contact, and their efforts that keep SETI high in the public consciousness. They are among the most highly respected of my colleagues, and I am proud to practice SETI in such august company. But SETI is a science, not a single search. I frequently read glowing press accounts of my colleagues' accomplishments, which are invariably attributed to some monolithic organization referred to as 'SETI.' "SETI has received a grant..." I read in the paper, or "SETI's chief scientist is lecturing at..." or "the director of SETI says that..." Certainly, this generalization of SETI Institute into simply SETI is not the doing of my modest Institute colleagues, but rather represents a tendency of the media to lump together all related efforts under a common banner. But to call the SETI Institute (or any one organization) 'SETI' is equivalent to referring to the National Science Foundation as simply 'science', or to NASA as 'space.' It implies a level of homogeneity which, if it indeed existed, would rob our discipline of its broad diversity, and stifle creative science. Each of the various SETI organizations around the world tackles a complex problem from a unique perspective. Since we cannot yet say which approach is the right one, we certainly cannot say that any is wrong. The efforts of hundreds of scientists now working on several independent searches may some day gain us entry into the cosmic community. Collectively, one might call them SETI. Individually, each is but a piece of the puzzle. The other day I was preaching SETI to a group of students, one of whom said, "we already know all about it. We use your screen-saver." She was referring to SETI@home, a highly successful initiative out of the University of California, Berkeley. That famous experiment in distributed computer processing is also a piece of the puzzle. But shouldn't we, educators and media alike, try to show the world the big picture? Dr. Shuch, executive director of the nonprofit, membership-supported SETI League, Inc., does not speak for SETI. == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
Re: What's New for Mar 02, 2001
Yesterday, NASA scrapped the X-33 space plane after $1.3B and five years. NASA now has no replacement for the aging shuttle. While I understand the X33/34 projects were money sinks and had tough problems, it is scary to note that the US space program has no plans to improve launch technology. Weird to think rocketry really hasn't changed much in almost 30+ years, considering its a 20th century technology. 3. READ MY LIPS, NO MORE SCIENCE. Aside from bio-medicine, the president's budget provides little cheer for scientists. Scant on detail, the Bush plan seems to trim research at NSF by about 1% and at NASA by somewhat more. But DOE's Office of Science, appears to bear the brunt of the bad news. DOE spending would drop $0.7 billion or 3.5%, but DOE would take on $0.6 billion in new spending for fossil fuels, home weatherization and defense programs, leaving Science, Energy Supply and Waste Management to absorb the $1.3 billion shortfall. If the cut is prorated, Science drops almost 13%. Such a result might resurrect the specter of lab closures or halt DOE construction projects, including SNS, a top priority that's on time and on budget. This seems stupid. They better not be cutting funding on the national ignition facility. How about spending money on energy conservation for short term practical gains? I guess Bush is trying to keep all his home-state oil industries happy. 4. HOME ALONE. The president still has no Science Advisor, and there is no sign that he will have one soon. But word is that he has selected Richard Russell to be chief of staff for the Office of Science and Technology Policy. As part of the Transition Team, Russell successfully urged Bush to zero out NIST's Advanced Technology Program. He now wants NIST to move its Boulder, CO laboratory to Gaithersburg, MD to fill the empty ATP building. I guess this isn't too shocking that science is so ignored in the US. And then they wonder why our education system is stagnating in mediocrity. == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
Re: Pluto politics
but don't worry we have an accountant in charge here in Oz who has never run a business in his life and has given us a sales tax that involves businesses being charged it on their inputs only to have to claim it back in the next financial quarter - all up a make work program for bean counters cheers, simon Good thing for the US that Bush has so much valuable business experience. He ran an oil business. (ran it into bankruptcy, that is.) :) It seems like that's a fundamental law of nature: the bigger the bureaucracy, the dumber it gets. Cheers, Tom == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
Yuri's Night
The Web site for all the celebrations of the fortieth anniversary of the first human to orbit Earth on April 12, 1961 - Yuri Gagarin in the Vostok 1 spacecraft. http://216.246.64.159/ == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
Cosmos 1 solar sail mission artwork and films
These Web sites contain artwork, diagrams, animations, and films of the Cosmos 1 solar sail mission, set for a suborbital test from a Russian nuclear submarine next month and the first orbital flight this October. http://carlsagan.com/solarsail/index.html http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/2001/solarsailhd ln.html http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/ Larry == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
Re: Address change.
Hello, As a general note to all list members, if you wish to change your email address, the best way to do this is to unsubscribe from your old email address and subscribe using your new email address, following the instructions for (un)subscribing at http://klx.com/europa/mlist.html. If you're not able to do this (like, for example, you no longer have access to your old email address), then you can contact the list administrator at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't send a message to the list as there's little, if anything, your fellow list members can do to help you. :-) Also, now is a good time as any to ask list members to please try and keep this list as close to the topics of Europa and potential missions to it as possible. Topics like SSTO are borderline off-topic; topics like Tom Clancy novels are definitely off-topic, at least until he writes a novel where Jack Ryan commands the first human mission to Europa. :) Regards, Jeff Foust list administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 3/5/01 12:20 PM, Mayfield, Esa at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could I have my email address changed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/ == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
Re: The Europa probe from 2010: The Year We Make Contact
Yeah, there were some great designs in that movie. The probe for one. The space suits were much better than in the original. Jupiter looked fantastic. The Leonov itself I found very realisitic -- what a furture manned deep space ship would look and function like, rather than the luxury liner Discovery. Even the Leonov's pods looked like futurized versions of the functional, no-frills LEM, rather than the spit-and-polish contours of the round Discovery pods. 2010 is unfairly dumped on by a lot of people becuase it wasn't 2001. While I'll admit it has some problems, it is a very strong movie in its own right. I really liked the little touches, like having all the shadows in space be pitch black. Very cool. And you've got to be a very cold fish indeed not to get goosebumps during the "look behind you" scene. Jayme Lynn Blaschke ___ "The Dust" coming April 2001 in THE ANT-MEN OF TIBET, AND OTHER STORIES from Big Engine http://www.bigengine.co.uk/index.htm Blaschke Home Realm http://www.vvm.com/~caius (u are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
