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NV, USA
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Check out Seti@home, they use your spare CPU cycles to search for extraterrestial intelligence.
[url]http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu[/url]
I've created a group for us called ar15.com. First download the client and signup, then go to [url]http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_lookup&name=ar15.com[/url] and sign up on the ar15.com group.
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Posted: 11/5/2001 1:31:29 AM EDT
How do I sign up for th ar15 group?
How do I get a password? When I signed it it did not ask for one.
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NV, USA
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Posted: 11/5/2001 1:35:11 AM EDT
from the main page click User Account Area and there is an option for them to email you your computer generated password.
So sign up for the group click the second link I listed and click Join
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USA
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Posted: 11/5/2001 4:20:01 AM EDT
Of course there are ET's,I heard Al Gore got his internet developement ideas from his visit to see space ship communication at area 51.
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Posted: 11/5/2001 4:36:33 AM EDT
I would participate, except that this is run on a Berkely server and They would probably be un American aliens.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 11/5/2001 10:00:27 AM EDT
Of course aliens exist! There is a whole title of the US code that deals with them:
http://[url]caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes/8/toc.html[/url]
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NY, USA
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Posted: 11/5/2001 10:03:25 AM EDT
I own an alien space craft.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 11/5/2001 10:04:36 AM EDT
I saw about 100 aliens today! They were roofing and bricking some of the new houses in the neighborhood.
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USA
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Posted: 11/5/2001 10:50:19 AM EDT
Yeah, Vato. They are all over my ghetto.
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"I'm gonna git me a gat," heard under my apartment window little while ago.
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NJ, USA
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Posted: 11/5/2001 10:54:54 AM EDT
How long have the SETIs been looking? All they've found so far is static.
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IN, USA
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Posted: 11/5/2001 11:00:53 AM EDT
Is this all you jerks can do? I mean seriously, how many religions do you need to crap upon before you're little ego's are inflated enough to feel comfortable with yourselves?
Just because I acknowledge Ze'aldubar as our creator and some of you choose to worship fictitious deities, does this give you the right to mock my "gods"? I think not.
Grow up.
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NV, USA
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Posted: 11/5/2001 12:57:55 PM EDT
How does religion end up in every thread??
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ME, USA
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Posted: 11/5/2001 2:30:50 PM EDT
Before you go looking for UFOs look at what is already out there.
[url]http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/3D/JTrack3D.html[/url]
ALLOW the pop-up, that is what you will be looking at.
Its all real time(the satalites move) and you can click on a dot and see its stats. If you click the screen and move the mouse you can move the "look"
plus you can zoom in and out.
BISHOP
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Posted: 11/5/2001 2:41:30 PM EDT
... I did this for a while, it was an interesting conversation piece but ultimately decided that it was a waste of time and I uninstalled it.
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NV, USA
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Posted: 11/5/2001 6:09:38 PM EDT
damn, only one person joined up I was hoping to get a big ar15.com group on there
Dan
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Posted: 11/5/2001 7:38:49 PM EDT
i've been running it off and on for awhile
Your credit:
Name (and URL) Mike Harrell
Results Received 94
Total CPU Time 3074 hr 55 min
Average CPU Time per work unit 32 hr 42 min 43.2 sec
Last result returned: Mon Mar 19 22:06:37 2001 UTC
Registered on: Sat May 15 18:33:43 1999 UTC
SETI@home user for: 2.481 years
Your group info:
You belong to the group named: IBM
You are not currently the founder of any teams.
Your rank: (based on current workunits received)
Your rank out of 3352613 total users is: 529338th place.
The number of users who have this rank: 3057
You have completed more work units than 84.120% of our users.
i'll see if i can transfer to the ar15 team.
mike
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Posted: 11/5/2001 7:46:30 PM EDT
i joined but IBM kept all my old credits. I'd much rather have them go here
mike
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Posted: 11/5/2001 7:53:38 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 11/5/2001 7:57:19 PM EDT by Gloftoe]
Maybe I'll start this back up. I quit for a while, but maybe now it's time to get with it again.
gloftoe@ar15.com
Your credit:
Name (and URL) Gloftoe
Results Received 1151
Total CPU Time 1.359 years
Average CPU Time per work unit 10 hr 20 min 28.4 sec
Last result returned: Sat Mar 24 13:28:48 2001 UTC
Registered on: Wed May 19 06:10:52 1999 UTC
SETI@home user for: 2.471 years
Your group info:
You belong to the group named: ar15.com
You are not currently the founder of any teams.
Your rank: (based on current workunits received)
Your rank out of 3352639 total users is: 72457th place.
The number of users who have this rank: 73
You have completed more work units than 97.837% of our users.
-Gloftoe
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NC, USA
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Posted: 11/5/2001 9:06:17 PM EDT
It sounds like a neat idea, but I ran that damn program on a spare machine at work and it was damn fucking greedy--used more than its fair share of CPU cycles and every other resource, including making the hard drive work overtime. Every time you tried to use the computer it took a long time for the program to go into its sleep mode (actually a less resource-hoggy mode). I finally bagged the damn thing. Let SETI use their own damn computers. I can't dedicate a machine solely to their cause. Why can't someone figure out a way to *pay* people for their spare cycles?
If there is life elsewhere in the galaxy, I hope it gives this planet a wide berth. Then again, you'd think that in the milions of years in which this galaxy has existed, there would be at least one space-faring civilization by now. In fact, there should be tons of them. Where the hell are they then?
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Posted: 11/5/2001 9:28:37 PM EDT
Originally Posted By trickshot:
If there is life elsewhere in the galaxy, I hope it gives this planet a wide berth. Then again, you'd think that in the milions of years in which this galaxy has existed, there would be at least one space-faring civilization by now. In fact, there should be tons of them. Where the hell are they then? |
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Posted: 11/5/2001 9:42:59 PM EDT
There's one living in Pahrump Nevada.
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NV, USA
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Posted: 11/5/2001 10:05:26 PM EDT
Originally Posted By trickshot:
It sounds like a neat idea, but I ran that damn program on a spare machine at work and it was damn fucking greedy--used more than its fair share of CPU cycles and every other resource, including making the hard drive work overtime. Every time you tried to use the computer it took a long time for the program to go into its sleep mode (actually a less resource-hoggy mode). I finally bagged the damn thing. Let SETI use their own damn computers. I can't dedicate a machine solely to their cause. Why can't someone figure out a way to *pay* people for their spare cycles?
If there is life elsewhere in the galaxy, I hope it gives this planet a wide berth. Then again, you'd think that in the milions of years in which this galaxy has existed, there would be at least one space-faring civilization by now. In fact, there should be tons of them. Where the hell are they then? |
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NV, USA
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Posted: 11/6/2001 11:53:33 AM EDT
Up to four... Thanks guys
Dan
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Posted: 11/6/2001 12:00:10 PM EDT
av_01@hotmail.com
Your credit:
Name (and URL) av_01
Results Received 318
Total CPU Time 3081 hr 13 min
Average CPU Time per work unit 9 hr 41 min 21.7 sec
Last result returned: Tue Nov 6 19:44:00 2001 UTC
Registered on: Fri May 14 20:23:25 1999 UTC
SETI@home user for: 2.485 years
Your group info:
You do not currently belong to a group.
You are not currently the founder of any teams.
Your rank: (based on current workunits received)
Your rank out of 3353797 total users is: 238434th place.
The number of users who have this rank: 605
You have completed more work units than 92.873% of our users.
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NC, USA
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Posted: 11/6/2001 6:13:50 PM EDT
There's no such thing as "spare cycles." When you aren't sitting at the computer using it, the CPU is just sort of freewheeling--those are the "spare" cycles. If the machine is running but not doing anything for you.
As I recall, there are ways to tune the program to use fewer resources, but it was making my hard disk wear out by caching data to it (or whatever it was doing, copying all my files for all I know). So I punted it.
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NV, USA
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Posted: 11/6/2001 8:38:34 PM EDT
Originally Posted By trickshot:
There's no such thing as "spare cycles." When you aren't sitting at the computer using it, the CPU is just sort of freewheeling--those are the "spare" cycles. If the machine is running but not doing anything for you.
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