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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
 Posted - 01/15/2006 : 13:07:07
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NASA's Stardust probe has landed. They are planning to have volunteers examine pictures via computer of what was collected to identify particles thought to be as old as the solar system.
Sign up here.
Looks kind of interesting.
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The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 01/15/2006 : 14:16:43 [Permalink]
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| I put my email address on the list. After all, I have until Spring to decide if I want to do it, and you can look at as few as 1 screen or however many more you like. |
| Edited by - beskeptigal on 01/16/2006 01:05:24 |
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Michael Mozina
SFN Regular
1647 Posts |
Posted - 01/15/2006 : 17:10:35 [Permalink]
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| Hey, that's really cool. I signed up as well. |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 01/16/2006 : 06:40:23 [Permalink]
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| Interactive @home... interesting idea. The brain is one of the most effective image processors know to man. |
Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
Collateralmurder. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 01/16/2006 : 09:14:58 [Permalink]
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I will probably flunk the test and not get to do it, but for now, I am so there!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 01/16/2006 : 09:18:36 [Permalink]
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 Heh, somebody ought to sign bigbrain up for it. 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 01/16/2006 : 10:53:16 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
Heh, somebody ought to sign bigbrain up for it.
Oh YEAH!
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"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 01/16/2006 : 11:34:16 [Permalink]
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Yeah, I signed up for it a while back....
Kept meaning to post it here... just kept forgetting.
Should be very boring and mindnumbing, but somehow cool at the same time.
Its a great idea though. It would take them several years, with a fair sized team, to sort through all the images.
This should reduce the time for an initial survey significantly.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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