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[SETI@home] RIP Jimmy Carter
Carter wrote the following on June 16, 1977 and placed it in Voyager 1, which is the most distant human-made object from Earth:
This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human being among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are still divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly becoming a single global civilization.
We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some – perhaps many – may have inhabited planet and spacefaring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message:
“This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problem we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.”
--- Jimmy Carter, President of the United States of America, the White House, June 16, 1977
View article · Mon, 30 Dec 2024 09:27:36 +0000
[YAFU] YAFU version 212 for Linux
On newer Linux versions yafu failed. I deployed version 212 for Linux for app yafu, which should fix this.
The new version is currently only for app yafu available. If this runs well it will be deployed also for all other versions.
Happy Christmas and a wonderful new year!
yoyo
View article · Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:56:26 +0000
[Yoyo@home] sr2sieve wu generation
I changed the workunit generation for sr2sieve workunits, workunits which are named sr2_*. The sieve range is now smaller and workunits are running faster. With this they are fitting also better die old CPUs and ARM processors.
View article · Mon, 23 Dec 2024 23:00:00 +0000
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Contributor history video
Vitalii made a video showing the top 25 BOINC committers, based on CVS, Subversion and Git data, every month going back to 2002.
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50 new papers from Rosetta@home
David Baker's research group published over 50 journal papers since our last update. Wow! (And thanks to Alex Piskun for maintaining the list of publications by BOINC projects.)
27 Dec 2024, 20:29:57 UTC
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Rosetta@home leader wins Nobel Prize
Dr. David Baker of the University of Washington, creator of Rosetta@home, has won the 2024 Nobel prize in Chemistry. Congratulations!
9 Oct 2024, 23:23:34 UTC
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