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Pure, unadulterated "mine's-bigger-than-yours" syndrome.

I've crunched over 3000 work units, and my current machine does it in 2:40.

So nyah.

That and ET would be cool. It's also proof-of-concept. There are a few other distributed-computing applications out there (Prime95 and Folding@Home come to mind) but none are quiet as seamless as SETI's client. I'd probably switch to Folding@Home (cancer research) if I could make heads or tails out of their stats page, or if their client didn't crash.

Hmm... the time between the last post and your own was 1 year, 2 months*, 4 days, 5 hrs and 47 minutes.

If we presume that the message traveled at the speed of light, that means that it took 214 days, 14 hours, 53.5 minutes for my post to reach donQ, and the same amount of time to get back to MAF for MAF to register the time stamp...

How far away from Earth is donQ in miles?  Km?


*of 30 days each

Hmm... the time between the last post and your own was 1 year, 2 months*, 4 days, 5 hrs and 47 minutes.

If we presume that the message traveled at the speed of light, that means that it took 214 days, 14 hours, 53.5 minutes for my post to reach donQ, and the same amount of time to get back to MAF for MAF to register the time stamp...

How far away from Earth is donQ in miles?  Km?


*of 30 days each

42, of course

Hmm... the time between the last post and your own was 1 year, 2 months*, 4 days, 5 hrs and 47 minutes.

If we presume that the message traveled at the speed of light, that means that it took 214 days, 14 hours, 53.5 minutes for my post to reach donQ, and the same amount of time to get back to MAF for MAF to register the time stamp...

How far away from Earth is donQ in miles?  Km?


*of 30 days each

42, of course

Good answer!

Oh, Oatie, you slipped a cog.  It would actually have taken a little over 215 days one-way (~430.24 / 2 = 215.1205)

Anyway, assuming he didn't spend much time contemplating his response, he's around 5.57e12 kilometers away, or 5.57 trillion kilometers (as long as we're not in the British Empire ).  In miles, that's around 3.46 trillion miles away.  To bump the scale, that's around 0.59 light years*, so donQ's world is apparently somewhere in the Oort cloud.

*Of course, you can also derive this directly from the timespan, but that's too easy.

</science-geek>

*Of course, you can also derive this directly from the timespan, but that's too easy.

That close?  And it still took that much time...

Makes SETI@home seem even less likely to successfully find a signal.   

Still, the odds are better than if no one were looking.

(Fixed the quote .)

Oh yes, the distances are truly mind-boggling, but I'd rather be looking than not!     (Since it's you, I might as well use a couple quasi-appropriate "Maxes". )

Momentum - I call it "justonemoreWU syndrome" which, when left untreated, can develop into "justonemoremilestone syndrom." Not to be confused with Stockholm syndrome, of course.

I might switch over my Dual P3 to F@H if I ever get around to it, but I figure my mom died of cancer when I was 19 and I'm still neither running F@H nor feeling bad about it.

Don't play the "help cure cancer" moral high ground card with I'm around, 'kay?"

What I wonder, is what technology are we going to see the next 20-50 years?
(My remaining lifespan).

We already have a Boeing prototype of a JETSTON like car... though its more heliccopter than JetsonCAR>


As far as intersteller travel or any other technology.

People, technology changes so fast that who knows where we will be even just 10 years from now.

We went from a nontech world to a tech world in less than 100years.
We've gone from a noncomputer world to a computer heavy world in just my familyes lifetime.

We can give some blind people sight with startrek visors..  (2demenisional b/w, but still sight)

We went from mainframe/mini era to pc era within 2 year period.. (as all of you probably no as well as I, me being a apple I,II owner along with ALtair & TRS80 (trash80) way back then).

Point is, I would be surprised if we didnt have unbelieve technology before I die..>>(am currently 47). that even any of us could dream of or not dream of yet.   

We use cellphones which are definately formerly science fiction.
Pin drives and music technology that is unbelievable compared to my teenyears.

While statistically much of this may not happen, we should remember, that we are constantly told by others that, there cant be anything more to invent... (yea yet again, some idiot says that even today).

Fortuantely this time, its just a liberal professor who doesnt know what he is talking about anyway.
Doubt any goverment official would say that anymore...

Though I am a Christian, I daresay there is no real limit to what technology we can do..
Its only a matter of time anyway..

I think we will see unbelievable travel choices and other technologies in the near future.

Any attempt to predict future technologies is foolhardy as we will all be wrong anyway..
Even Bill Gates was wrong about computers and memory (of course he benfited from being wrong).

Last edited by Tulsaboyw (2005-06-13 2:56 pm)