Is their a DC project that does this????

[Duvie]

i was wondering if their is a DC project that looks, calculate or processes orbits of objects that may come into collision or close proximity to the earth?

I mean this seems worthwhile...Like Folding's search for cures though results are spotty at best ...so far....

Have a chance to save the planet!!!!

Now WTF does SETI do? seems like a waste. I believe in other life and even believe other life forms at one point or another may have visited or at least monitored us. I mean I am not so naive to think that conditions similar to ours that would be habitable for life doesn't exist in the vast of space, but really.....What does SETI do for us? We find some noise and how do we know that civilization isn't gone or where it originated from? Just a waste of power IMO.

If someone wants to defend SETI...by all means ED--U---MACATE ME!!!!

 

[Fardringle]

Orbit@home does exactly what you are describing. The server appears to be down at the time of this post but the project is still active as far as I can tell.

The primary stated goal of the SETI program is to search for signals/signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Side benefits have included discovery of many previously unknown stellar objects while searching for those signals. I personally prefer the medical projects, but I ran SETI for years and enjoyed learning about new discoveries that the project was making.

 

[Duvie]

LOL...that is not a good sign...I get enough of that crap with folding@home....

Seems interesting....

So by stellar with SETI you mean what? And as far as SETI goes I know I was looking at it back in 2001. Have they found any signs yet? I am still looking for the more life saving impact that orbit@home or cures from folding at home would provide....I dont see it with SETI

I think we need to get all of the SETI people to move over to the orbit@home project, because I much more fear a large rock hitting us versus "little green or grey people"

 

[petrusbroder]

Originally posted by: Duvie
[edited by petrusbroder]
I think we need to get all of the SETI people to move over to the orbit@home project, because I much more fear a large rock hitting us versus "little green or grey people"

Hmmm, parhaps they all fear to be eaten by ETs ...

Orbit@home is just now not very active - although it should be. When orbit@home has enough WUs I'll move over some crunchers to that project. I will then crunch both orbit@home and seti@home.
Why? Because it gives me a sense of the phantastic, a sense of being at the frontier. We need of course take care of things close to us, but that should not deter us from looking much, much further.

 

[Duvie]

I am not saying necessarily close to us, but of a more immediate concern. Disease and cataclysmic collision which have happened countless times before versus no proof ET exist is quite the difference.

What if we hear ET tomorrow? What are we going to do about it, since it likely comes from something so far away we need star trek warp technology to check it out.

We have huge rocks flying by us all of the time and we need to precisely calculate their return orbits...watching their path closely in relationship to other objects that could slightly affect its trajectory the next time around. A fraction of degree and we are in the bulls-eye next time around. Lots of factors....

 

[Wiz]

Originally posted by: Duvie

What if we hear ET tomorrow? What are we going to do about it...

What if we find a giant space rock heading for us tomorrow? Next week? Next month?
Forget about it, we're cooked.

 

[Rudy Toody]

Originally posted by: Wiz
What if we find a giant space rock heading for us tomorrow? Next week? Next month?
Forget about it, we're cooked.

Check out this Science News from 10 Feb.

 

[Alyx]

Originally posted by: Wiz

Originally posted by: Duvie

What if we hear ET tomorrow? What are we going to do about it...

What if we find a giant space rock heading for us tomorrow? Next week? Next month?
Forget about it, we're cooked.

Sell short.

 

[Assimilator1]

Duvie
I think you've seen my replies in the other thread re SETI, although I will add that I & many others have not seen SETI as a short term project, I've always thought in terms of decades & not years. So seeing as we're just about to hit the 1st decade we've just barely started :laugh:
Btw if we were able to recieve a transmission from some ETs, if their not too far away we could have some limited communications which would be benefical.

Btw I'm planning to run Orbit@home sometime soon, once the real WUs start rolling out properly. Bear in mind that O@H is a new project & has only recently got out of the testing stage. Ask TAandy for more about this one as he seems to be the guru on this one around here .

Originally posted by: Wiz

Originally posted by: Duvie

What if we hear ET tomorrow? What are we going to do about it...

What if we find a giant space rock heading for us tomorrow? Next week? Next month?
Forget about it, we're cooked.

Actually mate in some scenarios we could do something about it , subtle orbit diversions of rocks threatening us could be possible with sufficient warning, also the further out we spot them the less we need to divert the NEO in the 1st place.

 

[TAandy]

"Ask TAandy for more about this one as he seems to be the guru on this one around here ."

i'm afraid i'm in the dark as much as anyone
all i can do is quote pasquale's last post from the end of last month...

"The server will be down for power interruptions for the next few days, and operations should resume on Monday February 2nd at the latest.

Other than that, in the last few months we have been busy analyzing the results that orbit@home produced so far, and we have also developed the core of the next application (preliminary codename: SurveyReview), that will work on real data instead of simulated one. As usual, it will run on all major platforms, and will also include graphics showing the details of the computations that your client is performing, such as the sky coverage by the surveys, and the trail of the asteroids in it. We don't anticipate yet a date for the initial public testing.

Pasquale"

other than this, nobody seems to know much else!

 

[Wiz]

You never hear the one that gets you.

Still, no harm looking