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NASA: Send Your Name to Mars

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Put your name, country, and zip code on a microchip to be sent with the Mars Science Laboratory rover in 2011: http://mars9.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/index.cfm

Maybe so.

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Einstein@home is back. It’s kinda better having both Einstein and SETI at the same time due to geographic location, and having only one/two projects as a screensaver sucks. Einstein@home uses more resources but I can cut back the CPU usage like I said. I also added MilkyWay@Home, which aims to study the Milky Way Galaxy [...]

BOINC stats on this post only

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Apparently boincstats.com’s button is too wide for the page. However, I will link to the button in this comment. Regardless of the date of this post, the graphic will always be updated with the latest information. Here are the stats: I am no longer using Einstein or Rosetta. SHA-1 is currently “put on hold”

Back to the Future

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Lately I’ve been getting into all the stuff I used to do before college and all that came along. I put on Coast to Coast AM the other day, now with George Noory after Art Bell retired. I also got BOINC up. I run SETI@Home, Enigma@Home, yoyo@home’s OGR wrapper, and SHA-1 collision search (currently dormant). [...]

The Hippies' Latest Weapon of Mass Awesomeness

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

From LocalCooling.com: The so-called Seed Bomb is a large bomb-like device that contains many small capsule-shaped pods. The pods contain soil, moisture, seeds or seedlings, and nutrients for early plant growth. The pods resemble small terrariums that keep moisture inside and allow sunlight in. One end of the capsule is heavier than the other and [...]