Stardust@home

Works fine with vista and my version just says 7.5 (861). I only had to disable QT checking for updates automatically or it crashed itself. I don't want to start a whole back and forth tech support thing here, but my advise would be to update your video card driver, then look for older versions of q...

Of course, it was also operating the rest of the time, because it was there. They might as well leave it on eh? So it recorded dust that just happened to be floating around in our system in the path of the spacecraft. I think you forgot to type the last sentence, here let me start it for you. And i...

Yeah more explanation is always good, I understand this forum doesn't have a big audience though so don't stress out on it. It does seem strange though that they would be revising their estimate now. Was there some new data about interplanetary wind fields, or what ever, that recently came to light?...

Phase 2 wasn't all that bad. It was supposed to be a different way of examining the same movies again while we wait for the rest of the tiles to be scanned. The examples they gave us to look for did not likely resemble real tracks, but they were the most "probable" examples they could give...

The CMs and points actually are important to the searching process. Especially now that the duster base is much smaller, if automated programs are accounting for a larger majority of total movies viewed it dilutes the real work dusters do because the programs are so poor at finding real tracks and o...

So many questions, sometimes it's frustrating spending so much time on this project but not getting to see what's really going on. First of all I don't understand how a candidate can be very promising if it doesn't look like the original calibration movies. What else is there to base a candidate's p...

Has to be right? That was one of ones extracted but it wasn't mentioned.

This post doesn't really have a point, I'm just thinking out loud. First, for kicks, here's the old thread where we discussed the track about a year and a half ago. http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1020 As you can see, most people thought it should be a bad focus movie be...

I was about to come here and post the same thing as jsmaje. It's great the first track has been extracted but we would love to see some pictures that show what a real track looks like. All this time of endless speculation wears you down. Like do you have pictures taken before it was extracted that s...

Yep that's one of the many mysteries of the gel. It's a fairly common feature, although you noticed them a lot more often in phase 1 when you were zoomed back farther and could get a better overview of what you were looking at. We had a discussion about what they could be in the "is this a trac...

To Klemek, that one shows up too deep for me. I like to see a track start no more then 3 or 4 bars below the surface. That one is about 15 bars down. But of course it's inconclusive because it never comes into focus.

Ah now I wish I had put a little more time into dusting. If only I had known there was another reason besides seeing my name on a list. Hey if Bryan or anyone else on the team is reading this, I'd still like to be a red team member, even though I don't come close to meeting the score requirement. I ...

I'd push for this one http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/myevents_viewer.php?id=5503742V1 It's near the bottom of every list :cry: It's the only one I've ever seen where something extends straight down from the surface though. I wonder how much they examine the tracks again before they extract t...

Hey everyone, long time no see. Well I've been around but nothing was really happening so I tuned out for a while. But now they are finally extracting real tracks! IMO the most important and exciting step since the ship passed thru the interstellar particles in space. It's good to see they are getti...

pluk wrote:Why can't they just stick to confirmed real ones to use for calibration-movies?

Because then there would be no calibration-movies.