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by albutterworth
Mon May 22, 2006 2:18 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Community
Topic: True discoverer
Replies: 49
Views: 78134

Re: "Discoverer"

Okay, but if the person who just clicks, clicks, clicks and "gets a low score" is the first to identify a movie with a track, does he/she still get the right to name it? I don't really think that would be fair, but I also think that not many, if any, are here to do it that way. Somewhere ...
by albutterworth
Wed May 17, 2006 8:45 pm
Forum: Message Board Archive
Topic: Are you scanning all of the movies first?
Replies: 9
Views: 14792

Once we're up and running we'll post the focus movies as quickly as we produce them - probably in batches every few days.
Before we launch the VM we would like to have a few tiles scanned and processed so we can be confident we're past the false starts.

Anna
by albutterworth
Wed May 17, 2006 8:31 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Community
Topic: What will you name it?
Replies: 111
Views: 366022

Siegfried - the Berkeley team won't be finding the first track. That's up to you folks! Every volunteer has the same chance of finding something interstellar.


Good luck!

Anna
by albutterworth
Wed May 17, 2006 6:32 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Welcome to the Stardust@home message board
Replies: 0
Views: 29579

Welcome to the Stardust@home message board

Welcome to the Stardust@home message board. Thank you for your interest in searching for the first contemporary interstellar dust ever collected and returned to Earth. We invite you to use this message board to discuss and share with each other your experiences - good and bad - of Stardust@home. We...
by albutterworth
Wed May 17, 2006 6:06 pm
Forum: Updates
Topic: Update: 17 May 2006 - Stardust aerogel scanning status
Replies: 0
Views: 16845

Update: 17 May 2006 - Stardust aerogel scanning status

Welcome to the Stardust@home Updates. Here we'll keep you posted on how the automated scanning is progessing. Follow our efforts to get images for you to search for interstellar dust tracks. We installed an automated scanning system at Johnson Space Center in the Cosmic Dust Lab. That was several mo...