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by the moon
Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:37 am
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: HAT's vs idp-tracks
Replies: 3
Views: 6091

From tutorial page 14 about a HAT, "Although we don't yet know its origin, our guess is that it is not an interstellar dust particle, but is a particle ejected from an impact of a meteoroid on one of the aft solar panels on the Stardust spacecraft." So they probably aren't meteors either, ...
by the moon
Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:21 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: The New Calibration Movies
Replies: 25
Views: 41109

Agree with elainekeefe, inclusions don't make good CMs unless they want us clicking on every other real movie.
by the moon
Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:32 am
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: "I think I've found a track, what do you think?"
Replies: 1355
Views: 1805515

Yeah phase II is kind of depressing because all the movies we're seeing now have already been viewed hundreds of times. Even if you find something hard to see in a high mag movie, it's a good bet that at least one person clicked it in the low mag version.
by the moon
Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:12 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: Have fun extracting inclusions
Replies: 9
Views: 10609

So I'm finally getting into seeing some of the new movies. I just got a job as a diamond grader, so all day at work I look for inclusions in a microscope (no joke), so as you might guess I'm not in a hurry to do it again at home. Anyway, my impression is still that we aren't getting enough informati...
by the moon
Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:57 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: "I think I've found a track, what do you think?"
Replies: 1355
Views: 1805515

Hate to be the bearer of bad news DiamondGirl, but it looks like aj_ajay_7 beat you to it.

http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ... fied%20yet
by the moon
Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:44 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: Can you get into the top 100 on a Dial Up land line?
Replies: 2
Views: 4685

You should upgrade to dial up


sorry couldn't resist
by the moon
Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:44 am
Forum: Stardust@home Problems and Support
Topic: Random Order
Replies: 3
Views: 5637

The URL shows the last link you clicked on, so it was the link from the "no track" button, or the other things you can click on, from the last movie, not the one you're looking at now. If you look at the links on the current movie, then it makes sense.
by the moon
Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:20 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: Have fun extracting inclusions
Replies: 9
Views: 10609

Have fun extracting inclusions

Yeah I looked all the movies on the list of possible IS tracks from phase 1, not encouraging. Almost all are small inclusions. A few are track "shaped" debri on the surface of misleading slanted surfaces, like numbers 16 and 18 in the new tutorial. http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ss...
by the moon
Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:08 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: determine detection threshold
Replies: 13
Views: 13557

I also think that making CMs out of candidate tracks that haven't been extracted or even rescaned seems unscientific at best, and a big waste of time at worst. But it's their project. It's up to them to say what type of features they want us to identify, even if the examples aren't real tracks, as l...
by the moon
Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:15 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: High res movies, more harm then good?
Replies: 6
Views: 8464

I thought about this more. Since there's really nothing that can be done about the shallow focus depths without rescanning tiles, I suppose the team is doing the best they can with the data they already have. Even when they do get more microscope time, I'd rather they finish scanning the rest of the...
by the moon
Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:44 am
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: High res movies, more harm then good?
Replies: 6
Views: 8464

High res movies, more harm then good?

First of all, this is all my speculation since I've never seen a higher resolution movie. It's nice to see that they're shaking things up since the results so far have been mixed at best. But I'm concerned that the new increased magnification movies will only make it harder to differentiate real tra...
by the moon
Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:24 am
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: Scores and Rankings more important than taking a "chanc
Replies: 2
Views: 4632

It's really not that big of an issue. Tracks have to be below the surface, and negative calibration movies never have any marks of any kind below the surface. So if you see something below the surface and are pretty sure it's not a track but can't be 100% sure and want to click anyway, you can at le...
by the moon
Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:29 am
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: THE LATEST NEW UPDATE ...
Replies: 3
Views: 8137

Still no word on which tracks they actually plan on extracting. From the May 9th update over a month ago: "We are also preparing a full listing of the best candidates for interstellar tracks that the Stardust@home collaboration has so far produced. We will also be letting everyone know who were...
by the moon
Thu May 31, 2007 2:43 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: WHY HAVE YOU QUIT DUSTING AND OR POSTING?
Replies: 5
Views: 10539

I haven't posted much at all lately because the topics have changed from discussing movies, to scores and ranking, which I have no interest in.
by the moon
Tue May 22, 2007 6:03 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: Questions on Ranking ...
Replies: 122
Views: 157970

I'm ranked 953, and my score is 1557.