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by Wolter
Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:25 am
Forum: Stardust@home Community
Topic: What will you name it?
Replies: 111
Views: 337657

How about "lucky me" ;)

About 40 traces in 1.6 million movies, well....
by Wolter
Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:58 am
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: What are the chances of finding a particle?
Replies: 28
Views: 41002

The very first lines of the tutorial: How do I look for interstellar dust particles? When a hypervelocity particle enters the top surface of an aerogel collector, it makes a track many times its own size as it slows and stops in the aerogel. The particles themselves are too small to see . You will b...
by Wolter
Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:04 am
Forum: Message Board Archive
Topic: I hope these new discoverys will........................
Replies: 83
Views: 110092

Matter can be annihilated when brought together with it's counterpart anti-matter. In that case matter and antimatter both disappear producing a certain amount of energy. Striktly speaking this is destruction of matter as it no longer exists. CERN in Switserland has a great site: http://livefromcern...
by Wolter
Thu Jun 08, 2006 1:18 am
Forum: Stardust@home Community
Topic: Gender
Replies: 4
Views: 7022

and the relevance beeing...... :?

On a social level i like to know who i am dealing with, but that will become clear when i am chatting with someone. ;)

When dusting.... as long as the work get's done :D
by Wolter
Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:14 pm
Forum: Message Board Archive
Topic: How soon before we can take the test?
Replies: 41
Views: 57888

From the homepage:....
Pre-registration has now ended. As we have promised, we will send out one email to all pre-registered volunteers when we launch the virtual microscope and image data from the Stardust interstellar dust collector.

Just wait, it 'll been soon now....
by Wolter
Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:27 am
Forum: Stardust@home Community
Topic: Initial viewer or rechecker? Will we know?
Replies: 26
Views: 34130

OK let's go for the Dust Mob then :lol:
by Wolter
Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:14 am
Forum: Message Board Archive
Topic: An Educational and Training Proposal
Replies: 17
Views: 23252

During alpha testing you could only mark 1 position for the track. You simply move the mouse pointer to where you think the track is, on the most visible frame, and click on it. The position where you have clicked is registered, the clip is marked as processed and a new clip will download to your PC...
by Wolter
Fri Jun 02, 2006 1:21 am
Forum: Stardust@home Community
Topic: Initial viewer or rechecker? Will we know?
Replies: 26
Views: 34130

Nikita wrote:<...> I also wonder what we are called? What will we be called after we go through the Dust Academy? Hmmmmm.
Simply the Dustmen :wink:
by Wolter
Wed May 24, 2006 1:01 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: Are the particles stardust or comet dust?
Replies: 24
Views: 33817

On the Nasa website for Startdust http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/science/details.html you will find an detailed description of the project. Cometary dust and Interstellar dust are quite distinctive in nature. Not something we will be able to see when looking for them, as we will scan for the impact tr...
by Wolter
Mon May 22, 2006 3:09 am
Forum: Stardust@home Community
Topic: What will you name it?
Replies: 111
Views: 337657

A name is just that a name. For scientific identification they wil most likely get some ugly number. So use your own name, why not, most comets are named after those who discovered them. Or give them a fancy name you like. But I don't like the idea of remembring people or events in naming something ...