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by the moon
Sat May 05, 2007 2:19 am
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: Project Feedback
Replies: 26
Views: 35421

It's stickied in the updates section. But it hasn't been updated in over a month either.
by the moon
Tue May 01, 2007 12:28 am
Forum: Stardust@home Problems and Support
Topic: Must be a better more efficient way
Replies: 6
Views: 11068

If anything they should increase the size of the movies. Often I can't make a decision on a possible track because either the quality of the movie is too low to make out small features, or because there aren't enough frames and the focus stops too high up. Zipping the images wouldn't help, they're a...
by the moon
Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:28 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: Calibration maybe contains real something?
Replies: 12
Views: 17273

Yeah I see the spot you're talking about. It's only in focus in 1 frame and there's nothing below that frame. So I think it's a good calibration movie. They should have more like it, to test who can distinguish inclusions from tracks.
by the moon
Sun Apr 15, 2007 1:57 am
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: "I think I've found a track, what do you think?"
Replies: 1355
Views: 1801581

Wow that's by far the biggest sunken triangle formation I've seen. It even has a raised wall of gel around it, as if it was caused by a quick expansion of gas (mini-explosion) under the gel's surface. I'd guess this example will be very helpful for the team to figure out what causes these formations...
by the moon
Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:49 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: very small tracks
Replies: 6
Views: 9143

I disagree that the calibration movies are an effective way to train us. They're all the same track, resized and rotated and put into different empty movies. They make people think that all tracks will look exactly like that. We need more examples of what real tracks would look like in these movies....
by the moon
Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:28 am
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: Questions on Ranking ...
Replies: 122
Views: 157824

So what's the motivation to sit for days and click thru 100,000 movies? At some point the people interested in the science are going to say "well that's enough dusting for now, there's no need to keep voting on movies viewed over 300 times", so the people left voting are doing it for no o...
by the moon
Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:03 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Problems and Support
Topic: Re-image?
Replies: 3
Views: 7693

Yes it would be great to see the follow-up data on any candidate. We've pretty much been flying blind for 8 months.
by the moon
Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:01 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: Questions on Ranking ...
Replies: 122
Views: 157824

I don't think they have lost sight of the real goal, but are really enjoying it. Some of our dusters, like myself, really like the connection to something more than their their little corner of the world and continue to do it for the satisfaction. It's not hurting anything and I say, rock on everyo...
by the moon
Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:06 am
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: Questions on Ranking ...
Replies: 122
Views: 157824

Personally I fear that many of the top 100 people are treating this more like a video game and losing sight of the real goal. They burn thru as many movies as possible and click the calibration tracks to get the high score, while of course keeping an eye out for a real track in the hopes they'll be ...
by the moon
Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:00 am
Forum: Stardust@home Problems and Support
Topic: Calibration movie 4913826V1
Replies: 4
Views: 7253

Link to it this way, it should work.
http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ... =4913826V1
by the moon
Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:28 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: "I think I've found a track, what do you think?"
Replies: 1355
Views: 1801581

the frames are different all the way down as is the spot. Try viewing the movie using ms magnifier. not easy but it does show the frames differ. The spot itself..?? it does not seem to focus at all i.e it never gets sharp. imho there is no trace of a track above it so i'd go for inclusion. What eve...
by the moon
Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:42 am
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: "I think I've found a track, what do you think?"
Replies: 1355
Views: 1801581

fjgiie every movie has a spot that looks like that. I'm pretty sure it's on the surface. Anyway, on to the next. http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/myevents_viewer.php?id=5503742V1 Strange movie here. Absolutely nothing visable except one dot. I can't even tell if the dot is on the surface or be...
by the moon
Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:13 am
Forum: Stardust@home Problems and Support
Topic: private messages problem?
Replies: 2
Views: 4864

private messages problem?

So I get an email saying I have a new private message, I come here and there's no new messsages. I have gotten messages before so I'm wondering was the message spam that was deleted before I saw it? Or are some messages not getting thru? Or is the email notification really really slow (like a month ...
by the moon
Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:29 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: "I think I've found a track, what do you think?"
Replies: 1355
Views: 1801581

Ok so I'm contradicting myself like 5 minutes later. After looking at it again much closer and considering what you said jsmaje, this triangle formation in question doesn't go straight down but is cut into the gel at an angle. It's rare that they do that but I've seen it before. In this picture the ...
by the moon
Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:57 am
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: "I think I've found a track, what do you think?"
Replies: 1355
Views: 1801581

I see the surface as flat. The triangle features sort of act as water wells. The hole goes straight down into the gel at various depths. At the bottom of the well, toxins (inclusions) seep into the ground water (gel) around the well, and then poison people (confuse dusters).