Stardust@Home Lets Public Search Grains of Dust 87
An anonymous reader writes "In a new project called Stardust@home, UC Berkeley researchers are inviting Internet users to help them search for a few dozen submicroscopic grains of interstellar dust captured by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. Rather than relying on the user's spare PC cycles, though, the system depends on their eyes." From the article: "Though Stardust's main mission was to capture dust from the tail of comet Wild 2 - dust dating from the origins of the solar system some 4.5 billion years ago - it also captured a sprinkling of dust from distant stars, perhaps created in supernova explosions less than 10 million years ago."
Is it just me... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Time is money (Score:0, Funny)
User Error? (Score:2, Funny)
Dust... Obliguraty little britian quote (Score:5, Funny)
Finding Dust? (Score:0, Funny)
As if I need my computer to find dust. All I have to do is take the back off and there's loads of it there already. Hey, Berkeley! I've found some, you crazy researchers!
What's that? Interstellar dust you say? Er, sorry...
International Stardust Registry (Score:5, Funny)
What better gift for a loved one or friend than a particle of stardust named in their honor? Note - we have been asked that no further particles be named "Ziggy".
Not for me (Score:1, Funny)
Is UCB going to distribute air filters to participants?
My machines process enough dust as it is. Dust-analysis in addition to dust-processing sounds to me like a high-risk task combination.
Re:Dust... Obliguraty little britian quote (Score:2, Funny)
If I discover a particle... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Dust... Obliguraty little britian quote (Score:1, Funny)
In a different exciting development... (Score:4, Funny)
This morning I was quoted as saying "This is a great new field for distributed applications. - careful the floor is still wet!"
That old question from college... (Score:2, Funny)