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BOINC Project to Search for Gravitational Waves

Posted by simoniker on from the bouncing-around dept.

Buzz Skyline writes "Einstein@Home is a new, BOINC-based distributed computing project that will analyze data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO). The goal is to perform a whole-sky, gravitational wave survey of pulsars. Beta-test versions of the Einstein@Home screen saver should be available by the end of the summer, and final release is planned for early 2005."

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  1. In Japan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Final release is planned for early 2005... in Japan!

  2. The... what now? by Exiler · · Score: 4, Funny

    Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory? Who thought up that name? I bet he was responsible for the Illudium Q-Thirty Six Explosive Space Modulator too.

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  3. Prior art by Watterson? by SB9876 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Scientific progress goes BOINC?

  4. I was a member of the BOINC project by geekoid · · Score: 1, Funny

    I was an astronaut testing a new aircraft, when I had a blow out, and the resulting crash left me with no legs, no arm, no eye... err wait...

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  5. All I Can Say. by Effugas · · Score: 1, Funny

    Scientific Progress Goes BOINC.

  6. Try it this way.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The detection of large gravitational wave fluctuations preceeds the eventual welcoming of our new giant,space folding Overlords...In Japan.

  7. Re:Gravity waves do dot exist. by kyletinsley · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well folks, there you have it. Anonymous Coward has declared it so. No need for further discussion.

    Stop all funding for gravity experiments and go back to making some more of those wonderful bobble-head dolls. I can't get enough of them!

  8. Re:That would be BOINC by Killjoy_NL · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Predictor@Home"

    I'm not donating any cycles to see if my gf is pregnant ;)

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  9. Re:The New SETI@Home by meringuoid · · Score: 2, Funny
    give instantaeneous communication (who needs FTL comms)for 2 or 3 months and watch me rake in the big bucks (forex market - arbitaging between New York, London and Tokyo), until I get shut down or bought out.

    London and Tokyo are in relative motion. What London thinks are simultaneous events, Tokyo will think are separated by a small interval of time.

    Exploit! Our instant signal from London to Tokyo goes to Tokyo at a time based on London's view of what 'simultaneous' means, and our instant signal back goes to London at a time based on Tokyo's view of what 'simultaneous' means, giving us a very, very small increment into the past.

    Now just relay back and forth until you build up enough time to be economically useful. Result: ULTIMATE profits. The ability to predict the future with total accuracy would make you... well, 'rich' doesn't cut it. You'd rule the universe.

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  10. Gravity wave research.. by StarfishOne · · Score: 2, Funny

    finally! ^_^

    *remembers that Dr. Zefram Cochrane (ST) was born in 2030 :-)