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Stardust@Home Lets Public Search Grains of Dust

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bad-excuses-to-get-out-of-a-date dept.

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."

6 of 87 comments (clear)

  1. Pick, pick :-) by archeopterix · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Next they'll be asking us to pick lentils from the ashes :-)

    Hither, hither, through the sky,
    Bearded geeks and fat nerds, fly!
    Whether bi or straight or gay,
    Hither, hither, haste away!
    One and all come help me, quick!
    Haste ye, haste ye! - pick, pick, pick!
  2. Stardust@Home Lets Public Search Grains of Dust? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    O RLY?

  3. Fi8St by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the above hi5 far

  4. ZFAILZORS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that has los7 Of &an admittedly

  5. Re:Finding Dust? by 19061969 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man, somehow I knew that this post would be marked down by some humourless retard with more mod points than they need. Still, that's life on /.! And my karma is bad through this crap, so I don't give a fuck.

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    bang goes my karma... again...
  6. Re:Time is money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Am I the only one that automatically mods parents down when seeing requests like these? (I also often mod down those posts demanding that their parents be modded up.)