No project can spend as much money and time finding nothing as Seti has
-Seti Classic member
LIGO spent more, by several orders of magnitude, and took longer, they started construction in 1994. It will be another couple of years before Seti catches up on the time line.
No project can spend as much money and time finding nothing as Seti has
-Seti Classic member
... and there may be many that would not see that in a smiley with a wink context. However intended. So we'll keep the cross-project talk to the explicitly happy and helpful side of the street. Please.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I think 2, 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning should lose official recognition. With one thing and another over the years I would deem it as 'unreal time'. They are for me the times when the crap vigorously strikes the rotating thingy, which is why my eyes are open at all, and as such deserves full reproach. I may petition parliament on the matter.
Cheers, Mike.
The problem with banning the early morning hours is that 2AM is when we change the clocks for Daylight Savings Time and then back again the the Fall. When would we change the clocks if not in the middle of the night? Daytime would be far too disruptive for most people.
This daylight Savings Time and British Summer Time etc etc has been controversial for yonks. It would be nice to split the difference and have the same time all year round worldwide. The problem is that people complain if their kids have to go to or from school in the dark, thereby more at risk from road accidents.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
This daylight Savings Time and British Summer Time etc etc has been controversial for yonks. It would be nice to split the difference and have the same time all year round worldwide. The problem is that people complain if their kids have to go to or from school in the dark, thereby more at risk from road accidents.
Daylight Savings Time was done in the US for the farmers, 'daylight was burning' with no work getting done, ie they couldn't contact anyone else in the World while the farmers were up and working due to the time being oh dark thirty for the farmers. So the Government decided to make commerce better, ie MONEY, and change the clocks twice a year.
The parents complaining about their kids going to and from school in the dark just need to move to Alaska!! In Fairbanks, about in the middle of the State where I lived for 3 years, it was dark for 6 months and sunny for 6 months of the year!! You were ALWAYS going to school either in the dark or the bright Sun!! And yes we did have one day of the year where you go up on a small mountain and see the bottom of the Sun touch the horizon around midnight, and then come right back up again!! The "Land of the Midnight Sun" is real!!! You learn to put aluminum foil on your windows so you can sleep. You also learn to sleep thru the seemingly near daily earthquakes too, most are small, some aren't so small.
The parents complaining about their kids going to and from school in the dark just need to move to Alaska!!
That's mainly the Scots, and yes most of us in the UK wish they would!!!
But to be fair, commerce and education have to function as best they can, and if that means in practice, the clocks having to go backwards and forwards, then so be it. I can't see it changing any time soon.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
You learn to put aluminum foil on your windows so you can sleep. You also learn to sleep thru the seemingly near daily earthquakes too, most are small, some aren't so small.
Howdy Mikey ! Et Al
I've learned to put aluminum foil on my 'Hat' works wonders.
Earthquakes are rare here in Minnesota. We had a 4.1 about 25
years ago which Woke me up ! Couldn't figure out what the heck
it was till I heard about it on the radio hours later.
We do get earthquakes in the UK but not often, and even then they are fairly mild' The biggest on record was a mag 6.1 in 1931. As far as I know none have been recorded directly in London.
The causes of earthquakes in the UK are unclear, as we don't sit on any tectonic plate boundaries. It is believed to be by regional compressions/releases resulting from the melting of the ice sheets that covered many parts of Britain thousands of years ago. During the last ice age which ended 15,000 years ago, the glaciers came as far south as North London. That sheer weight of ice depressed the landmass of Scotland and the Midlands, so that today thousands of years later, the landmass is still springing back.
The UK is pivoting around a rough line drawn from Bristol in the West to the Wash in the East. That means that NW Scotland is rising out of the sea and SE Kent is sinking into the sea. It is these land movements that are thought to cause the UK earthquakes.
We have had a few quakes here in Virginia, but not many and they are usually smaller ones. The East Coast and the mid section of America are not the prime areas for Earthquakes, but they do get enough to let you know they can still happen. California and Alaska get by far the most, and I'm guessing the areas in between get some too.
No tin foil on my hats, or windows either any more.
RE: No project can spend as
LIGO spent more, by several orders of magnitude, and took longer, they started construction in 1994. It will be another couple of years before Seti catches up on the time line.
RE: No project can spend as
... and there may be many that would not see that in a smiley with a wink context. However intended. So we'll keep the cross-project talk to the explicitly happy and helpful side of the street. Please.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: RE: Too sleepy for
The problem with banning the early morning hours is that 2AM is when we change the clocks for Daylight Savings Time and then back again the the Fall. When would we change the clocks if not in the middle of the night? Daytime would be far too disruptive for most people.
This daylight Savings Time
This daylight Savings Time and British Summer Time etc etc has been controversial for yonks. It would be nice to split the difference and have the same time all year round worldwide. The problem is that people complain if their kids have to go to or from school in the dark, thereby more at risk from road accidents.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Aha ! I've got the best
Aha !
I've got the best wingman today ! ( Jeroen )
Bill
https://einsteinathome.org/workunit/239848417
RE: This daylight Savings
Daylight Savings Time was done in the US for the farmers, 'daylight was burning' with no work getting done, ie they couldn't contact anyone else in the World while the farmers were up and working due to the time being oh dark thirty for the farmers. So the Government decided to make commerce better, ie MONEY, and change the clocks twice a year.
The parents complaining about their kids going to and from school in the dark just need to move to Alaska!! In Fairbanks, about in the middle of the State where I lived for 3 years, it was dark for 6 months and sunny for 6 months of the year!! You were ALWAYS going to school either in the dark or the bright Sun!! And yes we did have one day of the year where you go up on a small mountain and see the bottom of the Sun touch the horizon around midnight, and then come right back up again!! The "Land of the Midnight Sun" is real!!! You learn to put aluminum foil on your windows so you can sleep. You also learn to sleep thru the seemingly near daily earthquakes too, most are small, some aren't so small.
RE: The parents complaining
That's mainly the Scots, and yes most of us in the UK wish they would!!!
But to be fair, commerce and education have to function as best they can, and if that means in practice, the clocks having to go backwards and forwards, then so be it. I can't see it changing any time soon.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
RE: You learn to put
Howdy Mikey ! Et Al
I've learned to put aluminum foil on my 'Hat' works wonders.
Earthquakes are rare here in Minnesota. We had a 4.1 about 25
years ago which Woke me up ! Couldn't figure out what the heck
it was till I heard about it on the radio hours later.
Bill
We do get earthquakes in the
We do get earthquakes in the UK but not often, and even then they are fairly mild' The biggest on record was a mag 6.1 in 1931. As far as I know none have been recorded directly in London.
The causes of earthquakes in the UK are unclear, as we don't sit on any tectonic plate boundaries. It is believed to be by regional compressions/releases resulting from the melting of the ice sheets that covered many parts of Britain thousands of years ago. During the last ice age which ended 15,000 years ago, the glaciers came as far south as North London. That sheer weight of ice depressed the landmass of Scotland and the Midlands, so that today thousands of years later, the landmass is still springing back.
The UK is pivoting around a rough line drawn from Bristol in the West to the Wash in the East. That means that NW Scotland is rising out of the sea and SE Kent is sinking into the sea. It is these land movements that are thought to cause the UK earthquakes.
Fault lines
Quake overdue?
UK tilt
UK earthquake list
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Good morning everyone!! We
Good morning everyone!!
We have had a few quakes here in Virginia, but not many and they are usually smaller ones. The East Coast and the mid section of America are not the prime areas for Earthquakes, but they do get enough to let you know they can still happen. California and Alaska get by far the most, and I'm guessing the areas in between get some too.
No tin foil on my hats, or windows either any more.