Einstein@Home on German TV

Das Wissenschaftsmagazin nano auf 3sat berichtete in seiner Sendung vom 15. August über die kürzlich veröffentlichte Einstein@Home-Anwendung für Android-Geräte. Bei einem Besuch des Albert-Einstein-Instituts in Hannover erhielt das Fernsehteam einen Blick hinter die Kulissen von Einstein@Home. In Interviews berichten die Wissenschaftler und Entwickler über die Suche nach neuen Pulsaren, warum sie Einstein@Home für Android-Geräten bereit stellen, und wie sie mit Gravitationswellen ein neues Fenster zum All öffnen wollen.

Der Beitrag (6:34 min) kann online unter dieser URL abgerufen werden.

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Mike Hewson
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Einstein@Home on German TV

Good one guys!! You can even follow the story with all the nice graphics, without knowledge of the German language ... :-)

Cheers, Mike.

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Great! Maybe it increases the

Great! Maybe it increases the amount of volunteers ;) Would be nice to know if there was some measureable effect.

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Thank goodness for Google

Thank goodness for Google Translator!

The Science Magazine reported in its nano on sat broadcast on August about the recently published Einstein@Home application for Android devices. During a visit to the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover, the TV crew got a look behind the scenes of Einstein@Home. In these interviews, the researchers and developers report on the search for new pulsars, why they made Einstein@Home available for Android devices and how they want to open a new window to the universe with gravitational waves.

The Post (6:34 min) can be accessed online at this URL.

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I'm glad to look again at

I'm glad to look again at those places (and faces of cause) where I've been 2 years ago. Would be glad to travel there someday again.

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RE: Great! Maybe it

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Great! Maybe it increases the amount of volunteers ;) Would be nice to know if there was some measureable effect.

You can get a very good idea from the various stats sites - e.g. see the "new users per day" graph on this page from BOINCstats.

Interesting to see there was a large increease in new users per day in late July - is that the Android release? Though there doesn't seem to a concomitant increase in daily credit.

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RE: Thank goodness for

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Thank goodness for Google Translator!

The Science Magazine reported in its nano on sat broadcast on August about the recently published Einstein@Home application for Android devices. During a visit to the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover, the TV crew got a look behind the scenes of Einstein@Home. In these interviews, the researchers and developers report on the search for new pulsars, why they made Einstein@Home available for Android devices and how they want to open a new window to the universe with gravitational waves.

The Post (6:34 min) can be accessed online at this URL.

Get Crunchin'
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Google translator is far from perfect. Even worse than my English. Especially the first Sentence was crippled by google.

So, I'll try to make it better:

On the German TV Channel 3sat (Actually it is a tri-national TV Program in cooperation of the German, Swiss and French national TV broadcast companies) there was a report in the TV science emission "nano" in august,
about the recently published Einstein@Home app for Android devices. During a visit to the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover, the TV crew got a look behind the scenes of Einstein@Home. In interviews, the scientists and developers told about the search for new pulsars, why they made Einstein@Home available for Android devices and how they want to open a new window to the universe trough gravitational waves.

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RE: On the German TV

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On the German TV Channel 3sat (Actually it is a tri-national TV Program in cooperation of the German, Swiss and French national TV broadcast companies) there was a report in the TV science emission "nano" in august,
about the recently published Einstein@Home app for Android devices. During a visit to the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover, the TV crew got a look behind the scenes of Einstein@Home. In interviews, the scientists and developers told about the search for new pulsars, why they made Einstein@Home available for Android devices and how they want to open a new window to the universe trough gravitational waves.

Not bad. Except for 3Sat being a cooperation between German, Swiss and Austrian TV institutions (this got probably mixed up with "arte", a German - French cooperation, where "nano" might be broadcasted, too).

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Wow, that does make more

Wow, that does make more sense, thank you!

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Ha, nice to see the office

Ha, nice to see the office and some of the people who work. Tankx.

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FWIW the locations are: -

FWIW the locations are:

- Bruce Allen is shown in his office and in the Atlas cluster rooms in the basement

- Benjamin Knispel (when shown alone): GEO600 "Control room" and outside

- Joachim Fritzsch is shown in what's actually Benjamins office, Joachim is normally working in Dresden

- Near the end (6:12) you see Harald Lück (uncredited) sitting at the GEO600 "Bridge", a smaller version of the "Control room" located right above the detector core

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No view of Bernd with his

No view of Bernd with his Trek Engineer's Jumper, tho...

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RE: No view of Bernd with

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No view of Bernd with his Trek Engineer's Jumper, tho...


I guess he's always too busy beaming people up :D

Nice work guys, it's surprisingly good for a TV production!

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