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LIGO is a better risk than SETI
A risk of your precious home PC cycles?
alcaray
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2/22/2005 4:23:02 PM
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You and I define risk differently.
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Einstein@home
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Raoul
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2/20/2005 10:11:27 PM
re: Einstein@home
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Fox
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2/22/2005 1:41:37 AM
may be esoteric, but people will be interested if they are actually discovered
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Daniel
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2/22/2005 3:34:13 AM
Esoteric? Not to me
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Fox
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2/22/2005 4:16:44 AM
I mean 'dry' rather than esoteric
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Daniel
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2/22/2005 5:09:43 AM
Let me understand you correctly.
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Jacob Samorodin
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2/22/2005 9:40:41 PM
sound of a stellar mass spiralling into a spinning black hole
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Daniel
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2/23/2005 3:37:54 PM
Gravity waves vs. acoustic waves
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Fox
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2/23/2005 5:11:21 AM
re: Gravity waves vs. acoustic waves
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Daniel
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2/23/2005 3:15:04 PM
That clears things up. Thanks.
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Jacob Samorodin
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2/23/2005 2:26:37 PM
LIGO is a better risk than SETI
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Daniel
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2/21/2005 5:00:47 PM
A risk of your precious home PC cycles?
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alcaray
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2/22/2005 4:23:02 PM
the RISK of spending up to US $500 million on searching for something which so far, is only mathematically defined
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Daniel
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2/23/2005 3:45:25 PM
Got a cite for the $500m figure?
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pwokenyaw
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2/24/2005 3:04:38 AM
yep -
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Daniel
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2/24/2005 4:04:57 AM
Your cite is for LIGO costs, not for SETI
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pwokenyaw
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2/24/2005 5:23:30 AM
what do you think I was referring to the whole time??
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Daniel
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2/24/2005 6:57:56 AM
I thought you were referring to SETI, actually
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pwokenyaw
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2/24/2005 4:58:15 PM
thanks .. one final point -
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Daniel
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2/24/2005 5:26:50 PM
Thought you were comparing Einstein vs. Seti @homes
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alcaray
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2/23/2005 4:29:14 PM
no need
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Daniel
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2/23/2005 5:11:29 PM
(clarification just in case ..)
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D.
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2/23/2005 5:15:06 PM
Well, about not reading you carefully enough...
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alcaray
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2/23/2005 6:15:08 PM
re: LIGO is a better risk than SETI
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Doug Ellison
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2/21/2005 7:24:21 PM
well, you're in medical science (I think)
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Daniel
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2/23/2005 4:14:34 PM
(not sure what you're saying here)
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D.
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2/22/2005 3:25:03 AM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.