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Former Member
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Science has been evolving for millenia and will continue to evolve as we learn over and over again about our mistakes. No surprise there. What is surprising is the arrogant attitude of many folks that we are so sure to be right about so many things now that we treat mere theories as if they were established facts and laws of nature and physics, and then teach our children accordingly. Frankly, what we actually know and understand from the vast potential body of science that could exist within the universe might be like that of a very primitive people -- maybe even that of a flea. For all we know, there might be many phenomena within the universe that we have never been exposed to. For all we know, there could be thousands of elements in the chemical table, but they just aren't present in our world; there might be more than four states of matter (which we now categorize as just solid, liquid, plasma, or gas); maybe there are atomic and sub-atomic structures we've never encountered (think of an atom with more than one nucleus, and consisting of more than protons, neutrons, and electrons); there could be forms of life that we can't even comprehend, far different from plants and animals and various microbes; there might be senses we can't even imagine, let alone comprehend -- even far different from science fiction or the paranormal; how many dimensions are there, and are there other dimensional worlds (I believe the Bible speaks to that when it mentions principalities and powers and things invisible); and there could be forces and energies that we've never been exposed to (imagine the first time man discovered magnetism, and what that has enabled us to accomplish). We don't even understand basic "life" forces yet, or things like intuition. Anyway, at least grid computing will help us to learn faster.
Cheers. Bill Velek |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
... snip ... I also have serious concerns about the wisdom of trying to make contact with possible alien beings. I think it is a HUGE and DANGEROUS assumption that any such beings will be benign. ... snip ... Coincidentally, there was an interesting show on the Discovery Channel last night about a town in Brazil called Colares, and how people were being terrorized and hurt by lights from UFOs -- and at least two people died. I had never heard of the event, so I did a little googling after the show and there's plenty of info about it. Here is one example. Cheers. Bill Velek |
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Former Member
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Aussie,Aussie,Aussie!!!!
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M.Mitch
Cruncher Joined: Feb 7, 2006 Post Count: 20 Status: Offline |
Aussie,Aussie,Aussie!!!! BOINC, BOINC, BOINC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hi Trog :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by M.Mitch at Mar 16, 2006 2:26:01 PM] |
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Former Member
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Been busy a couple of days, and just checked your stats. SUPER performance a couple of days ago -- 39,297 points -- so I thought I'd check to see how much you've narrowed HomeBrewers' lead. On March 10th, we had a 38.75 day lead on you; now, 7 days later, we have a 32.4 day lead, based on our teams' average performance for the past week. So we've managed to slow your rate of gain on us just a little bit.
 At this rate, we should EASILY beat you to the top 400.Unfortunately, that isn't going to be enough for us to beat you to the top 300 unless things change -- but we'll see how close to 300 we can get. Cheers. Bill Velek |
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M.Mitch
Cruncher Joined: Feb 7, 2006 Post Count: 20 Status: Offline |
We may not get that far. I just relised that the BOINC teams sow up seperatly from the others.
----------------------------------------We're currently 48th of the WCG BOINC teams, when we get to 40th we'll ease up and maintain position, perhaps drift a little higher. If you look in my .sig, you'll see some of the other BOINC projects the team is working on (all of them in Trog Dogs). If we can position our team projects between 20th and 40th place, we should improve our teams position from 41st to around 30th world wide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- [Edit 2 times, last edit by M.Mitch at Mar 19, 2006 8:58:28 AM] |
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We may not get that far. I just relised that the BOINC teams sow up seperatly from the others. We're currently 48th of the WCG BOINC teams, when we get to 40th we'll ease up and maintain position, perhaps drift a little higher. ... snip ... I don't really understand what you mean. I had thought many members had switched over to the BOINC agent in place of the UD agent, and improved their points in the process, but are still competiting as they had before. What am I missing? Anyway, it's a shame we can't really compete. BOINC@Australia scored only 640 points more than HomeBrewers yesterday. ... and now we're in the bottom half of the four-hundreds (#447). I think we'll make it to the top 400 by the end of the month.  Cheers. Bill Velek |
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M.Mitch
Cruncher Joined: Feb 7, 2006 Post Count: 20 Status: Offline |
Non-BOINC WCG teams don't show up in the BOINC stats. So when I looked up the totals for all teams in all BOINC projects, we are in 48th place for WCG. It wasn't until I found the team rankings on the WCG web site that I realised there are a lot more than 48 teams ahead of us. So I'm assuming the difference is the non-BOINC WCG teams.
----------------------------------------I think the way its tallied is, that the BOINC members get whatever the normal score is and it's divided by seven. Which is meant to be about the same value as the credits in other BOINC projects.  Now as long as the BOINCStats site is up and running, this image shows our project credits, our recent average credits (RAC) and our place in each project. It also shows our combined totals at the bottom. You can see WCG is about seventh from the top. We have 154,000 credits, we are getting around 4,343 credits/day (that's the RAC stuff) and we are now in 46th place. At first I thought that the WCG project team would have divided all WCG users points by seven and parsed the totals and averages to the BOINC stats. As they are already doing the process for members who run the WCG BOINC client but the points/credits must be conditionally passed. I might ask some of the gurus on our team what they think. ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by M.Mitch at Mar 21, 2006 1:35:44 PM] |
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Former Member
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Mitch - its the other way around, if you crunch using boinc here you, the boinc score goes as it is towards the boinc stats and it is multiplied by 7 to go towards the WCG project stats.
They are kept seperate here, and only folks using the boinc client feature in the boinc stats, whereas everyone features in the WCG project stats. So as you say although you are 48th in terms of the overall team boinc contributions, in terms of the overall WCG project you are in 511 place at the moment. I hope this makes sense!  Ady  |
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M.Mitch
Cruncher Joined: Feb 7, 2006 Post Count: 20 Status: Offline |
Yep, that makes perfect sense. I knew it seven something, it was late and I was working from memory
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