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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:20 pm Post subject: About Time

Looks like somebody is finally going to give me a challenge in Milkyway.

http://boincstats.com/stats/user_stats.php?pr=milkyway&st=0&ti=26#1

And About Time Too......... #ni-1

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Michelle · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:22 pm Post subject:

Let the games begin!

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Al Dente · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject:

You wouldn't be referring to lil' ole' me, would you?

(Just trying to put the brakes on our plunge down the rankings)
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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:31 pm Post subject:

I appreciate the help, It is just that you are out-shrubbing me 7 to 1, and you are just getting started.

I shall have to knuckle down #ni-1

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Al Dente · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:48 am Post subject:

Oh, isn't that mere soupcon enough? Would you like me to add a trifle more? (Just to help out KWSN, of course; no personal gain whatsoever intended) Laughing

I must admit, I thought I'd only added ~6k/day, but I seem to have done a couple of days at well over 20k - must be something to do with BOINC long-term debt, or maybe they've revalued the credits since I last shrubbed it.

To be honest, with a good 25% of the Dentery tied up with non-BOINC projects at the moment, I didn't think I had that much available. I really must give the whole set-up a run at something high-scoring like Cosmo soon, just to see "Wot'll she do, Mister"

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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:33 am Post subject:

I think that Milky is now the crowned king of credits. Cosmo units were 30 min at 50 credits now they are 6 hours at 70 credits. Milky were 5 min at 4.5 credits and now 6 hours at 260 credits. Milky is more like Einstein.

Me thinks that the team should now "Get whilst the Gettin is good" before everyone else notices or they reduce credits.

Come one come all, Aint nothin wrong with a little Whorin......... Very Happy

I'll tell you, THAT is quite a respectable curve

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Grizzly · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:56 am Post subject:

mohrorless · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:41 am Post subject:

So what does Milkyway all about? Since my whoring has fallen apart because of Cosmo, I may be looking for a new project to jump on....
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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 12:35 pm Post subject:

mohrorless · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject:

What is the Milky way project about?
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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:45 pm Post subject:

Al Dente · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:43 am Post subject:

With many millions of observations of the Milky Way's billions of stars (which give data on position, distance, speed & direction), they're putting together a 3-D model/map of the Galaxy, from which they can go back or forwards to get an idea of how it got to it's current shape, and where it might go from here.

Of course, it's all totally pointless as we'll be colliding with the Andromeda galaxy fairly soon (on the cosmological time-scale - a few million years), and that will play havoc with the structure of both galaxies, probably both ending up as shapeless blobs, rather than nice spirals.

Don't worry about stars colliding though, as there are such large distances between the stars that most will harmlessly pass by each other, just disturbing the orbits around their respective galactic centres.

Unless, of course, the massive Black Holes at the centre of each Galaxy collide and coalesce, which would be the Mother of all explosions. That would be quite a spectacular sight, from the comfort of a galaxy far, far away....
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Al Dente · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:08 am Post subject:

The Galaxy Song (Eric Idle/John Du Prez):

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough...

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the "Milky Way".

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
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Grawlfang · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:57 am Post subject:

We need not worry....If you read "The Never Ending Days Of Being Dead" then you'll realise that there have to be many exact copies of you, me, the african swallow, the Earth, milkyway, andromeda, an infinitum...just a little bit too far away in the Universe (or in our bubble in the multiverse) for us to observe right now.
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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject:

Wow, Sir Dente sure can Shrub when he puts his mind to it.

781,000 in a month and crosses the 1,000,000 mark today.
the Team moved up 2 places this month and another in 2 days....

Way to go Sir #ni-1

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mohrorless · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:35 am Post subject:

I'm happy to just keep my current pace, maybe a little faster if I could...
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Al Dente · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:50 am Post subject:

You may hanker after my output, but you wouldn't want my electricity bill, I can assure you.
Crying or Very sad

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mohrorless · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:05 pm Post subject:

I don't want mu current electric bill.... Crying or Very sad

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dtruchan · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: Electric Bill

I would also like to hand over my electric bill, and there are only 5 in the house.

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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject:

I am rather unhappy with my bill as well, $322.00 for 1 month in a 3 bdrm APARTMENT!!!

and I only have 4 boxes running regular and 4 or 5 more occasionally when I am fixing them.

Must have been the AC
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