For a well written biography on Edwin Hubble, of the 20th century’s most famous astronomers, readers should check out Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae by Gale Christianson. The book provides a detailed and readable account of the entire life of Hubble. (ISBN-13: 978-0226105215)Category: milky way (Page 2 of 2)
For a well written biography on Edwin Hubble, of the 20th century’s most famous astronomers, readers should check out Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae by Gale Christianson. The book provides a detailed and readable account of the entire life of Hubble. (ISBN-13: 978-0226105215)
The Foundation novel begins the epic series of novels by Isaac Asimov called The Foundation Series. These novels are a thrilling science-fiction journey through time and space. Taking place over thousands of years and multiple locations throughout the Milky Way Galaxy, these novels take the reader on a mind bending journey. I recommend this series for any fan of science-fiction and I look forward to watching any movies based on them. (ISBN-13: 978-0553382570)
When I had a Windows 95 PC back in the late 1990’s I would run the SETI@HOME program. As most people know this is a way to help search for ET. I can not remember exactly but I believe it took at least a day of continuous processing on my IBM Pentium MMX 166 MHz processor to complete one work unit.
About a year ago I rediscovered my childhood urge to find ET and decided to run SETI once more. I discovered that SETI now runs through a program call BOINC. More information on BOINC here.
BOINC, as I understand it, has enormous potential; especially with CUDA. I bought the CUDA enabled GTX 580 to create a monster gaming rig (See post on my gaming computer). When I run SETI, the GTX 580 completes the task in about 7 minutes. Just incredible. My Core 2 Duo laptop took 7 hours.
On BOINC I am apart of the following applications: SETI, GPU Grid, PrimeGrid, MilkyWay@Home, Einstein@HOME, and others.
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