If you still spend your Friday nights staring at an untuned TV in hopes of spotting a signal from an alien world, you haven’t yet discovered the Stardust@Home project. For the past year and a half volunteers have been sifting through microscopic pictures of tiny portions of aerogel plates retrieved from the Stardust spacecraft trying to find evidence of collisions with interstellar dust.
Admittedly, I have spent a few hours doing this, and being a naturally lazy guy, I immediately started pondering ways to automate the search. Continue reading »
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