Posts by Kevin Blakely

1) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : Question about project status (Message 17851) Posted 7 Apr 2009 by Kevin Blakely Post: The debris is located at (!; "; R) Â¼ (31:37" # 0:26"; 0:0"; 29:22 # 0:20 kpc), with a (spatial) direction given by the unit vector ($0:991 # 0:007 kpc; 0:042 # 0:033 kpc; 0:127 # 0:046 kpc), in galactocentric Cartesian coordinates, and with FWHM Â¼ 6:74 # 0:06 kpc. This 2.5" wide stripe contains 0.9% as many F turnoff stars as the current Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. WTF ! The papers are great... but most of us aren't astrophysicists. I think what all these BOINC groups need to understand is that all we're asking for is some sort of visual or written progress of the project(s) we have chosen. In other words, a brief explanation of what the papers mean... written for the rest of us. I saw in one of the other posts a comment that if you were looking for a screensaver then you were participating for the wrong reason. I would submit to that person that IF the projects that provide visual feedback (IE screensaver) gets more participants. Would it not make sense to put on your taped glasses and get working on one?
2) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : What are we doing and for whom? (Message 17849) Posted 7 Apr 2009 by Kevin Blakely Post: Yea, I had a similar interest. It's nice to get all the technical information, but a down to earth explanation of how this will be used in the end would be nice. Will the public ever see this model? What will be the benefits to science (in layman's terms) Thanks