US Military wants help from YOU and all "Amateur Telescopes" to look at space for "debris"?Perhaps you will win a room in the &quo | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 19054218 11/18/2012 11:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: US Military wants help from YOU and all "Amateur Telescopes" to look at space for "debris"?Perhaps you will win a room in the &quo Distributed problem solving. Just like the German institute, I think, that made a "game" out of either folding or unfolding a protein, can't remember which. But they put it on the web, invited people to "play," and the players solved the problem in amazingly short time. So maybe this isn't all that sinister. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26901601 11/18/2012 11:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: US Military wants help from YOU and all "Amateur Telescopes" to look at space for "debris"?Perhaps you will win a room in the &quo This seems highly fishy to me, especially since we have the handy dandy space fence here in the good 'ol USA run by the air force. What I cannot figure out is why they want amateurs tracking space debris when the space fence can track objects as small as four inches at a height up to 15,000 nautical miles. [link to en.wikipedia.org] |
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