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- tomboy501, on 06/28/2008, -0/+24http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
Sign up! - PRB_Ohio, on 06/28/2008, -0/+16Now this is COOL!
First Dyson Sphere gets a case of beer!! - RapidEye, on 06/29/2008, -0/+12I signed up the first day they went live - boy you only thought Digg was a time suck!!!
"just one more - ohhhh, thats shiney! just one more..."
Next thing you know 5 hours just went by! - gbarberi, on 06/29/2008, -0/+11This is so awesome!
- Asrrin29, on 06/29/2008, -0/+6I am proud to be one of the first people that signed up for this back when it first started. I spent about a week on and off going through different photos doing my part to get these images classified. It's like SETI for star and galaxy classification. I love these innovative programs that involve lots of people and bring them together to further the science community.
- BalsamLane, on 06/29/2008, -2/+7Damn, she is cute. Nice teeth.
- PseudoThink, on 06/29/2008, -0/+5I just categorized 225 galaxies in about an hour--it was the best hour I've wasted since the satellite image search for that rich guy who was lost at sea. Their tutorial could be a bit better, though, it didn't really prepare me well for a lot of the images I was shown.
- tehknotte, on 06/29/2008, -0/+4"He expects to submit it next week for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. This journal, which neither comes out monthly nor runs notices of the RAS, is the leading British site for astronomical publishing."
What? - willtrx, on 06/29/2008, -1/+5As a non-astronomer type I was wondering why space photographs would ever be considered 'classified' (ie top secret). I guess in layman terms this means 'categorized'.
- majordanger, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3Here is a picture of Hanny's Voorwerp
http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/research/voorwerp.html - mindracer, on 06/29/2008, -0/+3picture?
- novenator, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2time suck, lol. love new wording inventions
- majordanger, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2Here is a picture of Hanny's Voorwerp
http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/research/voorwerp.html - 47f0, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2We are already seeing the payback on distributed machine horsepower being applied to such things as the folding project - this represents another permutation of the Internet - distributed human intelligence. We are seeing more open and communal projects, and we are beginning to understand not only the potential, but how to utilize that potential.
- madwaxer, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2makes me wonder what nasa is wasting all that money doing?
they might as well pay ordinary people to do the actual sky scanning for them this way as it'd be A LOT cheaper. Seti@home has been a waste for decades. if there were aliens 'out there' (ignoring all the ones spotted here already) they'd have already heard all our radio noise by now if they were even interested in us. i'd rather use my computers i manage to crunch proteins or work on cancer solutions. if there was way to build an AI to work on creating new designs for smarter efficient machinery i'd totally use it! - novenator, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1dont you mean, 'pics or it didn't happen'?
- novenator, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1This is better than sudoku!
- djturtlep, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1Just goes to show that sometimes you need the untrained eye to really "see" what there.
- majordanger, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1Nothing like clicking through several hundred photos of billion star galaxies to make you feel small .
Just loaning a few MIPS to SETI was not interactive enough for me so when I heard about this Galaxy Zoo on Digg I signed up the first day. This has been great and I have quite the collection of beautiful spinning galaxies in my screen saver folder now.
I have collected enough to spell out my name in galaxies. - DustyinBFE, on 06/29/2008, -2/+2Glad I was apart of the site from day one =)
- macaddct1984, on 06/29/2008, -2/+1Niceeeeeee
- nationalist, on 06/29/2008, -8/+1***** THE RIAA!
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