Archive for the ‘Science’ Category

Five Nines

Something you won’t meet in real life.  At least, you won’t meet it except by pure luck in affordable web hosting.

Just in case you’ve never run the numbers…

Year Minutes
1 525,600
.1 52,560
.01 5,256
.001 525.6
.0001 52.56
.00001 5.256

So there you have it. Being up .99999 of the time (over a year) means you can have just over 5 minutes of downtime. Total. The whole year. (This being a 365 day calendar year, not an astronomical year.)

Life on Mars?

Based on finding methane, at first glance.

Merry Newtonmas!

I’m a day behind this year, sorry; but I simply must point out the important holiday.

Seti@Home

I seem to have come up as the “user of the day” at Seti@Home.

Which I guess means this is a good time to point out to people that the load on Team Minn-StF is being carried by very few people, the majority of whom have never lived in Minneapolis.  I’m sure some more of you could manage to run BOINC and the Seti@Home client!

ETA: Screenshot, for people viewing this some other day.

LIFE: Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein visits Mt. Wilson Observatory, 1942 (LIFE library)

Albert Einstein visits Mt. Wilson Observatory, 1942 (LIFE library)

The photographer and the other person are not credited.