Re: How old is Seti?


"Nick" <Reply to Group> skrev i meddelandet
news:40ba845c$0$20508$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com...

I know the 5th birthday was on 21st May this year, but I found this page:

http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/classpages/days/2451239.html

which has people who registered on Monday March 1st 1999.

Any explanations?



When I found S@H in the summer 1998 they were alphatesting the software.
(Here is a screenshot from the 1998 version:
http://members.chello.se/bjornd/1998Screen.jpg )

In the fall 1998 the stoped distributing the software. Users from this early
period are registred as "1 March 1999". In spring 1999 there were quite a
lot of persons wating on their doorstep and they let a few in  at the time
and the big crowd was let in on 21st May 1999.

Or are these people just the programmers who got themselves set up on SETI
before it officially started? Which doesn't seem right as there are other
people who have registered before the 21st May 1999, ie here

http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/classpages/days/2451275.html on 6th
April

Oh, and can anyone explain the numbering system at the end of the web
address for registration classes? The 2451*** up to 2453***, as far as I

can

tell, assuming that the date directly corresponds to the number, which it
does appear to, then "1" would have been about 6,770 years ago. I'd like

to

know the significance of the starting date, if any.


It is the "Julian day number", Number of days since 1 January, 4713 BC

/Bj�rn