Comments on: Two Astronomers Are Standing By! http://marclaidlaw.com/2009/08/13/two-astronomers-are-standing-by/ "Mark How Far the Signal's Flung, Milady..." Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:03:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Caleb Smith http://marclaidlaw.com/2009/08/13/two-astronomers-are-standing-by/comment-page-1/#comment-24686 Caleb Smith Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:10:45 +0000 http://marclaidlaw.com/?p=275#comment-24686 The bad astronomer brings up an interesting point in his blog about the project or projects like it, and how they can expand from just galaxy and supernova hunting to other things, such as asteroid hunting. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/08/14/supernova-hunt/ The bad astronomer brings up an interesting point in his blog about the project or projects like it, and how they can expand from just galaxy and supernova hunting to other things, such as asteroid hunting.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/08/14/supernova-hunt/

]]> By: Caleb Smith http://marclaidlaw.com/2009/08/13/two-astronomers-are-standing-by/comment-page-1/#comment-24685 Caleb Smith Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:07:43 +0000 http://marclaidlaw.com/?p=275#comment-24685 Throwing a bunch of people at a process that could never be covered by even the largest groups of astronomers and giving people access to tools that streamline the process is a really great idea, imo. I have my doubts about the accuracy of the observations people make, but I'm sure they have some kind of mechanism to look for similarities in results and bringing the more accurate observations to top attention. Also, just having a unified collective of people sharing data and being part of a singular effort probably makes new discoveries more frequent. With the cosmos being so big, I'm sure many people make discoveries all the time without actually knowing they did. With this, it pretty much eliminates most of the problems related with that. As utopian and ideal as this sounds, it wold be nice to see the scientific community make a move towards a singular group of scientists from every field. Probably wouldn't work though: bureaucratic decisions, government involvement, funding issues, etc. Throwing a bunch of people at a process that could never be covered by even the largest groups of astronomers and giving people access to tools that streamline the process is a really great idea, imo. I have my doubts about the accuracy of the observations people make, but I’m sure they have some kind of mechanism to look for similarities in results and bringing the more accurate observations to top attention.

Also, just having a unified collective of people sharing data and being part of a singular effort probably makes new discoveries more frequent. With the cosmos being so big, I’m sure many people make discoveries all the time without actually knowing they did. With this, it pretty much eliminates most of the problems related with that.

As utopian and ideal as this sounds, it wold be nice to see the scientific community make a move towards a singular group of scientists from every field. Probably wouldn’t work though: bureaucratic decisions, government involvement, funding issues, etc.

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