Re: SETI like tass project

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Sometimes I feel like Henny Penny, you know:

Who will help me grind the corn? (Nothing)
Who will help me bake the bread? (Nothing)
Who will help me slice the bread? (Nothing)
Who will help me eat the bread?  (Big crowd gathers)

OK, I am not complaining.  I understand human nature.  I am really in the 
entertainment biz., and I know it.  Still, I hope that some of you can be 
entertained by diving into this data and learning how to get a good 
scientific result from it.  I don't really expect Arne and other experts to 
do real work.  I do hope that they hang around to give good advice and bump 
us back on the straight and narrow when we wander off into stupidity.

I have already found more of you that want to work with me than I have had 
any right to expect.  I am just greedy and want to find more of you to 
share this fun.

Tom Droege

At 09:25 AM 1/30/02 -0700, you wrote:
>On the other hand, as Doug and others have mentioned, once
>you have starlists the real task begins.  Not only can you
>search each and every star for variability, but you can start
>making master catalogs of real photometry.  These tasks are
>*not* small, and a SETI-like setup for doing them makes sense,
>though I wonder if the effort to do such a setup is not better
>spent at this stage in making good analysis pipelines.