http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14896330

Sounds alot like Milkyway Project dont it?

and yet for some reason i get the impression that they think they thought of it all by them selves.

Thanks for the heads up.



Skynet seeks to crowdsource the stars

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Since the online citizen science project Planet Hunters launched last December, 40,000 web users from around the world have been helping professional astronomers analyze the light from 150,000 stars in the hopes of discovering Earth-like planets orbiting around them.

Users analyze real scientific data collected by NASA's Kepler mission, which has been searching for planets beyond our own solar system - called exoplanets - since its launch in March 2009.

Now astronomers at Yale University have announced the discovery of the first two potential exoplanets discovered by Planet Hunters users in a new study to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.


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The original Galaxy Zoo was launched in July 2007, with a data set made up of a million galaxies imaged with the robotic telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With so many galaxies, the team thought that it might take at least two years for visitors to the site to work through them all. Within 24 hours of launch, the site was receiving 70,000 classifications an hour, and more than 50 million classifications were received by the project during its first year, from almost 150,000 people.

Many projects are now underway using this data; you can read about the first few in our list of papers published and in progress, on the Galaxy Zoo blog and below. We’ve been successful in getting time on professional telescopes to follow up many Galaxy Zoo discoveries, too; the list currently includes the Isaac Newton and William Herschel Telescopes on the island of La Palma in the Canaries, Gemini South in Chile, the WIYN telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona, the IRAM radio telescope in Spain's Sierra Nevada, the Swift and GALEX satellites, and the Hubble Space Telescope.

As the original Galaxy Zoo was the first time such a project had been attempted we were cautious, asking for fairly simple information about the appearance of the galaxies. Thanks to the overwhelming response we realized we could ask much more, so when we designed Galaxy Zoo 2, we took 250,000 of the best and brightest of our original sample of galaxies and asked more detailed questions. Once again, we were thrilled with the response (although a little more prepared than we were for Zoo 1) and in the 14 months the site was up Galaxy Zoo 2 users helped us make over 60,000,000 classifications. Along the way we added in more detailed images, taken from a patch of the sky known as 'Stripe 82' which the Sloan telescope repeatedly visited. Taken together, the Galaxy Zoo 2 database is already enabling scientists to understand how galaxies - including our own - form and evolve.


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Intel’s Progress Thru Processors application lets you donate your computer’s power when it’s in idle to researchers for anything from predicting climate change to curing cancer.

HELP SAVE THE WORLD – AND GET A BADGE WHILE YOU’RE AT IT.

Once you have downloaded the Progress Thru Processors application, you can earn badges that showcase your contributions on your Facebook wall.


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Maybe BAM needs to offer facebook badges to attract the people who like that sort of thing?