In reply to bill's message of 9 Jul 2026:

an evaporative cooler will be effective...let it's output leave the room.

I used a portable one down in Arizona where I winter, and yes the humidity would skyrocket when I turned it on.

That's what happens if you don't have somewhere for the cooled air to exit.

Split or window mounted air conditioner- room needs to be closed up.
Evaporative cooler- room needs two openings, one for the cooler to draw air in too cool and, the other to allow that cooled air to exit.

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Grant
Darwin NT.

It's back!

In reply to CoastalGuy's message of 10 Jul 2026:

It's back!

It's still back!

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Grant
Darwin NT.

In reply to Grant (SSSF)'s message of 10 Jul 2026:

In reply to CoastalGuy's message of 10 Jul 2026:

It's back!

It's still back!

It's gone.

In reply to Gary Charpentier's message of 10 Jul 2026:

In reply to Grant (SSSF)'s message of 10 Jul 2026:

In reply to CoastalGuy's message of 10 Jul 2026:

It's back!

It's still back!

It's gone.

I was about to say that.

In reply to W-K ID 666's message of 10 Jul 2026:

In reply to Gary Charpentier's message of 10 Jul 2026:

In reply to Grant (SSSF)'s message of 10 Jul 2026:

In reply to CoastalGuy's message of 10 Jul 2026:

It's back!

It's still back!

It's gone.

I was about to say that.

That didn't last long.

Bugger.

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Grant
Darwin NT.

We still need the site for our collaboration with the folks at FAST

As I didn't know what this meant, I threw it into Google and Gemini came up with the next bit:

UC Berkeley's SETI team collaborates with China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) primarily by using the massive dish to re-observe and investigate the most promising candidate signals originally flagged by the public SETI@home project.

The collaboration and partnership efforts involve several key components:

Evaluating the 100 Signals: Berkeley SETI researchers winnowed over a decade of crowd-sourced data down to 100 "candidate" narrowband signals. Because of FAST’s unprecedented sensitivity as Earth’s largest single-dish radio observatory, it is being actively utilized to re-point at these targets to verify if they are legitimate extraterrestrial technosignatures or just Earth-based radio interference.

SERENDIP and Nebula: The Berkeley SETI team's algorithmic system, Nebula, is used to analyze data collected directly from FAST's ongoing SETI sky surveys.

Memorandum of Understanding: The collaboration expanded significantly after the Berkeley-led Breakthrough Listen initiative (a major $100 million SETI program) signed a cooperation agreement with the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to coordinate SETI observations and data sharing.

Edit: https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/12/for-21-years-enthusiasts-used-their-home-computers-to-search-for-et-uc-berkeley-scientists-are-homing-in-on-100-signals-they-found/

And now it's back again.

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Grant
Darwin NT.

HURRY UP!!! SETI website is back online (until the next burp).