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[AMDave]

New radio pulsar discovered in Arecibo data
Congratulations to our volunteers James Drews, UW-Madison and juergenstoetzel. Their computers have discovered a new radio pulsar J1859+03, in data from the Arecibo Observatory PALFA survey.Drews (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=2013) works at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is the ninth-ranked Einstein@Home volunteer, measured by total computing credits. This is his second pulsar discovery!Further details about these and other Einstein@Home pulsar discoveries can be found on this web page (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/radiopulsar/html/BRP4_discoveries/), and will be published in due course.Bruce AllenDirector, Einstein@Home

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[NeoGen]

I wish someone from our Team would find one. :)

[Dirk Broer]

It is bound to happen someday, according to the law of averages (the principle that, in the long run, probability as naively conceived will operate and influence any one occurrence)
If it happens, let's pray it is found using an AMD CPU or APU. Imagine the marketing department at Intel when AMD Users find something important, using an Intel CPU....

[B Johansson]

don´t forgett old Murphy's law :icon_twisted:

[Dirk Broer]

don´t forgett old Murphy's law :icon_twisted:
According to Murphy's law an AMD User will indeed find something important using an Intel CPU, perhaps a member who has just bought his first Intel in ten years or so,
replacing his old DDR2 Athlon X2 with a i7 plus the whole shebang that is needed to run that CPU (new mobo, new memory, SSD, etc.):lol:

[AMDave]

. :lol: