http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...00.html?hpt=T2
Here's the site that they are using http://www.planethunters.org/
And another interesting site from the article, which also has links to the above one and other "live" projects. http://www.zooniverse.org/
Here's the site that they are using http://www.planethunters.org/
it lets ordinary folks with no scientific training at all help find planets the Kepler software has missed. It works so well that in just a few short months of operation, the more than 22,000 visitors to the website have found nearly 50 potential planets, which are being sent on to Kepler headquarters at the NASA Ames Research Center in California for followup.
And another interesting site from the article, which also has links to the above one and other "live" projects. http://www.zooniverse.org/
Back in 2007, Lintott and his grad student Kevin Schawinski were trying to catalog a million galaxies by shape. Schawinski did about 50,000, but balked at looking at the other 950,000. Together, they created something called Galaxy Zoo, which let amateurs do the identifying for them. "Recognizing patterns," says Lintott, "involves exactly the same skills we evolved to hunt and to avoid being hunted."
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