sbergman27, those points are well made, and I'm not disagreeing with them.

I was merely explaining what is a reasonable expectation in terms of official communications about status. Remember that any time spent by the scientists on providing updates is time that they can't spend doing science.

This is why, for the day to day stuff, you have Community Advisors and the excellent World Community Grid staff.

Remember, too, that we are an international project. Many members' first language is not English, and sometimes things get lost in translation. I hope that all members will take this into account, and assume good faith when interpreting an ambiguous or confusing comment.

People are anxious to help. Modern People are living Anxious Lives.
Being anxious is definitory to Modern Society.

Tomorrow I get to a TOTAL of 10 years crunching, 9 Teraflops (6.3M points or 1M credits) and 10,000 WU crunched. No Harreld, you are the master at CEP right now (as far as we know).

I quite agree that that would be interesting to read. Also, while they may not know "when", they'll almost certainly know "when not". By that, I mean that when most of us are involved in a project, we know what has to be done, at a minimum, so we know that it won't be less than a certain time, even though it may end up being much more.

If the science guys were to say they'll be, say, at least 2 weeks, we could all wander off and ignore this forum for a fortnight, knowing that nothing useful will be here, rather than spending our time having meta-discussions about the fact that we don't know anything.

My goal is to help keep the Earth habitable for all these people that the other WCG projects, and a number of other BOINC projects, are trying to save. (The general feeling seems to be that adding to the existing Earth population is a good thing.) What projects would you suggest I contribute to? The other 5 WCG projects, along with projects like Rosetta, SIMAP, and Lattice, are all about increasing future contention for the Earth's finite resources.

CEP and CPDN are pretty much the only projects on BOINC that are at all concerned with preserving our planet, for all those extra people, in a habitable state.

If this were most any other project, I wouldn't bother to comment.

Personally, I feel that simply collecting badges for its own sake is a somewhat hollow pursuit, without concrete, real-world goals to support it. Especially considering the 12 billion kilowatt-hours per year consumed by the BOINC network. In my opinion, all that should be targeted at something truly beneficial.

As I posted previously, it is only rational for us to accept that we must wait for the science group to work out whatever problems exist so that we are not simply spinning our wheels on possibly useless work units. But there is plenty of reason for people to be interested in as much detail as reasonably possible.