Dim Sun

Summary: Rob and Chris temporarily go meta this week with the concept of citing tweets and ‘all hails’. We discuss whether the LSST is really Big Data - it will all fit on 22 hard drives after all. The Zooniverse has a new project with the SETI Institute. The case for open science is made in a closed journal. The UK saw a massive fireball meteor this weekend and we didn’t [MP3 Link] Episode #24. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott. Links: PaperRater gets an update, academic metadata on the rise? http://paperrater.org/ The entire LSST datasets will fit on just 22 hard drives: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.0591v1.pdf Great British Fireball: http://orbitingfrog.com/post/18813186256/the-great-british-fireball\ How to cite a Tweet: http://realiseclimate.org/sorry-mla-this-is-how-you-really-cite-a-tweet SETI Live: http://setilive.org Galaxy cluster and the VST: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1211/(image above) The case for open computing: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v482/n7386/full/nature10836.html http://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/news/insight20120228.html ESA Flickr feed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/ Credits: Audio content Copyright 2011 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Special thanks to the Oxford University Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).