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kortikal
Check it out at http://www.galaxyzoo.org . Their goal basic categorisation job on a million gallaxies as a first step to further research. These are deep space objects which have been automatically collected, so have never been seen by a human before. Can you resist the chance to be the first to find an amazing object like the Crab Nebula? Come and do some real space research!"

From the site:
Welcome to GalaxyZoo , the project which harnesses the power of the internet - and your brain - to classify a million galaxies. By taking part, you'll not only be contributing to scientific research, but you'll view parts of the Universe that literally no-one has ever seen before and get a sense of the glorious diversity of galaxies that pepper the sky.

Why do we need you?
The simple answer is that the human brain is much better at recognising patterns than a computer can ever be. Any computer program we write to sort our galaxies into categories would do a reasonable job, but it would also inevitably throw out the unusual, the weird and the wonderful. To rescue these interesting systems which have a story to tell, we need you.
Hey Hey
Uhm, interesting. I remember the days when cervical smears were analysed microscopically solely by human eye. What a pain that was, but at least the technicians got paid for it. I have some time on my hands (hence being here on BrainMeta) but 5 minutes of classifying galaxies was enough for me (I'm not quite brain dead yet). This reminds me of voice recognition - why on earth can't computers do it properly yet? Shame on the programmers.
Rick
QUOTE(Hey Hey @ Jul 11, 2007, 05:15 AM) *
This reminds me of voice recognition - why on earth can't computers do it properly yet? Shame on the programmers.

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