1) Message boards : Projects : How Earth Survived Its Birth (Message 30557) Posted 17 Jan 2010 by bender235 Post: New Simulation Reveals Planet Migration Prevents Plunge Into Sun What struck me most was this: "We used a one-dimensional model for this project," says co-author Wladimir Lyra, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Astrophysics at the Museum. "Three dimensional models are so computationally expensive that we could only follow the evolution of disks for about 100 orbits -- about 1,000 years. We want to see what happens over the entire multimillion year lifetime of a disk." This literally screams for a BOINC project, doesn't it?

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