From: skybuckflying@gmail.com   
      
   Hello,   
      
   Thank you for your story, I also spent some time outside on the balkony to   
   watch stuff (in the cold and warmth), currently there is a little mouse in   
   between the garbage lol, my appartment at 5 levels high ! =D   
      
   Let me know what you think I should do witht he mouse/rodent, it seems to be a   
   cute one, a busy one, and a very respectfull one, he has not yet entered my   
   appertment via the balcony door, nor has he made a mess out of things. Perhaps   
   this little create    
   deserves a better faith than hungry or death. I was hoping he would die at   
   first or I would throw him over the balcony, but that is a little bit too   
   harsh for this nice little cut brown mouse, wow, tom en jerry... little field   
   mouse, so now my plan is    
   maybe to catch him once I clean up the garbage, but where to go with this   
   little intruder ? Maybe on the streets, there is some green there. Maybe he   
   will come back. Maybe he wants to be my pet. Maybe he is deaf, he doesn't seem   
   bothered when I shine my    
   flash light at him in the night, he just goes on minding his own buzy   
   bussiness, making strange little garbage noises/rattling, hehe he be offensive   
   if I would call it RATtling LOL.   
      
   Anyway, I am not much of a pet owner... gjez...  I can barely deal with a   
   mouse, let alone an entire mothershop full of aliens that want to come life   
   here ! LOL. Allegedly a few motherships were filmed as they passed and flew   
   over the moon on broad    
   daylight.   
      
   Anyway, your posting seemed sincery enough I will try and answer your   
   question, but don't expect to much, currently after this posting I will upload   
   some OpenXcom branch called NachaZ with some of his modifications/improvements   
   to OpenXCom and then I    
   will probably play it some to test it out and then upload it... and then maybe   
   very later I might return to UFO Alert Tool prototype development/research.   
      
   > What I am getting at is for you to outline your project before you post    
   > details of the algorithms you have chosen.    
      
   I did write about it before... try google maybe that will help you find more   
   information about it, but indeed maybe I should make a website about it, to   
   mention what it is about, this is a good idea ! ;)   
      
   > What are you trying to do?    
      
   Make it possible for people to alert each other in real time as quickly as   
   possible if they have a sighting/an encounter/a landing/maybe even an   
   abduction ! ;) =D   
      
   > Is it like MADAR?    
      
   I am not sure what MADAR is, but I suspect it's a bunch of sites around the   
   world trying to detect UFOs with our technology. This is a flawed idea maybe.   
      
   My idea is better to rely on human eyes and human sensors to detect UFOs. This   
   is because the human eye and human sensors are superior to any technology.   
      
   The aliens may have been around on this planet, following our technology, they   
   may have counter-technology to counter our technology.   
      
   Such technology already exists, see the stealth bomber and the b2 bomber and   
   the recently launched b21 bomber.   
      
   Radar absorbing skins/hulls. Plus there is rumor of electro gravity like   
   fields masking the heat output of these planes down further.   
      
   There is also talk of special fields around UFOs that might make it hard or   
   impossible to detect with technology.   
      
   Technology also has it's limitations and is expensive, costs money to maintain   
   and operate, is prone to failure and down time.   
      
   While the human being is maintained well enough for every day operation. Bare   
   the drunks hehe.   
      
   Granted sometimes technology can see better than the human eye, like   
   zoom-cameras, but even these are still hard to operate.   
      
   Photographs and videos of UFOs are not very convincing for most people.   
      
   Seeing it with your own eyes helps a lot to be convinced that something   
   strange might be going on.   
      
   Best case scenerio is to overrun a LANDED UFO and capture it by a FLASH MOB of   
   people ! That be great/fantastic ! While it lasts ofcourse, it would probably   
   be confiscated by the governments army soon enough.    
      
   > Why are you trying to do it the way you have chosen?    
      
   1. Maximum application/protocol speed.   
      
   2. Maximum readability/maintainability of source code/pascal code, can last   
   forever as long as humanity knows english.   
      
   3. Maximum compile/build speed of fastest compiler in the world: Delphi.   
      
   4. Near Maximum security of language: Pascal & Delphi have a pretty good track   
   record of producing safe software while C/C++ has not.   
      
   5. Convincing people through their own observations.   
      
   > Why are the other projects not any good for you to use?    
      
   1. There are few, maybe just one, I have seen one UFO app on mobile, but it   
   costs 1 dollar and it requires a mobile phone.   
      
   Those projects can probably be nuked, disabled, denial of service attacked, I   
   suspect they might end soon, plus perhaps they are too slow.   
      
   I haven't really tried this one out. Will it update/push notifications to   
   mobile users or will it buckle under the load.   
      
   My/The application must be able to service to entire world without breaking a   
   sweat, centralized points of failures must be minimized or even illiminated.   
      
   > How far have you got?    
      
   I have done a lot of research into what technologies, algorithms, protocols   
   are available to create this. Collected lots of links and documents.   
      
   I have a pretty good idea how to create it however I run into some   
   snags/limitations:   
      
   Visualization issues:   
   1. The GPU of this Toshiba Laptop melted/broke from all the gaming/World of   
   Warships, this makes it a bit more difficult to do the graphics, it's mostly   
   slowed down.   
   However in a way it's kind of a good thing, makes me focus more on getting the   
   algorithm/visualization working well. GLScene library for OpenGL might be too   
   limited, 32 bit floating points, Earth is big/huge and might require 64 bit   
   floating point    
   software or strange scale fields.   
      
   Global/Spherical/Ellipsoid issues:   
   2. The math to visualize and compute distances across earth is more complex   
   than I thought, it requires some pretty heavy math, which might have to be   
   applied per pixel.   
   This may require something like an OpenGL shader or even better CUDA to   
   compute it, or maybe SIMD, it will probably require 64 bit computations to   
   have decent accuracy.   
      
   3. Data issues:   
   Textures of earth of high enough quality could take many many many gigabytes.    
      
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