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Scribbler1 · May 31, 2004, 08:41 pm

This is not about alien invaders or anything like it, but SETI has a website where you can download a program which analyses the data from the Aricebo radio telescope. It's a great setup called SETI@HOME which lets you use your computer's down time to analyse these signals (almost entirely radio noise at this point). The idea is to send packets of data to about 3 million computers therby forming in effect a supercomputer. As my machines are always on, I have done about 600 hours of computing for them.

Hey, it doesn't cost anything and who knows...

The link is:

SETI @ HOME

May 31, 2004, 08:41 pm	#16 (permalink) (top)
Scribbler1 Skeptical Patriot Posts: 7,746	This is not about alien invaders or anything like it, but SETI has a website where you can download a program which analyses the data from the Aricebo radio telescope. It's a great setup called SETI@HOME which lets you use your computer's down time to analyse these signals (almost entirely radio noise at this point). The idea is to send packets of data to about 3 million computers therby forming in effect a supercomputer. As my machines are always on, I have done about 600 hours of computing for them. Hey, it doesn't cost anything and who knows... The link is: SETI @ HOME Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots.