Anyone contributing to SETI@home?

[04Stefan07 (Stefan)]

Is this legit or a scam?

More info here: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/index.php

[hobbit]

yes i'm contributing and yes it's legit

[Starless (Brian)]

Yeah it's cool.
I've been doing my bit for years.

[PeterEde (Peter)]

Did it years ago and recently started again. It's legit
Distributed processing allows them to process more information than their computers alone.
This distributed processing was also used to map the human gnome in a lot less year than had they done it with one super computer.

I'm up to 27,000 work units (I think)
Go Team Australia

[Rob_K]

Originally Posted by PeterEde

.....was also used to map the human gnome .....

[PeterEde (Peter)]

Here's a link to many other distributed processing projects you can take part in.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php?sort=area

[koputai (Jason)]

I did a fair bit a few years ago, though not SETI.

I reckon if you're going to waste power doing this stuff, there
are a number of much more worthwhile projects than SETI.

Cheers,
Jason.

[LewisM]

Yup, and the zooinverse astro stuff too

[Steffen]

Originally Posted by Rob_K

The Hobbit?

[Octane (Humayun)]

Oh, wow. I didn't realise this was still around. I thought they had run out of funding? I'm pretty sure the last time I did any SETI@home was in the late 90s or early 2000s! Cool, might jump on it again.

H

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by Steffen

The Hobbit?

They tried but there was no preservation. Generally DNA only preserves well in very cold regions. Pity, it would shut up the few nay sayers left out there.

Hmm, perhaps I should jump back into SETI too. I think I forgot about it a few rebuilds ago.

[GeoffW1 (Geoff)]

Hi,

A few IISers recently went to Ascham School to support an astro night at which there was a talk about SETI. It was really pitched at a school audience but the speaker, Dr Ragbir Bhathal, Director of the Australian Optical SETI Project, was entertaining. He thought that lasers would be the best way of looking for ET.

One student posed a question asking if we'd be safer to shut up and say nothing. She suggested we had enough malevolent aliens right here in George St.

Personally after reading "The Eerie Silence" by Prof Paul Davies, I am again wondering if it is all a waste of time.

I think maybe we have to first try to determine if Einstein's theories still hold on a vast cosmological scale, because if so, a lot of the logic in SETI gets removed by the immense distances, Nature's quarantine.

Is Mars enough for now?

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astro...&rid=246616806

Cheers

[joshhagger (Josh)]

IceInSpace actually has a team, come join us:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_...?teamid=126052