To S.E.T.I or not to S.E.T.I ?

[multiweb]

Link here (http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-04-20/) :)

[bartman]

SETI 4 SURE,
Wish my nr plate on the ve-hicle was that instead or B4RTM4N....mmmm 9 letters,,,,,can do on poly carb....
any hoo;
Not sure if this will show, but my credits with ATOMICMPC ( a computer magazine) is close to 1.5 million and with CERN...well thats gone down the way side....
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_members.php?teamid=30329&offset=0&sort_by=expavg_credit

OHHHHH it was a joke ....ahhhh
hahaha
Well I know I,m ( or should I say: my computer and friends) am/are doing my/our bit to Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence ........

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

Merci Marc for bringing it up, and hopefully we might start our own (IIS) Team??????:thanx:

Cheers
Bartman

[multiweb]

I used to run that screensaver program yeah. Until I saw ID4. ;)

[Kal]

I used to run SETI a decade ago, and was heavily into distributed computing looking at protein folding (which unlike SETI did have some actual positive results) for many years, but rising electricity costs stopped my activities. I worked out that my current overclocked quad core CPU alone (disregarding rest of the system power) could use about a dollars worth of electricity per day when under 24/7 100% load, and I wasn't willing to continue shelling out over 300 bucks worth of electricity per year to other peoples projects anymore.

[Ric]

That Dilbert is a classic.

[joshhagger]

Bart,

Someone has already made an IIS SETI team, I jumped over from ATOMICMPC to it a couple of months ago.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=126052

Josh

[bartman]

Heya Marc, I had a few under the belt the other day ( I do grave yard shifts and my drinkin' time is in the late moning'...yep chastise me for it!!!) when I posted my reply ... And I didnt quite get the Dilbert cartoon......(BTW I never do and therefore dont read them...).

Maybe a better response should have been;
Yes, I think we should continue to search for LGM's, and through SETI this could be one of the means to do so.
In saying that, I dont want to go into whether there is intelligent life or not........I'm just putting in my computers 2 bits worth:lol: ( or should that be 8, 16 ,32,64 etc).
BOINC is a great platform ( in my opinion) to use unused computing power to dissect/compute any complex complexities....:thumbsup:
I have also subscribed to LHC@HOME.
I know others have subscribed to more 'Human(e)' projects like Folding@home. I encourage that but I have my heart set on finding LGM's before a cure for Cancer et al.......
Cancer ( to just name one ) is a horrible disease and I do not want to say that finding LGM's is more important...... I choose to use my computing power for other things....

Kal ( Andrew), I agree, it does chew power. I used to have a puter running 24/7 plus my main puter whenever I turened it on. Tooooo much:screwy:. I now even turn it of (boinc) when I have to do photoshop et al cause it just crashes the puter....even with 8 GB of ram ( maybe cause I have boinc running CUDA on the Gforce.)


Heya Josh....we were talking about this quite some time ago ????
Looks like I will have to jump ship too;)
Any probs with the transfer of credits? Let me know...

Cheers Marc, and sorry if I started your thread in a wrong way:question:

Bartman