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[PeterNw (Panos)]

Join the SETI team for the search for ET.. Didn't know you can do it from your PC with a little program called BOINC..

[astroron (Ron)]

Peter This program has been around for a long time
If you have plenty of bandwidth and spare time it is a great project.

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Cheers

[silv (Annette)]

Bump

no, no spare time required and not much bandwidth, either. (Well, dial-up speed is certainly not sufficient. But it's megabytes not gigabytes that get transferred.)

BOINC:
a great opportunity to lend your computer's resources to science.
Projects like SETI or FightAidsAtHome or the World Genome project or Climate Prediction or or or or or...

Go for it! BOINC. Choose the projects you want to support, install the client software, subscribe to said projects... and that's it.
No further "work" required from your part. Your computer does it all when you're asleep.

Support Science: Go for it. Boinc for it

[fauxpas (Tony)]

I been in and out of the seti@home for many years...

They should modernize the app to be more attractive to the new generation...

[Nico13 (Ken)]

Originally Posted by fauxpas

I been in and out of the seti@home for many years...

They should modernize the app to be more attractive to the new generation...

Yep same here, did it for a long time when it first started but haven't done it for some time now, too much else happening I guess.

[silv (Annette)]

I was a constant contributor for several years. On my work computer, as well.

And then I bought a Mac and BOINC simply disappeared from my event horizon.....
That's a good sign! because it means that I never noticed BOINC as a software in need for migration to Mac.

[TrevorW]

SETI has been going for 20 odd years and still nothing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_...l_intelligence

honestly why bother I've got my suspicion that if we ever do detect a signal it won't be by accident

[ZeroID (Brent)]

Hmm, not that I'm a sceptic or an avid believer either but our last 200 years of radio transmissions has only travelled 200 light years away from us and only reached a couple of close systems that apparently are unlikely candidates, no planets in the 'Goldilocks Zone'.

I think we might have to wait a few millenia at least before our signal possibly disturbs and is replied to by any(one)(thing)(???).

Be some toll bill ... !!

[BPO]

Originally Posted by ZeroID

Hmm, not that I'm a sceptic or an avid believer either but our last 200 years of radio transmissions has only travelled 200 light years away from us and only reached a couple of close systems that apparently are unlikely candidates, no planets in the 'Goldilocks Zone'.

I think we might have to wait a few millenia at least before our signal possibly disturbs and is replied to by any(one)(thing)(???).

Be some toll bill ... !!

SETI is a nice idea, but the Inverse-Square Law pretty much kills the dream.

Any signal we send will be irretrievably lost among the natural cosmic background noise long before it reaches just about anywhere within even the nearby parts of the stellar "neighbourhood".

[Barrykgerdes]

SETI is just a pipe dream fueled by science fiction. If you look at the idea rationally you will realise that. If you need some entertainment with better odds of success buy lotto tickets and forget to register them.

Barry

[JB80 (Jarrod)]

Is anybody looking through the LOFAR data?
Can you even look through that?

[bartman (Bart)]

Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes

SETI is just a pipe dream fueled by science fiction. If you look at the idea rationally you will realise that. If you need some entertainment with better odds of success buy lotto tickets and forget to register them.

Barry

Yes it might be a pipe dream fueled by science, and yes if you look at it rationally, its a very long shot!
But a long shot none the less.

If we just sit back and say " nah too hard ...no way its ever going to happen" , it will NEVER happen......

I buy lotto tickets, dont register them, and sometimes take weeks before I check them......
Most times I dont win, sometimes I win a little. But as they say.....You gotta be in it to win it
Bartman

[BPO]

Well, I love the idea of SETI, and it's true that if we're not listening we may miss something, but the fact remains that unless the transmitter is very close - within about a half-dozen l.y. or so - we're not likely to hear anything, no matter how much they may want us to.

This is not simply an electrical engineering problem in search of a solution. It's fundamental physics. Bigger antenna arrays, more sensitive receivers, better algorithms, or anything else short of a repeal of nature's Laws can't improve the situation. Alas.

Still, it's a nice idea, and it's probably worth doing anyway, because who knows... Maybe some ancient probe will pass near our solar system. Or at the very least the SETI researchers may discover something of value to general astronomy and astrophysics while listening out for LGM.

[LewisM]

I am running the cosmology BOINC app. More to my interests. As already pointed out, SETI is, well, maybe not worthwhile unless ET is in really close.

[AG Hybrid (Adrian)]

When the New Horizons space probe reaches Pluto and discovers a Prothean mass relay, we'll see whats what! SETI be damned!