Don't alienate yourself: SETI@home needs you!


	Don't alienate yourself: SETI@home needs you!

wildcat

1-14-2008 10:55 AM

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1-14-2008 7:04 PM

Jorjor

I've been with this for over ten years now. At one point, I had it running on six separate computers (four at work, two at home). Haven't found any aliens yet. I did join another BOINC project: YETI@home. You put a webcam in a window looking out of your house, and if a yeti walks by, the software reports it.

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PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) needs you--your computer, that is. SETI is drowning in radio signals from other worlds, thanks to the recent addition of seven new receivers to the world's largest radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Now, with 40-times more radio frequency (RF) coverage, plus the ability to detect the polarization of <A href="http://www.eetimes.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=RF&x=&y=">RF</A> signals, there will be 500-times more data streaming in--finally giving it the ability to detect other intelligent civilizations, according to SETI, a quest that has so far gone begging since 1978.
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"We're entering an era when we will be able to scan billions of channels," said project chief scientist Dan Werthimer. "Arecibo is now optimized for this kind of search, so if there are signals out there, we or our volunteers will find them."
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