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SETI@Home Faces Funding Problems
blamanj writes "The aussie version of ZDNET is reporting that money to continue the SETI@Home project is in jeopardy, and it may fall by the wayside unless further funding can be found."
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jonathan barket
If Seti@home goes bankrupt, will the creditors come and repossess my extra cpu cycles?
Maybe they should start looking for RICH aliens?
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.. Can't they just get ET to wire them some more money?
Trolling is a art,
THey should ask SR Hadden for money.
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1. Start search for alien life with idle time on home computers.
2. ???
3. More funding!
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Those pesky Martians!
First they shoot down our spacecraft, now this!
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
They don't want us to find out where they come from.
1) Gain access to volunteering bank accounts.
2) When the account is idle for a bit, slowly draw a few cents every so often.
3) ???
4) Profit! Errr, stay in 'business.'
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We *need* to finish it so Parkes can double their city's science output!
In news today, it was reported that, in an attempt to deal with a funding shortfall, SETI has spawned a daughter organization SETF (Search for Extra Terrestrial Funding). One of the biggest obstacles that SETI officials face is determining the appropriate exchange rate from the intergalactic rugblat to the dollar.
First Falcon-1 to orbit, then Falcon-9. Then I can die a happy man.
I agree! There would be tens of people willing to donate.
Now, if they could just borrow everone's pocket change overnight while they are not using it, collect the interest, then give it back in the morning... That should solve their finance problems.
The Parkes facility is more powerful than that currently used to record the data at Arecibo, Peurto Rico and its addition would widen the search for extra-terrestrials to the Southern Hemisphere.
I would think it might be more productive to scan outer space instead of the southern half of our own planet, but whatever floats their boat.
You mean SETI@Home has been distributing recordings of interstellar noise over a P2P network? I'll bet RIAA has something to do with their demise!!!
"...I would while away the hours, talk'n to the flowers, if I only had a brain..."
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. - Geek's corollary to Clarke's law
Seems that they could be taking some of the load off of carnivore. There's an aweful lot of data to process, and the gov't could provide the funding they need to stay in business...
My sig hates me. That's ok, I never cared for it much anyway.
They should just release a "special" version for bank employees.
I know more than you drink.
Self-replicating protein-folding software. The next step on the ladder of artificial evolution?
Existence usually comes as a surprise (Idem)
Has anyone thought about how much better off the aliens will be if we don't find them?
For instance, we won't be broadcasting advertisements to them, we won't be exploiting their natural resources, we won't give them the chickenpox....I think the aliens should be rejoicing!
[In all seriousness, I've donated many billions of cycles to SETI@Home... I just worry what we'll do when we find'em!]
Do you also propose the cancellation of all astronomy research, and putting all the money into medicine?
Hmm.. Choose between the aerospace industry and the drug companies...
Is there a third choice?
Prehaps SETI should try a different approach to finding aliens.
Launch a bunch of AOL disks into space and see if any subscribe.
The only problem is if they use AOL's techniques, they will get plenty of responses, but *still* be broke.
Table-ized A.I.
Urp. Your right. What I said still goes for Folding (or at least did when I looked into it in depth 6 months ago).
Damn. I tried a quick look through the FAQ's , but didn't find this entry. My assumption that it would be like Folding hosed me. NFCR is a great charity too.
Hopefully I'll get modded way down.
We at SETI are NOT in a funding crisis. We have learned from experience to live with low budgets. The rumors of a funding crisis are totally fal
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