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SETI@Home Faces Funding Problems

Posted by michael on from the brother-can-you-spare-a-megabit/second dept.

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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  1. You know.. by jbarket · · Score: 5, Funny
    and it may fall by the wayside unless further funding can be found.
    With their track recording of finding things, I'm not holding my breath.
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  2. Bankruptcy by Morologous · · Score: 5, Funny

    If Seti@home goes bankrupt, will the creditors come and repossess my extra cpu cycles?

  3. Funding by LoudMusic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe they should start looking for RICH aliens?

    ~LoudMusic

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  4. Hadden Coorporation by gregRowe · · Score: 5, Funny

    THey should ask SR Hadden for money.

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    1. Re:Hadden Coorporation by scott1853 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Maybe they've already found a signal from another advanced species, it just turned out to be 18 hours of static.

    2. Re:Hadden Coorporation by unicron · · Score: 3, Funny

      Mr. Garrison: You wait the whole god-damned movie to see an alien and it ends up looking like her god-damned father!

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  5. Those pesky Martians! by GMontag · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those pesky Martians!

    First they shoot down our spacecraft, now this!

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  6. New SETI@Home model.... by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  7. That obviously can't be true... by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny
    SETI Program costs only 1000 gold, 3 Culture, and requires Computers. It never becomes obsolete!

    We *need* to finish it so Parkes can double their city's science output!

  8. SETI Spawns SETF by brandido · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  9. Localized Searching by scott1853 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  10. Re:Question - How about Carnivore? by dperkins · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...

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  11. A simple solution... by cicatrix1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should just release a "special" version for bank employees.

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  12. Re:Question. by comic-not · · Score: 5, Funny
    It has a habit of replicating itself

    Self-replicating protein-folding software. The next step on the ladder of artificial evolution?

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  13. try a different approach by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  14. Re:Question. by T.E.D. · · Score: 4, Funny
    From the FAQ [ud.com]:
    A: No. The results of this study are the intellectual property of the University of Oxford and the National Foundation for Cancer Research, who will make the scientific findings of this project available to the greater scientific community.


    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. :-)
  15. Re:Whoa whoa whoa - we are NOT in a funding crisis by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    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

    Please Deposit Another 25 Cents To Continue

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