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SETI@Home Revisits Its 100 Best Signals

Posted by Hemos on from the one-from-the-vaults dept.

cmbrothe writes "The Planetary Society is running an article about SETI@Home's plan to revisit its 100 most promising signal candidates. The article also outlines the criteria for selecting the candidates."

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  1. Running seti@home causes global warming by rembo · · Score: 0, Troll

    I measured the number of watts my computer is using. I found that when the processor is at maximum it consumes 20 watts of energy more than when it is idle. This was without any power management. So in my case, and I suspect many other cases running seti@home causes global warming.

  2. Hi SETI people.... by rob-fu · · Score: 1, Troll

    found any aliens yet?

    Me? I'll spend my spare CPU cycles trying to find a drug combination to cure cancer.

    Sorry if this comes across as flamebait or redundant, but I just think that there's more relevant problems here on Earth that we could fix.

  3. The Real #1 signal... by Grayswan · · Score: 0, Troll
    It is a big secret, real hush-hush, that SETI's #1 best signal to date was translated as:


    "You have been trolled. Have a nice day."


    I object to the comment below this one.

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    If you open your mind too wide, people will throw trash in it.