SETI@Home 2nd Look at Possible Hits

cpk0 writes "This article from MSNBC discusses how data returned from SETI@Home users is beign retested by the Institue for a possibility of alien radio signals being included. At just over 4 years old, I think this would be the first big break for SETI@home." This is a followup to a December Slashdot story. Apparently this is getting some major attention in the mainstream media lately.

Comments

Re:What a waste

[Chairboy]

> it's really a waste of resources. ...as compared to posting on Slashdot, of course.

SETI Hoax

[gestapo4you]

It's been known for a while that the SETI@Home has nothing to do with finding aliens but is used for target calculations by US "Intelligence".
A lot of $$$ saved on free processing power.
So why don't you open up your box to help out?

News Flash!

[huckamania]

Slow news day finds lazy reporter surfing slashdot for something to write about.

I think we have a new phenomenon starting here:

First slashdot posts a small story about something vaguely scientific or geekish. Eventually, a lazy reporter slightly drunk from his usually liquid lunch reads the story with one eye closed. Proceeds to write puff piece weaving elements from the story and slashdot user's commentaries into a drunken slurry of double vision inspired verbosity. After waking up at 3 am with his head on the keyboard, drunken reporter deletes the last paragraph, which ended with a;hkjhgdferuh (because his head was on the keyboard and he can't remember what it was supposed to say) and puts it in a pile on his fat, baliding editors desk. The fat balding news editor, whose fat because he eats chocolate and bald because of genetics, reads it on a slow news day, laughs his fat az off and decides to run it anyways. Slashdot editor, who suffers from the same problems as the news editor but for different reasons, reads the headline and proceeds to post the story.

Wash-Rinse-Repeat.

Now if only the follow up to the follow up stories and posts would present better information than we might be on to something.

Re:Like others have pointed Seti can seem a waste

[Tailhook]

"But I guess actually helping your fellow humans is less glamourous then being the first nerd or geek to discover some faint signal which when discovered probably won't even be accepted by the rest of the world and will be debated forever."

It "glamorous" you silly twitch.

Stick your fucking guilt trip in your ear. My fellow humans get more than enough "help" already. With what is left over, we're doing as we see fit. Don't like it? Allow me to bend over so you can plant a juicy wet one on my left cheek. Enjoy.