SETI@home Turns Five Today

Posted by michael on Friday May 21, 2004 @03:23AM from the knock-knock-knocking-on-heaven's-door dept.

mfh writes "Five years ago today, SETI@home launched a comprehensive program to search for Extra Terrestrial life in the universe, using millions of home computers to help compile useful data that could some day lead to the discovery of advanced extra terrestrial life. Since inception, SETI@home has found 2,568 persistent Gaussians, possible radio transmissions from a distant planet. SETI began in 1960 with the efforts of Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake, whose Project Ozma became the first modern SETI experiment in history."

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Re:Just not on company PC's by Threni · 2004-05-21 04:23 · Score: 0, Flamebait

> I hate to see CPU time being wasted.

So don't run SETI! Either run another distributed project, or just have the pcs going into power saving mode.

> what's the problem with running s@h or a similar project

You don't have the source, so it could be doing anything. Good luck!