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SETI@home Turns Five Today

Posted by michael on 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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  1. ok, i ask them to prove it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They can't.

    What a waste of time. Do they receive donations? If so, I guess we know why they're still running, that or they're run by some crackpots.

  2. Glaxo,Pfizer,Bayer,Aventis,Laroche,Schering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    give your cycles to them and skip the middleman, unless you are planning on making the cure in your garage, you think if they find a cure they are gonna give it to you for free ? those greedy fucks couldnt even give Africa a cheap deal on AIDS drugs, you think they will play any better when they have the cure to cancer ?

    at least with Seti no greedy fucker gets rich from my CPU and maybe mankind as a whole will benefit instead of a select few

    A>s

  3. Re:Friends in space... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Was that an attempt at humor? You're a fucking idiot. Don't waste my time posting this shit you fucking cumdumpster. I hate you so much right now asshole.

  4. Re:Just not on company PC's by Threni · · 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!

  5. Re:Just not on company PC's by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    CPU time is not "wasted". If a PC is not in use, it will go into power saving mode. It's been a long, long time (80486) since CPUs ran at 100% speed when not in use.

    You really think some nutball "science" project is worth burning coal to make electricity to power your little vanity project? Do you drive an SUV as well?

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  6. Re:19638 Units and running strong by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    So, it's "fun"? The whole science part is just extra? You think it's great to burn precious natural resources to generate electricity to power your little "fun"?

    P.S. SETI@Home is NOT repeat NOT a benchmark utility.

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    Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!