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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. Happy Birthday by millahtime · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Happy Birthday to You
    You Live in a zoo
    You look like a monkey
    and you act like on too


    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

    --
    Evolution or ID?
    1. Re:Happy Birthday by katarac · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Happy Birthday to You
      You Live in a zoo
      You look like a monkey
      and you act like on too
      I always prefered "and you smell like one too."