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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. **ATTENTION: I HATE NIGGERS** by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    dorks

  2. Nice news article.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...once again Slashsuck is days behind the news. Posted on Suckdot today... the anniversary was the 17th... only 4 days late! Good job morons!

  3. Re:Where are the results? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: -1, Troll

    The SETI project is run by a bunch of wankers, basically. Well-meaning but I wouldn't trust them with the keys to my bike lock, if you know what I mean. When they lost their government funding, it was due to rank incompetence. How can things have gotten better since then?

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