Interview with SETI@home Director David Anderson

CowboyRobot writes "ACM's Queue magazine interviews David P. Anderson, a research scientist at the U.C. Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, who directs the SETI@home and BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) projects. SETI@home uses hundreds of thousands of home computers in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. FTA: "volunteer computing arose because projects such as SETI@home needed $100 million worth of computing power but didn't have the money. But there's no free lunch--a project must give participants something in return for their computer time.""

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Shove this up your butt, bitches!

[Anonymous Coward]

You Suck!!!

More Ambitious Project: STI

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's a more ambitious project: search for terrestrial intelligence (STI). Can we find intelligence on planet earth and, specifically, the USA.

With each passing day, we see more Americans dying senselessly and pointlessly in Iraq. It has no weapons of mass destruction. The new government of Iraq will collapse into either civil war or a brutal theocracy.

Our soldiers were told that they were fighting to build a democracy. In the end, there will be 3000 dead Americans but no democracy.

Which idiots supported this war?

Re:Give them a way to keep score

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LASIK does wonders for short-sightedness.