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SETI + 14k hits!

Tue Oct 3, 2006, 4:16 AM
  • Mood: Wow!
  • Listening to: Everloving
SETI

SETI is the acronym for Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, organized efforts by humans to detect intelligent aliens. A number of efforts with "SETI" in the project name have been organized, including projects funded by the United States Government. The generic approach of SETI projects is to survey the sky to detect the existence of transmissions from a civilization on a distant planet. (This approach is not science fiction.)

There are great challenges in searching across the sky to detect a first transmission that can be characterised as intelligent, since its direction, spectrum and method of communication are all unknown beforehand. SETI projects necessarily make assumptions to narrow the search, and thus no exhaustive search has so far been conducted.

SETI@home is a highly successful distributed computing project that was launched by U.C. Berkeley in May 1999, and is heavily sponsored by The Planetary Society. Any individual can become involved with SETI research by downloading and running the SETI@home software package, which then runs signal analysis on a "work unit" of data recorded from the central 2.5 MHz wide band of the SERENDIP IV instrument. The results are then automatically reported back to UC Berkeley. Over 5 million computer users in more than 200 countries have signed up for SETI@home and have collectively contributed over 19 billion hours of computer processing time.


More info about Seti: [link]


My SETI@home account stats

Ashale's stats


Thanks to all for read.

Thanks very much to my NewZealand friend ~Maxis4132 for his gift (a 3 months of DA suscription).
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:iconnameless-designer:
=Nameless-Designer Oct 3, 2006   Digital Artist
seti is cool. congartulations on the 14k my friend., well deserved
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~Ashale Oct 3, 2006  Hobbyist Photographer
Thx very much my friend!
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:iconnameless-designer:
=Nameless-Designer Oct 3, 2006   Digital Artist
hehe no problem ;)
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:iconx4mhd:
congrats on the subscription :P
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:iconashale:
~Ashale Jul 19, 2006  Hobbyist Photographer
Thx very much mate!!
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:iconmaxis4132:
I used to run all of them with it switching every 30 minutes, though I haven't re-installed it since my computer was wiped
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:iconashale:
~Ashale Jul 13, 2006  Hobbyist Photographer
Hello my friend :wave:!
I only run Seti over BOINC Manager.
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~Ashale Jul 14, 2006  Hobbyist Photographer
Hehe mine u can write: Ashale has participated in the SETI@home project since 3 April 1999, and has contributed 102,063 Cobblestones of computation (88.18 quintillion floating-point operations).
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:iconwrathh1:
use to run the seti client when I had internet at my home. Glad to see that it still continues.
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