SETI at home

Jacca5660 · Post by **Jacca5660** » Jul Mon 28, 2008 1:16 pm

Is anybody else part of the SETI at home program?

JWG · Post by **JWG** » Jul Mon 28, 2008 4:27 pm

Obviously not me, I don't know what you're talking about.

Post by **js3901** » Jul Mon 28, 2008 5:58 pm

never heard of it before, so I'd have to answer with a resounding NO. got a link for it or anything?

Captain Schnemo · Post by **Captain Schnemo** » Jul Mon 28, 2008 6:45 pm

It's a screen saver that processes SETI data when your computer isn't doing anything. SETI collects more data than it has processing power, so it shares the load across all of nerddom.

I used to run it until Oxford University started a project working on the cure for cancer. I thought that was a little more important than searching for little green men, so I ran that until it closed shop a couple years ago.

Now I just shut the machines down to save power.

kcarts · Post by **kcarts** » Jul Mon 28, 2008 7:46 pm

Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. Kind of a fancy name for UFO chasers. Of which I am not.

JWG · Post by **JWG** » Jul Mon 28, 2008 9:44 pm

Oh oh oh oh yes....
My PS3 can do that. But I don't because if it's on i'm using it and when I'm not using it it's off.

DisBeamer · Post by **DisBeamer** » Jul Mon 28, 2008 10:28 pm

I used to, but haven't in a long time. I think one windows-prompted hard drive format wiped out my install and I never replaced it. I always used to think it was a little depressing that the packets you'd be analyzing were like, years old by the time you got them.

Post by **Dr. Ravenscroft** » Jul Tue 29, 2008 10:57 am

I signed up for it a week ago, but then I realized that my computer is never on at home, do to energy saving tactics...........um...............yeah................that's the ticket. Actually I don't have it on because it is always too hot to run the computer. But I found out about it about because Nova Science Now mentioned it.

JWG · Post by **JWG** » Jul Tue 29, 2008 1:15 pm

Dr. Ravenscroft wrote:I signed up for it a week ago, but then I realized that my computer is never on at home, do to energy saving tactics...........um...............yeah................that's the ticket. Actually I don't have it on because it is always too hot to run the computer. But I found out about it about because Nova Science Now mentioned it.

If I knew I'd get a free replacement PS3 when mine overheated and died from being on all the time and a $5/month energy bill credit - I'd be all over it.

Joe90 · Post by **Joe90** » Jul Tue 29, 2008 2:01 pm

What sort of crazy person would spend their own money looking for alien life?
You would have to be deranged to sign up for this. The chances of finding anything are astronomically small.

So obviously ...yes I do run SETI AH

bamato · Post by **bamato** » Aug Mon 04, 2008 1:13 pm

JWG wrote:
Dr. Ravenscroft wrote:I signed up for it a week ago, but then I realized that my computer is never on at home, do to energy saving tactics...........um...............yeah................that's the ticket. Actually I don't have it on because it is always too hot to run the computer. But I found out about it about because Nova Science Now mentioned it.
If I knew I'd get a free replacement PS3 when mine overheated and died from being on all the time and a $5/month energy bill credit - I'd be all over it.

I use to do the Folding@Home thing, but I never liked leaving my PS3 on. Not to mention a small voice in my head was sayin "skynet....."

srik · Post by **srik** » Aug Mon 04, 2008 2:28 pm

I haven't used this in years, so I just logged in to my account to see what info was there... Apparently I joined 9 years ago, August 1999, but I only contributed 455 hours of computer time. I was a little disappointed, I thought I had done more, and given the processing power of that machine over the ones of today, I'm sure it's on ly about 2 hours by current standards. If I, like many of the folks here, didn't power down my machine to save energy, I would do this again. Thanks Jacca5660, for the trip down memory lane!

Post by **js3901** » Aug Tue 05, 2008 7:41 am

bamato wrote: Not to mention a small voice in my head was sayin "skynet....."

not to get this thread off-topic anymore, according to Terminator 3, skynet was any machine connected to the internet, and eventually spread to any electronic device that communicates with any other device.

as for the original post, sounds ;ike something cool. I'll have to look into this when I have time to research it...

JWG · Post by **JWG** » Aug Fri 08, 2008 9:21 am

bamato wrote: I use to do the Folding@Home thing, but I never liked leaving my PS3 on. Not to mention a small voice in my head was sayin "skynet....."

Time to shut down the internet!

As I hijack this thread... is anyone thinking that T4 will be any good?!