SETI@home project

[Loshadka]

SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.

SETI@home

 

[nw909]

Hahaha, wtf.

Its probably spyware/virus laden.

 

[Loshadka]

Originally posted by nw909
Hahaha, wtf.

Its probably spyware/virus laden.

Butthead, they showed it on Discovery Chenal.

 

[nw909]

Well how am I supposed to know that!

I don't even get that channel!

 

[spookymooky]

i had it for a while, but it took a ton of system resources, and made my fan go crazy.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I had a similar program to this. But it wasnt SETI it was for a cancer research company. I used to run that all the time, but then windows corrupted it and i never managed to get it back.

o(Cancer research....SETI. TO be honest i think the cancer one was a better choice, but each to his own i suppose)

 

[Feath]

It's disturbing because people used to fake results so they'd get a bigger "Time spent" thingy. I'm not explaining it very well. I think the Cancer one had things to prevent that.

And yes, Cancer research is more important that SETI. No one can argue against that.

 

[Korgoth]

Well what if we find aliens that can cure cancer?

 

[nw909]

Originally posted by Innervision961
Well what if we find aliens that can cure cancer?

Loop hole.

 

[Shippi]

I spent over 120 hours analyzing one of those data chunk things from SETi... my old PC was really slow.

 

[dis]

hey, I use to have this thing. It's kinda neat. If you're interested, I'd recommend downloading it. If not for anything else, it makes a cool screensaver.

 

[Echelon]

heh, im running seti on 3 machines and united devices (the cancer thingy) on 2 other. i've like 800 packages finished for seti and spend like 10000 hours for it. but it's true, it takes up 100% cpu time, if no other process needs the cpu. the cpu gets really hot this way.

 

[synth]

yeah, i use that only when i'm not doing anything else on the computer. takes up all your system resources.