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All right guys. I will get to the point: SETI@HOME is something that berkely university launched a while (1996 maybe? wild guess) back. Anyways what it does is that it uses your CPUs power look for aliens. Here: You download the program. It can be run all the time (especially with our uber PCs lol. It says it recommends at least 64mb ram to run all the time. Or it can be run screen saver mode only, but that would suck ass. Once you install it and create a name and stuff it downloads part of a huge packet that it has collected from the world's largest sattelite that is looking for aliens. So it gives you part of a packet and gives EVERY OTHER PC WITH THE PROGRAM part of the packet, and they all work to do some stuff and analyze the data or something, once it is done, it sends the finished data back to stanford and they give you another packet. Eventually if there are a lot of PCs doing this, we will find aliens.
I don't know how real it might be, but its worth a try, I mean its a 700kb file that u download and then the rest, it basically does by itself, once it finishes its "packet" just click the connect now button and wallah! I have only completed 9 packets.
If a lot of you guys download it, we can all do this. It is also sometimes used as a CPU benchmark to time how long it takes to complete a package. The faster the CPU the more chance you have of finding an alien becasue you complete packets faster. And just to keep this thread running, we can post our times.
My moms computer with a crap P3 700mhz takes 21 hours. I have a 1.8ghz p4 but it can't go online.
Downlaod it here:
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
If I were you i would turn it off only when playing games, or benchmarking, but come on! turn it on! It's also entertaining to watch sometimes.
If you are still not convinced.....a major sponsor happens to be.....Nvidia
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
I don't know how real it might be, but its worth a try, I mean its a 700kb file that u download and then the rest, it basically does by itself, once it finishes its "packet" just click the connect now button and wallah! I have only completed 9 packets.
If a lot of you guys download it, we can all do this. It is also sometimes used as a CPU benchmark to time how long it takes to complete a package. The faster the CPU the more chance you have of finding an alien becasue you complete packets faster. And just to keep this thread running, we can post our times.
My moms computer with a crap P3 700mhz takes 21 hours. I have a 1.8ghz p4 but it can't go online.
Downlaod it here:
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
If I were you i would turn it off only when playing games, or benchmarking, but come on! turn it on! It's also entertaining to watch sometimes.
If you are still not convinced.....a major sponsor happens to be.....Nvidia
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
, even wrote a book, "Contact", about a SETI researcher who picks up a signal from a highly advanced "alien" civilization. It was made into a really decent movie, starring Jodie Foster.
