Bitcoin Mining Hindering Search For Alien Life, Scientists Claim

CBS San Francisco ^

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It hasn't gone away. See SETI@home

[dfwgator]

Or “Living in a Van Down By the River”.

[Jamestown1630]

I thought they had ended that; but here it is:

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu

(website down temporarily, though)

[super7man]

Maybe they’re looking for the same thing.

[sodpoodle]

I have no idea what Bitcoin is or how it works so I looked it up here:

https://bitcoin.org/en/

Being a ‘geezer’ is comforting;)

[Nifster]

Pointless research complaining about market forces

Too bad soooo sad

[Drago]

Cryptocurrency is actually helping the SETI@Home/BOINC projects: http://www.gridcoin.us

Also helping the Stanford “Foldiing@Home” project:
https://curecoin.net
and
https://foldingcoin.net

[Moonman62]

If advanced life is out there, and wants us to know it’s there, it would have contacted us already.

[cgbg]

SETI is a total fraud.

It is based on the assumption that somewhere out there an advanced civilization would give away their location with signals on the electromagnetic spectrum.

Only humans are _that_ stupid.

[MAexile]

They got plenty at BestBuy:-) https://www.bestbuy.com/site/computer-cards-components/video-graphics-cards/abcat0507002.c?id=abcat0507002&ref=30&loc=KW-4327&ksid=73be48cc-dcc9-4d04-8b4f-09a5f7040b36&ksprof_id=3&ksaffcode=2231348&ksdevice=c&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyv_R4KK12QIVk0wNCh1utwl6EAAYAiAAEgIr1vD_BwE

The first one that comes up on that search says "sold out".

[Opinionated Blowhard]

but it is coming out of our contingency budget

That tells you everything you need to know. He's worried about his budget.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Which we won’t be able to find to buy.

So you've never observed that things go in cycles?

In your universe everything remains static forever?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

If advanced life is out there, and wants us to know it’s there, it would have contacted us already.

If advanced life were out there, it would be way, way out there - it might send a radio message in response to detecting our own radio emissions, but even that would take years of travel time. A goodly number of years, actually, for the round trip.

[PIF]

Why not pass a law requiring them to?

—
That would be racist and the Dems would have yet another election issue to scream across the MSN

[BipolarBob]

Well the good news is that there’s no such thing as Alien life.

Can you prove that?

[dfwgator]

I’ve seen no proof that there is.

[RegulatorCountry]

There’s certainly no evidence of it thus far. Those who say there’s no such thing are on firmer ground than those who insist that there is.

[BipolarBob]

That just means we can’t definitively say there is/isn’t then.

[dfwgator]

Christianity and belief in alien beings are mutually exclusive. If one is true, the other isn’t.

[tet68]

The least they could do would be to make
earth an alien free zone, or at maybe limit
immigration to 10 million a year.

And what about all those alien children brought
here by their parents...