Search For ET To Look Again At 150 Signals

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[vannrox]

Cool.

[vannrox]

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[theDentist]

I like it, but did it seem to anyone else that the article was more of an advertisement than news?

[T Minus Four]

Heh heh, he said "BOINC". :-)

[TomServo]

That was almost a good movie.

[Wright is right!]

"That was almost a good movie."

If you haven't already, you should read Sagan's book. A curiosity appears on the last 2 pages which may belie his claim to have been an atheist. He describes the work of a sooper-computer calculating PI out to some 80 gazillion places in Base 11 and describes a raster which occurs way out there. He describes it as "The Signature Of The Maker."

Michael

[TomServo]

Yeah, I have the book although I have a hard time remembering any of it. Maybe it's time for me to revisit it.

[Wright is right!]

"Yeah, I have the book although I have a hard time remembering any of it. Maybe it's time for me to revisit it."

Won't take ya 5 minutes. Just go to the last 2 pages.

Michael

[ScholarWarrior]

I'm still looking for intelligent life on this planet.

France? nope. Germany, nada. Guinea, please. I'll get back to you.

[CHICAGOFARMER]

In the top 99.5% of all work done.

It really has been fun.

Your credit:
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[sharktrager]

Research has shown that something like 60% of all news items in papers are sourced from press releases with little or no research or follow-up by the reporter.

[_Jim]

BOINC also has the capacity to store data in participants' unused disk space, much the way Napster, Gnutella and Kazaa

... or any other file for that matter ...

take[s] advantage of PC hard drives to store [data]

[Teacher317]

It is a neat idea, and an impressive display of the strength of millions of networked computers. Who needs a billion-dollar computer, when you can link a few million friends together?

I LOVE living in America in the 21st Century!

[CHICAGOFARMER]

I LOVE living in America in the 21st Century!


Yep no kidding.

it gives me a reason to leave my 3 computers on at night for a good cause.

[fnord]

Join the SETI FReepers group:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_15327.html

[L,TOWM]

A ping for your thoughts... (?)

[PatrickHenry]

SETI ping.

[This ping list is for the evolution -- not creationism -- side of evolution threads, and sometimes for other science topics. To be added (or dropped), let me know via freepmail.]

[stanz]

I'm still looking for intelligent life on this planet.

LOL Best response I've seen all week.

[Dimensio]

Kinda makes me wish I'd started up the seti@home client the last time that I restared the machine where I used to run it.

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[js1138]

"The Signature Of The Maker."

The movie trivialized a number of important features of the book. Despite that I found it an interesting visual experience -- filling in from the book wherever it departed. Jodi Foster is one of two or three Hollywood females that can convincingly play a non-brain dead role. This, unfortunately, wasn't one of them. More the script than the acting.

Sagan was a non-believer, not an atheist. He was hostile to fairy tale religion (isn't everyone hostile to other people's fairy tale religions) but he was open to the idea of a creator.