[vannrox]

Cool.

[vannrox]

.... ................

[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". :-)

[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:
Name (and URL) CHICAGOFARMER
Results Received 5450
Total CPU Time 7.740 years
Average CPU Time per work unit 12 hr 26 min 25.1 sec
Average results received per day 3.90
Last result returned: Fri Mar 14 14:15:00 2003 UTC
Registered on: Tue May 18 03:06:09 1999 UTC
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SETI@home user for: 3.826 years
Your group info:
You do not currently belong to a group.
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Your rank: (based on current workunits received)

Your rank out of 4309208 total users is: 22394th place.
The number of users who have this rank: 8
You have completed more work units than 99.480% of our users.

[_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]

[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.]

[Ramius]

Yeah, but will it run Powerpoint?

If we can listen to some other planet's transmissions some day, I sure hope their TV shows are better than ours. Just think... all this time and energy and we and up watching "Survivor - Alpha Centuri". [sigh]

All that aside, I still think that the distributed processing idea behind Seti@Home is about the coolest thing we've ever done with computers. A million years of computer time. "Just damn..."

[Brett66]

I would think that they would need to dedicate a continuous watch on several star systems for several years to realistically determine if there were any signals coming from them. The famous "WOW!" signal might have been a spurious transmission from a planet that could have an orbital period of a few years. If we just caught a glimpse of this signal as it swept past the Earth, it would take time for it to be in the same orbital position around it's parent star. Even then, the odds would be against us picking up the signal again if it was a tight transmission beam.

[Brett66]

Here's a cool site that gives info about the stars within a 20 LY radius of us. Amazingly the star nearest to us, Alpha Centauri A & B (definitely not C) would be excellent candidates for life bearing terrestrial planets.

The Universe within 12.5 Light Years

[Nick Danger]

[realpatriot71]

Intelligent life, huh? I don't know. We're either alone or the first ones to look. I agree with Fermi. It's quite telling that we havn't made contact with or detected any other civilization yet, if there is, in fact, other intelligent races out "there".