Just curious if anyone else is ET searching. I'm not a SCI-FI geek that feels like I need to be the one that gets to board the mothership when it comes to visit our planet...I'm just curious if there really is someone else out there.
I'm searching on my work PC... it stays on all the time. 379 work units completed 12589 hours of computer time used! I also joined the DSLr SETI club for combined search power! ------------------------ There are also several other "distributed computing" projects that you can donate computer time to: Yahoo link to distributed computing. there is one for cancer research, dna research and juvenile disease research. All these projects run as 'screensavers' when you are not using your PC or if you have a powerful enough computer can operate in the background while you work. http://www.team-discovery.com/ is just one club, there are many more... http://www.dslreports.com has a link to many of the projects on their clubs page. Go to their homepage and click on DSLR Clubs
Data Units Complete : 405 Total Computer Time : 15780hr 45min 37.3sec I have had this running forever, sometimes I get it running on 4-5 machines... ET Phone home...
I have been running seti for well years I guess. since the very begining. my group is still about 1/2 active, and well we are doing our part. edit: I guess you guys want the stats. these stats cover 3 computers, one only the last month or so has been on my new computer. NAME: CHEESEBOY data units completed: 971 total comnputer time:17,329hr 11 mins 24.9 sec
This has got me thinking, is this very effective? It seems that we are all doing the same thing. So new users'll be doing something an old member did 3 years ago. It doesn't seem it would be helpful for new people to help.
Hmmm, what makes you say that? I doubt we are all crunching the same data. It's all new data that's being crunched. There's obviously so much data, they've distributed it to everyone. We are not all working on the same stuff, everyone has little pieces of a larger pieces of data that are being crunched.
The fact I am an analysing data recorded 11-8-99 at o229 GMT. Also, is is anyone else doing the cancer program? It's been running for 2+hours and still is at 0%
SETI recieves so much data that it's very possible you are starting a new block from several years ago or this is a block of data that never got completed and you are finishing the job. If you are really concerned, email SETI.
read the info on the seti site ALL the data is from 1999. telescopes and such are not something you find in every town. the Arechibo antennae is a serious one of a kind. its not like anyone can rent time on it, and the waiting list is extremely long. SETI used a relatively short period of time to scan the skys and record all the sound. the data is so massive that SETI @ home was created to process the info quicker. if you look on the site you will see that even after 3 years with 3.9 million people helping them, they have only procesed 70 something precent of their data. also 10+% of the sky hasnt been processed even once. some parts of the sky have been processed 3 times. the reason for this is that its hard to "film/record" the entire sky when your telescope is attatched to a sink hole on a small island in the caribean and cannot me turned. I suspect it will take several more years for this spinning planet of ours to collect data from ist surroundings/processet it, and film again to see changes in signal strength. there is alot to this, so I suggest you do some reading. it is facinating
This is a huge blow to the science world, as Arecibo had unique properties and functions that can't be replaced by other telescopes atm. More details about some of those in article before today's disaster: https://astronomy.com/news/2020/11/...ope-to-be-decommissioned-after-cable-failures “This is a huge blow to NANOGrav, as about one half of our gravitational wave sensitivity comes from Arecibo,” Ransom says. “And because it is so much more sensitive than GBT, it will be impossible to replicate the timing precision we get, even if we use a lot more time at GBT. Radio telescopes are already completely booked up, too, so it will be harder than ever for astronomers to get observing time, Yvette Cendes, a radio astronomer at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, tells Astronomy. The Very Large Array can do a lot of the same science as Arecibo, but Cendes says VLA gets twice as much time requested as it has available. Plus, Arecibo had unique capabilities — even though the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope in China has supplanted Arecibo as the largest radio telescope in the world, it doesn’t yet have the capability to transmit and act as a radar. “So you’re out of luck for radar mapping of planets and asteroids if that was your field,” says Cendes."
Never understood the SETi thing. Why would Extra Terrestrials be communicating over radio signals? They wouldn't be using any slower-than-light methods to communicate. SETI is the equivalent of us searching the horizon for someone sending messages through smoke signals.
