You can search for alien life!

klaatu · 08-06-2009, 11:29 AM

If you can read this you can also search for aliens. How?
You can use your PC processor (you normally use 1-5% of he's power) to crunch data received by radio telescopes to look for artificial signals. It does not cost you a dime, it is not slowing your computer (it works only when you don't use the processor) and you can be the lucky winner

of receiving first alien signal (with our luck a alien pizza recipe or other boring signals received accidentally from space).

What is SETI@home?
SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.

SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology. Radio telescope signals consist primarily of noise (from celestial sources and the receiver's electronics) and man-made signals such as TV stations, radar, and satellites. Modern radio SETI projects analyze the data digitally. More computing power enables searches to cover greater frequency ranges with more sensitivity. Radio SETI, therefore, has an insatiable appetite for computing power.
Previous radio SETI projects have used special-purpose supercomputers, located at the telescope, to do the bulk of the data analysis. In 1995, David Gedye proposed doing radio SETI using a virtual supercomputer composed of large numbers of Internet-connected computers, and he organized the SETI@home project to explore this idea. SETI@home was originally launched in May 1999.

It works like this:
- Download, install and run the BOINC software used by SETI@home. When prompted, enter the URL: SETI@home
- ups did I forgot to read Read our rules and policies (their rules of course)
- more info here

chernobyl · 06-01-2012, 11:32 AM

have you done this??

chernobyl · 06-01-2012, 11:34 AM

are you kidding me this is a 4 year old post!!! WTF ive been posting all over this thing oh well...

08-06-2009, 11:29 AM	#1
klaatu Vox Moderator Human Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 199 Time Online: 3 h 22 m Thanks: 8 Thx 18 Times in 18 Posts	You can search for alien life! If you can read this you can also search for aliens. How? You can use your PC processor (you normally use 1-5% of he's power) to crunch data received by radio telescopes to look for artificial signals. It does not cost you a dime, it is not slowing your computer (it works only when you don't use the processor) and you can be the lucky winner of receiving first alien signal (with our luck a alien pizza recipe or other boring signals received accidentally from space). What is SETI@home? SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data. SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology. Radio telescope signals consist primarily of noise (from celestial sources and the receiver's electronics) and man-made signals such as TV stations, radar, and satellites. Modern radio SETI projects analyze the data digitally. More computing power enables searches to cover greater frequency ranges with more sensitivity. Radio SETI, therefore, has an insatiable appetite for computing power. Previous radio SETI projects have used special-purpose supercomputers, located at the telescope, to do the bulk of the data analysis. In 1995, David Gedye proposed doing radio SETI using a virtual supercomputer composed of large numbers of Internet-connected computers, and he organized the SETI@home project to explore this idea. SETI@home was originally launched in May 1999. It works like this: - Download, install and run the BOINC software used by SETI@home. When prompted, enter the URL: SETI@home - ups did I forgot to read Read our rules and policies (their rules of course) - more info here __________________ "Unless we have come to know what is correct, we cannot perceive what is incorrect." Words processed in a facility that contains nuts. Last edited by klaatu; 08-06-2009 at 11:34 AM.

06-01-2012, 11:32 AM	#2
chernobyl Junior Member Guess me! Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 13 Time Online: 1 h 26 m Thanks: 2 Thx 0 Times in 0 Posts	have you done this??

06-01-2012, 11:34 AM	#3
chernobyl Junior Member Guess me! Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 13 Time Online: 1 h 26 m Thanks: 2 Thx 0 Times in 0 Posts	are you kidding me this is a 4 year old post!!! WTF ive been posting all over this thing oh well...