Seti and Seti@Home, do you know what is?

Arecibo Observatory - The Arecibo radio telescope. It search for Extraterrestrial signals from the space. The huge "dish" is 305 m (1000 feet) in diameter, 167 feet deep, and covers an area of about twenty acres. The surface is made of almost 40,000 perforated aluminum panels, each measuring about 3 feet by 6 feet, supported by a network of steel cables strung across the underlying karst sinkhole. It is a spherical (not parabolic) reflector suspended 450 feet above the reflector is the 900 ton platform
@Opteron (1842)
Italy
December 4, 2006 1:06pm CST
SETI is the acronym for Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. The SETI Institute was founded in 1984 as a nonprofit scientific research institution. From its beginning, its mission has been to explore the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the Universe, and to explain this science to the public. I think that extraterrestrial life in the universe do exist...and I am looking for it. And you? Do u believe it exists? You can look for ET too! Download the Seti@home client from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/! you must download Seti BOINC client, and your pc will start to analyze signals captured from that radio-telescope located in Arecibo! Tell me what do you think of all this! I think it's an interesting project...and I hope we will hear something from very far friends=). Universe is too big to think we are alone!
2 responses
mirabilas
@mirabilas (36)
• Romania
13 Jan 07
Yes i know this program. My computer work for Seti@home since 1999.
Opteron
@Opteron (1842)
• Italy
31 Jan 07
ohhh it's great! I have found this project in 2000 I think! I upgraded many computers...and many clients too! Do you like the new Boinc client? It's better for sure, but I prefer the old one
Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
23 Mar 07
I preferred the classic SETI as well. You could run a command line client in order to process data faster if your computer was not being used for other tasks. The credit was also simpler because it was measured in work units, whereas I am still unsure how they calculate the current BOINC credit.
Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
23 Mar 07
Found one - Alien with ray gun
I started running the SETI@home program in 1999, but I stopped for a long while. When the classic program terminated I was unable to access my account because my email address had long expired, so I left the program alone. It was annoying because I had processed over 5000 work units. However, I have recently started with the BOINC version and find that I can now add my classic account to it. The disappointment now is that I cannot run a command line client.