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shortcircuit
from Red Ends (Germany) on 2002-03-18 14:19 [#00130011]
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Anyone here calculating for SETI?
I'm asking because their server is down and this sucks! :(
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Jedi Chris
on 2002-03-18 15:04 [#00130029]
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I used to have the software running on my computer, but not anymore - sorry!
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Laserbeak
from Netherlands, The on 2002-03-18 15:08 [#00130033]
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I don't trust that kind of thing. Who knows what they will let your computer calculate?(atom bombs, etc...) Maybe I'm too paranoid...
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Jedi Chris
on 2002-03-18 15:11 [#00130038]
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I think maybe you are Laserbeak! It's all harmless fun.....or is it???
Now you have me thinking....... :-)
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shortcircuit
from Red Ends (Germany) on 2002-03-18 15:15 [#00130039]
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me too ...... :)
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Jedi Chris
on 2002-03-18 15:16 [#00130040]
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Unplug your computer shortcircuit! You could be an accessory to some sort of 'something or other' ! ! !
:-)
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shortcircuit
from Red Ends (Germany) on 2002-03-18 15:22 [#00130046]
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ok, ok ... i'm going to turn of my computer right now. i can feel the force coming up through the lan wires ;)
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xlr
from Boston (United States) on 2002-03-18 17:44 [#00130183]
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The program analyzes radio transmissions received at the arecibo array in new mexico. They're looking for communications from aliens. Haven't found anyting yet to the best of my knowledge. I used to run it on my computer but i lost interest in it and stopped. Seems like a bit of a waste of money and resources to me. All that data has to be stored on immense tape drive systems, and they havent found any trace of anything since it's been running.
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shortcircuit
from Red Ends (Germany) on 2002-03-18 17:56 [#00130196]
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many people i know have left SETI. they're now calculating for projects like cure for cancer.
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Resident Evil
from heat some coffee, mmm, mmm (Australia) on 2002-03-19 17:33 [#00131322]
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I've heard about that SETI @ Home, though I havent got it yet. Been meaning to get it one of these days :-)
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AMinal
from Toronto (Canada) on 2002-03-19 18:49 [#00131435]
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i use seti@home.. ive been using it on my two computers for a couple of years now..
together they have contributed almost 5000 hours of computing time and have completed 70 'data units'
seti is cool, u should all join! it just runs as a screensaver, when ur not at ur computer, so u dont have to worry about it takeing up resources/memory
(btw: u can also let it run all the time in the background if u want)
also, XLR, they HAVE found little patterns, etc, that could be messages
but nothing concrete and the little anomolies they have found seemed definitly not-natural, but only last for a few seconds
meaning they were probably just flukes
but c'mon, could u imagine a more important thing your computer could be doing in its spare time!?
(also: it looks really cool, go look at a screenshot! with all those graphs and numbers.... it'll make ur computer look really cool!) hehe..
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helios
from Zürich (Switzerland) on 2002-03-19 18:53 [#00131438]
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and now seti@ home stopped the research??
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shortcircuit
from Red Ends (Germany) on 2002-03-19 20:18 [#00131480]
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no, they are back again online. perhaps they had not enough bandwidth...
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kalaim badkaama
from Apt 512 in Gilmour Orbiter (Re on 2002-03-19 20:33 [#00131498]
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good. i was wondering y it does not work...
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