read about seti@home! :)

Everyone should go to http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/index.html if
look at this. I have been helping with this of and one for about a
year. Well anyone how believes in ET life/UFO life. I will tell you a
little about it. This is just the basics ok if you will like to learn
more to the sight. You get to help find ET signals with your pc at
home. How it works when you are not using your pc and when the screen
saver comes on it can search for a possible ET signal. And you don't
have to be on line at the time. Only to download a small work unit and
to back the results. I like it and the reason I am posting this here
is because the more people I can get to help with this the better
Seti@home will be. Well thanks for your time and have a good day.

Note! At the website go to Learn about SETI@home then click How
SETI@home Works and it will tell you step by step how seti@ome works.
Thanks and have a good day.

On 4 Feb 2004 12:09:51 -0800, (Benjamin P.) wrote:

Everyone should go to http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/index.html if
look at this. I have been helping with this of and one for about a
year.

Then you are still new then, when I myself first joined on the 14th of
July 1999. However, I have been through a couple more incarnations
since then, mostly due to system upgrades.

You can see my latest list here...
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/class...s/2452404.html

I am currently in 29th place. Since I have been away for a long time,
then I recently got back. That means that I will soon power my way
back up into the top 20 and maybe even the top 10.

Well anyone how believes in ET life/UFO life. I will tell you a
little about it. This is just the basics ok if you will like to learn
more to the sight. You get to help find ET signals with your pc at
home.

Yes, where they are thinking about expanding it to cover black holes
and other things.

How it works when you are not using your pc and when the screen
saver comes on it can search for a possible ET signal.

That is an extremely slow way to process work units. You are much
better off using the CLI client, where for example on my 2.6 Ghz P4
system I can complete a work unit in about 2 hours.

And so I can do 10 to 12 work units each day if I remember to keep the
client running.

And you don't have to be on line at the time. Only to download a small
work unit and to back the results.

Those work units are not that small, but yes you have to return them.

I like it and the reason I am posting this here
is because the more people I can get to help with this the better
Seti@home will be.

They could have too many users already, but that is a subjective
matter.

Well thanks for your time and have a good day.

Note! At the website go to Learn about SETI@home then click How
SETI@home Works and it will tell you step by step how seti@ome works.

Yes, where if you are serious about processing work units instead of
seeing pretty colours, then download the CLI version.

Cardman
http://www.cardman.com
http://www.cardman.co.uk

"Benjamin P." wrote in message om...

Everyone should go to http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/index.html if
look at this. I have been helping with this of and one for about a
year. Well anyone how believes in ET life/UFO life. [...]


Correction! Everyone who *cares* about E.T. life. I don't, which is
why I donate *my* idle CPU cycles to the research on smallpox.

http://www.grid.org/stats/projects/smallpox.htm

http://www.grid.org/download/gold/download.htm

Space is a place for going to *ourselves,* not for gazing at in the
hope that one day aliens might swoop down and offer us salvation from
our Earthly plight, because they won't, even if they are out there.
If there were some screensaver working on finding inhabit*able* plan-
ets I wouldn't mind contributing. But inhabit*ed* ones--naaah!


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"Ool" wrote ...
If there were some screensaver working on finding inhabit*able* plan-
ets I wouldn't mind contributing. But inhabit*ed* ones--naaah!

You do realise that every inhabited planet is, by definition, inhabitable?

"Paul Blay" wrote in message ...
"Ool" wrote ...

If there were some screensaver working on finding inhabit*able* plan-
ets I wouldn't mind contributing. But inhabit*ed* ones--naaah!

You do realise that every inhabited planet is, by definition, inhabitable?

But not the other way around.

As for inhabitable by *us,* sure, if you evict the natives into barren
reservations first, as that President on the $20 bill did...

Our world might be inhabitable for *them,* too. Our looking for water
on Mars may be money well spent. Once the aliens come along the next
thing we know might be what's left of Mankind being forced to eke out
a living up there...



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"Ool" wrote in message
...

Space is a place for going to *ourselves,* not for gazing at in the
hope that one day aliens might swoop down and offer us salvation from
our Earthly plight, because they won't, even if they are out there.

False dichotomy.
Space is indeed a place for going to ourselves, true.
Yet the reasons for "gazing" are plentiful and profound.
It is false (and a misdirection) to suggest that the real expectation of
SETI is " that aliens might swoop down and offer us salvation
from our earthly plight". That you cannot or refuse to see any other
motivation speaks volumes about your one-dimensional nature.
With all due respect, your assessments of motivation to date have
been and continue to be superficial, trite and juvenile.

If there were some screensaver working on finding inhabit*able* plan-
ets I wouldn't mind contributing. But inhabit*ed* ones--naaah!

Your superficiality here is literally stupifying.
Picking up and confirming a signal from another civilization (whether
intentionally directed at us or not) would be, by far, the most
electrifying,
galvanizing event in history.

"Chosp" wrote in message news:BZxUb.47764$F15.31341@fed1read06...
"Ool" wrote in message
...

Space is a place for going to *ourselves,* not for gazing at in the
hope that one day aliens might swoop down and offer us salvation from
our Earthly plight, because they won't, even if they are out there.

False dichotomy.
Space is indeed a place for going to ourselves, true.
Yet the reasons for "gazing" are plentiful and profound.
It is false (and a misdirection) to suggest that the real expectation of
SETI is " that aliens might swoop down and offer us salvation
from our earthly plight". That you cannot or refuse to see any other
motivation speaks volumes about your one-dimensional nature.
With all due respect, your assessments of motivation to date have
been and continue to be superficial, trite and juvenile.

Oh, come on! Go and watch movies like "2001," "Close Encounters,"
and "Contact" and tell me that isn't what the SETI guys dream about!


If there were some screensaver working on finding inhabit*able* plan-
ets I wouldn't mind contributing. But inhabit*ed* ones--naaah!

Your superficiality here is literally stupifying.
Picking up and confirming a signal from another civilization (whether
intentionally directed at us or not) would be, by far, the most
electrifying, galvanizing event in history.

If they could give us any pointers on how to make space flight more
efficient, sure. The question is, if they were the backward ones and
we were advanced, would *we* tell them how to spread across the Galaxy
any faster?



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"Ool" wrote in message
...
"Chosp" wrote in message
news:BZxUb.47764$F15.31341@fed1read06...

Oh, come on! Go and watch movies like "2001," "Close Encounters,"
and "Contact" and tell me that isn't what the SETI guys dream about!

You are confusing Hollywood with reality.


If there were some screensaver working on finding inhabit*able* plan-
ets I wouldn't mind contributing. But inhabit*ed* ones--naaah!

Your superficiality here is literally stupifying.
Picking up and confirming a signal from another civilization (whether
intentionally directed at us or not) would be, by far, the most
electrifying, galvanizing event in history.

If they could give us any pointers on how to make space flight more
efficient, sure.

Nonsense. Whether we could understand any part of the signal
or not would make little, if any, difference. Simply detecting and
confirming
an actual signal from another civilization would be, as I said, the most
electrifying, galvanizing event in history. It wouldn't have to be
intentionally
directed at us at all. It wouldn't have to even contain a message.
(They could be checking out their own local asteroids with radar. We could
just happen to be in their line of sight when the spillover signal gets
here)
They wouldn't have to be one speck more or less "advanced" than we are.
They wouldn't even have to know we are here.
But it would still shake human civilization to the core.

The question is, if they were the backward ones and
we were advanced, would *we* tell them how to spread across the Galaxy
any faster?

The question is - is anyone out there at all?
Period.










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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:42:55 -0800, "Chosp" wrote:

Picking up and confirming a signal from another civilization (whether
intentionally directed at us or not) would be, by far, the most
electrifying, galvanizing event in history.

That it sure would, but I have always wondered what they would do if
they picked up a signal, not transmitted to us, but instead some
distant star system behind us?

This would of course indicate two civilizations (beyond remote
scouting), where I can only guess that they would try and contact the
closest point. Not that it would be polite to interrupt a
conversation.

Still, I do consider SETI's chances as extremely slim, when if aliens
did know of a faster way to deliver a message, then they sure would
make use of it.

We are still near the bottom of the technology curve, when who can say
what everyone will be using in the future?

Then of course SETI still has to make best use of what they already
can do, which are all factors of why I don't expect alien
communication within my lifetime.

Cardman
http://www.cardman.com
http://www.cardman.co.uk