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"Bill Sheppard" wrote in message ...
SETI has been likened to the 'Cargo Cults' of the south Pacific during WW2. When the SeaBees would come in and build airstrips and set up radio antennas, the islanders noted that very soon a great iron bird appaered out of nowhere and unloaded crates full of goodies. In like fashion, they proceeded nearby to erect huts and string up vines between trees to summon the iron bird. They were very serious, but it gradually began to sink in that the iron bird was not responding. In like fashion, SETI assumes that aliens would be using something as primitive as radio for interstellar signalling. It'd be about like trying to communicate across the Atlantic on a jungle drum. Or trying to find 'gravity waves' among the din of terrestrial tectonic/ seismic noise. The project is more a study in human nature than anything else. There's never been a shortage of gullible fools, especially in astronomy. The same morons who think their chances of winning the lottery are substantially improved by playing it, who think crop circles originate from someone other than bored college kids, and who've seen the film "Contact" once too many times. Sad. But chances are the following conversation is being repeated all over the Milky Way: "Have you heard what those silly humans are up to?" "What now?" "They're scanning for radio waves." laughter "Poor slobs. Cancel that first contact mission to Earth, they obviously aren't ready yet." RickW |
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"Bill Sheppard" wrote in message
... SETI has been likened to the 'Cargo Cults' of the south Pacific during WW2. When the SeaBees would come in and build airstrips and set up radio antennas, the islanders noted that very soon a great iron bird appaered out of nowhere and unloaded crates full of goodies. In like fashion, they proceeded nearby to erect huts and string up vines between trees to summon the iron bird. They were very serious, but it gradually began to sink in that the iron bird was not responding. In like fashion, SETI assumes that aliens would be using something as primitive as radio for interstellar signalling. It'd be about like trying to communicate across the Atlantic on a jungle drum. Or trying to find 'gravity waves' among the din of terrestrial tectonic/ seismic noise. OC, I have always interpreted it differently. In my interpretation, SETI@Home is assuming that the signals we will receive will be very old, and that there is a good chance, that even a modern more advanced civilization would possibly at some point, using a frequency set that we now consider typical. I don't think we're looking for ET's now...we're looking for their re-runs of 'I Love Lucinditron'. BV. |
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"Terry Groff" wrote in message
rthlink.net... SAH has stated from the outset that there will be no "WOW" announcements until all of the data is processed. They recently went back to Arecibo to review a few of the more outstanding signals found and those Workunits are currently being processed along with the continued processing of the other millions of WU's. When the current phase is completed, The BOINC phase will begin using a different scope located at Parkes observatory in Australia to cover a larger area in the southern hemisphere. Please see http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/setifuture.html I am currently a beta tester for the BOINC project working on the Astropulse client. snip I am dieing to work with BOINC. I can't wait for it to be released. BV. |
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"Rick" wrote in message
The same morons who think their chances of winning the lottery are substantially improved by playing it, Au contraire. The odds of not winning are infinite if one does not play. |
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"Jim Fisher" wrote in message . ..
"Rick" wrote in message The same morons who think their chances of winning the lottery are substantially improved by playing it, Au contraire. The odds of not winning are infinite if one does not play. See what I mean? RickW |
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"Terry Groff" wrote in message...
rthlink.net... "Frog" wrote in message ... "Jim Fisher" writes: Okay, I've had the screen saver on for years now. Have processed tons of data. . . . . . . So, the question is, is there anyone here that is "in the know" about this stuff that can say that there have been a few similar "Wow" experiences during this entire Seti@Home project? . . . Trouble is people want instant results and when they dont get instant results they tend to drift away as one or two seem to have. No one ever said there would be instant results if any, we all know it would be a time consuming effort with the possiblitly of no hard results. But as I say if we dont look then theres no chance at all is there unless anyone lands from another world in central park!!. So I wouldnt get too despondent about it, its a big place out there!. Central Park? Do you think anyone would notice? :-) Terry Sure!... they'd get mugged before they took two steps. happy days and... starry starry nights! -- A smidgeon of fear and a sprinkle of strife And a whole lotta love till your cold... Most everyone here wants to live a long life, Ah! but nobody wants to get old. Paine Ellsworth |
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Jim Fisher wrote:
"Terry Groff" wrote in message rthlink.net... SAH has stated from the outset that there will be no "WOW" announcements until all of the data is processed. They recently went back to Arecibo to review a few of the more outstanding signals found and those Workunits are currently being processed along with the continued processing of the other millions of WU's. Ahh, paydirt. Thanks for the info. See? If I didn't ask (look) for the answer, I would have never received it? Interesting, huh? -- Jim Fisher Nice thread Jim. Btw, you might want to get away from the Screensaver;try SETI Driver or somthing similar. With no vidio overhead your WU production will go way up & you can cache WU's too. Who knows, if found, the ET's should be able to drink all Min's beer..... ----------------------- Name (and URL) Results Received 2991 Total CPU Time 2.620 years Average CPU Time per work unit 7 hr 40 min 21.2 sec Average results received per day 1.96 Last result returned:Sun Jul 20 13:24:46 2003 UTC Registered on:Sun May 16 16:03:13 1999 UTC ----------------------------- I started with a 386-33 DX & for the last 2 years have been running a 1.3 gig Athlon. ( about 4+ WU's a day ). lightshow |
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"lightshow" wrote in message ... Jim Fisher wrote: "Terry Groff" wrote in message rthlink.net... SAH has stated from the outset that there will be no "WOW" announcements until all of the data is processed. They recently went back to Arecibo to review a few of the more outstanding signals found and those Workunits are currently being processed along with the continued processing of the other millions of WU's. Ahh, paydirt. Thanks for the info. See? If I didn't ask (look) for the answer, I would have never received it? Interesting, huh? -- Jim Fisher Nice thread Jim. Btw, you might want to get away from the Screensaver;try SETI Driver or somthing similar. With no vidio overhead your WU production will go way up & you can cache WU's too. That's right Lightshow. I've been running the CLI client with SetiDriver and SetiSpy for a couple of years now. I've been turning in 4 or 5 a day on my 1GHz PIII w/ WinMe. One should dump the screensaver (GUI) and switch to the Commandline Client (CLI) if one wants to increase one's output. Terry |
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Gotta look, that's for sure. It's part of the human condition. If the
paydirt, so to speak, were to occur in my lifetime, I'd be very surprised. But this is not about the odds, it's about the search. Bob Doyle SETI@home user for: 4.138 years "Jim Fisher" wrote in message .. . "Terry Groff" wrote in message rthlink.net... SAH has stated from the outset that there will be no "WOW" announcements until all of the data is processed. They recently went back to Arecibo to review a few of the more outstanding signals found and those Workunits are currently being processed along with the continued processing of the other millions of WU's. Ahh, paydirt. Thanks for the info. See? If I didn't ask (look) for the answer, I would have never received it? Interesting, huh? -- Jim Fisher |
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"Bob Doyle" wrote in message
But this is not about the odds, it's about the search. Bob Doyle Here, here! -- Jim Fisher |
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