SETI@home in the News

This is a new thread dedicated to links of recent news reports or magazine articles about SETI and SETI@home to act as a repository where people can find them, at least until their web sites drop them.

When posting a link, please include the name of the source (organization and author if applicable) and the title of the article in a format similar to these.

Jan 2, 2008 - Ned Potter, ABC News Blogs, Anyone Out There?

Jan 8, 2008 - Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News, Alien-Searching Telescope Gets Power Boost

Jan 4, 2008 - Diann Daniel, CIO.com, SETI@home: Why the Search for E.T. Needs Your Computer

> Friday February 08 2008 - Good Morning America - ABC News 'Are We Alone in Outer Space?' . . . Dr. Dan Wertheimer's Interview Regarding SETI Project

Friday's special edition of Good Morning America may look like something out of The Twilight Zone. "GMA Defies Gravity" is a "firsthand look at life in space

as well as the possibility of life on other planets and the realities of living in zero gravity", according to ABC.



< another News Item: February 3rd 2008 - 'SETI Battle of the Bandwidth: Beatles Outsignaled by Bob Marley' - Author: Leonard David

“I am sympathetic to the idea that active SETI might be a worthy endeavor. The problems are (1) who will pay for it, given that even passive SETI

— which could succeed virtually immediately — doesn’t ever seem to be over-abundant with funds, and (2) what is the strategy?

Just pinging random star systems would take a very long time with the kind of equipment we can muster,

and then there’s always the matter of monitoring for replies that would be at least decades away,” Shostak told me.

. . . SETI in the NEWS (Older CLASSIC Articles)

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BOINC Wiki . . .

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Planetary News: SETI (2004) . . .



. . . Pulses, Triplets, and Gaussians: Rescoring SETI@home's Reobservations

While completing the analysis of last year’s reobservations sessions, SETI@home

is also planning for the future. The candidates targeted in that first round

of reobservations came from the first three years of SETI@home.

The rest of the data is now being prepared for another round of reobservations.

It may be that the true signal is right there, waiting to be discovered.

. . . rememberin' the ol' days of Classic SETI

'Mysterious signals from light years away' - 19:00 01 September 2004 - Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition

eXcerpted:

“Perhaps there is an object on the ground near the telescope emitting at about this frequency,” Korpela says. This could be confirmed by using a different telescope to listen for SHGb02+14a.

Possible fraud
There is also the possibility of fraud by someone hacking the SETI@home software to make it return evidence for an extraterrestrial transmission. However, SHGb02+14a was seen on two different occasions by different SETI@home users, and those calculations were confirmed by others.

Then the signal was seen a third time by the SETI@home researchers. The unusual characteristics of the signal also make it unlikely that someone is playing a prank, Korpela says. “As I can’t think of any way to make a signal like this, I can’t think of any way to fake it.”

David Anderson, director of SETI@home, remains sceptical but curious about the signal. ”It’s unlikely to be real but we will definitely be re-observing it.” Bell Burnell agrees that it is worth persisting with. “If they can see it four, five or six times it really begins to get exciting,” she says.

It is already exciting for IT engineers Oliver Voelker of Logpoint in Nuremberg, Germany and Nate Collins of Farin and Associates in Madison, Wisconsin, who found the signal.

Collins wonders how his bosses will react to company computers finding aliens. “I might have to explain a little further about just how much I was using [the computers],” he says

30 October 2003 Independent opinion by Seth Shostak
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New York Times: "Please Call Earth. We Still Haven’t Found You."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/weekinreview/02overbye.html
Article about the origins and prospects of SETI, including an interview with Frank Drake.

New York Times: "Please Call Earth. We Still Haven’t Found You."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/weekinreview/02overbye.html
Article about the origins and prospects of SETI, including an interview with Frank Drake.

"The next generation SETI@home is 500 times more powerful then anything anyone

has done before," said project chief scientist Dan Werthimer. "That means we

are 500 times more likely to find ET than with the original SETI@home."

by Dr. Seth Shostak - Senior Astronomer - SETI Institute

May 27, 2005 - Should We Communicate with Extraterrestrials?

There are several reasons why we haven’t mounted a massive transmitting project.

Part of it is money. All SETI experiments in the United States are funded with private donations,

and there’s barely enough to undertake a state-of-the-art listening effort.


. . . Since any transmitting scheme would take many years to pay off

(perhaps a millennium or more if the nearest extraterrestrials are many hundreds of light-years away)

. . . a blast from the Past regarding

BOINC-based SETI@home Launched! . . .


Photograph is Copyrighted by UC Regents


. . . Other Projects Lining Up to Join BOINC Family

By Amir Alexander
1 July 2004

excerpted:

On Tuesday, June 22, 2004, with little fanfare, the new BOINC-based version of SETI@home was released to the general public. As those of you who have been following our Updates know, BOINC stands for the “Berkeley Online Infrastructure for Network Computing.” Its purpose is to spread the credo of distributed computing beyond SETI@home, by making it easy for researchers in all fields to launch their own projects, and tap into the enormous computing capacity of personal computers around the world.

Finally, Astropulse BOINC is not really an independent project, but an extension of SETI@home itself. Run by David Anderson’s and Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer’s group in Berkeley, Astropulse will process the data from the SETI@home sky survey in search of electromagnetic pulses that signify the “dying gasps” of black holes. According to Lebofsky, Astropulse will open to the public participation later this summer.

With two programs already online, and half a dozen others waiting in the wings, BOINC is off to a fast start. Once it resolves its initial growing pains, which are an inevitable part of any innovative ambitious project, BOINC has the potential of transforming the way scientists in all fields conduct complex calculations. SETI@home may not yet have found intelligent aliens in outer space, but it is already transforming the scientific landscape here on Earth.

01-05-2009 The Korea Times

Korea to Search for Life in Space
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Steve Pomeroy
Master of math magic and math tricks.

01-05-2009 The Korea Times

Korea to Search for Life in Space