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Message 807000 - Posted: 11 Sep 2008, 13:16:36 UTC

My daughter was just watching a Kids TV show called "Lazy Town", some of you may know it.

Well in one of the scenes where they where in "Pixels" house on the monitor behind him was non other than the Seti@Home screensaver!!!

The episode was "Trash Trouble" if anyone can get a screen shot.

Maybe we should all keep an eye out and see if we can spot Seti out and about in other places, TV, Film and the like.
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Message 807042 - Posted: 11 Sep 2008, 17:32:56 UTC

Thats awesome. Seti needs all the exposure it can get.
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Message 807044 - Posted: 11 Sep 2008, 17:41:30 UTC

I (or my kids) have seen it on TV some month ago as well here in Germany. That was a good advertising for this great project.
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Message 807135 - Posted: 11 Sep 2008, 22:52:47 UTC

Hello again guys and dols. I have had a look around on the net and found a screenshot of "Pixel" in his room with Seti@home screen saver in the background.



Hopefully other people can spot Seti out and about in other area of the media. Please feel free to add you Seti Spotting here.

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Message 807140 - Posted: 11 Sep 2008, 23:05:11 UTC
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I have heard of it only once in Norway.. It was a friend of mine, who knew I was
into this who told me he had seen a interview with someone from/about Seti in
the Norwegian main chanal. Back then (last year sometime) i searched the chanal sites on internet and found it was a part in a scientific program that is well known here. Im sure a lot of people saw it, but how much it increased the Norwegian participation is not known i guess ;-) Anyway, it was great to hear it was noticed of someone.

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Message 807155 - Posted: 11 Sep 2008, 23:49:00 UTC

I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread to see how many different places we can can spot Seti.

In Films, TV Shows, The News, WebCasts, etc.

If we can show people how widely known Seti really is then maybe we can get more people on board and make them realize it is not just Geeks that are a part of the Seti community.

I made a post myself in another thread Seti@Home Appears on TV!!! that gave me the idea for this one.

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Message 807188 - Posted: 12 Sep 2008, 1:40:18 UTC

I wrote the producers of The Big Bang theory once to suggest that it be used there, but I don't guess they ever decided to act on it :(

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Message 807263 - Posted: 12 Sep 2008, 5:25:39 UTC

I have friends who are in the film industry so I will talk to them and see if they can use it in some of their shows.




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Message 807428 - Posted: 12 Sep 2008, 13:48:30 UTC - in response to Message 807263.  

I have friends who are in the film industry so I will talk to them and see if they can use it in some of their shows.

cool. T.V. would give SETI the exposure it needs :)

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Message 810583 - Posted: 21 Sep 2008, 13:26:59 UTC - in response to Message 807428.  

I have friends who are in the film industry so I will talk to them and see if they can use it in some of their shows.

cool. T.V. would give SETI the exposure it needs :)


This is great guys we need Seti to be exposed in as many formats as possible.

Would any magazines be interested writing an article on the subject? Especially with the new AstoPlus.

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Message 810584 - Posted: 21 Sep 2008, 13:29:23 UTC - in response to Message 807188.  

I wrote the producers of The Big Bang theory once to suggest that it be used there, but I don't guess they ever decided to act on it :(


Maybe if enough of the community wrote and emailed them maybe we might get somewhere.
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Message 810736 - Posted: 21 Sep 2008, 21:05:35 UTC

How long ago was the episode in question made? Because, unless i'm much mistaken, that is the old pre-BOINC screensaver.
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Message 810898 - Posted: 22 Sep 2008, 4:37:22 UTC - in response to Message 810736.  

How long ago was the episode in question made? Because, unless i'm much mistaken, that is the old pre-BOINC screensaver.


Not to sure. I am in Ireland so some TV series over here are a bit behind the rest of the world.

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