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Message 810503 - Posted: 21 Sep 2008, 6:25:09 UTC

I was told by a friend of mine that the SETI@home project actually ended like 5 years ago. So... what exactly are we doing? Are our computers just sorting old data or are we doing work for real time projects? I was under the impression this was an on-going project, am I wrong? This bugs me.
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Message 810520 - Posted: 21 Sep 2008, 7:25:46 UTC



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Message 810522 - Posted: 21 Sep 2008, 7:28:08 UTC - in response to Message 810503.  

I was under the impression this was an on-going project, am I wrong? This bugs me.

Just take a look at the names of the Work Units. See how they start with something like 23ap08aa.21671....? That's the date it was originally recorded- in this case, 23 April 08.
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Message 810629 - Posted: 21 Sep 2008, 16:26:15 UTC - in response to Message 810503.  

I was told by a friend of mine that the SETI@home project actually ended like 5 years ago.


Where the heck did he get that idea?
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Message 810714 - Posted: 21 Sep 2008, 18:48:03 UTC

SetiCLASSIC ended in December 2005. That was superseded by SetiBOINC which had started sometime before December 2005. Later SetiEnhanced came along. And most recently Astropulse started. So Seti workunits have been going strong since May 1999 with only very short interruptions for various technical reasons. Right now we're crunching SetiEnhanced and Astropulse.
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Message 810813 - Posted: 21 Sep 2008, 23:49:56 UTC - in response to Message 810629.  

I was told by a friend of mine that the SETI@home project actually ended like 5 years ago.


Where the heck did he get that idea?


. . . oops Taurus! see here: Jenni's Profile



I am a Nebraska girl.




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Message 811029 - Posted: 22 Sep 2008, 20:28:08 UTC - in response to Message 810813.  

I was told by a friend of mine that the SETI@home project actually ended like 5 years ago.


Where the heck did he get that idea?


. . . oops Taurus! see here: Jenni's Profile



I am a Nebraska girl.





Grow up. Who cares where I am from.
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Message 811045 - Posted: 22 Sep 2008, 21:43:04 UTC - in response to Message 811029.  


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Where the heck did he get that idea?


. . . oops Taurus! see here: Jenni's Profile



I am a girl. ')





Grow up. Who cares where I am from.



. . . wasn't ever an 'Issue' regarding "Where" - see the bolded parts

just mentioned a factor that's Posted in Your Profile @ SETI

> hope that that is alright -


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Message 811308 - Posted: 23 Sep 2008, 15:15:36 UTC - in response to Message 810813.  
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Dr. CETI:

Not sure what you're trying to say.

If you're saying the idea came from Nebraska, I'm not aware that that's the case. Jenni's friend could've gotten the idea from anywhere.


If you're saying that Jenni's a girl, yes, I'm aware that Jenni is a girl's name.

She said her friend told her that SETI had stopped.

I asked where did HE get that idea because I assume that the friend is a guy, thought that might be a bad assumption.
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