Several years ago seti@home went through its results and investigated the most likely candidates the project had produced. In September 2004 it was announced Radio source SHGb02+14a was the best candidate, but unfortunately that candidate was ruled out because of too many other potential explainations.

It's now 2008.

SETI@home has many more users donating their computing time, the project has made many advancements and most importantly, computing power over those years has increased MASSIVELY. According to BOINCstats the project now averages around 500 teraflops. Which easily makes it one of the most powerful computing projects in the world.

As you can see a lot of work has been done since 2004, but also you will notice progress is accelerating.


It's only reasonable then that the community and the project has made significant progress over the years at racking up potential radio sources. Much more so then leading up to the investigation in 2004.

Could it be time for another investigation? Like the one in 2004.

I hope so. Or maybe the team has other plans for all the data. Or maybe they look at it another way, ruling out the need for follow up investigation of sources.

The search for life is going to be a long one, no doubt about that, but shouldn't we take some time like we did in 2004 to investigate any potential candidates?

I think that they'd have to create another project to correlate all the billions of signals that are currently found. Thats a lot of work. I assume that they want to find multiple hits so they can go back and look for real this time

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I think that they'd have to create another project to correlate all the billions of signals that are currently found. Thats a lot of work. I assume that they want to find multiple hits so they can go back and look for real this time

Indeed so, and that is called the "nitpicker"...

Berkeley are working towards running that 'soon-ish'...

Keep searchin',
Martin

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Ive been looking at where on skymap the hits are being found. recently cancri 55 with a confirmed and photographed with 4 planets 3 hot jupiter mass planets and one out 9 AUs from parent star with a large gap for terrestial type planets to form in between. The plusses from this star system It has a sun like star, dimmer and slightly smaller but older. I find this fasinating since it isnt being vacant part of space. there have been over 300 extrasolar planets found all those are listed convienatly on Skymap. Now if I can get skymap to work on vista. I HATE VISTA over hyped for sure it creates more problems than it solve and everything new has it. I set up my dell with Vista and XP by conpartmenting the drive.