Near-Time Persistency Checker

Hi patronangel,
The Near-Time Persistency Checker (NTPCkr) is still under construction,its not finished yet. The SETI@home project scientists will be working hard to improve it over the coming year. But its a massive amount of data, 10 years worth, so it will take time to get it working properly.

John.

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So How about the results we send you back? How do you evaluate more than 12 million results you receive every day? And What exactly you are searching for? I mean I f there are 1 million civilizations or so, in he Galaxy, SETI should have detected them after 50 years of searching.

Also why are they searching only at 1420 Hz? They are rejecting countless frequencies just by assuming that Extraterestrials are broadcasting at the hydrogen frequency? Why they should do such a thing?

Another question I have, is why they scanning again and again Nothern Hemisphere?
There are so many stars at the southern hemispere, that they should try to make an aggrement with Parks Observatory Australia to get some data from there. This also would help end the rumors about Zeta Reticuli once and for all.

patronangel,
Think of it like this;
Mankind has been studying the stars in the sky for over 2000 years, so up until 15 years ago, how come nobody ever spotted a planet???
Answer - Because it took hundreds of years of astronomers studying the stars to develop telescope technology capable of detecting planets around other stars!! In the last 15 years, we have found over 400 planets, and the Kepler telescope should open the floodgate in the next year or two.

So apply that theory to the search for intelligent life! We have only just scratched the surface when it comes to searching. Only time and massive amounts of money to advance the technology will end in success. Currently SETI searches have very little funding. SETI@home tries its best to handle as much data as it can, but its difficult with so little funding.

John.
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One must understand and contrast the differences between one's own aggressive interest with finding E.T.I. over the slow and methodical approach science uses to verify results and data.

I think we all would very much like to discover an existence other than our own in our life times, but we must set aside our urges for instance gratification that is so prevalent in our society and be patient with our approach.
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One must understand and contrast the differences between one's own aggressive interest ......... over the slow and methodical approach ...... we must set aside our urges for instance gratification ........ and be patient with our approach.