Speaking of S@H results, WHEN do we get to use them ourselves?

A long time ago in the newsgroup sci.astro.seti which is far, far away I asked after the release of the accumulated results of all the work units.

I didn't think much of the answer but it was sort of the researchers get to use it for whatever they want even if unrelated (I can buy that) and they get first use of it (I am less happy with that one) and that maybe some day if they get around to it CDs of the results might be for sale. I found the last not acceptable. [Yes, CDs. I asked that long ago.]

I assume there is more than one of us who would like to play around with the results just to see what they are like.

Assembling the results does not appear like much of a problem -- famous last words but if someone is analyzing the results for something more than HI THERE they are already somewhat organized.

And as we now have bittorent there is no need to create and sell (hopefully) DVDs. There simply needs be a modest breakdown by gigabyte groups of data and the torrents made available.

If the results are being analyzed then they are organized so just release that. If the explanation of the organization is too hard, release the analysis source code and we can reverse engineer it.

As it is bittorrent there is no necessary demand upon the any single computer including those at Berkeley. It has been going on enough years that if it takes six months to get a collection of data it hardly matters. We are patient animals.

So when do we get our own copies of the results? Real soon?

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Here are the results; http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sci_status.html

They are still working on them Matt. SETI@home and BOINC are open-source projects so, if you know what your doing, everything you want if freely avalable.

SETI@home results so far;
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Number of signals checked = GaZillion's and GaZillion's
Aliens found = 0

Video's avalable = millions of them on Youtube.

John.

The essence is that there should be complete disclosure of what is done with results that indicate that a further look needs to be done. My understanding is that SETI @home piggybacks on the other research on the Arecibo radio Telescope. As such, SETI has little, if any chance, to revisit the sector of sky that a promising result might indicate is worth another look.

I wonder if a signal counting out the prime numbers 20db above the noise would: first of all make the list of promising results, and whether or not it would be recognized by humans, and whether or not that sky sector would be re-examimed by Arecibo.

My impression is that many (thousands ?, millions ?) of anomalous results are being stockpiled--don't know if any are actually examined again at the current time. I hope I am wrong about this but somehow this is my impression.

I am confident that all signal processing and other techniques looking for intelligence in the presence of noise are well known by and are being done at Berkely Boinc SETI. So the results may be successfully archived but there are undoubtedly some results that are a few needles in the vast haystack--will they come to light--hope so-- but don't know.

Gentlemen,

I am not suggesting looking for something the S@H project overlooked. There is processed background level noise data in the processed results. The returned results say there is nothing I in that noise. But there is noise in that noise and there are tens of millions of noise samples over years in the returned results. I have no idea what is there or if there is anything of interest. But a lot of people have contributed. The folks at Berkeley have long since had a first cut at using it. So when is our turn?


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You most likely will not improve the signal processing but will maybe catalog recurring signals of interest and then see if they persist, and are not coincident with known earthbound or satellite signals.

You most likely will not improve the signal processing but will maybe catalog recurring signals of interest and then see if they persist, and are not coincident with known earthbound or satellite signals.

Speak of the Devil, the SETI@home scientists just published a science paper, its the front page news item. (They must have been reading your message Matt_Giwer).

Get the new paper here; New Paper on the NTPCkr and RFI Rejection

John.

Speak of the Devil, the SETI@home scientists just published a science paper, its the front page news item. (They must have been reading your message Matt_Giwer).

Get the new paper here; New Paper on the NTPCkr and RFI Rejection

John.