Congratz to all the Milestones.

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15 down today. 15 more and I can get the retirement payments.

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A Living example of Artificial Intelligence.

15 years ago started with seti@home, then found some other projects, some intelligent some not. A lot of happenings, got married, got 2 children, divorced and many cases of cold beer done in this time. Still rolling with seti@home o7

15 years... and many more to come...

Got married and got two children in recent years too. Hopefully this project will continue for another 15 or 30 years, so I can hand over my S@H crunching "duties" to them some day. I'm afraid I'll have to wait until they know how to operate a computer without breaking it into pieces...

But maybe one of us setizens will find the definite "Wow event" in some workunit tomorrow or in coming years. What will we do when we know where ET lives? Simply stopping S@H? This will no longer be possible because me and you all are addicted to S@H. We cannot live without it any longer. And even after maybe some months break, because of lacking time, we came back to the S@H website, checking the message boards. There is a watchdog present somewhere in our brain preventing us from withdrawing from S@H. We want to know, what the great team in Berkeley is doing, what new stuff they are developing... And we are worried about old workhorse servers departing from S@H duties forever.

R.I.P. bruno !

Yes that's true and you cannot deny it as all of you are celebrating your 15 years of S@H addiction here in this board.

So hopefully ET applied some ultra complex coding technique when preparing the "message" - to ensure a minimum mental and technological state of the receivers' species, of course. So hopefully we can continue crunching for decades to decode and decipher the message of all messages...

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15 years... and many more to come...

But maybe one of us setizens will find the definite "Wow event" in some workunit tomorrow or in coming years. What will we do when we know where ET lives? Simply stopping S@H? This will no longer be possible because me and you all are addicted to S@H. We cannot live without it any longer. And even after maybe some months break, because of lacking time, we came back to the S@H website, checking the message boards. There is a watchdog present somewhere in our brain preventing us from withdrawing from S@H. We want to know, what the great team in Berkeley is doing, what new stuff they are developing... And we are worried about old workhorse servers departing from S@H duties forever.

So hopefully ET applied some ultra complex coding technique when preparing the "message" - to ensure a minimum mental and technological state of the receivers' species, of course. So hopefully we can continue crunching for decades to decode and decipher the message of all messages...

So what would we do? Let's say one year from now, Matt has run some nitpickers, found something promising, recrunched it, Eric has had Arecibo and several other telescopes listen and they also heard it, and they're ready to announce it to the world. (I know all that would take more than a year, but for all any of us know it's already been happening behind the scenes for two or three years. Maybe that's why they're not working harder to get the nitpickers running.) What do we do about the actual signal?

Well, I think it depends on what the signal actually is. If it's just some mindless drivel like we've been spreading out through the galaxy for the last century and a half, we would concentrate on listening for more from them, but we would also just keep on doing what we're doing in case, by some miracle, we receive another such signal from somewhere else.

If it's some other curious but primitive society like us who sent out "Hey! Here we are! Is anyone else out there???" we would do the same thing but also start a big debate on whether to send them an answer. Actually, we would do that in the first case too.

If it's clearly the interplanetary communications of advanced civilizations (higher level mindless drivel ending with "the secret is to keep banging the rocks together, guys!"), we do all of the above but the answer we would send would be different. The debate would also be more concerned with whether they were a threat to us (are they a plague of locusts like in Independence Day, or maybe Klingons?).

If it's clearly a message directed to us by someone who has received our mindless drivel saying they're coming for a visit, some of us will probably go into a paranoid panic that they're locusts or Klingons coming to wipe us out. If it's like Contact and they're giving us directions on how to come visit them, well, I think the original Sagan novel (I never saw the movie) was a pretty good prediction of how we would react.

And if we suddenly get interplanetary travel handed to us like Stargate, well, just like in Stargate, the government would keep it a secret and we would still keep on listening and crunching.

Anyway, to get back to Scrooge's question, the only scenario I can see where we even might cease to listen and crunch would be if ET suddenly landed, without warning and in a manner that no government could keep secret. (I just hope they're Vulcans, not Romulans.) Until then, I think there will always be WUs to crunch and people like us to crunch them.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I won't hold my breath on those conjenctures.

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15 years ago started with seti@home, then found some other projects, some intelligent some not. A lot of happenings, got married, got 2 children, divorced and many cases of cold beer done in this time. Still rolling with seti@home o7

Cheers
We got another thing in common.

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Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

This Saturday just gone marked my 15th anniversary of crunching SETI@Home numbers.

And what lovely numbers they've been, all of them. I particularly liked a '7' I got back in 2004. A prime number, that was, oddly enough.

OK, I'll stop now. Not crunching, obviously, I mean the silliness.

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~W

According to Boinc/Seti, my 15yrs is up next October. But I recently found, in my Outlook archives, the 1st email newsletter sent out on the 19th December 1999, so I guess I'm 15 today, yaay! ;-)

P.

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According to Boinc/Seti, my 15yrs is up next October. But I recently found, in my Outlook archives, the 1st email newsletter sent out on the 19th December 1999, so I guess I'm 15 today, yaay! ;-)

P.

that date should read 29th December 1999 ;-)

how do you edit msgs after posting?

P.

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According to Boinc/Seti, my 15yrs is up next October. But I recently found, in my Outlook archives, the 1st email newsletter sent out on the 19th December 1999, so I guess I'm 15 today, yaay! ;-)

P.

that date should read 29th December 1999 ;-)

how do you edit msgs after posting?

P.

Within an hour of posting a message there is an EDIT button located on the post you made.

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2 month until my 14th .....keep it up i will catch you all and pass :)

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I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap

["At the age of 68 I'm not ready to be an old timer."]


Maybe we should start a club just for us 68ers.
Been throwing everything I could get a hold of at Seti since August 12,2003

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Delta-V

May be you should LEE. I might thow in an Anni Shirt? Should I still be around in 2019.

Waiting for the Toaster get's boring.

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Jeez, I just realized I am also in this 15 year club! My oh my, the time has flown by!

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~Arych

I found a 14 year and the 16 year threads, but if there was a 15 year thread, I could not find it.

Anyways...

Today marks my 15th anniversary of crunching Seti.
Yup, signed up on the 9th of July, 2000.
Started slow, on my work computer (with my boss's permission) before I even built my own first computer.
Only had 2 kitties then.

Picked up a lotta steam over the years, and here I am today.
Hardly seems like that much time has passed...............
Meowhowtimeflies.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Congrats Mark!

Here is the previous thread
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=75017&postid=1535333#1535333

That's why I couldn't find it....
I was searching for 'welcome'.
Perhaps the mods could merge the two under this title, keeping it in form with the 14 and 16 year versions. Or we can just carry on from here.

Thanks, Lynn and HAL9000.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Awesome! Your fifteen years of crunching, and dedication is the real award. I wish I would have stayed with the program when it switch to BOINC initially. Now I'm making up for lost time.

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Here is the previous thread
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=75017&postid=1535333#1535333

That's why I couldn't find it....
I was searching for 'welcome'.
Perhaps the mods could merge the two under this title, keeping it in form with the 14 and 16 year versions. Or we can just carry on from here.

Thanks, Lynn and HAL9000.

For searching purposes it would be nice if we could use at least a partial common naming convention. "xx year club" at a minimum I would think.

Perhaps a link to the previous xx year thread when a new ones is made would be good. Then the mods don't have to as much shuffling?

Or we could shift to an anniversary thread like the milestones thread. Where new ones are made just to keep the length down.

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