Big boost for SETI@home from Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Listen Initiative

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Message 1706252 - Posted: 29 Jul 2015, 12:17:25 UTC

This is great news for me personally. I work at Green Bank so I will be pretty directly involved in this :)
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Message 1709680 - Posted: 7 Aug 2015, 11:24:27 UTC

here is more about the project
http://earthsky.org/space/breakthrough-listen-not-all-about-aliens
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Message 1709708 - Posted: 7 Aug 2015, 13:17:43 UTC

Yes, but we are not calculating screensavers. Recently two Einstein@home users found a gamma-ray pulsar and were credited witth the discovery. See the Einstein@home home page.This again demonstrates the power of distributed volunteer computing, often overlooked by scientists.
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Message boards : News : Big boost for SETI@home from Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Listen Initiative


 
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