I am a student at Lappeenranta University of Technology. I participated on a parallel computing course and I was assigned to do a seminar work about seti@home. So, course is almost completed but my computers are still searching.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I spent most of my time at the university or at my girl friends place. So my computers are idle most of their time. I put the SETI@home running to keep them busy. I doubt that anything would ever be detected, but it is pretty fanny to just listen and analyze radio noise :)
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