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I found this on my screensaver on my most recent task after it reached 100% it just repeated its latest results. I swear on my life this was not a forgery. I say SETI rechecks it if it is anything important. I don't know what it is or means but it was a very patterened graph.



Please someone explain this to me so I fully understand what I am looking at.

It was inverted for printing purposes.

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When life gives you lemons, stomp on them and demand oranges.

Did not like clicking onto your picture and have my computer sent to ten buck two...

Smart A__ __

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Did not like clicking onto your picture and have my computer sent to ten buck two...

Smart A__ __

LOL sorry, did it show the picture at least?

DISCLAIMER: CLICKING ON THE ABOVE PICTURE MAY RESULT IN UNWANTED NAVIGATION!!

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When life gives you lemons, stomp on them and demand oranges.

A good place to get more information....BOINC FAQ

And

The BOINC wiki

SETI@Home Informational message -9 result overflow

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Oh alright that explains a lot, and why I got 0.7 credits. Thanks bounty.hunter.

I wonder if the 30 spike count is attributed to that error, and why was the last data that curvy M shape on the graph. It extended all the way to the back and had very little change all the way to the back. I don't think it was radar or ground based because the example data I have looked at is much more defined when it shows a radar or radio or ground based signalls. so maybe it was a satelite?

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When life gives you lemons, stomp on them and demand oranges.

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shows a radar or radio or ground based signalls. so maybe it was a satelite?

Either way it doesn't matter except as a matter of acdemic interest.

Finding a positve signal of extraterrestial origin is not going to happen by looking at the graphics.

It'll take more than just one workunit to confirm.

SETI@home: Procedures for Public Announcement

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(looks at join date....)

"Nov 3 08"


Welcome to SETI@Home. You're in for a looooong workload.


This tends to happen a lot with newcomers; they check their graphics screensaver and see spikes that look like they might be alien signals, and they get excited about it.

It happened to me too and probably many others here.

This should be pretty sobering:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sci_status.html

Almost two million spikes, gaussians, pulses, and triplets detected within the last 24 hours alone as of this post.

....and the sad part is that chances are none of them, not one single one, is anything other than natural phenomena or Earth-based false hits.


The thing with SETI@Home is, you have to be willing to stick with it for the long term. I mean years. Even if this project were to last well after Aricebo is shut down, the chance of success is extremely slim even if ET really IS out there and actually IS transmitting to us.

You have to be content with the fact that your contribution is just a tiny piece of a larger effort, and everyone's contributions combined are the only way this project has even the most remote chance of finding anything interesting out there.

Yeah I know now, I did a little research and most likely I won't even be able to tell where it is on the graph :(. Oh well gave me something to do for a while. LOL. Thanks for all of the info though guys.

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When life gives you lemons, stomp on them and demand oranges.

BTW: Don't let the results get you down. I have a strong feeling that within the next few years SETI@Home will stumble onto SOMETHING worth finding.

Now that we have Astropulse, the search is a bit broader. Whether we stumble onto some previously unknown natural phenomenon or a genuine transmission from ET, I honestly do think S@H is worth doing.


If you're really interested in tangible hard science and the discovery of alien life, I'm actually pretty optimistic.

NASA's Kepler and James Webb telescopes, along with ESA's Darwin mission, will have the technological capability to detect the presence of a biosphere on an alien world the size of Earth (through spectroscopic analysis of the atmosphere). It might be hard to believe, but this technology essentially already exists and will be in use within the next 10-15 years.

However, those tools will only be able to tell us that life exists; whether it's microbial, animal, or even intelligent, we won't know.

If intelligent aliens exist and they're sending us a message, then the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array seems like the best bet. When ATA is fully completed, it will be the most well-funded and most comprehensive SETI project to date. SETI's Seth Shostak is so confident in ATA that he's famously made a bet that ATA will detect a transmission from ET within the next 20 years.

But what if ET isn't sending us a signal in the first place? What if they're ignoring us? What if they don't know or even care that we exist?

Even if that's the case, I'm confident we'll discover them if they exist.
The reason is simple. Our astronomy tools are getting more powerful as time goes on. Our ability to observe the universe is getting better and better. If alien civilizations really do exist, and if they're not somehow invisible, then I think we'll inevitably find them by accident just because we happen to be looking into space! This is how we found Pulsars and many other phenomena.

All of this leads me to feel pretty sure that within the next 20 years there's a good chance we'll find ET, one way or another.