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Message 1668216 - Posted: 22 Apr 2015, 0:42:38 UTC

Did you know that at one time our best idea to contact ET was a 20 mile wide pit full of burning kerosene? SETI@home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer gave a talk last Saturday on the history and current state of SETI. You can watch the video at https://youtu.be/F-I5fb2qKwU
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Message 1668228 - Posted: 22 Apr 2015, 1:33:53 UTC - in response to Message 1668216.  

Thanks for the video Steve, there are some very interesting tid bids in it that I never knew about. And I finally got to see one of STETI's computer racks :)
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Message 1668231 - Posted: 22 Apr 2015, 1:54:25 UTC

It is always fun to find out the history of how things like this got started.

I always kind of figured it was a bunch of guys standing in a field like this: http://i.imgur.com/FfwAbsv.png
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Message 1668600 - Posted: 22 Apr 2015, 21:08:21 UTC

Great Video thanks :-)
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Message 1669387 - Posted: 24 Apr 2015, 14:01:50 UTC
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thx, nice video! ;)

also, a Question for a Dan Werthimer:
I've got an idea about one telescope, that could (I don't say we can build it anytime soon!) easdrop on the bats flying on another planet...where can I post idea to? directly on your mail?
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