Welcome to the 19 Year Club!
Message boards :
Number crunching :
Welcome to the 19 Year Club!
Message board moderation
| Author | Message |
|---|---|
 Pierre A Renaud   Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 424 Credit: 4,575,722 RAC: 8,334 
|
Bragging rights: Suddenly, it's dawning on me that since last april I have been crunching (albeit intermittently) SETI@home data for 19 years. And comrades, I suspect I'm not the only one in that cohort. I went in at first for the screen saver and the dream of finding an ETI. I keep crunching data (in my humble way) for the science and the dream of finding that elusive but so heavily significant extraterrestrial technosignature. Thanks to all those who have made this possible. Addendum: too soon, I'll want one of those 20 Year t-shirt lol (I hear the 15th anniversary tee was way cool!) -- Welcome to the 18 Year Club! Previous Years' Clubs! 
|
Paris  Send message Joined: 20 May 99 Posts: 107 Credit: 915,181 RAC: 7 
|
Congratulations! That is quite a milestone. I will be joining you in a few days. I wonder how many of us from the early days are still plugging away. ( I still think that the original screen saver was the neatest.) :-)  Plus SETI Classic = 21,082 WUs |
Al     Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1676 Credit: 396,292,029 RAC: 297,584
|
Just passed that milestone myself. My, how time flies...  
|
|
Karsten Vinding Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 239 Credit: 22,026,847 RAC: 7,352 
 |
I will be joining the club in 9 days :) In fact it would have been before that. I created a Seti account in April 99, but somehow registered with a nonexistant mail adress. And back then I couldn't find a way to change it (I don't hink it was possible). So I created a new account, which I'm using to this date. Next year will be an aniversary. I wonder if the peoble behind the project will do something to celebrate it? |
|
Lane42 Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 35 Credit: 131,579,557 RAC: 72,145
|
:0} 8 Days |
HAL  Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 252 Credit: 2,378,953 RAC: 12,270
|
I will be joining the club in 9 days :) Wow me too - same registration day! Nice to meet you. :-) |
HAL9000  Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6530 Credit: 190,634,921 RAC: 15,070
|
So many CPU cycles over 19 years. On day I will have enough points for that toaster! SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours |
|
Dave Lewis Send message Joined: 12 Apr 99 Posts: 21 Credit: 35,147,158 RAC: 12,770
|
It's been quite the fun ride too. It's been a real treat to me to be able to contribute to this world-wide communal effort. 
|
|
Jim Volfan Send message Joined: 22 May 99 Posts: 52 Credit: 17,041,271 RAC: 13,243
|
5 more days and I'll be joining too :-)  
|
|
Pierre A Renaud Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 424 Credit: 4,575,722 RAC: 8,334
|
Just so that you know: On this day (1999/05/17), 19 years ago, SETI@home was launched (public release) Cheers !
|
Keith J. LaGue  Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 59 Credit: 36,888,023 RAC: 16,652
|
Just so that you know: Hats and t shirts for us next year, right? Keifer 
|
|
Jim Welch Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 20 Credit: 13,978,317 RAC: 5,073
|
Looks like it is time for my annual anniversary message. 19 years today and I am still just as interested in this project as I was on the first day. My congratulations and thanks to the SETI@Home staff and volunteers. |
|
Paris Send message Joined: 20 May 99 Posts: 107 Credit: 915,181 RAC: 7
|
OK, I'm officially starting on my twentieth year; the nineteenth is in the books. Not much of a contribution, numbers-wise, but I keep plugging away. I'm hoping to manage one million by my twentieth anniversary :-) but only time will tell. Plus SETI Classic = 21,082 WUs |
Siran d'Vel'nahr  Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 6382 Credit: 8,167,592 RAC: 16,394
|
Greetings, Three days from today will be my 19th. Whoo! Almost 2 decades. :) Siran CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr XO - L L & P _\\// USS Vre'kasht NCC-33187 Windows 10 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker Microsoft wants us to "Imagine life without walls"... I say, "If there are no walls, who needs Windows?" |
kittyman  Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 50144 Credit: 951,729,839 RAC: 236,986
|
Congrats to all in this special club. You're all a little more than a year ahead of me. Well done! "The secret o' life is enjoying the passage of time." 1977, James Taylor "With cats." 2018, kittyman 
|
Bill G  Send message Joined: 1 Jun 01 Posts: 896 Credit: 143,289,050 RAC: 86,426
|
I keep trying to catch up but always seem to be 2 years behind. I am going to keep tryin.  SETI@home classic workunits 4,019 SETI@home classic CPU time 34,348 hours |
Cactus Bob  Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 195 Credit: 8,469,409 RAC: 3,100
|
Looks like I am keeping with a theme here. A day late and a dollar short..lol Hard to believe it has been 19 years since I first tried to catch an alien signal. Gone through a BUNCH of computers, software and checking on the forums to see what is happening. I have taken a break here and there but always drawn back to this community. Seti@home has some of the most knowledgeable and friendly people you couple find in a forum community. Sure there is the odd tussle but just enough to add to the entertainment. Here is hoping we make some real progress in the next few years and create our own = real WOW event = Thanx for the ride all, everyone here helps in some way. Bob Sometimes you are the windshield, sometimes the bug. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SETI@home classic workunits 4,321 SETI@home classic CPU time 22,169 hours |
|
FeK9 Send message Joined: 20 May 99 Posts: 40 Credit: 59,091,441 RAC: 8,984 
|
Out of 2260 of those who join Seti Classic on the 20th of May 1999, only 317 processed some WU's in the last month... I believe they giving away free toasters to twenty some things next year..... :) Regards John  Noli tangere circulos meos... |
Sleepy  Send message Joined: 21 May 99 Posts: 159 Credit: 58,993,291 RAC: 47,342 
|
19 years of happy crunching for me too as of today! Sleepy |
Bernie Vine  Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9508 Credit: 59,584,526 RAC: 13,791 
|
Seems I join the club today. 19 years, how time flies!! |
©2018 University of California
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.