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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36860 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
It has been an interesting ride. Cheers. |
The_PC_God Send message Joined: 4 Apr 02 Posts: 8 Credit: 1,020,716 RAC: 0 |
Happy Birthday Seti@Home! Thanks to all distributors for making this project so special. Greetings from Germany :-). The truth is out there! |
Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4 |
Happy Birthday SETI@home :) The probability of success is difficult to estimate, but if we never search, the chance of success is zero. - Cocconi-Morrison, Searching for Interstellar Communications, Nature, September 19, 1959 SETI@home is the scientific experiment that most excites the imagination of people worldwide. Assignment of the Science is not to open a door to endless know, but to set a barrier to the endless ignorance. - Galileo Galilei by Bertolt Brecht What are your views about the project? I admire and greatly respect the the Scientist at SETI@home - Berkerly University Califorina USA. I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one - John Lennon. Earth Flag Earth Flag Best Wishes, - Byron. |
Haku Send message Joined: 24 May 00 Posts: 1 Credit: 2,671,513 RAC: 5 |
Glad to see that SETI is surviving the test of time. |
CalicoSkies Send message Joined: 20 May 99 Posts: 31 Credit: 1,352,098 RAC: 4 |
I just realized I created my SETI@Home account just 3 days after SETI@Home was first released. SETI@Home was released on May 17, 1999, and I've had my account since May 20, 1999. I don't remember how I heard about SETI@Home, but I must have heard about it on a news site somewhere when it was new. I've been using it on and off since then. I had just started college in 1999 and had a speech class that year (part of the English department), and I gave a presentation on SETI@Home in that class. I remember one of the other students in that class telling me she (I think it was a she) started running SETI@Home after I gave my presentation in that class. |
CalicoSkies Send message Joined: 20 May 99 Posts: 31 Credit: 1,352,098 RAC: 4 |
I remember reading somewhere that LCD screens are still susceptible to image burn-in at some point. I wouldn't keep my LCD screen on all the time.. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11416 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Tomorrow is my 20th, I shall continue to crunch on. I wonder what I'll do when we find ET. |
Pierre A Renaud Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 9,101,544 RAC: 65 |
Tomorrow is my 20th, I shall continue to crunch on.Congrats ! it's never too late to join the 20 Year Club :) I wonder what I'll do when we find ET.There is an official protocol, but the WIRED Guide to Aliens suggests a very funny one: From the International Academy of Astronautics (lightly edited):
2. Try to make sure, using your own equipment, that “message from an alien†is the most likely explanation, way ahead of “secret spy satellite†or “hoax courtesy of nearby laser lab.†3. Alert your alien-questing colleagues that you may have beaten them to the biggest discovery in (non)human history, and kindly ask them to use their own equipment to confirm it. Request that they redirect their resources to continuing observation. 4. If your colleagues agree you won, send a message out to all the other earthling astronomers via the International Astronomical Union. Also, please phone the secretary general of the United Nations (but gloat less). 5. Send WIRED an encrypted tip of your discovery via Signal. 6. Make the data public so scientists can check your work. 7. Work to protect the frequency at which you received the most important message ever, so that the signal from a new internet of things toothbrush doesn’t interfere with page 17 of the faster-than-light ship schematic. 8. Don’t respond to your new ET BFFs until “appropriate international consultations have taken place.†9. Pop the champagne! Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020 |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11416 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Today is my 20th so I thought I would share my cake with all. |
Jorge Paulo Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 293,155 RAC: 1 |
I am a member since: 18 May 1999. That's before anniversary date?!?! |
Cactus Bob Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 209 Credit: 10,924,287 RAC: 29 |
May 17, 1999 is start day, so you are 1 day after. I am 2 days after. Start date is not the end all, just to be part of this adventure is what counts. Lets see where the journey takes us... Enjpy ! Sometimes I wonder, what happened to all the people I gave directions to? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SETI@home classic workunits 4,321 SETI@home classic CPU time 22,169 hours |
mohavewolfpup Send message Joined: 20 Oct 18 Posts: 32 Credit: 3,666,574 RAC: 24 |
Here's to another twenty! Joined when I heard Art Bell talking about it (and seeing it on his webcam in the back many moons ago) And i've been hooked since. Took a lot of time off unfortunately and not sure of my old account info. Came back when he died in his honor and have been throwing any system I can at it since. Biggest horsepower unit is a workstation/server that crunches around 8 cpu units and 1 gpu unit at a time. Fastest is my former desktop from a defunct casino that churns them out about every 1.5 hours give or take. Got a beater lenovo laptop from a storage unit that i'm just running until it burns out. Screen is trashed but it's a I-3 and will go until something pops! Glad to be part of a team still crunching away. Maybe we get lucky one day? Historian for the Defunct Riviera Hotel and Casino, Former Classic Seti@home user for Team Art Bell. Greetings from the High Desert! |
BULL Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 476,983 RAC: 0 |
First post for me and I joined in May of 1999. I decided to get my old machine back running and dedicate it to the project... Love being back and seeing that old screen saver. |
Ilya Mogilevsky Send message Joined: 20 Jun 19 Posts: 9 Credit: 36,009 RAC: 0 |
Twenty years of computing. What will be next? |
Kai Haschke Send message Joined: 11 Nov 12 Posts: 1 Credit: 40,626 RAC: 0 |
Hi , i am really very proud to be a member of this great community with members all over the world ! hopeful for next 20 years . I will be there and so many others too i think so . Nice greetings from SETI Germany ! |
WeiWang Send message Joined: 14 Jul 07 Posts: 1 Credit: 2,208,646 RAC: 19 |
20周年快ä¹ï¼å¤§å®¶å·¥ä½œæ„‰å¿«ï¼ |
chaco Send message Joined: 8 May 99 Posts: 43 Credit: 23,945,396 RAC: 1 |
Twenty years! Who knew?... Confidence: Remember that feeling you had just before you truely understood the situation? |
Pierre A Renaud Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 9,101,544 RAC: 65 |
Only happy if your FAST radiotelescope can help us find ET ^^ 20周年快ä¹ï¼å¤§å®¶å·¥ä½œæ„‰å¿«ï¼(Google Translate: Happy 20th anniversary! Everyone is happy!) Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020 |
ausjorg Send message Joined: 21 Jul 19 Posts: 4 Credit: 569,899 RAC: 0 |
Keep up the good work! |
Rbouvia Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 555,285 RAC: 9 |
Been off and on since the beginning tech changes are crazy to think it took me days with my early pcs now my tablet is pounding them out and it's only a Surface Go. |
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