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![]() Send message Joined: 3 Jan 19 Posts: 13 Credit: 8,981,493 RAC: 128 ![]() ![]() |
"If I were the paranoid type I would probably think that the real reason for stopping was because we've known the ET's have been here for years and it's just silly to keep looking." Bingo. |
![]() Send message Joined: 25 Aug 16 Posts: 2 Credit: 237,395 RAC: 1 ![]() |
I'm particapating with SETI@home since May 2003. I am very sad to hear that SETI@home will go in hibernaton soon. |
Evans SAH Send message Joined: 20 Sep 99 Posts: 2 Credit: 1,571,694 RAC: 3 ![]() |
Thanks to the S@H team for the outstanding work. Not only on SETI, but also on BOINC. A lot of people are getting very upset about S@H being mothballed, which is understandable up to a point, although some of the posts here say more about the poster than about the project. No hard thing can be got at directly. Fundamental science is not just about the headline question. Why? Often its byproducts end up as significant (e.g. Newton having to invent calculus to do celestial mechanics, CERN giving rise to HTTP or S@H giving rise to BOINC). Also, all science is incremental. Someday the S@H work will enable something else by being the shoulders someone else stands on. In fact, it already is. The science isn't done yet. In a couple of centuries we'll have a better sense of how far we've got, if we're still around. To help make sure we're still around, crunch other projects (join Science United to give smaller projects a chance), join the Long Now Foundation, get involved in Effective Altruism. |
![]() Send message Joined: 21 May 99 Posts: 2 Credit: 1,775,661 RAC: 2 ![]() |
Hello, thank you for this exciting project. I have been there since May 1999, the whole 20 years, and have done my best to support you. I am a little disappointed that it is over, but I think (as you wrote it) it has done a lot for networked computing. Greetings to the whole team and thank you for letting me be there. Wolfgang from Cologne- Germany (Translated with Google for ease) |
Azrael Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 6 Credit: 30,080,847 RAC: 85 ![]() ![]() |
First, we were all erroneously lied to in this email,From Jeff So what changed? The hibernation announcement doesn't seem to address that. It just expresses an almost 180 degree point of view. I think the simplest explanation is that highly skilled and educated scientists got sick of playing IT support. Well, the number 2 reason in the hibernation announcement was "It's a lot of work for us to manage the distributed processing of data. We need to focus on completing the back-end analysis of the results we already have..." so this seems somewhat contradictory. I see in the link you posted that funding is another reason given. It doesn't seem like they really wanted to try to overcome that though as it's not as if they put out a call for help. I imagine they could have raised a lot of money if they had brought up the possibility of a shut down. People don't always realize how much on the edge such a project is until something like that happens. So I guess it comes down really to a matter of time. Something they thought they could deal with a few months ago but not as they got a little more into post processing work. Don't get me wrong, seti@home doesn't owe me anything and I certainly don't think anybody was intentionally lying about anything. It just seems like there was a fairly sudden change of heart with the only real reason given is that there isn't enough time to continue to support seti@home as it is today and work on further back end analysis of the data (which apparently wasn't an issue a few months ago). People who have been participating for the last couple of decades are obviously disappointed and are generally unsatisfied with the relatively sudden and rather terse announcement that it's ending (at least the distributed part). But then some people would never be satisfied. I will miss seti@home greatly but I've been participating in other projects as well for a long, long time so I'll move on. Hopefully, it will return again one day and this truly is just a "hibernation". |
![]() Send message Joined: 18 Apr 02 Posts: 5 Credit: 13,814,854 RAC: 18 ![]() ![]() |
The years of work on seven computers in my office and home has provided a substantial amount of input and assessments. The search of the universe and worlds for possible other species through Seti is very, very, very, important and helpful for us to discover if we actually exist with other high functioning species. Clearly this should continue to find other worlds with other species. PLEASE KEEP THIS UP AND RUNNING SO WE CAN SEARCH THE WORLDS. Mike Turner esq. |
Michael ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 21 Aug 99 Posts: 4609 Credit: 7,427,891 RAC: 18 ![]() ![]() |
Somebody (all of us) needs to take Dr. Korpela and all the Seti@Home staff out to a really nice dinner and celebrate the wonderful contributions to Seti@Home over the years. 21 years...INCREDIBLE RUN! |
Juan Jose de Onate, M0WWA Send message Joined: 14 Feb 00 Posts: 17 Credit: 3,625,997 RAC: 6 ![]() |
The sad news hit me like a bucket of cold water. SETI@home has been a part of my life for over twenty years. The statement that SETI@home is going to hibernation (it sounds to me as a Noble lie) doesn’t help with the pain. I joined the project just at the start of the new century. I remember crunching data work units with a budget computer and a 56k modem (phone bills were of this size). Despite modest results (it is a result too) today after all those years and several computers burned I continue enjoy it as I did the first day 20 years ago hoping to hear someday a WOW! Signal. SETI@home is a unique scientific project like no other with the ability to attract millions of non-scientific people from all over the globe with the hope of helping to find intelligence out there. Really a social phenomenon. I can’t understand why end a project pioneer on Distributed Computing that have achieved a huge computing capabilities and millions of enthusiast volunteers in a time of cheap and high performance personal computer hardware. In a time where advances on radio communications have boosted as never before radio astronomy. Anyway thank you to the SETI@home team for making us dream throughout all these years. Farewell SETI@home. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Somebody (all of us) needs to take Dr. Korpela and all the Seti@Home staff out to a really nice dinner and celebrate the wonderful contributions to Seti@Home over the years. Send them coupons for Cheeseburgers. I read once 'bout their liking of cheeseburgers. 'specially if they haz coupons. Part-time monies is GOoD, REAL GOoD, however who don't like a discount? ![]() May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! ![]() |
TheClap Send message Joined: 18 Oct 99 Posts: 3 Credit: 35,782,014 RAC: 127 ![]() ![]() |
If we all shout Encore! Encore! then the project is obliged to keep going for at least a couple more years. |
Sjafor146 Send message Joined: 30 Aug 15 Posts: 1 Credit: 6,712,131 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Aborted all tasks too, and it's a dead end to talk about "start distributing work again". I was a member just for 5 years but ending this project in that way? Good luck seti@home team. |
Ivailo Bonev ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Jun 00 Posts: 247 Credit: 35,864,461 RAC: 2 ![]() |
Group Question: To what project are you going to direct all your NVIDIA computing power after March 31? GPU-s to Einstein@Home, CPU-s to Rosetta@Home. :) It was a near 20 years ride that I will remember till my last day! I hope our data to be useful for for some scientific breakthrough. Big thank you to the staff of the project! ![]() |
bruno ![]() Send message Joined: 20 Dec 08 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,061,716 RAC: 4 ![]() |
j ai 51 ans et j ai utilisé le programme Seti bien avant boinc , je vous est suivie depuis le début j jusqu'à aujourd huit j'espère que nous auront d’autre information suite a tout ce temps passé a faire fonctionner nos ordinateurs pour Seti depuis y a d autre projet avec boinc mes seti était quelque chose de particuliers pour moi la recherche des extraterrestres 👽 |
Jozef J Send message Joined: 4 Mar 10 Posts: 4 Credit: 2,660,388 RAC: 0 ![]() |
It's only natural that they have to shut down SETI. The risk that we would be spreading the Coronavirus through our computers, LOLOLOLOL Best sarcasm ever )))),... really people : And " wash you hands after you send finnished task from your computer - boinc manager back to projects servers " ,,,, |
![]() Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5126 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462 ![]() |
Somebody (all of us) needs to take Dr. Korpela and all the Seti@Home staff out to a really nice dinner and celebrate the wonderful contributions to Seti@Home over the years. +1 A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). |
![]() Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3 Credit: 11,896,037 RAC: 33 ![]() ![]() |
I feel like a part of my daily life is coming to an end. I have been processing work units since May 15 1999 and Seti@home has become just a normal part of my life. I will look at other BOINC projects but to me any other project will just not be the same. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I think I may convert some of my more powerful computers to GPU mining bitcoin and see how that goes for a while. At least mining will offset some of the investment in hardware. Best of luck to the S@H team! |
Miguel Madden Send message Joined: 24 May 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 24,165 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I feel like a part of my daily life is coming to an end. I have been processing work units since May 15 1999 and Seti@home has become just a normal part of my life. I will look at other BOINC projects but to me any other project will just not be the same. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I think I may convert some of my more powerful computers to GPU mining bitcoin and see how that goes for a while. At least mining will offset some of the investment in hardware. Best of luck to the S@H team! I feel a little upset about this sudden "hibernation". After 20 years of work, several changes in technology, etc. Suddenly: "Thats it guys see u later.." Guess I have no words to express my feelings right now. |
![]() Send message Joined: 1 Jul 99 Posts: 15 Credit: 11,329,118 RAC: 32 ![]() ![]() |
Same here ! What do you know about "Gridcoin" . Is that legit ? Seems to use BOINC for distributed mining. TIA I feel like a part of my daily life is coming to an end. I have been processing work units since May 15 1999 and Seti@home has become just a normal part of my life. I will look at other BOINC projects but to me any other project will just not be the same. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I think I may convert some of my more powerful computers to GPU mining bitcoin and see how that goes for a while. At least mining will offset some of the investment in hardware. Best of luck to the S@H team! |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 14 Oct 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,349,945 RAC: 2 |
oh no!!! i didn't ever think this would happen *Treat others as if they were you* |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 ![]() ![]() |
Same here ! What do you know about "Gridcoin" . Is that legit ? Seems to use BOINC for distributed mining. TIA https://gridcoin.us/ Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours ![]() ![]() A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
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