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WILD WOOGETERS Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 570,044 RAC: 4 ![]() |
Wow! Good-Bye old friend. I sure hope we'll met up again in the not too distant future. I'm only sorry I didn't get to find some alien communication and win that cash prize you were offering back in 1999 when you first started this. But, then again, all the data hasn't been analyzed. So, who knows? I may yet be a winner. We shall see. Sincerely, Wild Woogeters |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 19 Jan 00 Posts: 2 Credit: 1,357,724 RAC: 2 ![]() |
Oh man, There isn't many things I've been involved for over 20 years. But maybe it is finally time to let my computers rest during nighttime. Must get used to silence... Still hope you'll find something some day. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 18 Credit: 10,381,162 RAC: 53 ![]() ![]() |
Hola, Juan! Shakespeare covered it... "How like an angel in apprehension and how like a devil in evil deeds." Somehow, we must learn better how to bring out our "better angels." Steven Pinker has a lot of statistics showing that things are getting better (see YouTube), but day to day we don't see it. Best Regards, Rich |
![]() Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 26 Credit: 5,704,701 RAC: 1 ![]() |
Its been a blast boys and girls. They are out there somewhere..... Bambi ![]() |
bWildered1 Send message Joined: 31 Aug 19 Posts: 3 Credit: 134,322 RAC: 51 ![]() ![]() |
Can I ask some probably stupid, but mostly harmless, questions? Was (is?) a particular part of the 'sky' being scanned/sampled, or the entire span of the universe? How much of the targeted area has now been scanned? How much of this scanned data has been analysed so far? And, probably most stupid question of all, what is the purpose of the SETI@Home data analysis and the 'back-end' analysis mentioned (or how do these differ)? Take care all M |
JohnDK ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 28 May 00 Posts: 1222 Credit: 451,243,443 RAC: 1,127 ![]() ![]() |
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rob smith ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22675 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 ![]() ![]() |
The main region of the sky covered by SETI@Home was a belt north of the equator, with targeted data from a fair number of stars with exoplanets being added later. The work we were doing was sifting through the mountains of data sorting possible significant signals (billions of them!), which are only now being collated to see if any are present over time (that's the first step of the "back-end" job). Once the list of possibles has been reduced to a more manageable size it is probable there will be some more targeted data collection. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Chris Hanna Send message Joined: 7 Apr 03 Posts: 2 Credit: 5,179,330 RAC: 12 ![]() ![]() |
I started with BOINC and SETI@Home near the beginning. Glad to see that all the data that was crunched is going to be used. I will keep the project open on my systems in the hopes of some future announcement for further analysis. I too remember when the work units crunched on single processors to get done in days. Now am running a water cooled 12-way desktop with more power than the IBM mainframes we sold for millions of dollars. No wonder tech companies struggle to stay ahead of being irrelevant and obsolete. Best wishes for the next Phase of the Project. |
rcthardcore Send message Joined: 23 Nov 08 Posts: 48 Credit: 1,306,006 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Already did. Moving on to another project. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 ![]() |
In this World of Billionaires, Millionaires, and others extremely Well Off(Ones Professing How Science Science Science is dA BE ALL and END ALL and Will Enthusiascally CONtribute) - and they CANNOT be convinced to Pony Up a Bunch of Dough for a Project, Hailed Ad Nauseam as a World History Changer, then there MUST NOT BE a CONvincing Argument to do so. 20+ Years to CONvince. And What? It has NEVER ADDED UP. I Believe it ALL was a way to Create Part-Time Work for a few UCB Profs. It is always nice to have a very Well Paying Part-time Job. World is FLUSH with CASH to Donate and Is Donated. But Here is a Project Constantly Portrayed as Humanities Greatest Discovery - once Discovered - and NOTHING. Time to Sleep says S&H. 'cept Unlike a Bear. NOT WELL FED and HAPPY. Or are they? Yep ![]() May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! ![]() |
![]() Send message Joined: 8 Dec 03 Posts: 41 Credit: 873,780 RAC: 15 ![]() ![]() |
What is there closest project to SETI? ![]() |
![]() Send message Joined: 3 Jan 19 Posts: 13 Credit: 8,981,493 RAC: 128 ![]() ![]() |
You can ask... lol |
singlesinger Send message Joined: 26 Oct 00 Posts: 2 Credit: 631,291 RAC: 6 ![]() |
So sad to hear this. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 99 Posts: 4 Credit: 25,766,647 RAC: 111 ![]() ![]() |
Being participating for 21 years, this is by far the longest project I have done in my life, and probably will be in rest of my life. I am so sad to hear it is closing. It's been my pleasure to be able to contribute to the project, together with you all. |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 1 Apr 13 Posts: 1858 Credit: 268,616,081 RAC: 1,349 ![]() ![]() |
and win that cash prize you were offering back in 1999 when you first started this. +1 That could be a pretty cool refrigerator/PC case magnet ... ![]() ![]() |
Kevin Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 8 Credit: 178,663,559 RAC: 191 ![]() ![]() |
Yes a sad day, but it was always going to be a hard road. Especially with the lack of funding. I would like to thank everyone involved and to all those that worked tirelessly for SETI@home... |
![]() Send message Joined: 25 Feb 00 Posts: 1 Credit: 7,362,496 RAC: 14 ![]() ![]() |
76/5000 I hope in a new project for boinc on the search for extraterrestrial signals |
vrivoire Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 2 Credit: 2,455,027 RAC: 21 ![]() ![]() |
What about PANOSETI ? |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7379 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238 ![]() ![]() |
That is not good news. Hi Paul, They are at a point of diminishing returns when it comes to distributed computing. The data they need to analyse now cannot be done in BOINC; it's a different animal. The project will still be here and they did say that perhaps in the future we will get work again. :) Have a great day! :) Siran CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath |
Dan Send message Joined: 3 Jun 11 Posts: 1 Credit: 158,343 RAC: 0 ![]() |
If the results are published in a scientific journal, will reprints be available to volunteer supporters at no cost? The price of journal articles is often prohibitive for non-subscriber citizen scientists. Thanks, Dan |
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