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Eric Korpela   Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1380 Credit: 54,506,847 RAC: 60 
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Grumpy Swede (I stand with Ukraine)  Send message Joined: 1 Nov 08 Posts: 8921 Credit: 49,849,242 RAC: 65 
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We're cleaning out our lab at Space Sciences, and saying goodbye to a lot of history. Yeah, I noticed that post Eric. Pretty sad, but also leading to two questions: 1. Isn't it time now, to post that SETI@home is not in any hibernation, but that it will never come back again with any public crunching? There are many here, who still believes that SETI@home, will come back from the hibernation. (I'm not one of those) 2. It's a given that this forum will also go away. So the question is, when will the forum be shut down for good? 
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robert Send message Joined: 27 Feb 16 Posts: 3 Credit: 347,700 RAC: 2 
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I disagree their is a vast array of new radio telescopes being built like the Chinese Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3172634/chinese-satellite-set-create-radio-telescope-30-times-size-earth #witch begs the questions: will SETI@HOME be leasing time on those new arrays? #does the donate section of the page still work? #can the SETI@HOME project be bought by another university? #how much money do they need? the point is that I feel strongly enough about it to keep trying. just think of all the vast contributions to technology and science that came from the SETI@HOME project, although their may be little direct profit from the projects intended product (the detection of extraterrestrial intelligence ), its research has lead to many other important scientific and technological advances. Its my opinion that the decline of the SETI@HOME project is an example of universities and research institutions taking their eye of the ball. |
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Juanita de los Angeles Ariza Guzman Send message Joined: 14 Jan 10 Posts: 1 Credit: 56,264 RAC: 0 
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Would you please explain why is the project being closed? Im really worried and sad to see this. |
 Wiggo  Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 26177 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 
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Would you please explain why is the project being closed? Im really worried and sad to see this.SETI@home hibernation ;-) Cheers. |
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Sai Shankar Send message Joined: 22 Aug 07 Posts: 1 Credit: 3,230,174 RAC: 0 
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Ending SETI@HOME was a mistake that has lost engagement, and with that, undoubtedly donations/funding. I strongly urge for the program to be reinstated for these critical reasons. |
Ian&Steve C.  Send message Joined: 28 Sep 99 Posts: 4243 Credit: 1,282,604,591 RAC: 6,640
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Ending SETI@HOME was a mistake that has lost engagement, and with that, undoubtedly donations/funding. speaking of funding... whatever happened to all that money that was donated by volunteers for the purposes of buying new disks for a database? was a system ever built? or did that money end up in Christmas bonuses? https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85017&postid=2025584#2025584 Seti@Home classic workunits: 29,492 CPU time: 134,419 hours  
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