1) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2037866) Posted 14 Mar 2020 by Ariel Post: This is what I sent to my team, thought I'd share... To the members of the How Stuff Works SETI team... I was one of the earliest members to join this team. I saw the explainer about SETI@Home on the original How Stuff Works website back when it was still written by Marshall Brain. I loved the site, I loved the promise of what SETI was doing and Immediately jumped at the opportunity to help. Over the last nearly 2 decades every computer I have ever owned (and several I built for others) has run SETI@Home. Our group has produced so much good work that we are as a group ranked 620 out of all 64,000 SETI teams worldwide! THE TOP 1%!! An exceptional achievement! Although the project is going on an indefinite hiatus this does not minimize or undermine the efforts of this team and every other SETI user. The SETI project has more data from our analises than they know what to do with. In fact the reason for the shutdown is actually because we helped them reach their goals not just faster than they expected but faster than they could handle. It is entirely possible that the holy grail of this project may have already been uncovered in the data but is still years away from validation! We may have already found proof of alien life, we just don't know it yet. As this month closes out and SETI ends a new door opens into exciting new science, research and analysis of everything we have collected. I'm sad to see project this go as many of you are but I'm sure that future opportunities will present themselves to help the SETI project. I also encourage you all to look to other BIONIC projects where you can donate your spare CPU cycles for things like Cancer and Drug research or other astronomy based efforts, there are many great causes out there to contribute to. Although Mr. Brain has not been active in this group for over a decade I'm sure he would be as surprised and proud of everything that has been accomplished here as I am. Thank you again for your contributions! With Gratitude, Ariel Williams

2) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2036239) Posted 6 Mar 2020 by Ariel Post: Will you be producing special end of run diplomas? Maybe they could include more stats like "ranked 620 out of 64,000 teams putting them in the top 1%" And other stuff.

 
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