I joined Setiathome when it first started under another username and gave up when I discovered how long it took to process one work unit. Had I stayed the course I might have been up in the thousands of workunits completed zone by now.
But here I am a few years later started all over again, with a slightly faster machine this time. Although not that much quicker.
My goal this time is to reach 250 units complete before you shut the programme down. Well actually there are two goals a) completed more units than 90% of all users and b) >250 units.
Once I have both I may retire from the programme. Who knows... But I'm getting bored of this screen saver. Try bikini clad babes next time.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I don't really care if extraterrestrial life exists as long as if it does then they don't try to subjugate us. What would be nice is if they gave us all their knowledge and went away again. I mean it's nice to see your neighbours once in a while but you wouldn't want to see them every day...right?
The only beacon that I'd approve is a beacon and egg sandwich :-) Hey perhaps if we built a 10 mile high pile of bacon sandwiches it might be visible to ALF?
It could be a bacon beacon.
I run setiathome because I'm sad... Honestly is this the only use I can find for my pc?
What's the meaning of life? Depends where you look I guess. Douglas Adams suggested it was 42 but I'd like to say it's 77. (work it out...There's a joke in there somewhere...honest)
Finally I'd like to express my appreciation to all those sad people at Berkeley who have nothing better to do than orchestrate us other sad people who process their data for them.
...and yes...I might just add that I think Berkeley's signal processing sucks. There're much better ways of doing the things that you're trying to do.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
