Search for ET at home

[nugz]

The Arecibo Observatory needs our help. They get way too much information for the super computer to crunch, You can now download a program that will help the super computer with all the information. All you have to do is download a small program, About 8 MB worth...It is a screen saver that is actually a program.

You can download the screen saver HERE at SETI@Home.

wtf...

[IMADreamer]

kind of cool. I might do that on my home computer.

[nugz]

Originally Posted by mind4engineering

wtf...

Its not that hard to understand...


SETI@home searches for possible evidence of radio transmissions from extraterrestrial intelligence using observational data from the Arecibo radio telescope. The data is taken 'piggyback' or 'passively' while the telescope is used for other scientific programs. The data is digitized, stored, and sent to the SETI@home facility. The data is then parsed into small chunks in frequency and time, and analyzed, using software, to search for any signals--that is, variations which cannot be ascribed to noise, and contain information. The crux of SETI@home is to have each chunk of data, from the millions of chunks resulting, analyzed off-site by home computers, and then have the software results reported back. Thus what appears an onerous problem in data analysis is reduced to a reasonable one by aid from a large, internet-based community.



You don't have to use the screensaver....there is a small program that runs in the background crunching numbers and sending it back to the University of California in Berkeley. The Arecebo satellite takes in too much information per second and needs the help of an internet based community of computers helping it to sort through all the information it gets.

[dduffy2005]

Nugz I never took you for a computer genius. haha. I didn't understand much of what you said but I sounded good. lol. So you'd be helping out by just downloading this little screen saver?

[cobaltinator]

Nugz.... Did you get hacked??? HAHAHA

[Chester]

Hahha^^ sounds interesting

Originally Posted by cobaltinator

Nugz.... Did you get hacked??? HAHAHA

that is what i was wondering

but then i got an infraction and knew it must still be him :D

[nugz]

Originally Posted by cobaltinator

Nugz.... Did you get hacked??? HAHAHA

lol....no, I was trying to use a different avatar but the .gif won't load all the way...Im still trying to figure it out.

And M4.I don't like giving infractions (unless its chipdogg...lol).......especially to my friends, but rules are rules and I don't pick favorites.

[blkbalt06]

this has been around for quite some time. my dad used have this running. he'd get pissed whenever i closed it. i guess him and some buddies at work had a contest to see who could get the most hours logged or some shit