Wonder if any plans would be made for a future large radio telescope or if this is the end of an era.
Did anybody else participate in the SETI@home project and download the screensaver?
It used thousands of individual home PCs to analyze signals gathered from the Arecibo dish and sent them back for compilation...
I was an active participant. Recently updated the desktop, and hadn't set it back up yet.Did anybody else participate in the SETI@home project and download the screensaver?
It used thousands of individual home PCs to analyze signals gathered from the Arecibo dish and sent them back for compilation.
I guess it never found ET since I didn't hear anything further.
Are they still processing? I thought it was done.I was an active participant. Recently updated the desktop, and hadn't set it back up yet.
They're not handing out any new tasks, some backlog may still be churning through.Are they still processing? I thought it was done.
I liked the idea of participating in a small way in something collective for a worthy cause.
Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
OK maybe not.
Already been done ... by China:
https://www.space.com/33357-china-largest-radio-telescope-alien-life.html
I ran SETI@home on my laptop for many years.Did anybody else participate in the SETI@home project and download the screensaver?
It used thousands of individual home PCs to analyze signals gathered from the Arecibo dish and sent them back for compilation.
I guess it never found ET since I didn't hear anything further.
Did anybody else participate in the SETI@home project and download the screensaver?
It used thousands of individual home PCs to analyze signals gathered from the Arecibo dish and sent them back for compilation.
I guess it never found ET since I didn't hear anything further.
There are many similar @home projects in various research areas and I remember trying out one of them. I think I was into proteins at the time (proteins@home or folding@home). A friend of mine worked on the einstein@home one to help detect gravitaional waves (black holes crashing into each other).
But in case you're looking for a straight answer, I have to say no.
I was an active participant. Recently updated the desktop, and hadn't set it back up yet.
Are they still processing? I thought it was done.
I liked the idea of participating in a small way in something collective for a worthy cause.
Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
OK maybe not.
In college somebody hotwired the heater for my floor to run constantly in order to keep their window open for smoking.I used to do Folding@home until I moved to Hawaii where the electricity is 4x. I would earn points that would give me huge discounts on EVGA GPUs.
https://foldingathome.org/
In 2010, my son moved into a dorm apartment with included AC. He would run a simple NVIDIA 9000 card which would heat up his room to 80F in the dead of winter.
I worked as an IT guy at a Tribal College and installed & set up servers. We started using IBM blades and I figured I could have heated my house during the winter with 2 of them.In college somebody hotwired the heater for my floor to run constantly in order to keep their window open for smoking.
Predictably a 100% duty cycle burned it up, so I hung a blanket over my window, turned on all the lights and stereo, cracked open the fridge, and resumed playing video games on my PC.
One advantage of a small room is that it doesn't take much to heat it :-D
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