SETI - optical team - join here

**QDO1** · 11-24-2005, 03:42 AM

Hi guys and gals

You have all heard of SETI the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, well I have set up a SETI team for optical professionals. If you would like to participate in this team, then follow the link below

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/creat...?teamid=120984

If you allready participate in the SETI project, you can still join the team, just follow the link and subequent instructions

I will let everyone know periodically how the team is doing. If you leave your computer on while you are not using it, why not join in the project

What is SETI@home?
SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.

Richard

**Jedi** · 11-24-2005, 01:08 PM

Great idea Richard.
I haven't done this for years.

**QDO1** · 11-24-2005, 01:34 PM

Just to let everyone know.. there is a delay (of weeks) on the group stats.. It is an issue at the SETI end

**drk** · 12-13-2005, 11:05 AM

Hey, just a serious, quick question.

Let's assume that there is extraterrestrial life. How can we assume that they are not going to come an conquer us? Why is it assumed that another civilization is benign?

I have another question, if you'll indulge: If there are any other civilizations, why have they not already found us?

What's the essence of SETI? Scanning the universe degree by degree with ultra-sensitive radio frequency very large arrays?

Is this a good use of resources?

**QDO1** · 12-13-2005, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by drk

Hey, just a serious, quick question.

Let's assume that there is extraterrestrial life. How can we assume that they are not going to come an conquer us? Why is it assumed that another civilization is benign?

you can not assume anything

Originally Posted by drk

I have another question, if you'll indulge: If there are any other civilizations, why have they not already found us?

Depends on a lot of things. Perhaps they allready have, but cant be bothered with us. Perhaps they are in a different evoloutionary time frame, and they will never find our messages, and we will never find thiers. Perhaps they are in the same time frame, but so far away, the messages are in a different time frame. Perhaps radio is so primitive, we are barking up the same tree. Perhaps there is a perfect match, and we are days away from working it out

Originally Posted by drk

What's the essence of SETI? Scanning the universe degree by degree with ultra-sensitive radio frequency very large arrays?

yep, they use the Arecebo radio telescope

Originally Posted by drk

Is this a good use of resources?

yep. SETI was the springboard for other good science: distributed computing, which now does all sorts of other clever stuff like climate prediction. The project does not particularlary have much funding, and relies on users to use thier machines for the project in idle times, but when they would have been on anyway. This is a big science project really, run by a Dept at Berkley University

**drk** · 12-13-2005, 01:40 PM

Doesn't the US's NASA kick in some serious dough?

**Dpareynolds** · 04-28-2014, 06:22 PM

Part of being human is the inability to think in infinite terms, i.e. We've already been conquered and successfully resisted infinite times, we've been found infinite times, etc. It's likely there are infinite co-existing universes, given the small space limitations.

**Sean** · 12-15-2005, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by Jedi

Great idea Richard.
I haven't done this for years.

I joined.......under the Optical Team :)

**rsandr** · 12-15-2005, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by QDO1

If you leave your computer on while you are not using it, why not join in the project

It doesn't sound very environmentally friendly.

That said, i'm off to hug a tree!

**QDO1** · 12-15-2005, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by rsandr

It doesn't sound very environmentally friendly.

That said, i'm off to hug a tree!

some people leave them on all the time.. to make them last longer!

**rsandr** · 12-15-2005, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by QDO1

some people leave them on all the time.. to make them last longer!

Should I do the same with all my light bulbs?

**rinselberg** · 12-15-2005, 04:14 PM

I post from my brother's computer. It's an old out-of-date Mac clone, but with a large flat panel monitor. He has the software set up so that after 10 minutes without a keyboard input or a mouse click, the monitor goes into a standby mode to conserve power. The computer and hard disk stay powered up. We have been running the SETI program here, but after this upgrade that they are about to implement, we will be left out of it, because it won't run on the old MacOS anymore.

**QDO1** · 12-15-2005, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by rinselberg

I post from my brother's computer. It's an old out-of-date Mac clone, but with a large flat panel monitor. He has the software set up so that after 10 minutes without a keyboard input or a mouse click, the monitor goes into a standby mode to conserve power. The computer and hard disk stay powered up. We have been running the SETI program here, but after this upgrade that they are about to implement, we will be left out of it, because it won't run on the old MacOS anymore.

I will ask for you - what OS -exactly?