S.E.T.I.@Home

[Artisan]

A few years ago I ran SETI @home for close to 5000 Hrs of CPU time. I re-installed it a few months ago, but didn't like the way the recent version used my resources. It was like ther was an ET at home in my CPU. It would spawn like 50 or more threads, with tabs for each on the taskbar, when I woke up the screen saver it would take a little while for all the processes to be killed, meanwhile the apps I wanted to use that were up were paged to some dark recesses of the drive and would also take a while to get going again. Running any memory intensive apps - like frame rendering, or some of the 3d cad stuff I do also conflicted with SETI.

A while ago I read about a distributed computing project that coalesced to (successfully) crack the SEGA game encryption.

[Faggot the Hutt]

It would spawn like 50 or more threads

Yeah, that's a problem with the screensaver. I had the same happen to me, so I switched to the command line version that is not only more stable, it's faster.

[MikeHarm]

SETI is worthless, radio waves are too slow to communicate across the vast distances in space. You have to be a bit more creative than that if you want to find something alien to listen to. Gravity waves look a lot more interesting for that purpouse to me.

[lochinvar]

<snip> You have to be a bit more creative than that if you want to find something alien to listen to. <snip>

Or just read FTH's offerings. That's usually pretty creative alien stuff...

[Faggot the Hutt]

Gravity waves look a lot more interesting for that purpouse to me.

Why are you using the cool icon? The speed of gravity has yet to be determined. Some say it's .95 C, others say it's 2 x 10 to the 10th C. No one knows so you can't use the . You've gotta use for asserting something as fact that has yet to be proven.

Or just read FTH's offerings. That's usually pretty creative alien stuff...

I understand you're a religious bigot, but your recent effots at trolling me and being a general twit are beginning to get old. Get off my back.

[lochinvar]

Religious bigot? Where did that come from?

Question: What would it mean to you if you actually found Extra Terrestrial Life? Via SETI or some other method? (Just curious...)

[Faggot the Hutt]

Religious bigot? Where did that come from?

Your earlier suggestion to someone in the "orkut" thread that they socialize at a church, and this thread .

Question: What would it mean to you if you actually found Extra Terrestrial Life? Via SETI or some other method? (Just curious...)

I have no wish to establish an exchange with you. Stay on your side of the web, and I'll stay on mine.

[MikeHarm]

Ah, but I didn't assert that it was proven, merely that radio waves were too slow for interstellar communication so it was worthless to pursue and that gravity waves were more interesting for the purpouse.

When people playing with something start dissapearing when they research something its always interesting, something you don't see with SETI's radio waves.

I remember seeing one of the folks who dissapeared having his circumstances outlined on the America's most wanted show a few years back. Fellow was a musician/physicist. His gravity wave theories were interesting though I didn't know enough physics to understand them. I don't remember the name off the top of my head though.

Theres some interesting stuff on the net alleging correlation between ufo sightings/gravity wave activity that might be of interest to some as well.

You may have your dunce cap back.

Why are you using the cool icon? The speed of gravity has yet to be determined. Some say it's .95 C, others say it's 2 x 10 to the 10th C. No one knows so you can't use the . You've gotta use for asserting something as fact that has yet to be proven.

[Soldier]

Why are you using the cool icon? The speed of gravity has yet to be determined. Some say it's .95 C, others say it's 2 x 10 to the 10th C. No one knows so you can't use the . You've gotta use for asserting something as fact that has yet to be proven.

Smiley protocol...gotta love it...

[lochinvar]

Your earlier suggestion to someone in the "orkut" thread that they socialize at a church, and this thread .

Lots of people socialize at church; it's one of the recognized venues for socializing. How does that make me a bigot? Would I be an "alcohol bigot" if I suggested they socialize at a bar? (Which, let me hasten to add, is an equally recognized venue for socializing.)

The thread you mention just details one true incident I experienced at the hands of some "church-goers" of the Calvinist temperment. I don't see how relating a true incident makes me a bigot...but perhaps you have an explanation I haven't thought of?

I have no wish to establish an exchange with you. Stay on your side of the web, and I'll stay on mine.

Sorry to point it out, but you already are in an exchange with me. And the web is a Mobieus Strip (sp?)--all sides are the same side.

But if you'd rather snipe than answer an honest question...well, I guess that was expected, given your posting history. Disappointing, but expected.

So, good luck in getting ET to ring you up. I'd say, "Let me know how it all turns out," but you've already indicated that you have no interest in sharing.

[Event Horizon]

Question: What would it mean to you if you actually found Extra Terrestrial Life? Via SETI or some other method? (Just curious...)

I'll answer this as if was directed to the general public. The folks who run SETI@home would give the individual credit if some discovery was made through the use of their personal computer (by using the program).

I do it because it a way to contribute a little in something that interests me. It's no problem to run a really small program when I'm not using the computer (in this case, the screensaver), that may potentially lead to some type of discovery.

[Faggot the Hutt]

Gravity waves look a lot more interesting for that purpouse to me.

You said they look interesting. Interest in gravity waves implies they'd be better than radio waves. Hence you are wrong and subject to summary execution because you used the in violation of the Geneva Convention.

I remember seeing one of the folks who dissapeared having his circumstances outlined on the America's most wanted show a few years back. Fellow was a musician/physicist.

I think I heard about him on Unsolved Mysteries. He was on a private boat cruise, with a friend. A while later, the boat was found drifting with no clue as to the crew's whereabouts.

Theres some interesting stuff on the net alleging correlation between ufo sightings/gravity wave activity that might be of interest to some as well.

You may have your dunce cap back.

UFO's and gravity waves??? What? After that suggestion the is all yours, as well as because you probably believe aliens helped build the pyramids. If there were an icon with an aluminum hat I'd give that to you as well. I guess will have to suffice.

[lochinvar]

After that suggestion the is all yours, as well as because you probably believe aliens helped build the pyramids.

Wait...they didn't build the pyramids?

Well, then how about Machu Pichu? Or else how would you explain how a culture without writing, roads, the wheel, or any draft animals stronger than a big dog could manage to move 30-ton blocks to the top of a mountain to build a city?

[Soldier]

Slave labor and good guesswork.

Plus dumb luck.