SETI@home

Written by bookofjoe
Published December 05, 2004

You can help.

Yes, you and your little computer can play a part, albeit minuscule, in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

From the website:

What's not to like?

The project started on May 18, 1999, and is still looking for the first indication that there's somebody - or something - out there.

Could happen today.

Ya never know.

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#1 — December 5, 2004 @ 15:16PM — TDavid [URL]

Been signed up and using this for a little while now. I think this is an excellent use of all that computer downtime ;)

#2 — December 5, 2004 @ 16:40PM — jadester [URL]

Folding@Home is another one, using distributed computing to run protein-folding simulations.

(Or ping: http://blogcritics.org/mt/tb/22900)

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