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I find the SETI or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence program to be something that I find to be facinating

What is SETI you may be asking yourself?

SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology.

Radio telescope signals consist primarily of noise (from celestial sources and the receiver's electronics) and man-made signals such as TV stations, radar, and satellites. Modern radio SETI projects analyze the data digitally. More computing power enables searches to cover greater frequency ranges with more sensitivity. Radio SETI, therefore, has an insatiable appetite for computing power.

Previous radio SETI projects have used special-purpose supercomputers, located at the telescope, to do the bulk of the data analysis. In 1995, David Gedye proposed doing radio SETI using a virtual supercomputer composed of large numbers of Internet-connected computers, and he organized the SETI@home project to explore this idea. SETI@home was originally launched in May 1999.

To read more on SETI via wikipedia visit this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seti%40home

SETI@Home's web page can be be found at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/index.php

So I give a little bit of computing time on my computers to help process SETI data packets that are recorded from the very large Arecibo Observatory at National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center in Puerto Rico.

 

 

So what have I down to help SETI? Well here is the link to my Profile on SETI's website: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=7787564