[20604] in APO-L
Service to the Nation/Science: SETI@home
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Cashman)
Fri May 21 17:12:17 1999
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 14:14:45 -0700
Reply-To: Derek Cashman <cashman@YAHOO.COM>
From: Derek Cashman <cashman@YAHOO.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Anybody want to help out with a cool science project
without doing anything at all?
There's a new project that was just launched as part
of the SETI Project (Search for ExtraTerrestrial
Intelligence). Essentially, they're giving out a
screensaver on their website which will periodically
download information gather from the Arecibo Radio
Telescope. Your computer will then process this
information when it is otherwise idle (it runs as a
screensaver, so when you're using your computer, the
program is not running). When your computer finishes
a batch, it automatically dials up your internet
connection and sends the data back to SETI, then gets
more data. So you don't have to do anything, but
you'll be helping out a very important scientific
project. And if your computer discovers an alien
signal, you will be listed as co-discoverer ;-) ...
The website to download the software at is:
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
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Graduate Student, Medicinal Chemistry
MCV / VCU
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