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Time to SET It down - distributed computer project ends after 21 years

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While everyone is focused running folding @home, another computing project has finally ended after years of running.

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SETI@home has announced that they will no longer be distributing new work to clients starting on March 31st as they have enough data and want to focus on completing their back-end analysis of the data.

SETI@home is a distributed computing project where volunteers contribute their CPU resources to analyze radio data from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). 

Run by the Berkeley SETI Research Center since 1999, SETI@home has been a popular project where people from all over the world have been donating their CPU resources to process small chunks of data, or "jobs", for interesting radio transmissions or anomalies. This data is then sent back to the researchers for analysis.

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In an announcement posted yesterday, the project stated that they will no longer send data to SETI@home clients starting on March 31st, 2020 as they have reached a "point of diminishing returns" and have analyzed all the data that they need for now.

Instead, they want to focus on analyzing the back-end results in order to publish a scientific paper.

"It's a lot of work for us to manage the distributed processing of data. We need to focus on completing the back-end analysis of the results we already have, and writing this up in a scientific journal paper," their news announcement stated.

Users who wish to continue to run the SETI@home client may do so, but will not receive any new work until the project decides whether they wish to start sending work to clients again.

For those who wish to donate their CPU resources, SETI@home suggests users select another BOINC project that also supports distributed computing.

Source:https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/seti-home-search-for-alien-life-project-shuts-down-after-21-years/

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Search for alien transmission shuts down, this can only mean one thing, they found aliens.

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I am both happy that hey have reached the goal but sad that I cant Boinc for Seti anymore. /shrug

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Old news, except that wasn't posted in news. 

 

 

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1 hour ago, rcmaehl said:

Search for alien transmission shuts down, this can only mean one thing, they found aliens.

Or gave up coz they found nothing in 20 years. Surely, if there was something, we'd intercept at least a blip.

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Or..... Maybe they've found them and now have one of those red phones that can be used to contact them directly at this point. 😁

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24 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

Or gave up coz they found nothing in 20 years. Surely, if there was something, we'd intercept at least a blip.

Not necessarily, the universe is a big place and the signal has to be coming towards us and some has to be listening .

 

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Fuck... I wanted to beat some alien ass at Magic TCG... My dreams are over...

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25 minutes ago, Beerzerker said:

Or..... Maybe they've found them and now have one of those red phones that can be used to contact them directly at this point. 😁

No way, it's a modified Motorola pager with a range of a couple galaxies. At least.

 

On the note of SETI: I thought they had closed down last year.

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19 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

Not necessarily, the universe is a big place and the signal has to be coming towards us and some has to be listening .

 

Seems more like our solar system is in that damn room with no iWiFi (Intergalactic WiFi) reception...

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1 hour ago, RejZoR said:

Or gave up coz they found nothing in 20 years. Surely, if there was something, we'd intercept at least a blip.

The funny thing to think about is that if we did get a transmission from somewhere faraway in the galaxy it would actually be from the past. I mean if you get a transmission from someplace 100 lightyears away then it must have been sent 100 years ago by the time we received it. 

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2 hours ago, Brooksie359 said:

The funny thing to think about is that if we did get a transmission from somewhere faraway in the galaxy it would actually be from the past. I mean if you get a transmission from someplace 100 lightyears away then it must have been sent 100 years ago by the time we received it. 

Yeah the aliens we detect will probably be long gone by now 

 

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2 hours ago, Brooksie359 said:

The funny thing to think about is that if we did get a transmission from somewhere faraway in the galaxy it would actually be from the past. I mean if you get a transmission from someplace 100 lightyears away then it must have been sent 100 years ago by the time we received it. 

I'm kinda an asshole about it in saying that the search for anything outside of our solar system is a waste of fucking time.  OK cool there's a super intelligent species 7000 light years away.  Unless they're broadcasting how to build a warp drive or allow a means of faster than light communication...it is useless.  You're not getting any further than you can get by theoretically believing there has to be another species out there without needing to actually go search for it.  You don't need to visit a forest to know that trees exist.

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6 hours ago, Brooksie359 said:

The funny thing to think about is that if we did get a transmission from somewhere faraway in the galaxy it would actually be from the past. I mean if you get a transmission from someplace 100 lightyears away then it must have been sent 100 years ago by the time we received it. 

Yeah, that's the bitch about space observation from visual and telecommunication perspective. Everything you observe in it is the distant past. The stars we're observing, the planets we're seeing, they are all actually from the past. Some might not even exist anymore and we're just seeing their light from thousands and millions of years ago still reaching us. Or for example an explosion of a star, the supernovas. If we're seeing the explosion now, it just means that star has been gone for hundreds of thousands if not millions of years by the time we see its explosion here on Earth.

 

Even Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to us which is roughly 4.4 light years away. Whatever we observe in there actually happened 4.4 years ago. It's quite mind bending to comprehend this when we are so used to "what we see now is happening now" here on Earth. Where in space, what we see now has happened in the distant past.

 

Or from terms of catching a signal from some alien civilization. If we do catch something, it'll mean we caught a signal from civilization that is either long gone in terms of either self destructing itself or migrating even further away (although distancing from the spot of universe creation means chances of finding habitable star system becomes smaller and smaller unless they've gone so far that they could create their own star) by the time signal even reached us. Or the reason why we don't catch anything is they literally transcended to some whole next level of existence that's not even physical anymore or they use means of communications that are not even observable by physical means anymore, some sort of subspace communication that works in way of bending space and eliminating time aspect from it as the distance would be zero and would not need to actually travel the distance, meaning we couldn't even detect it, or through parallel universes in which case it would take centuries to travel there but might be perceived as seconds in our universe, again making it impossible to capture by our means. Or what we are detecting is that signal from parallel universe from species that are not even in our universe timeline.

 

Aaaaand we're charting weird sci-fi waters already. I think it's all cool and interesting and we need to become interplanetary species soon to guarantee our survival in the long run, but we need to first solve the stuff here on our first planet. Mastering our genetics and diseases is the first step which is why I always said projects like F@H, R@H and WCG are what we should be focusing on and I always thought Seti@home was a waste of time. Even back in 2000's when it was more of a thing than today...

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9 hours ago, RejZoR said:

Or gave up coz they found nothing in 20 years. Surely, if there was something, we'd intercept at least a blip.

Heres the thing, Space is unimaginably massive. 20 years of searching is akin to moving 2 single straws of hay while trying to find the needle in the haystack.

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