donate your spare computer cycles to science

[Garry Russell]

I agree totally Ian

The Aztecs welcomed the Spanish and look what happened to them.

Garry

[speedbird591]

Exactly, Garry! Took their gold and gave them the pox. Charming!

And what about parasitic wasps? Ever seen them on the documentary channels? They're an alien species if ever you've seen one. They overpower another insect and inject an egg inside it. When the egg hatches it eats the living host from the inside out and then the baby wasp bites through the stomach wall to get out. What's to say you SETI enthusiasts won't be responsible for bringing that sort of fun and games to this quiet corner of the universe?

I say get this dangerous stuff off your computer NOW! And keep your heads down.

Ian

[ianhind]

Get the Men in Black prepared ;-)

[bigred1970]

seti@home is just listening for signals, not broadcasting.

I actually don't think the chances of them finding any are very good because from what I understand about what they are searching for, they are looking for deliberate singnals, not the chatter from the ET's doing buiness amount them selves. I think we are selves have only sent out a very few deliberate signals that this type of search would be able to detect.

oh and I don't think intelegent life is common at all. we might be the only ones tuned in within detection range. and our smarts might be debatable sometimes.

[TSR2]

I've done the one before for medical research. Groups like cancer research UK can spend millions on using a super computer to number cruch a tiny portion of what they need or punters like you and me can get a cool screen saver and for a fraction of the cost all of these computers all over the world can number crunch the lot. Its a no brainer really.

[jonesey2k]

I used to run Folding @ home for a while back in the day when the Athlon 3200 and 9800Pro was the daddy of all hardware

[speedbird591]

I used to run Folding @ home for a while

Origami! Now that shouldn't upset them too much