Classic British Flight Sim

I have always been a fan of the Seti@home (Search for Extraterrestral Intelegence) effort. and recently decided to get back into it. what I found is that they now have a easy way for you to donate your computer time to all sorts of scientific endevors.

it is called Boinc and this is the web page
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/index.php

it uses you space computer cycles to run all sorts of distributed computing projects you can attach to. and most of those have nice screen savers.

one word of advice though. pause it before you play flight simulator. and if you have a pentium 4 like me turn down the amout of processor time it uses unless you want your computer to sound like a vacume cleaner with the fan running all the time.

Is this some sort of joke?????

Garry

No Garry, all above board. Been available for years. Cancer Research UK had one for a while, and there is the human genome project as well.

Hmmmm.sounds a bit risky to me

If Aliens got into my computer and picked me for study they might think there was no intelligent life on Earth

Garry

They might be interested in your designing skills though Garry.....

Can you build a UFO....?



Tony

Techy111 wrote:

Can you build a UFO....?



Tony

Well there are a few that on seeing the Mk.32 didn't know what it was.....does that count???

Garry

OK i'll give you that.....

Tony

Garry Russell wrote:Is this some sort of joke?????

Garry

Seti@home has been going on for almost 10 years. they have found one interesting signal though they have figured it is probably not alien.

some of the other projects are more usefull right at home. the ones I am attached to right now.

http://climateprediction.net/

http://qah.uni-muenster.de/

http://www.ufluids.net/

and of course

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

seti@home actually was the start of all of this. they went trough several different software programs and then decided to try to make one that would make it easyer for users to work for multiple projects. a very tangeble result for a project that is other wise somewhat out there.

of course it goes without saying that I will be runing my antivirus software regurlary. but this has about as many credenturals as you can have for something like this. the client instal even has a certificte.

Thanks for th backgroung Bigred

TBH I'd never heard of this, on the other hand I personally wouldn't do anything like this so I don't suppose I would know really

Garry

If there is anything out there, do you really think it's sensible to advertise our presence? If they are more intelligent than us they they will already know about us and have decided to avoid us. If they are less intelligent than us then they will not understand our signals and will not be able to reach us anyway. (If they are of equal intelligence then the same applies ).

And isn't it naive to assume that they will be friendly? Would you walk through Central Park at night flashing a torch and saying hallo anybody want to be my friend?

Please can't we just leave them be. Please :-(