SETI@Home
Written by Jeffree Benet
Tags: crowd sourcing | screen savers | Seti
The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Last April the SERENDIP (Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations) group, based at the University of California Berkeley, launched a ground breaking program called SETI@Home.
Using the world's largest radio-telescope at the Aricibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, SERENDIP has been combing the skies looking for alien radio transmissions and they need our help.
SETI@Home is a screen saver which goes to work when you aren't on your computer. It downloads a piece of data from the Aricibo telescope, your computer processes it and sends it back to SERENDIP. You could find E.T. right from your own home!
Currently the Czech Republic ranks 10th in the amount of data processed with 605.22 years(!) of total computer time. To find out more information and to download the software, go to: http://www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and you can join the thousands of us already looking!
