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is seti@home worth the computing time?
BOINC and distributed computing in general is amazing, and there are so many other interesting projects... is it worth it to use the computing time for the search of radio signals from other civilizations? It is argued that in the history of human civilization, these type of radio signals lasted less than a century because we've already scaled down to more directional broadcasting, satellites, more sensitive receivers, etc. So it would be not only a needle in a haystack but also in a very limited time frame
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>limited development period of random broadcasting that can be detected
That seems logical. It would also be very risky to intentionally broadcast omnidirectionally to civilizations that could have FTL capability when the broadcasting civilization does not.
You've convinced me that SETI is a waste of effort, at least in its current form.
>I used SETI@home in the '90s
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Botnet malware.
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