is seti@home worth the computing time? BOINC and distributed - /sci/ - Science & Math

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Anonymous
2016-07-28 22:18:44 Post No. 8233678
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Anonymous 2016-07-28 22:18:44 Post No. 8233678 [Report]

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

Anonymous 2016-07-28 22:23:16 Post No.8233701
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Anonymous 2016-07-28 22:23:16 Post No.8233701 [Report]

SETI@Home is a botnet.
Anybody who runs it is a moron.
Literally giving government actors full access to your PC.
Then again any Intel CPU made after 2005 is literally botnet enabled with a hidden coprocesser that nobody is allowed to audit except American government agencies. (seriously look this up).
But yeah go ahead, it's not like you have any privacy left anyway.

Anonymous 2016-07-28 22:41:00 Post No.8233747
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Anonymous 2016-07-28 22:41:00 Post No.8233747 [Report]

>>8233701
you sound paranoid, all networked computers are accessible

Anonymous 2016-07-28 22:48:05 Post No.8233760
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Anonymous 2016-07-28 22:48:05 Post No.8233760 [Report]

>>8233747
It's not paranoia. It's literally facts. Look it up, or don't I don't care. You're just another good little goy installing botnets and NSA approved CPUs.

Anonymous 2016-07-28 22:58:36 Post No.8233782
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>>8233760
i looked it up

Anonymous 2016-07-28 23:15:43 Post No.8233812
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Anonymous 2016-07-28 23:15:43 Post No.8233812 [Report]

>>8233782
You're an illiterate mong. Search Intel hidden processor. Go back to >>>/v/ directly after and neck yourself.

Anonymous 2016-07-28 23:21:32 Post No.8233817
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>>8233812
ok

Anonymous 2016-07-28 23:23:41 Post No.8233821
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Anonymous 2016-07-28 23:23:41 Post No.8233821 [Report]

>>8233817
without the quotes

Anonymous 2016-07-28 23:24:40 Post No.8233822
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Anonymous 2016-07-28 23:24:40 Post No.8233822 [Report]

>>8233817
Is this kid serious. Maybe get your mommy to help you google boi.

Anonymous 2016-07-28 23:59:56 Post No.8233874
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Anonymous 2016-07-28 23:59:56 Post No.8233874 [Report]

you guys are diverting the point of this thread. Let's go back to seti@home vs. other distributed computing projects

Anonymous 2016-07-29 02:07:33 Post No.8234006
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Anonymous 2016-07-29 02:07:33 Post No.8234006 [Report]

i've been running a few for awhile - seti, cosmology, worldgrid, rosetta, milkyway, and a few others. if you care about these projects and don't mind leaving your computer running when you might normally shut it down, then you can basically just treat it like a screensaver. i don't know if we'll find aliens, but there have been plenty of published papers based off of seti data and other distributed projects.

give it a shot. if you don't like it, just delete it, no big deal.