SETI still at work

[Ken g6]

Which is to say they're not "at Home", and they don't seem to be working in that direction. But, for those still interested, they are working on expanding their search...

'It's getting closer and closer for sure.' How SETI is expanding its search for alien intelligence (exclusive)

Space.com caught up with Bill Diamond, President and CEO of the SETI Institute for an exclusive, mind-stretching close-encounter discussion regarding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

www.space.com

Counterpoint I saw a few months ago: Math may prove we won't find another civilization in this galaxy. (Unless one finds us first!)

Edit: Moved by me, since I posted in the wrong forum.

 

[Charmonium]

I have nothing but respect for SETI since they were one of the first to bring us distributed computing.

But I have to take this opportunity to shill for my fave citizen scientist group - World Community Grid.

Crunching at home can and often does require both time and money and personally, I would rather spend both on projects that have real world benefits.

 

[Skillz]

That's interesting, but I wish it would find it's way back to DC/BOINC.

Also, @Charmonium you're on the wrong team.

All kidding aside, get your team to join boincgames.com for some friendly competitions throughout the year.

 

[BurnedOut2]

There's a rumor going around about a paper in peer review that claims the detection of a biosignature on an exoplanet. Of course, biosignature =/= intelligence. We'll see I guess.

 

[StefanR5R]

I just saw this in the BOINC notices:

SETI@home papers accepted for publication

Two papers on SETI@home will be published in The Astronomical Journal, a well-regarded scientific journal:

• SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing describes SETI@home's data recorder, splitter, and client program. It covers the five detection types, their parameters and statistics, and the algorithm for finding them.
  
  
• SETI@home: Data Analysis and Findings describes the back end (Nebula) and its results: RFI removal, candidate finding and ranking. It explains how artificial signals, or 'birdies', were used to optimize algorithms and estimate overall sensitivity.

For details, see an entry in the Nebula blog.

18 Jun 2025, 3:23:30 UTC · Discuss