"John Donson" <harigejan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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JCole200 wrote:

I've been using SETI@home for years now.  I've set it up at the
colleges I attended, at home and at work.  But here recently, I've
been thinking about the point of it.

To my knowledge, SETI@home is out of new data completely.  So what
exactly are we running anymore?  Things that have been done 5 or 6
times?  Is there even a point to doing this anymore?  There are
plenty of other massive projects similar to SETI@home that need
participants and computer power.. and I just have a hard time
justifying using my computer for SETI, if my computer is doing no
good.

So someone out there that knows more then I do.. what exactly are the
units that are coming recently doing?  Is there a point at all to
them?

How do you mean "out of new data" completely?

I'm guessing the Data we are all currently crunching with SETI Classic is
coming from the Data Tapes listed on the current Status page:


"John Donson" <harigejan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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JCole200 wrote:

I've been using SETI@home for years now.  I've set it up at the
colleges I attended, at home and at work.  But here recently, I've
been thinking about the point of it.

To my knowledge, SETI@home is out of new data completely.  So what
exactly are we running anymore?  Things that have been done 5 or 6
times?  Is there even a point to doing this anymore?  There are
plenty of other massive projects similar to SETI@home that need
participants and computer power.. and I just have a hard time
justifying using my computer for SETI, if my computer is doing no
good.

So someone out there that knows more then I do.. what exactly are the
units that are coming recently doing?  Is there a point at all to
them?

How do you mean "out of new data" completely?

I'm guessing the data that we are all crunching with SETI Classic is coming
from the tapes currently listed on the server status page:

08 August 2003 (aa)
08 August 2003 (ab)
09 August 2003 (aa)
19 August 2003 (ab)
25 August 2003 (aa)
27 August 2003 (aa)
27 August 2003 (ab)
28 August 2003 (aa)
09 September 2003 (ab)


(God, thats a horrible font, hope you can read it)

Looks like most of the Data is at least a year old, but true scientific due
process requires that the data be verified by being analysed multiple times.

Is there any point in it anymore?  As long as SETI Classic is around I'll
continue crunching Once its dead, I'll make a decision regarding Boinic.
Until then I'm happily crunching.

SC