Pete wrote:

hi,

After some years of having SETI in my mind but doing nothing I finally
got broadband so thought I'd take another look.

Some questions I hope you can help me with.:

Is the SETI shared computing network still as lively as it looked
once?

After so many years hasn't the sky been fully covered yet (in so far
as SETI is able)?

Is there any other software rather than a screen saver to do the data
munching and transfers? (I prefer not to use screen savers..)

I'm sure there are lots of other questions I have missed as a newbie \
interested person. :)


Regards
Pete

spamblocked

Hi Pete, welcome to the community!

I think SETI is still as active as it was, if not more. There are some differences now, since it is just switching over to the "new" boinc projects.

The sky will never be fully covered since new techniques will emerge, besides: any signal needs a starting date right? Currently SETI is planning on using different methods to search for ETI, AstroPulse is the most well know.

There is other software besides the screensaver, as their has always been. The BOINC framework does not need a screensaver, it runs as an independent program. Check out http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/ for more info on BOINC and current seti projects. Also check http://seti.ssl.berkeley.edu/ for a nice summary of current projects.

For some reason however people in this newsgroup sometimes seem to have more differences than when SETI started. But since the comon goal (finding ETI) is still the same the differences are usually quickly setteled.

If you need some more info, try one of the many forums for SETI. Just try finding some in Google :)

Greets,
Mark (member of the Dutch Power Cows!)