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From: John Tenney <mainorg@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 23:11:53 -0700 (PDT)
Fwd Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 14:42:43 -0400
Subject: Seti@home 'Failure'?


When I joined the SETI@home project (downloaded the program and
began running it on my computer) I was close to 100% sure that I
would not detect an "alien intelligence" on my $1200.00
computer. I was interested in being involved in a project
wherein hundreds of thousands of like-minded individuals could
cooperate together with a single goal, (no unimpressive feat,
you usually can't get two people to agree on which movie they’d
like to rent). As a matter of fact over the course of the past
20 days I realized that I do belong to a minority of people
involved with the SETI@home project.

My computer is on and running 24 hours a day everyday, and
before SETI@home the majority of the time when I wasn't using
for research it just sat idle literally "doing nothing." But
after I downloaded the program for SETI@home my computer was no
longer a $1200 paperweight, it was doing something, whether it
was doing correctly or as predicted did not matter to me, at
least it was doing something.

Now when I read newspaper articles about the “failures” of the
SETI@home project, how disenchanted people are with it, how much
of a waste of time and energy it is, I'm left wondering a few
questions.

1. Did everyone expect to find "extraterrestrial intelligence"
on his or her computers?

2. Was there something else more "important" that your computer
could have been doing while it ran it's screensaver SETI
program?

3. Is a project a failure when it unites 500,000 people from all
over the world to achieve a common goal?

4. So is that it does everyone give up because we still haven't
found "Extraterrestrial Intelligence?"

I agree with some of the critics points such as, SETI@home
should have been more up front about the trouble that they were
experiencing; but none the less I'm still glad that they tried
and will continue trying. I support them in their effort and
applauded them for the success they and WE have already
achieved.


Thank you
Rev. John E.L. Tenney
Co-Founder Michigan Anomalous Information Network
http://members.tripod.com/~mainorg

UFO UpDates has a SETI@home team, visit their webpages at:
http://memebrs.tripod.com/~ufoseti
and
http://www.spookyfox.freeuk.com