SETI@home is in hiberation

Post by ErroneousBosh » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC

scottLobster wrote: post #105

nephihaha wrote: post #95

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Pilots from the Eastern Bloc and NATO countries have had sightings. It's not just a US thing. People have been claiming to see them for longer than the USA has existed.

Not to be that guy, but if the majority of sightings coming from nations capable of producing advanced military aircraft... well perhaps the aliens thought the F-15 was badass and wanted a closer look?

Post by vzaliva » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 5:31 PM UTC

ckozlowski wrote: post #89

jomohke wrote: post #17

It looks like folding@home is still going https://foldingathome.org/ I'm quite surprised these are still around as I hadn't seen them mentioned in so long. I always assumed the phase out of screensavers (and introduction of CPU low power modes) were terminal for them.

They saw a huge uptick in users during the COVID pandemic. As the corona virus is a protein shell, and their software folds protein molecules, they were able to apply it to look for targets for other molecules to attach to the virus where it would normally latch onto a cell, this could then lead to treatments. They'd found some promising results, and were working with a pharmaceutical company to manufacture the first…

Post by _DeadFred_ » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 5:48 PM UTC

scottLobster wrote: post #103

ckozlowski wrote: post #92

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Oh, I feel this. As a pre-teen, I loved it. SETI@Home running on our family's Pentium 100, X-Files, and hanging out on the "Parascope" forum and chatroom on AOL for all things UFO related. An "I Want To Believe" poster on my wall. I've (thankfully) moved on past that, but I look back at that with nostalgia.

Same here, you either move past it or go crazy, if the UFO subreddits are any indication. Given the population was already obsessed with blurry clumps of pixels in short video clips, AI is going to send a lot of those people into trailers in the desert with a lifetime supply of aluminum foil. And now that we have mass-produced hyper-maneuverable quad-copter drones, the whole "it moved backward in a way that no aircra…

Post by Bratmon » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

RajT88 wrote: post #70

x187463 wrote: post #50

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Of all the current US conspiracy theories, the UFO/UAP conspiracy is still the most interesting and fully developed/ongoing conspiracy space. Just check out the recent 'Age of Disclosure' documentary from this year. I'm not arguing a position on the theory, just saying it's very active and has the old-school qualities that were present in the 90's.

There's some genuinely weird shit unexplained, I'll give you that. Unlike Bigfoot, where you can look at a map of the historical range of bears and see it exactly matches where all the Bigfoot sightings are.

Post by msarrel » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 6:08 PM UTC