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SETI@home is in hiberation

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Re: SETI@home is in hiberation

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Post by RajT88 »

Bratmon wrote: post #117
RajT88 wrote: post #70

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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.

I dunno. I think the fact that these sightings are always from sleep deprived individuals describing things at the far end of their range of detection (whether that's 5 miles away with the Mk 1 eyeball or 500 miles away with classified superradar) suggests a pretty clear pattern.

It probably is both. Up for debate the ratio.

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Post by floxy »

netsharc wrote: post #21
p-e-w wrote: post #13

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The fact that all SETI endeavors haven’t really found anything is actually a very valuable result, because it constrains “they’re everywhere, we just haven’t been looking” arguments quite a bit. Even humanity’s (weak) radio emissions would be detectable from tens of light years away, and stronger emissions from much further. So the idea that intelligent life is absolutely everywhere that was liberally tossed around a…

Probably due to the Great Filter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtOGPJ0URM

or not:

"Dissolving the Fermi Paradox": https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404

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Post by firesteelrain »

philipwhiuk wrote: post #114
firesteelrain wrote: post #31

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I forgot all about this project - thanks for the reminder! You can run on a spare Raspberry Pi. I remember doing that. Performance isn’t great but every little bit helps https://downey.io/blog/folding-at-home-raspberry-pi-arm/

Does it? I stopped doing @home projects because I started never finishing a unit for credit under BOINC.

I have Pi4B 2GB, Pi4B 4GB, and Pi400 folding full time with reasonable success. You need to use the 64-bit OS.

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Post by unixhero »

There was another launched around the same time as Seti@Home and before Folsing@Home. It was called IBM Grid.org [0]. It did the same as Seti@Home, but researched cancer.

Here [1] is a list of all active community computation projects and historical ones.

[0], https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid.org

[1], https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volunteer_computing_pr...

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Post by nephihaha »

RajT88 wrote: post #108
nephihaha wrote: post #96

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People claim to see Bigfoot creatures in the Mississippi Delta and Florida... Even Scotland. None of these are much noted for their bears.

There are some outliers (like Hawaii, or the 2 sightings in my local forest preserve) which cannot be bears, but what you will find is there is way more bear populations wandering around than you realize. The trend is pretty clear.

People claim to see these things in Australia and New Zealand. Not many bears round there. I don't count koalas in Oz as bears.

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Post by nephihaha »

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?

US sightings get publicised best due to the nature of international media (wide distribution of US films, TV and books)... But there certainly are other places claiming to see them. There are a lot of supposed sightings in Chile for example, which doesn't have a huge air force.

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Post by lloydatkinson »

Bratmon wrote: post #121
gnramires wrote: post #93

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This is extremely far from any of my expertises, but I'll offer an answer while no one else did (please correct me!). Basically, all medicine (i.e. drugs) we have are proteins or certain compounds that fit within some of our cell's (or viruses) molecules and does funny stuff to them, like disabling certain parts, acting as a signal to regulate behavior, and so on. Doing funny stuff is basically about fitting into ano…

Wow, 333 words without even attempting to address the question. Have you considered a career in PR?

Do you think they used an AI or something? Seems to be answering a question I didn't even ask. The strange performative replies I've had to my question makes me more suspicious about folding@home.

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Post by [deleted] »

keepamovin wrote: post #8
leokennis wrote: post #4

I remember feeling like a right scientific benefactor running the SETI@Home screensaver on my Pentium II, looking at the fancy graphs. Was it all for nothing?

No, they just published two papers in 2025. You can watch a video about it or link to paper in my other comment on this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt07R_amRT8

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Re: SETI@home is in hiberation

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Post by Bratmon »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #138
Bratmon wrote: post #121

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Wow, 333 words without even attempting to address the question. Have you considered a career in PR?

Do you think they used an AI or something? Seems to be answering a question I didn't even ask. The strange performative replies I've had to my question makes me more suspicious about folding@home.

Honestly, I doubt it was an LLM because an LLM would have stuck closer to answering the question (avoiding non-sequiturs is the only thing they do, after all) .

I'm not quite sure what the point of the response was.

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