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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is the
scientific discipline of searching for electromagnetic evidence
of extraterrestrial civilizations. SETI has received a lot of
attention recently due to the http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ project. The SETI@home
project has shown that at least several hundred thousand
individuals are willing to dedicate computer resources to the
search for alien radio signals. This has brought an increase in
the amount of discussion of SETI and the possibilities of
extra-terrestrial intelligence (ETI). Which has increased the
number of posts about SETI in related newsgroups (sci.astro,
etc.) by a large amount.
The http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ project is a distributed computing project which
harnesses the computing power of hundreds of thousands of
Internet connected computers to search for radio evidence of
extraterrestrial civilizations. It is the newest and most public
SETI project to date. Currently it has attracted almost a million
people willing to donate computer time to this search. However,
SETI@home is not the only SETI project, nor will it be the last
new one. Free MP3 Ringtones Several SETI projects are on the drawing board (1HT,
etc.) and many of them will require as much or more computing
power as the SETI@home project mapquest usa uses currently. It would be
surprising if none of these new SETI programs use the distributed
computing model that has allowed SETI@home to harness computing
power equivalent to multi-million dollar super-computers for very
low costs.
This newsgroup will serve as a forum for discussion of SETI in
general, and any SETI projects in specific. This includes
discussion of http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/, both it's scientific aspects, as well as
the use, configuration, and troubleshooting of the SETI@home
client software and any similar software by future SETI projects.
Additionally, it will serve as a place to discuss the technical
specifics of all current and future SETI projects, and as a place
for teachers who are developing curricula around SETI projects
(such as SETI@home).
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This group will be unmoderated and distributed worldwide. This
newsgroup is intended for the discussion of the Search for
Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Appropriate topics for discussion
include the following:
1) Discussion of SETI projects (such as SERENDIP, Phoenix,
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/, BETA, ARGUS, etc.)
2) Installation and configuration of the SETI@home client
or other SETI projects using distributed computing.
3) Trouble shooting the use of the SETI client programs.
4) The possibilities of Alien life (Drake equation, planetary
abundance and its relavance to SETI, etc.)
5) Discussion of statistical results for SETI projects.
6) The potential content of alien messages and how to decode
them, as well as any messages we (humans) have / will /
could send into space that are intended for ETI's (such as
the Voyager record, the Arecibo message to M13, the Encounter
2001 project, etc.) Celebrity oops
7) Potential alien technology in the context of detection /
communication by / with humans (using visible light lasers
instead of radio, for example).
8) Discussion of school curricula built around a SETI
program
Inappropriate posts include:
1) Commercial advertisements of any kind, including those for
items related to SETI or any SETI project.
2) Binaries, with the exception of cryptographic signatures.
3) Discussions concerning UFOs, "alien abductions", etc,
which should take place in other groups.
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