Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:21:48 04/13/02
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On April 13, 2002 at 12:02:41, Sean Mintz wrote: >>>I know in the UK, there was a screen saver that used 'spare' processing power to >>>scan extra-terrestrial radio signals, and transmitted findings back via the >>>internet. But this is obviously a far simpler exercise than playing chess.. >> >> >>This was done by NASA... > >actually I think he's talking about SETI (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/) Correct. I believe (thought anyway) that NASA was making the data available, and providing the computer "server" used to hand out the images and then take the results back... I think some folks at Berkeley wrote the code. Perhaps this is from a non- NASA radio-telescope? I haven't followed it very carefully...
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