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There Life on Other Planets?
Want to Help Find Out? You can use your home computer and the Internet to help search for intelligent life in the universe. SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has developed SETI@Home to harness the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected personal computers. You can download a screen saver that allows your computer to analyze data from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. There is so much data that it would take a huge supercomputer to analyze it all. But giving little packets of data to LOTS of small computers accomplishes the same thing. How does it work? You just download the SETI@Home screen saver program. When you’re not working on your computer, it will get data, analyze it, and send it back to the people working on the SETI project. When you click your mouse or keyboard, the screen saver gets out of your way, and will continue its analysis when you’re done. If extraterrestrial life is found using the data that your Mac or PC helped process, you’ll be listed as a co-discoverer! To find out more, or to download the SETI@Home screen saver, visit their official Web site at: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ |
