notMichaelJackson

At the bottom of every page on the Internet Infidels there are links, and one of them is to something about SETI. What do the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence and atheism have in common? Why is it down there?

Jesus Tap-Dancin' Christ

It's the SETI@home project--donating your free CPU time to science.

What does atheism have to do with SETI or vice versa? It's the scientific endeavor that has made atheism intellectually viable and satisfying. Further, if we find an alien race, contact would probably go like this:

"What, you still believe in gods? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

The Insomniac

At 131 in rank on the II team, and "7 hr, 29 min, 04.4 sec" per work unit, many of ya'll are gonna have trouble keeping up. Tic Toc.

My computer isn't doing anything worthwhile anyway, it may as well make an attempt at finding some aliens.

Chicken Girl

I was averaging 8-9 hours/work unit, but I uninstalled it because I missed my screen saver.

Secular Pinoy

I used to run Seti@Home back when I still thought there is a chance for success. After reading Rare Earth, I just uninstalled it and never looked back.

Here's my stats:

193) DannyBhoy (Name)_- 30 (Results received) - 831 hr 37 min (Total CPU time) - 27 hr 43 min 14.1 sec (Average CPU time per work unit) - Mon Nov 12 17:01:52 2001 (Date Last Result Received) - Philippines (Country)

Maybe Genome@Home...

AtomSmasher

Same here.

I switched to Folding@HOME because it seems far more worthwile and the benefits are obvious.

For those of you that don't know, folding at home is a similar to SETI but instead of analysing the spectrum for patterns from space that are unlikely to ever appear you can model protein folding. Right now they are using donated processing power to simulate how proteins are created, shaped, and how they effect systems in the body. In particular for diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

I do believe SETI is a worthy endeavor, but considering the likelyhood of detecting EM from other than natural sources strikes me as very remote. I think my CPU time is better spent curing cancer, etc.

Asha'man

I spent over a year on SETI@Home. I didn't leave because of low chances of success, but because of an overabundance of volunteers. I saw statistics that showed the rate of data unit progress was approaching 3 times the rate they were being generated.

I did Folding@Home for a bit, but have ended up at the United Devices Cancer Project. They have also done work on Smallpox and Anthrax.