"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and
sometimes I think we're not.
In either case the idea is quite
staggering."
~ Arthur C. Clark
"There are some 400 billion stars in our galaxy
alone.
If it is just us, seems like an awful waste of space."
~ Movie
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The "BCAS Cloudbusters" is the name of our club team for the SETI@home project. Visit our team page on the SETI website for a list of members and amount of work units processed.
The UC Berkeley SETI team has discovered that there are already thousands of computers that might be available for use. Most of these computers sit around most of the time with toasters flying across their screens accomplishing absolutely nothing and wasting electricity to boot. This is where SETI@home (and you!) come into the picture. The SETI@home project hopes to convince you to allow us to borrow your computer when you aren't using it and to help us "...search out new life and new civilizations." We'll do this with a screen saver that can go get a chunk of data from us over the internet, analyze that data, and then report the results back to us. When you need your computer back, our screen saver instantly gets out of the way and only continues it's analysis when you are finished with your work.
Data will be recorded on high-density tapes at the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, filling about one 35 Gbyte DLT tape per day. Because Arecibo does not have a high bandwidth Internet connection, the data tape must go by snail-mail to Berkeley. The data is then divided into 0.25 Mbyte chunks (which we call "work-units"). These are sent from the Seti@Home server over the Internet to people around the world to analyze. (from the SETI@home website)
SETI@home
Homepage ~ http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
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BCAS Cloudbusters Team