Seti

[HomerSapien]

What exactly has seti accomplished? I dont want this to turn into a this project is better than that one thread. Have they found new planets?
Have they found new traits about the areas they are searching? What has this project accomplished in the time it has been here. I may not
have looked very hard at their site, but i didnt see much relating to what they have discovered or proven from this project.

 

[ys]

I don't know what SETI has accomplished in finding aliens but I do know SETI proved
distributed computing is feasible.

Didn't answer your question, did i.

 

[RaySun2Be]

I don't know if SETI has "found" anything in particular listening to the skies, but it has unified thousands of people from all over the world, in participating in a joint peaceful effort, along with friendly competition (stats). A heck of an accomplishment considering some in the world are intent on blowing each other up. :|

And as YS stated, it has proven distributed computing feasable, and thus is the springboard for all of the distributed projects going on now.

 

[Crazee]

Well here is an article from the Planetary Society which talks about how they are going through the results to try and find the most promising candidates for some dedicated time from the Arecibo telescope Linky

There is also an article here that talks about possible seti uses to work with Black Hole Theories Linky

 

[Smoke]

Look through this site. Let me know how long before your eyes glaze over.

Current Progress Summary

 

[conjur]

<< Look through this site. Let me know how long before your eyes glaze over.

Current Progress Summary >>




About 28 secs.

 

[Robor]

The SETI project may not have found or discovered anything yet but does that mean we should stop looking? If that's the case then why do research for cancer or AIDS. Tons of money and time have been devoted but neither are cured.

 

[Bigwoofer]

I like helping Seti for several reasons:

- We're painfully behind on this subject
- We're already in the beginning stage of medical revolution (as in Industrial Revolution kind of Revolution)
- Seriously underfunded/underdog, I always gun for the underdog
- It feels good to try, if we didn't we'll never know
- OhioDude does Seti Racing and not ECCP Racing

 

[Tarca]

<< I like helping Seti for several reasons:

- We're painfully behind on this subject
- We're already in the beginning stage of medical revolution (as in Industrial Revolution kind of Revolution)
- Seriously underfunded/underdog, I always gun for the underdog
- It feels good to try, if we didn't we'll never know
- OhioDude does Seti Racing and not ECCP Racing >>



Ditto!!!

It is a shame that we can only search such a small area of space and we are still processing data from a year ago.

 

[HomerSapien]

I dont mean to offend anyone, but please spare the garbage about getting people to work together or why we do it, you know that is not
what i was asking. I forget that i have to be over specific on these forums when people respond to up their post count. I am more interested
in space and black holes and planets. I want to know if we are discovering any more supernovas occuring as a result or new facts about
quasars, dwarfs, etc. Thanks crazee, i liked those links. Sorry to sound like an a**, i am just tired of fluff.

 

[Bleep]

HomerSapien:
This is a scientific project that may or may not ever show any results, that does not make it without value. It is a little like looking for one special pebble on a beach, difficult but not impossible. One of the problems is that if a result is found it will be another year before we can look at the exact same area of sky.
If you do not see the the value in scientific searching then there is no one here going to convince you otherwise.
Bleep

 

[Poof]

When a scientist decides to perform research, that scientist comes up with a hypothesis, runs various experiments to prove or disprove that hypothesis, and reports out the results. This process can take minutes or decades. SETI is doing just that. If you were a scientist and/or had any scientific training, then you wouldn't even need to ask that question.

Hypothesis = There is a possibility that any ETI outside of this solar system might be broadcasting a "beacon" type signal for their own use and/or for others to find. By using a massive and/or a massive array of Radiotelescopes directed at a certain region or regions in the sky, we might be able to detect such a signal.

Experiment = Using the largest, fixed, single-dish Radiotelescope in the world (Arecibo), collect radio signal data within x/y specifications, attempt to eliminate spurious RFI and other Earth-based signals, in order to attempt to detect any strong and/or unusual, narrow-band radio signals that might indicate a beacon of some sort.

Results = Project is still in progress.


HS, you've been a good poster around here. Please don't spoil it by being a troll. We've had enough of that around here.

 

[RaySun2Be]

Sorry HS, but your first question: <What exactly has seti accomplished?> Was generic enough that responses other than the specifics you were looking for are valid responses. if you don't like the valid answers you recieve, then ask a more specific question or add clarifying statements, which you finally did.

And I disagree that some of the accomplishments you consider as "fluff" are any less valid than finding a new planet. Maybe not the intent of the experiment, but certainly great by-products, and certainly not "fluff", IMHO.

How many useful products, technological advances, were the result of the "by products" of an experiment, and not the intended result, and went on to be greater than the original experiment itself? Quite a few I would be willing to bet.

Oh, and lighten up a bit. Geez.

 

[networkman]

Something else to consider about SETI is that it is a very LONG term project, and not long as in the time span that RC5 has been going either.. we're easy talking about DECADES long! We're just beginning to scratch the surface of what's out there! Heck, until just a few short years ago, we didn't know if there were ANY planets beyond our own solar system, and now we're finding a whole bunch of them are out there.

I've had an interest in astronomy since I was eight, as aside from getting involved with the observations as an individual and later in a club, I haven't had a way to contribute in any other way until S@H came along.

I suppose I'm trying to understand what the point of your question is? If you asked this of question of the RC5-64 project we could certainly say that a brute-force attack of this method isn't likely to succeed very quickly, so the encryption is secure against this specific type of "attack." So the project has been going for a few years and hasn't arrived at a solid result.. so what? That doesn't make the method or the search any less valid.

*edited for speling airers.