Category: seti

How to guesstimate the number of alien civilizations in a galaxy

Post author By Randall
Post date June 26, 2020
Categories In aliens, astrophysics, christopher j. conselice, civilization, drake equation, feature, seti, Tech, tom westby, tomorrow, university of nottingham

[ad_1] “It is true that the greatest challenge in any Astrobiological study is the fact that we are restricted to a single known example of life and indeed intelligent life in the Universe, and inevitably, we do have to appeal to knowledge about the way that we ourselves have formed in order to make assumptions […]

SETI@Home ends its crowdsourced search for alien life after 21 years

Post author By Randall
Post date March 4, 2020
Categories In folding@home, gear, Internet, seti, seti@home, Space, Tech

[ad_1] SETI@Home was born at UC Berkeley and released to the world on May 17th, 1999, using the university’s distributed computing platform, BOINC. Whenever people left their machine on, but weren’t using it, the program would take over and crunch data sent from UC Berkeley. In that way, the system created a giant, internet-connected supercomputer […]